Author Archives: jolanta

Loulou Cherinet’s work connects through the documentary, despite a deliberate staged setting. Cherinet focuses on setting the appropriate conditions for her storytelling. This can be a dinner party where a number of black people dressed in the same striped jersey tell stories about their relations with white women as in White Women (2002). In Personal […]

Zhu Qi: How did you start to get interested in the gardens in Southern China? Dong Wen-Sheng: I think it’s because of the environmental surroundings of my life and the educational background before my views on the world and the art had been developed. I live in a small city in Southern China, named Changzhou, […]

Clunie Reid uses photographs, drawings, media images, and text to create aggressive and unrefined collages. Through the use of cheap materials and a rudimentary approach to display, Reid works against formality and the ideologies suggested by images of wealth and beauty dispersed within the work. Utilizing a deskilled aesthetic and emphasizing the act of composition […]

An important event took place in Milan at PAC (Contemporary Art Pavillion): Nouveau Réalisme from 1970 up until today—Homage to Pierre Restany (1930-2003) was on view in February, curated by Renato Barilli. Milan owes homage to Pierre Restany. He had found a second home in Milan, a more hospitable city than Paris. He is one […]

Each model that I collaborate with reacts to the camera in a different way, and I let that dictate the direction of our shoot. I use little artifice—no expensive lighting, professional backdrops, outfits, themes, and not even much makeup—putting the strength of the image on my ability to create a comfortable environment in which she […]

A towering influence on the evolution and iconography of Japanese contemporary art, Tadanori Yokoo has straddled the boundaries of commercial and fine art since the 1960s. His brilliance lies in his ability to weave mass imagery into complexly layered pictorial tableaux that trigger collective and personal memories. Yokoo’s appropriation of imagery and initial emergence during […]