Author Archives: jolanta
“The Space Between” @ The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London, UK
“The Space Between” @ The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London, UK June 5-21 http://thespacebetween.org.uk/
The Influence of Photography in Painting – Rollo Contemporary Art
The Influence of Photography in Painting – Rollo Contemporary Art June 2-July 10 ROLLO was established in 2005 and quickly gained attention with its outside project The Writer by Giancarlo Neri, a 30 metre high table and chair by installed on Hampstead Heath in summer 2005. During 2005 and 2006 ROLLO Contemporary Art was based […]
Unframed – AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Unframed AIDS Community Research Initiative of America June 3, 2009 6-9pm For more than 16 years, Unframed has been considered one of the most exciting and unusual art events in New York City. Leading artists contribute unique series or editions for sale at mind-blowingly low prices. There is also an incredible silent auction component. […]
Unframed – AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Unframed AIDS Community Research Initiative of America June 3, 2009 6-9pm For more than 16 years, Unframed has been considered one of the most exciting and unusual art events in New York City. Leading artists contribute unique series or editions for sale at mind-blowingly low prices. There is also an incredible silent auction component. […]
Venice
Works On Paper, A Global Perspective AT THE NY ARTS VENICE PAVILION On display from June 7 to November 22, 2009 Concurrent with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Featuring International Artists: Siri Berg, Alejandro Montaldo, Juan Pavlovsky, Julieta Barderi, Peter Leonard, Santiago LLorente, Andres Ghiorzo, Adriana Torregrossa, Dario Solman, Fabrizio Rivola, Federika Ponnetti, Grace Rim, […]
A Life Full of Holes
I was born in Paris in 1971 and educated in Tangier. Later I studied history and political science at the Sorbonne, Paris; and photography at the International Center of Photography, New York. My photography and video work have been exhibited at Witte de With (Rotterdam), Fundacio Tapies (Barcelona), the MoMA (New York), Jeu de Paume […]
Being Bumblebee
We all manoeuvre ourselves through life with the help of rational and emotional decisions, trying to find a meaning and a way to deal with the unknown and the inevitable. I too have this pursuit of knowledge, and art is for me the best way to learn. With different mediums, my work is about understanding […]
A Conversation with a Viewer
She looks at me and then back at the photograph. “Is it real?” “Yes,” I answer. “It is.” “No Photoshop?” she asks. No, no Photoshop, no computer involved. All my work is 100-percent analog photography. I do use different films and different ways of development to create extreme contrasts or color changes. “Did it hurt?” […]
Adaptations of Art
There is no authenticity, there is no truth, and there is no interpretation. This is what I believe in art at present. Repeated by borrowing, imitating, and deforming, contemporary art in the 21st century seems difficult to differentiate in between genres, except for a slight hint of visual presentation. The allegorical relation to my work […]
The World’s Next Top Sexy Black Artist
My work ranges from 200-square-meter cardboard palaces you can wander inside, to small paintings I make on my kitchen table, from en-plein-air drawings of cathedrals to sculpture. I have adopted, questioned, and subverted the visual display of those in power and those who aspire to power. From paintings of the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I to […]
