Daniel Rapley has spent the last 18 months writing up the entire King James Bible, by hand, on standard feint ruled notepaper with a ballpoint pen. Or so, at least, we are told. When we enter the white cube space of PayneShurvell, London, what we see is a sturdy sheaf of feint ruled notepaper, each […]

The exhibition is a special treaty on painting and visibility. Marzec takes here (as he does in his theoretical publications) the discussion of the current concept of the picture. His critical references to the idea of parergom (Kant, Derrida), screen (Lacan), repetition (Deleuze), palimpsest (Lyotard), cut/tear (Didi – Huberman) and too others are clearly visible […]

Helsinki, World Design Capital of 2012, is this year’s destination for every design lover with an eye for exciting events, encounters and eccentric exhibitions. Known for their long and distinguished history in design, Finns consider the mandate, granted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, as an exquisite way to present how design […]

On a Thursday evening, in inebriated Chelsea, I robotically entered the Asya Geisberg Gallery and realized that I had stepped into an 18th century fairytale, somewhere in the midst of European woods. Portraits of beautiful, naked women sitting next to grotesque caricatures of modernized peasants. I may have cringed at a few three-dimensional boils that […]

Unless his estate is keeping them hidden, there isn’t a single nude in Martin Chambi’s work. That in itself is remarkable: photography has been synonymous with disrobing and the strip tease since its inception. Was it reluctance on Chambi’s part, local mores, or restrictions of colonial society? It hardly matters. If Maxim Gorky had been […]

  The works may be viewed as visions of a mythological underworld. They are tributes to all the dead, everywhere, who left without the chance to say goodbye. Their depth, mystery and profundity are not hidden or difficult to decipher; they are accessible. Their power lies in the strength of truth, of authenticity. The subtle […]

Rejecting the traditional rectangular painting support, Gorchov is able to create a compositional balance all his own – one that continues to feel fresh. His skill in dealing with a unique support feels almost as if the work were  able to carve out it’s own niche in painting history. The selectively hung exhibition, curated by […]

Two recent deaths in the art world have caused some reflection on the state of criticism.  Firstly, is Amos Vogel.  Vogel was one of the most influential cineasts in New York City. He was best known for his seminal book Film as a Subversive Art (1974).  He was also the founder of the New York […]

In the first phase, opened by a hilarious but somewhat unnecessarily prolonged and messy BUTOH  performance (sort of post-1945 “avant-garde” Japanese expressive dance) of the performance artists, Ronnie Baker and Luku-San, Elena Slivnyak displayed some of her latest experimental work whose choice of evolving futuristic forms as well as visibly tough and all-purpose texture clearly […]

In 1957, Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded the ZERO movement, exploring experimental media and techniques, with the motivation that “everybody should have a better life.” Piene who is famous for his smoke and fire paintings, created new art forms called “Light Ballet” and “Sky Art”. He lives in Cambridge, MA, USA, and in Düsseldorf, […]