Author Archives: jolanta

Almost four decades after its creation, Mikhailov’s Sandwich series was on view at Barbara Gross Galerie in München, Germany a year ago. Created during the late 1960s and 1970s, this series represents the poetic side of Mikhailov’s early conceptual work. Overlapping motifs lead to multifaceted interpretations, in which ironic allusion to food shortages, gloomy living […]

The photographers of 1978 were searching for new visual territory. By that year, with Diane Arbus dead for more than half a decade, the decisive moments captured by the likes of Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand over the past three decades had been depleted of fresh potential. Street photographers, it seemed, had run out […]

In an era when the police can be summoned if you so much as produce a camera on a children’s playground, Julia Fullerton-Batten has made life deliberately difficult for herself. The London-based artist’s latest project focuses on the taboos of life in a teenage girls’ school. Bullying, humiliation, and occasional moments of sympathy can all […]

Tal R’s exhibit Adieu Interessant was featured at the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery in Berlin as part of the German capital’s citywide gallery weekend this past May. The Israeli-born Danish artist displayed ten large-format collages on two floors of the David Chipperfield designed space. The canvases in Adieu Interessant resembled abstract compositions from afar, two-dimensional […]