Author Archives: jolanta
Life through a Lens
Home lies at the exit of every train stop, in every traveler’s mind. They travel around for their ideals and their lives. But home is where their hearts lie. To make someone feel touched sometimes all it takes is a rose; to fall in love sometimes all you need is a detail. Sometimes you end […]
Breaking Barriers
By working with the characteristics of a chosen site I create sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally structured. Space and its parameters are examined, then altered, and manipulated, generating a very unique spatial environment, in order to sharpen our perception of it and of ourselves, beyond normal reality and its habits. I […]
Art Fair Diaries- Miami 2008
Friday, December 5 After a lovely brunch at the Penguin Hotel’s front terrace restaurant on Ocean Drive, we attended the phenomenal performances of the overlooked Czech conceptualist, Jià â¢Ã¯ Kovanda, whose re-enactment of his actions and installations from the 70s in the nearby Lummus Park were a highlight of the fair. Then on to the not-for-profit […]
Art Fair Diaries- Miami 2008
Thursday, December 4 Thursday morning began with a mini tanning session on the beach followed by a plunge in the surprisingly cold water. Afternoon activities included a talk by critic, Jerry Saltz at “Art Conversations”. His discussion of the impending doom of the financial crisis on the art market and the ways it might just […]
A Reborn Universe
Earth—Man was completed in August, 2007. It was scorching hot. At 8 a.m., I went a barber shop in the art district, and had all my hair and facial hair shaved off. At around 9 o’clock, a friend of mine started to paint on my head and my face. This friend is a graphic designer […]
Sun Screening
In 2003 an all-night exposure of the stars made during a camping trip was lost due to the effects of whiskey. I was unable to wake up to close the shutter before sunrise; all the information of the night’s exposure was destroyed. The light of the rising sun was so focused and intense that it […]
Art Fair Diaries- Miami 2008
Wednesday Dec. 3 This year’s Miami art fair experience started even before we left New York. Judging by the majority of passengers clad in black, chic jewelry, and angular haircuts, the entire plane was populated by art-fair goers. We even experienced our first art-star sighting of trip: painter, John Currin and his wife, sculptor, Rachel […]
Art Basel Miami Top Five:
1. Jordan Wolfson film projection at Johann König, 2. Chicks on Speed video installation Kate MacGarry 3. Falke Pisano installation at De Bruijne 4. Michael S. Riedel film projection at Gabriele Senn Galerie 5. Olaf Breuning sand sculpture on the beach near the Sagamore Hotel Gillian Sneed 1. Jordan Wolfson film projection at Johann König, […]
Sima Schloss
My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature. My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature but to strip the veneer, crack open the vessel and display the vulnerability of the glossy innards of life and […]
Sima Schloss
My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature Sima Schloss My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature but to strip the veneer, crack open the vessel and display the vulnerability of the glossy innards of life and […]
