Author Archives: jolanta
Cross-Cultural Self-Reference
Making art, to me, is a personal way of studying the world. The act of studying moves me closer to the world so that I don’t feel left out or disconnected. I relate myself to both the conceptual and the physical world, through series of examining and researching processes and intervening acts. Teng Chao-Ming […]
Visual Mind Games
Michael Linares’ recent exhibition Found & Lost at Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced and observed. The exhibition employs Linares’ own fluency in multifarious forms of discourse—from sculpture, to photography and video. Suzie Walshe on Michael Lineares Michael Linares’ recent […]
Speaking With the Ravens
Tchera Niyego: Can you tell me a little more about your book? Ngak’chang Rinpoche: The book, yes. There are a lot of things going on at the moment because I’ve always been interested in presenting Vajrayana to artists. There’s always been an idea about Buddhism in the West, but the most natural crossover is with […]
Contextualizing Consumerism
Consumerism, in the world of Brian Ulrich, is a tornado of sorts. His photographs, exhibited at the Julie Saul Gallery, depict the space of consumerism after the consumer has consumed and departed. The backroom of a thrift store is full of discarded Nike sneakers, piled one upon the other, inelegant and dead. Heather Clarke […]
Knowing It All
In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) at the Ai Miracoli exhibition space in Venice, Argentinean abstract artist, Mario Zirardini, takes us back to our very beginnings, before written laws, received wisdom, and force of habit, all but shackled our individual creativity and freedom of expression. as. Ed Rubin In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) […]
A Quest for Union
Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point of the text for my drawings might be, I do not expect any specific form or representation to emerge. Wai Pong-Yu Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point […]
Desires, Materialized
Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments of modern and contemporary art from the historical avant-gardes to our days. By recontextualizing or subverting the object, artists have pushed the conventions of art and emphasized the ambiguity of the representation. Monica Piccioni Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments […]
Digitized Wonderland
“Digital-Natural Art” is a multifaceted and reciprocal process—making digital 3D images through primitive technology and materials, and making primitive rawhide/wood-art through digital technology and equipment. My hope is that the “digital-natural art” can transcend the traditional and modern uses of art elements, and result in integrating digital and primitive values in one manifestation. Tan […]
Weighing in
Since the wave of British art released its energy in 1990s, China’s art scene has also demonstrated its outstanding force of imagination and creativity. This was driven by decades of continuous fast development of the economy, coupled with the momentum of the country’s history. Leng Lin Since the wave of British art released its […]
A Shanghai Dream
All these photos are about the familiar Shanghai in my memory. When I was still a child, these types of old factories and buildings were everywhere, alive and full of energy. What I used to be so familiar with has literally disappeared in front of my eyes. Being ruthless is part of human nature, so […]
