Author Archives: jolanta

LETTER FROM ZURICH Nina Zivancevic Sometimes tracingthe individual artist’s work can be an interesting Enterprise – as I spoketo several Swiss artists who are supposed to have a show at Lubelski’s NewYork gallery in May, they advised me to see their specific work at Zurich’sGallery Incontro and the show which has just opened there in […]

Putting Down the Indifferent Blade Jennifer Reeves Guesswork hasnothing to do with understanding abstraction. The personal associations we mayglean from an abstract work of art is ours to discover but only the appetizerto a greater more singularly defined significance. This significance is concreteand more in our bones than our bones are. Consequently, we are behooved […]

Isolde Kille: Painting • Video • Installation Norman Douglas Isolde Kille hasinstalled her second solo exhibition in the cozy second floor space where SteveCannon has maintained his venerable Lower East Side cultural center, Tribes Gallery,for the past ten years (and where I volunteer). I’ve attended a vast rangeof exhibits at Tribes since artist, curator and […]

Mobilizing Difference Nuit Banai Like a post-modern bricoleur, toying with concepts and conditions of possibilityrather than gadgets and gizmos, Romeo Doron Alaeff disassembles and rebuildsthe devices that help maintain the semblance of a unified sense of self. In practicesthat include video, film, photography and music, Alaeff pirouettes on the thinline between fusion and confusion, gently […]

Korean-American: Artist Dream Ok Kee Kim This year, Korean-Americanscommemorate the centennial anniversary of their immigrant experience. To celebratethis occasion, the Space Gallery is proud to present the 100 Korean-Americanartists’ exhibition in one of the artistic centers of the world, New York City. Many Korean-Americanshave distinguished themselves in America with their work ethic and self-reliance.Likewise, Korean […]

Demetrius Manouselis: Towards an Architectonics of Painting Raul Zamudio Whenever paintingpurportedly dies, it seems to always return with a vengeance. Its most recent“fatality” concerns its possible eclipse with what has been fashionablytermed new media; for the supposed waning of painting has been the curatorialimpetus of recent painting exhibitions. With titles such as Trouble Spot Painting, […]

THE ROCKAWAYS Richard Kostelanetz Scarcely a greatenthusiast for photography in general, I’ve never collected photographsor books about photography and don’t often use my 35-mm. camera. Since mydisinterests don’t much concern me, I’m not sure why I ignore photographs.Perhaps I find them limited, much like newspapers, which I don’t often readeither. Nonetheless, I’verecently begun a rich […]

A Trip To Germany Robert Reitzfeld While in Germanyfor my own exhibition at the Berliner Kunstprojekt, I spent (as most artistsdo) quite a bit of time looking at art. Here then are some of the artists andthe art that touched and excited me.   Thomas Zitzwitz A young painter from Cologne, and some of the […]

SPLIT DREAMS Roberto Juarez The recent group show Split Dreams included artists from the San Francisco collectiveVERN. Terminal One included Tony Brown’s printed contours of enlarged typewritercartridges on rough looking plywood screwed to the wall in a long line; DanielRothbart’s elongated metal floor sculpture which looked like handmade spacejunk that fell into place with the […]

Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova – The Space of Time Selma Stern The series ‘The Space of Time’ was exhibited by Francisco Infante andhis wife Nonna Gorionova in Moscow this year. It constituted a series of photoworks created last summer in the Italian provinces of Reggio, Badalucco and Imperia.The exhibition contained 13 installed artefacts on […]