David Medalla

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The survey began in 1988 as interviews with artists jewellers fashion designers and furniture restorers based at Old Loom House Studios Whitechapel launching a quarterly review </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cv Journal of Art and Crafts</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cv</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Journal</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was published to 1992 and the collection of interviews features and reviews provided the foundation of the Cv/Visual Arts Research archive and subsequent publications.</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> In Cv/VAR 104 the celebrated artist David Medalla gives an extensive interview in which he discusses his advent to the literary and art scenes of Paris and London at a significant point of change in 1960. He recalls his introduction in Paris by Man Ray Marcel  Duchamp Raymond Duncan and Gaston Bachelard who admired his original kinetic sculpture The Bubble Machine. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p> </p>