Is the meaningful substance of an artwork its aesthetic qualities or the circumstances surrounding its creation? Both aspects are always valid and at play, especially in painting, where one is dealing with a picture and an art object at once.
On the occasion of his exhibition at Galerie LeLong Charles Schultz visited Tariku Shiferaw’s studio in the Bronx. Their conversation ranges from the night sky as a site where different civilizations have inscribed their visions of the world to the influence of mythologies on the order of social codes, and what it means when boundaries become porous.