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Catlalina Rojas, Chile in Light
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 13:29“The spectacle aims to summarize the most important moments in the history of Chile, while rescuing the country’s richness and beauties among other ideas.”Chile a la Luz (Chile in Light) is the project that has brought worldwide attention to multifaceted Chilean aritst, Catalina Rojas. Well known in her native Chile, Rojas is most famous for her prolific representation of Chilean cultural heritage and […]
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Liang Weizhou: A Painted Perspective
Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:20Furthering a long tradition of pictorial photographers and photo-realistic painters, Liang Weizhou’s photographic works illustrate new possibilities found between painting and photography. As evident in several of his surrealist and expressionist paintings from the early 1990s, Liang Weizhou has regularly explored the visual and conceptual relationship between painting and photography in his personal life and […]
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EDWARD HOPPER AND HIS TIME
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 08:43“Hopper was not interested in the lively social world depicted by many of his colleagues, but he shared their interest in capturing moments of solitude and in using bold, simplified forms to infuse his scenes with dramatic monumentality.” Edward Hopper, Seven A. M., 1948. Oil on canvas, 30 3/16 x 40 1/8 inches. Purchase and […]
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Mollyne Karnofsky
Monday, 28 March 2011 01:29“I have an affinity for found objects and found spaces. It seems to me a creative plus to utilize objects in the environments of my own Found Spaces such as broken and discarded objects or transform the space with my Paper Environments.”. Mollyne Karnofsky, Open Deck, City is Situ, 2007. Mixed media and paper, 11 […]
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Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave
Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:29It was only a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, that ‘The Pinta People’ taking a big gamble took the art world by surprise by mounting the world’s first international Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. With 35 international galleries and countless Hispanic artists from […]
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Women Without Men
Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:15Shirin Neshat has for over a decade fascinated us with the beauty, sensuous, timelessness of both her photographic works, and single and multi-channel video works. Born in Qazvin, Shirin Neshat left Iran just before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent fall of the Shah. Since l983, Neshat’s art works have raised important questions […]
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Sisko Ruskokivi-Runeberg
Monday, 7 March 2011 12:51”To describe, verbalize – such movements which have such of unpredictable meanings – is a labyrinth” My painting is a mystery to me. I have made it spontaneously through intuition, almost unintentionally, directly conceived from the depth of my creative unconscious. I get a profound contentment and joy by painting in this free way. To […]
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Therese Grosswiele
Monday, 7 March 2011 12:46“Can they offer a new point of view? Can they sum up complex information or outline new approaches?” The most interesting artists’ works make one curious about what is behind or about what is inside. So works on social and/or political dimensions make one curious about whether they can launch changes in the perspective of […]
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Pedro Yaba
Monday, 7 March 2011 12:40“I started drawing when I was five year old on the sand; nobody ever showed me how to draw.” I was born in Luanda the capital of Angola in Africa. I started drawing when I was five year old on the sand; nobody ever showed me how to draw.During my school time, I was drawing […]
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Pablo Sebastián Pisacco
Monday, 7 March 2011 12:35“Join the worn surfaces of the real and continue to resist.” The Work of the future. Build small scenes, snippets of reality tear. Then, work on the surface of the material. Telling stories, minimal frames of shared experiences. The experience of walking clichés and marginal; again, possible scenarios and simple awaiting occupants. Renewed tradition of handicrafts in a contemporary context […]
















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