Author Archives: jolanta
Eugene Lemay’s Navigator
The works may be viewed as visions of a mythological underworld. They are tributes to all the dead, everywhere, who left without the chance to say goodbye. Their depth, mystery and profundity are not hidden or difficult to decipher; they are accessible. Their power lies in the strength of truth, of authenticity. The subtle […]
Ron Gorchov At Cheim & Read
Rejecting the traditional rectangular painting support, Gorchov is able to create a compositional balance all his own – one that continues to feel fresh. His skill in dealing with a unique support feels almost as if the work were able to carve out it’s own niche in painting history. The selectively hung exhibition, curated by […]
On The Passing Of Two Critics
Two recent deaths in the art world have caused some reflection on the state of criticism. Firstly, is Amos Vogel. Vogel was one of the most influential cineasts in New York City. He was best known for his seminal book Film as a Subversive Art (1974). He was also the founder of the New York […]
The Counter Attack of the San Francisco Avant-Garde
In the first phase, opened by a hilarious but somewhat unnecessarily prolonged and messy BUTOH performance (sort of post-1945 “avant-garde” Japanese expressive dance) of the performance artists, Ronnie Baker and Luku-San, Elena Slivnyak displayed some of her latest experimental work whose choice of evolving futuristic forms as well as visibly tough and all-purpose texture clearly […]
Romania’s 100 Year Festival Takes Summer
The festival here in Bucharest gathers the people who have worked and/or learned with him and allow them to pass on some of their knowledge and experience to the next generation for all to see. The 2012 festival is the first one ever, marking 100 years from his birth.We have events to discover the Maestro […]
Otto Peine: Light
In 1957, Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded the ZERO movement, exploring experimental media and techniques, with the motivation that “everybody should have a better life.” Piene who is famous for his smoke and fire paintings, created new art forms called “Light Ballet” and “Sky Art”. He lives in Cambridge, MA, USA, and in Düsseldorf, […]
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Encounters In The Virtual Feminist Museum
What separates Pollock from many other writers on feminist art history is her refusal to consider femininity solely as a barrier to accomplishment or recognition (though she accepts the importance of discrimination in art history), rather she posits it as a positive and complex artistic accomplishment. The feminine for Pollock is rather the renegotiation of […]
Nicolas Carrier And The Roving Eye
The work of Nicolas Carrier is mainly composed of videos. His videos are of two types: some are “written” films with a synopsis and a direction, others reuse found footage. In both cases, the question is to attain the borders of the narration and to see how, by referencing cinema, to get out of the […]
Francesca Woodman Visible/Invisible
On January 19, 1981, photographer Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the roof of a loft on East 12th Street. She was just a few months shy of her 23rd birthday. Like Rimbaud, Woodman left behind a very special legend and legacy, from which 120 vintage photographs, various large–scale blueprint studies of human figures […]
