Author Archives: jolanta
TRANSMEDIALE, 2005 – Highlights from the Festival, as described by the artists themselves
Transmediale presents new and outstanding projects in the field of digital culture and provides reflections on the role of digital technologies in contemporary society. It is a forum of communication for artists, media workers and a broad public interested in arts of vital and still increasing international importance. TRANSMEDIALE, 2005 Highlights from the Festival, as […]
MADRID ABIERTO, 2005: Transforming Madrid – Participating Artists
Madrid Abierto is a project within what is generically known as Public Art. In the words of its organizer, Ramon Parramon, its objective is to "stimulate creative work in determined places that relate that which is typical of the place and the time in which the creativity takes place. MADRID ABIERTO, 2005: Transforming Madrid Participating […]
Carolina Alotus
Look closely at a flower, really close, and you’ll discover a new world that consists of stamen, pistils, pollen and petals. A whole universe resides in every blossom. Look closely at a flower, really close, and you’ll discover a new world that consists of stamen, pistils, pollen and petals. A whole universe resides in every […]
Carolina Alotus
Look closely at a flower, really close, and you’ll discover a new world that consists of stamen, pistils, pollen and petals. A whole universe resides in every blossom. Look closely at a flower, really close, and you’ll discover a new world that consists of stamen, pistils, pollen and petals. A whole universe resides in every […]
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Anna VanMatre – NY Arts Magazine
Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream at the viewer shock and fear and hope. Her post-September 11 works act as a cry for sanity, their emotional content even more penetrating then VanMatre’s previous works. Inside the Artist’s Studio: Anna VanMatre NY Arts Magazine American Landscape from cycle Turbulent Times, 2002, 27×108, in.Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream […]
Super Softly Slipping – Emilio Corti
A word that I always remember from the Middle Ages Art History books that I studied at school is re-use. So it came that new architecture resembled the old, with pieces of Roman basilicas, columns, capitals found, stolen, unearthed and changed. Super Softly Slipping Emilio Corti Massimo Grimaldi, "Coccloba Club Valtur Image Forced to Be […]
San Juan: Collectors, Collections and the Art Market – Thalia Vrachopoulos
As any cursory look will evince, the art scene of San Juan is vital and hopping. San Juan: Collectors, Collections and the Art Market Thalia Vrachopoulos Allora Calzadilla, Traffic Patterns, 2001-2003 As any cursory look will evince, the art scene of San Juan is vital and hopping. This is a change from five years ago […]
Skins of Time: Elegies, A Lamentation of Loss and Suffering – Ann Wilson
Harmony Hammond creates Proustian layers of paint in the evolution of succeeding levels of the present tense. Skins of Time: Elegies, A Lamentation of Loss and Suffering Ann Wilson Image courtesy of the artist"As though the musicians were not nearly so much playing the little phrase as performing the rites on which it insisted before […]
Tsibi Geva: Centripetal, Centrifugal Forces – David Shapiro
Meyer Schapiro, when asked why James Joyce united the Irish and the Jew in Ulysses, responded that both were indestructible in the fury of history. This is the sense of everyday heroism and sacred survivalism?neither Geva nor Bloom aspire to martyrdom?that is part of Jewish prudential wisdom. There is an ardent clarity even in the […]
Songs of Innocence and Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul – Edward Rubin
As John Wood so forcefully states in his introductory essay to Songs of Innocence and Experience, a newly published book which pairs William Blake’s poems with Joel-Peter Witkin’s photographs, "No visual artist since Blake himself is better suited to illustrate Blake’s Songs than Joel-Peter Witkin. Songs of Innocence and Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States […]
