Author Archives: jolanta

The life of Alice Cattaneo’s works is always in danger. The delicacy of these structures and the insubstantiality of their materials make them fragile, intangible and dramatically poetic. In them, we find elements from our daily life, one after another, woven into a net made with daily materials such as cardboard, nylon, wooden sticks, etc. […]

In retrospect, I assume that entering Bellwether Gallery to see Brent Green’s debut solo exhibition, “Paulina Hollers,” is as close as I will ever come to entering another person’s mind. At the very least, the show transformed the space of the gallery into another world—one filled with captivating videos, engrossing soundtracks and a strange, magical, […]

Recently, mounted at Newman Popiashvili Gallery in Chelsea, “Drawing Room” cleverly combined an eclectic group of seven artists preoccupied with the nature of space and how we structure our lives within it. Taking its title from a photograph by Michael Huey, Newman Popiashvili’s winter group exhibition undermines assumptions about the physical and psychological membranes that […]

To view a JonMarc Edwards work is to recognize its author immediately. The coherent symbolic vocabulary established by this painter/sculptor/assemblage artist over the past decade and a half is, in more ways than one, entirely readable. In his works, the artist consistently employs the signs making up the English language as communicators of ideas, emotions […]

En una línea opuesta a la espectacuralidad que se anuncia éxito—y que tanto daño ha hecho a la comprensión pública del arte—el estadounidense Lance Dehné planteó en Valencia una posible concentración de la mirada a partir de pequeños formatos contenedores de universos que hacen del exterior visual un interior desnudamente intimista.   Honestidad, verdad. – […]

Ah, yes, art’s cannibalistic side. That’s the truest thing you can say about art; that it devours its young, its contemporaries, sometimes even itself, and then becomes something new. In so doing, it extends the boundaries of what constitutes the grist of art. Think Gauguin, the aesthetic cannibal extraordinaire. Think Juan Gris, picking up and […]

Katarzyna Kozyra has made strong and provocative works that question the rules of our society: she forced the concept of privacy when she dressed up like a man and attended a men-only spa (Men’s Bathhouse); then, she participated in fake war actions, with a group of violent warlords and real weapons (Punishment and Crime). But, […]