Author Archives: jolanta

When I was 18 I was…a girl, hitching across Europe with a friend, another girl, who had an old Rolliflex medium format camera. This impressed me greatly. After 6 months of high adventure, we returned to our small town on the California coast and I decided what I wanted to do with my life. I […]

Photography is something of an evolution for me. I was always connected with painting; I grew up surrounded by paints and brushes, and it seemed as if everybody around me was always painting or drawing. I was watching and touching beautiful handmade frames my grandmother made 50 years earlier, my grandfather was making beautiful hand […]

Linus, you are a very optimistic person, with a good disposition and a lot of enthusiasm. You love freedom and hate daily routine. You are very restless and curious, which will engender unexpected and risky situations. Thanks to your ingenuity and optimism you will always come out ahead, either by receiving unexpected help or by […]

I was born in in Vienna, Austria. I originally studied at the university of applied arts fashion design, and since 2006 presenting I have been showing my collections in Paris and London and Berlin. Photography in my cigarette break. Sometimes I wish all colors would fade. monochrome desire. Anna Aichinger   I was born in […]

These five photographs were taken in 1987 and printed in 2006, when I went through all the thousands of proof sheets I had produced between 1972 and 1995 and found a number of images that I had overlooked at the time that I now felt should be printed. They are photographs of above-ground tombs that […]

It is not easy to be confronted with the painting of a master. It is unsettling. It unnerves one. It may even bring tears to the eyes. How can one look at Picassoís Les Demoiselles DíAvignon and not reexamine oneís notion of art? Forget traditional concepts of art. Ignore ideas of beauty and harmony. Picassoís […]

I had always believed that it was the primary role of the artist to challenge and reinterpret the medium in which it performs. With photography, this becomes a major annoyance and contradiction. Photography began as an artist’s way of capturing a moment in time, as the Dutch would say, a "blik" of the natural world. […]

Every artist is an outsider until they are discovered- especially by a gallery. The recent smatterings of “Outsider Art” shows and fairs that invaded New York during dull February served to declare that even dwarfs started small. Some of my favorite gallery folk, Ricco/Maresca, Andrew Edlin, Galerie St. Etienne, and Phyllis Kind and a worldwide […]

Elaine Angelopoulos is onto something big in her work—not in terms of scale, though she has worked in large formats, but in terms of meaning.  She has been producing webbed and interconnected sculptural forms using string, ropes and boxes and she also does performance works. Her art elides between the personal space of the body […]

In his latest exhibition Meeting the Mirror at The Marmara Pera Gallery Art and Life in Istanbul, Ahmet Yeşil confronts spectators with their own existence: their appearances, feelings, actions, surroundings, dependencies, desires, fears, needs and ability to comprehend. He sends viewers on an emotional journey consisting of oil paintings that are beautiful and shaking at […]