Uri Aran

Uri Aran

Uri Aran is an artist based in New York.

 

What artworks would you have/do you have in your drawing room?

I have an old postcard of a collotype by Pablo Picasso Le Corrigan Effeuillé, a drawing on notebook paper by my stepfather of three ex soccer players, a print out illustration of "a doctor" (sketch for a public sculpture), a pizza box with a drawing of an unmarked piazza. (amongst many others and my own drawings and an untitled editioned work with my own version of the NYT).

I would have liked to have a work by Gonzalo Fonseca to draw from. And a Rachel Harrison.

 

What books would you read/are you reading in your drawing room?

The Walk by Robert Walser.
A World Atlas book.
The Asterix series.

What movies would you watch/are you watching in your drawing room?

Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai (1954)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Land of Silence and Darkness, or other Herzogs...
Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy
The Goonies(?)

What music would you listen to/are you listening to in your drawing room?

J. S. Bach - Das Kantatenwerk (Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt)
Vivaldi's concertos. (Nisi Dominus RV 608)
David Sylvian
80's... 

Who would you/do you invite into your drawing room?

a dog.