Author Archives: jolanta
Jane Millican
Labor-intensive drawings fool the eye and fascinate. A slowly executed trompe l’oeil pencil drawing might at first appear to be a quickly executed, gestural painting. These images explore authenticity as material, and this theme is emphasized by the creation of landscapes such as described by J.G. Ballard. They are both banal and terrifying in their […]
Helen Smith
In 1995, I founded Waygood as a program of critical contemporary art presented in the context of an artists’ venue. For me this is defined as a studio, a gallery, and a meeting place for artists, art teachers, and writers. I am interested in the way artists develop ideas within a community, with which they […]
Gone with the Wind
The work East Wind and West Wind is inspired by the mirror and the light; both were first invented in the West. As the symbols of luxury and quality life, they are getting more and more popular, and can be easily spotted in the East. We selected soft and warm cashmere to wrap up the […]
Loss and Landscape
In Iran, like in many other Eastern lands, the contemporary artist is dragged into two conventionally opposite directions. One direction tilts toward familiar footprints that lead to a buried but glorious past, a sense of nostalgia, fear and disgust with the mechanization and shallowness of the presently emerging culture. The other direction is an impulse […]
Mariana Cornea
Mariana Cornea’s body of work covers a broad breath of avenues exploring an expressive, emotional motive. Producing a wide range of approaches compositionally, Mariana Cornea’s body of work covers a broad breath of avenues exploring an expressive, emotional motive. Incorporating actual objects and a representational perspective in some of her pieces, Cornea depicts moments of […]
Cherished Flaws
Reoccurring themes in my work are the texture and honesty of craft, as well as the exploration of distorting and transforming a reproduced image. Central to handmade craft objects is a reflection of the human hand and a process of mathematical, repetitive steps. Simple objects, such as baskets and woven fabrics, are not as loaded […]
A Streetcar Named Desire
Only two decades ago, Paul Delvaux was painting from memory, having lost most of his sight. He would stand in his studio, looking like a fisherman in a sleeveless shirt, with a cigarette hanging from his lip, painting mermaids and daydreaming in the garden of his studio. Delvaux (1897-1994) was born to be a painter, […]
The Intermingling of Indian Ideas
Following the rapid economic, social, and cultural developments in India in recent years, the exhibition Indian Highway is a timely presentation of the pioneering work being made in India today, embracing art, architecture, film, literature, and dance. The culmination of extensive research over a lengthy period, Indian Highway serves as a snapshot of a vibrant […]
Prime Time for New Media
When it seemed that television was about to end, an end it supposedly met in the onslaught of interactive media and their splitting up of large, homogenous audiences through the proliferation of small, constantly connected screens, it may just emerge again. And so it does: a medium has been created in the white cube through […]
Bridging Lands With Pen
In the summer of 2009, inspired by a cultural exchange program with the Caucasus, I traveled by land from Zurich to Baku and back. My objective was to document the journey with pen on paper. Though the culture exchange eventually did fail, the experience was intoxicating for my pen and I. The drawings capture the […]
