Author Archives: jolanta
Unfolding at La Criée
Benoit Laffiché’s Déplier (‘Unfolding’) engages in the poetry of moving, branching out, the ambiguous and the fragile. Benoit Laffiché’s video work tirelessly interrogates the issue of apprehending territories and population movements in the post-global age. “Benoit Laffiché’s video work tirelessly interrogates the issue of apprehending territories and population movements in the post-global age.” […]
Sheree Hovsepian: Contact
The photographic moment is surely one of both reduction and addition. Reduction in the way existence is cropped, depth is replaced by the illusion of such, and so on. Addition, in the continual replication of the moment, interpretation, and levels of seeing. For “Contact” at the Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Sheree Hovsepian presents a tightly edited body […]
A Luminous Interval in Bilbao
Can a “luminous interval” represent the decline and fragmentation of modern man? At the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao the question remains open. For the first time, the D. Daskalopoulos Collection is presented to the public, one of the largest and most comprehensive private collections of contemporary art in the world, housed in the geometry of rupture […]
“Soft Machines” at The Pace Gallery
The Soft Machine, the 1961 novel by William S. Burroughs from which the exhibit draws its title, depicts a dark world odyssey ravaged by drugs, sex, poverty, hatred, and authoritarian mind-control. Fifty years later, the curators at the Pace Gallery are drawing on its title and themes for “Soft Machines,” a group show featuring […]
Loft in the Red Zone, 23 Wall St, Sept 10-30, 2011.
Loft in the Red Zone, 23 Wall St, Sept 10-30, 2011. Official Site Opening Reception: Sept 9, 2011
Acknowledgements and Thank You Letters
My appreciation to one of your publicist Sarah Browning for finding me. I will be attending the Home and Abroad August exhibition and I’m looking forward to experiencing New York. I consider New York to be the Cream of the Crop in all forms of Arts. I am based in Brisbane, I have done several […]
Personal Symbols, Universal Meaning
“the postmodern moment…” “The most compelling aspect of Hans Andre’s work is his effective harnessing of the psychology of the postmodern moment and probing of what lurks underneath, concealed from the surface.” Hans Andre, Board of Directors, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 77x55cm. Courtesy of the artist. The loss of innocence is a common […]
Valerie Girone
Courtesy of the artist. Valerie Girone www.valerie-girone.com Acrylic painting and refined epoxy on metal.
Tiziano Tornatore
“I believe that what we often regard as human ‘normality’ usually does not automatically mean happiness.” Courtesy of the artist. Tiziano Tornatore www.tizianotornatore.com This painting represents a gentleman with an autistic disorder. What I have tried to show here is the inner serenity and happiness that people suffering this condition usually have, despite […]
