Author Archives: jolanta

My sculptural works and installations are comprised of numerous small-scale, handmade objects. In the case of my ongoing project, Inventory, the bombardment of data currently numbers over 1,500 individual elements. Presented en masse to the viewer, these apparently random images are drawn from a wide range of sources, including mythology, religious iconography, historical occurrence, popular […]

I value only those artists, who really are artists, that is, who consciously or unconsciously, in an entirely original form, embody the expression of the inner life; who work only for this end and cannot work otherwise. —Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Self Expression. This is ostensibly the aim of all artists, and certainly […]

Fundamentally, it’s a child’s memory, of no consequence, explored through the powerful operatic emotion of cinematic epics and the painting of Caravaggio. We have explored in other works removing the line between heightened painting and heightened cinema, and this work is a further step in that journey.—Baz Luhrmann and Vincent Fantauzzo. Film director Baz Luhrmann […]

In her seminal text, Representing Women, Linda Nochlin, the celebrated feminist art historian of the 1970s, writes, “women’s bodies have always served as allegorized objects of desire, of hatred, of elevation, of abasement … .” Historically women art subjects have been sexualized, objectified, and reduced to naked flesh that passively awaits sexual domination. While for […]

For artist David Kastner, content is more important than technique. The Florida-based multimedia artist aims to move beyond the merely technical to get at an understanding of how the materials he engages with actually work, exploiting their properties to get at what he is most interested in: meaning, ideas, and concepts. Ultimately, Kastner says, “Throughout […]

Labor-intensive drawings fool the eye and fascinate. A slowly executed trompe l’oeil pencil drawing might at first appear to be a quickly executed, gestural painting. These images explore authenticity as material, and this theme is emphasized by the creation of landscapes such as described by J.G. Ballard. They are both banal and terrifying in their […]

In 1995, I founded Waygood as a program of critical contemporary art presented in the context of an artists’ venue. For me this is defined as a studio, a gallery, and a meeting place for artists, art teachers, and writers. I am interested in the way artists develop ideas within a community, with which they […]

The work East Wind and West Wind is inspired by the mirror and the light; both were first invented in the West. As the symbols of luxury and quality life, they are getting more and more popular, and can be easily spotted in the East. We selected soft and warm cashmere to wrap up the […]

In Iran, like in many other Eastern lands, the contemporary artist is dragged into two conventionally opposite directions. One direction tilts toward familiar footprints that lead to a buried but glorious past, a sense of nostalgia, fear and disgust with the mechanization and shallowness of the presently emerging culture. The other direction is an impulse […]