Author Archives: jolanta
Against the Act
I am interested in the ways that—especially gender-specific forms of—power and violence are structured and staged in representations of sexuality and (processes of) desire and queer-feminist (body) politics. In Dolores (2005), a staging of a lesbian-queer new adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, I constructed a walk-in set. I used wooden markings on the floor […]
Andreas Sell
At a selected point in the exhibition room, either Andreas Sell, himself, or actors hired by him, stand still for hours. This type of exhibition turns the human body into art/the exhibition. The artist uses the act of standing in the exhibition/being the exhibition as a display of his disruption to the traditional experience of […]
The Duchamp Paradigm: Marcel Duchamp– The Art of Chess
…Actually, I believe that every chess player experiences a mixture of two aesthetic pleasures: first the abstract image akin to the poetic idea in writing, second the sensuous pleasure of the ideographic execution of that image on the chessboards. From my close contact with artists and chess players I have come to the personal conclusion […]
Marcel Duchamp: Étant donné
Two major subjects for Duchampions [sic] are Marcel Duchamp’s final work, Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas), posthumously revealed to the public in 1969, and Duchamp’s lifelong devotion to chess. Two acutely relevant exhibitions opened within a month of each other early this […]
Engaging Feeling
Fresh from having his work shown at the Florence Biennale, a selection of Dutch artists Wim Zorn’s abstract pieces were recently presented at the Broadway Gallery in NYC. These painted, primordial color-schemed works border on being assemblages by incorporating materials, like bamboo and binding agents to create shape and texture in a mainly asymmetrical style. […]
Challenging the Romanian Way
I was born in 1979. I current live and work in Bucharest. I am an artist and sometimes a curator. I studied photography and video at the University of Arts in Bucharest. Drawing on the environment and influenced by Bucharest life, I document the urban through my photography. I am the founder of Bukres blog […]
Making Women at Home
This is a piece of work that focuses on women, on how they are represented in classical art, indeed on the “codes” that surround and determine their representation, from the Renaissance to today. I chose to observe the backgrounds that encase, and to some extent determine, the way women are portrayed, from a Florentine countryside to the overwrought interior […]
Luminous Realities
Suly Bornstein Wolff is a multi-faceted artist who works in a variety of media, from oils to acrylic, drawing to watercolor. She is a virtuoso artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as Florence, Tel Aviv and New Delhi, India, and of course New York. Reminiscent of styles as […]
The Energy within Variation
One may notice that Zhang Hua always creates his works in between hard and soft material. He transforms a classical sculptural entity into an origami shell or melting paste; he elongates, crushes, or reduces the scale to make various contrasts. His work involves the Chinese traditional wisdom of void over solid, perceiving the massive from […]
For the Gentlemen
London’s National Gallery houses over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. They are arranged by period: 1250-1500, 1500-1600, 1600-1700, and 1700-1900. As might be expected of an iconic national asset, and one which attracts as many as five million visitors a year, the treasure it accommodates, like that of New York’s Metropolitan, […]
