Author Archives: jolanta
MAN RAY: Unconcerned but Not Indifferent
“Yes” was Marcel Duchamp’s reply at every point scored in the tennis match he and Man Ray played the first time they met in 1915; they played without racquets, nets or a ball and neither one spoke the other’s language. It was in the countryside of New Jersey at an artist colony where Man lived […]
The Sickness of Long Mourning
The Further the Distance, the Tighter the Knot was a performance installation that used Victorian mourning rituals, old-time American folk songs, and knitting to explore my longing for home as a recent transplant to Australia. Linden is a repurposed Victorian mansion, built in the 1870s as a family home. The piece drew on Linden’s history […]
The Awakening
When eight years of your adult life is consumed with creating something most people around you think outlandish, stupid, wasteful, sinful, desperate, ugly, pointless, or perverse, and this is after floundering so many years prior on what exactly to consume one’s creative energy on, only to hear from your wife, family, and friends once you […]
Tattooed
In the second half of the 19th century, due to the rise of the Industrial Revolution, traditional handicraft manufacturers in Europe were outraced by factories, where large machines were used. Crude machines mass-produced cheap but less-qualified products. People who were obsessed with fine and exquisite handwork became worried that traditional techniques and creativity might vanish […]
Martine Rhyner
In striking resemblance to the paintings of Salvador Dali, Rhyner’s work is a collection of wavering, hazy, amorphous skies and landscapes that serve as a slightly confused and distorted foundation for the paintings surreal contortions that are the painter’s subjects and figures. Often dissected and discontinued in unnatural places and frequently found with inhuman, robotic […]
Nava Revital
Revital’s paintings of lazy lounging in domestic settings have a quiet, slow, lethargic, almost melancholic feel to them. Standing within a close range, the artist’s brushstroke becomes fully evident, playing with a sense of motion, emphasizing the creation of each plane made. Active, lively marks describe each and every part of the composition, yet the […]
Petra Ruzickova
Beaming with a theatrical, enchanted light, Ruzickova’s photographs look towards the skies, concentrating on the powerful presence of the sun. The beautiful, picturesque quality of the setting and rising suns sets a fairy tale-like air to all of her pieces. The overlay and transparency of some of the imagery over the rest gives these photographs […]
Sealed Moments
My work derives from my own living experience, involving media such as painting, installation, and video. In the piece Momentary Image, I enlarged a number of video screenshots of sensitive movements and states of women, and gave them painting-like color blocks by image processing. These movements and states include the lower body of a woman […]
Dirty Silhouettes
My work is driven by the desire to understand and interpret the human condition, human dynamics/relationships by exploring the “spaces in between.” I find myself constantly needing to defy the canvas edge and envelope the space beyond the boundaries, incorporating into the images elements of truth and fiction such as text, collage, and assemblage in […]
The Sound of a Silent Dialogue
Rebecca Horn is a major representative of the contemporary German art world, and has been well-known since the early 1970s for her numerous performances that sought to improve communications with others and develop a rapport with nature. Following her participation in the Documenta V show in her 20s, Horn has energetically explored one new territory […]
