It is very difficult to talk about love without being precious or dogmatic. On one hand, it is thought that love is ineffable, that it is a domain where reason ignores the heart’s expectancies. Hence, everything becomes flowery and eventually turns into an eternal repetition in a world of kitsch imagery. On the other hand, […]

There are certain artists who need no introduction; their work, reputation and influence is so vast it almost goes without saying. Bruce Nauman is one such artist. Nauman has been recognized since the 70s as one of the most innovative and provocative of America’s contemporary artists, yet he separates himself from the art world, living […]

“Halliburton Solves Global Warming.” While credited to “Halliburton Emergency Products Development,” a press release with a hook like this could only be the work of one organization—notorious prankster-activists The Yes Men. Give the document a quick once-over, and you’ll find all the attributes of a typical press release: it starts with a lengthy quotation from […]

Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real ‘wow, that’s big’ time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying […]

Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real ‘wow, that’s big’ time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying […]

La animación permite no sólo percibir el mundo de manera distinta, sino también crear otros mundos diferentes mediante dos herramientas poderosas: la fantasía y la imaginación. Aunque estos dos términos no encontraron una diferenciación en la teoría estética hasta avanzado el romanticismo, en el léxico de las lenguas neolatinas, como escribe Maurizio Ferraris , «subsiste, […]

To watch Lan Tran’s one-woman performance Elevator/Sex is to see her transform into facets of her psyche. Speaking through five different characters—a professional hugger, an old woman, a pickpocket, a surfer and a photographer—Tran shifts identities and switches perspectives to take on one issue: the after-effect of sexual molestation. An autobiographical work, each of the […]

The first time I met my future husband Colin he asked me what I wanted to do for a living, I said, "To be a painter." "So you paint?" he asked. "No," I replied, and it remained that way for another ten years. I was born in London in 1968, the eldest of four. I […]

Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio, one of the leading sculptors of her generation, born in 1963, is due to arrive in Brazil in the beginning of July for her first solo exhibition in South America, which will occur at Galeria Leme, São Paulo, as from July 11. Throughout her career, her ambitious and often large-scale works […]

The representation of body and self, loss, transition and personal identity are the themes I am most concerned with within my work.  My own personal life stories, as with many artists, are the catalyst to me producing the work I do. Coming from a family where my mother had breast cancer for nine years, a […]