Author Archives: jolanta

For his first New York City solo exhibition, Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects—from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages—into cohesive works resembling anthropomorphic masks. Neon-colored, kaleidoscopic patterns embellish six-foot tall cut out canvas masks, speaking to the artist’s fascination with the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island […]

In The Dangerous Book Four Boys, James Franco is casting himself as both an artist and a writer. His book is a product of collaboration and a source of inspiration for his exhibition of films, drawings, photos, and sculptures. The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores adolescence, adulthood, sexuality, destruction and masculinity. Franco draws upon the […]

Peche, a bit of a scientist in her approach, sees nature as “the greatest source of creativity.” In her earlier work, she systematically explored the ever-changing structures and patterns of nature and its god-like effect on rock formation, trees, and leaves – all of which play a much larger part in our everyday lives than […]

Modernism dealt with focusing one’s attention on a specific genre. The hybrid notion of art was, generally speaking, a foreign terrain. I am not convinced that Modernism started out in terms of specific genres, but that is clearly the way it evolved, particularly in the post-World War II era. The focus was on an artist’s […]

“Sic transit Gloria mundi,” words written in burn marks on the white wall of Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma’s Enel Room. It is an epigraph that sounds powerful, dramatic and yet resigned. It is not easy for an artist to deal with decadence. I mean, working on a concept so broad as “The word is falling […]