Author Archives: jolanta
Dear Jason, Letter From Europe
Having been remiss in the article I promised to send you I thought that I would list all of the very good artists that are not overly known in the U.S. that I came across during my brief sojourn in Europe this summer. I will forward this outline as a beginning to what was promised. […]
In Conversation: Emily Auchincloss Interviews Laura Newman
Emily Auchincloss: You started out making large installations. For an installation artist, space is a primary medium, and you have maintained its primacy in your paintings. Why did you switch to working on canvas? Laura Newman: I had been painting directly on walls and floors and it made me sad to paint everything out at […]
Soul-Picture Landscape Photographs: Kirsten Pinz, Bela Letto and Barbara Rosenthal in Berlin
Viewers expect photography to portray the outer world, and with greater accuracy than other media. But the best fine art photography expresses the photographer’s inner mind. In Berlin this summer, the photo-text-music-video installation Seelenbilder und Landschaften (Landscapes as Artist’s Metaphor) at Galerie Christian Glass, presented three international fine-arts photographers who portray real, recognizable imagery in […]
Galerie de Roussan Presents: Study of a Territory
Galerie de Roussan is pleased to present “Study of a Territory”, a group show with Ghislain Amar, Nastassia Conquet, Pablo Cavero, and Hannah Wade. Conceived and curated by Thomas Arsac, this exhibition presents four young artists whose practice has been inspired by traveling abroad to live in a new territory. First of all there is […]
Lasse Kempas
“Nature asks us to listen again.” Courtesy of the artist. LASSE KEMPAShttp://www.kempas.fi/index_fi.html The beginning of the century struck the arts through a new direction: functionalism. The basic idea of functionalism, is the glorification of technology. Today, we need technology; it is an integral part of everyday life. Nature asks us to listen again. The […]
Lucio Diodati
“You can see whatever you want in my works.” Courtesy of the artist. LUCIO DIODATI www.luciodiodati.com Protagonists are the colors performed by nameless women. Everything is surrounded by a space-less and timeless light, which doesn’t ‘t belong to a real place, but somehow still familiar. The one who observes, from the lion tamer to the […]
Eduardo Rosado
“My work is about the human condition: violence, loneliness, fear, sex, death, fertility.” Courtesy of the artist. EDUARDO ROSADO www.eduardorosado.net My work is about the human condition: violence, loneliness, fear, sex, death, fertility. My interior reality determines my painting, placing it close to expressionism and aside to surrealism. I usually use dark humor to dismiss […]
A Shiver in the Workshop of the Brain
Henri Michaux (1899-1984) enjoys the best kind of posterity. On a small street in Paris – all of one block long – crowded with handsome galleries showing the fearsome, minutely crafted totems of Africa and Oceania, his paintings draw a steady stream of people who look at them not because they want to buy an […]
Traces Opens at Hionas Gallery
Pieces, scraps, traces, curious clues, strange evidence left behind…In the last few months I have been painting a series of investigative works on paper. The focus of these images being just that: investigating what remains, be it actual physical refuse or simply my own remembrances. “Although many of these works are devoid of human […]
Fantastic Lonely-Heart: Hyong Nam Ahn
The starting point of art is the resistance of death and time. Artists pursue possibilities to overcome and transcend the limitation of time in their works. Hyong Nam Ahn’s installation, “Fantastic Lonely- Heart,” implies the search for the limitation of time. This work is a simply composed sculpture and a kind of site-specific installation using […]
