Author Archives: jolanta
Head-On
Memory (2008), Anish Kapoor’s commissioned sculpture for the Deutsche Guggenheim, sits tightly within its gallery spaces—a twenty-four-ton, Cor-Ten steel tank, defined by its volume rather than by its mass. Its thin skin suggests a form that is ephemeral and unmonumental, defying gravity as it gently glances against the peripheries of the gallery walls, floors, and […]
Up Close and Personal
Our images are more a reflection of an idea than a reflection of reality as it appears in front of the object. In these images we control and shape the reality according to our aesthetic and personal needs, avoiding, or filtering with a critical sense, the casual element that usually make photography an expression and […]
BAHRAM
Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. His Neo Expressionism makes him part of a renowned tradition, of a worldwide humane artistic heritage, nurtured by his specific cultural roots, both Oriental and Western. His work is a fascinating artistic facet in a radically globalizing and […]
BAHRAM
Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. His Neo Expressionism makes him part of a renowned tradition, of a worldwide humane artistic heritage, nurtured by his specific cultural roots, both Oriental and Western. His work is a fascinating artistic facet in a radically globalizing and […]
BAHRAM
Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. Looking at BAHRAM’S work you see disturbing paintings. His Neo Expressionism makes him part of a renowned tradition, of a worldwide humane artistic heritage, nurtured by his specific cultural roots, both Oriental and Western. His work is a fascinating artistic facet in a radically globalizing and […]
Madny al Bakry
The ornamental richness of Arabic calligraphy expresses more than just the meaning of words. Madny al Bakry The ornamental richness of Arabic calligraphy seems to imitate the basic rhythm of life. Infused with African motifs and patterns, my unlimited color palette is what I would call "Calligraffiti." This one-by-one-meter panel is part of a […]
Saya
In love with nature, it is when Saya gets in touch with earth that she feels in total symbiosis with Creation. In love with nature, it is when Saya gets in touch with earth that she feels in total symbiosis with Creation. From her soul to her hands, shapes are brought to life, oscillating […]
BROADTHINKING: Unnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature
An art exhibit curated by Chris Twomey at Broadway Gallery in Soho is a compilation of installations by eleven individual artists metamorphing natural or waste products into another form of existence, giving new life through use of the materials and ideas. As artists, they are able to manipulate, control, recycle materials into other products that […]
Curious Eyes
Leah Oates: Please describe your background and how you became an artist. Yasmine Chatila: My grandmother was an artist. She studied 19th-century painting in Italy at the Academia di Belle Arti in Turin. I remember many afternoons where she used to give me lessons on how to draw and paint. I think I was about […]
Migrating Thoughts
Andries Botha’s work explores the loss of self as people participate in mass migration in search of new imagined futures. Responding to a question about the work, Botha said, “Our contemporary modernity has resulted in a global pattern of human migration. Survival, desire, romance, greed, and tragedy are all metaphors that fuel the human imagination. […]
