Author Archives: jolanta
Lucio Diodati
“You can see whatever you want in my works.” Courtesy of the artist. LUCIO DIODATI www.luciodiodati.com Protagonists are the colors performed by nameless women. Everything is surrounded by a space-less and timeless light, which doesn’t ‘t belong to a real place, but somehow still familiar. The one who observes, from the lion tamer to the […]
Eduardo Rosado
“My work is about the human condition: violence, loneliness, fear, sex, death, fertility.” Courtesy of the artist. EDUARDO ROSADO www.eduardorosado.net My work is about the human condition: violence, loneliness, fear, sex, death, fertility. My interior reality determines my painting, placing it close to expressionism and aside to surrealism. I usually use dark humor to dismiss […]
A Shiver in the Workshop of the Brain
Henri Michaux (1899-1984) enjoys the best kind of posterity. On a small street in Paris – all of one block long – crowded with handsome galleries showing the fearsome, minutely crafted totems of Africa and Oceania, his paintings draw a steady stream of people who look at them not because they want to buy an […]
Traces Opens at Hionas Gallery
Pieces, scraps, traces, curious clues, strange evidence left behind…In the last few months I have been painting a series of investigative works on paper. The focus of these images being just that: investigating what remains, be it actual physical refuse or simply my own remembrances. “Although many of these works are devoid of human […]
Fantastic Lonely-Heart: Hyong Nam Ahn
The starting point of art is the resistance of death and time. Artists pursue possibilities to overcome and transcend the limitation of time in their works. Hyong Nam Ahn’s installation, “Fantastic Lonely- Heart,” implies the search for the limitation of time. This work is a simply composed sculpture and a kind of site-specific installation using […]
The Monsters of Stefanie Gutheil
Darkness is never absolute; there is always a beam of light that illuminates the depths. Stefanie Gutheil fills her murky vision with distorted imaginative images of creatures culled from her unconscious that in time constitute the genesis of fresh ideas, turbulent progenitors of creative evolution. The artist establishes baroque tableaux of dream-like hybrids that […]
The Guggenheim Gets Renovated: Nicola Lopez’s “Landscape X: Under Construction”
Construction can elicit a diverse array of reactions. For some, it’s the beginning of an exciting business venture. For others, it’s the dystopian spawn of our commercialism-crazed society. For most, it’s just head-pounding racket. But for Nicola Lopez, it’s a vibrant and stimulating muse. “It’s absolutely beautiful and magical, yet totally overwhelming and completely […]
2011 Kaosiung International Container Arts Festival: Artbitat
The Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival has been held once every two years since 2001, and has become a distinctive Kaohsiung event. The 2011 Container Arts Festival has a theme of “Artbitat.” The artists have created visions of the home transcending time and space using very mundane cargo containers. “The works will enable […]
Jim Lee Interviews David Kramer
Jim Lee: Has your work always been occupied by the “good life”? Because craft seems to be an important element as well…did you grow up building things or did a family member get you started using tools and materials? David Kramer: My dad used to hand me things and say “fix this.” There were lamps […]
The Mask And The Mirror
Artist self-portraits have historically fascinated the public eye as they have become artists’ most personal and intimate expressions, but this trend has taken a particularly big turn in the past two decades among contemporary artists. As a young art student in the mid 1980s, I remember developing an obsession with the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo […]
