Author Archives: jolanta
Stripped Beauty
Images of the human form have a long history in photographic practice, and with a few notable exceptions it has predominantly been the male gaze upon the naked female body. This pattern has been preserved up until today in the form of the classic black-and-white photographic nude. Nudity, of course, is an amazingly loaded topic […]
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Kunsthalle Basel
Since June 2004, Kunsthalle Basel has appeared in its former grandeur once again: commissioned by Basler Kunstverein, the architects Miller & Maranta modernised the building to make it fit for present-day cultural activities. Although the overall proportions have remained untouched, the former rooms on the lower floor have been integrated to form a larger entity. […]
A Devine Release
To be in the company of the artist, Loveariel, preparation is a must. First, you should start by keeping a vampire’s hours. Loveariel peaks creatively when most of her peers who share the Surry Hills studio have packed up and left for the evening. Second, you should read up on matters of the occult, the […]
Survival Experience
In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, […]
Anna Blincoe
"I see the flower not simply as a whole, but as a mass of different particles and colour. To me the Flower represents the very essence of the soul." Anna Blincoe "I see the flower not simply as a whole, but as a mass of different particles and colour. To me the Flower represents […]
Fused Vision
At the invitation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropriated identities and performance, has created a group exhibition that is at once a self-portrait and a riveting display of some of the most vital trends in contemporary U.S.-based art. From her position as a visual artist, […]
Sensuous Sculpting
It’s hard to think of many found-object artists who have achieved works as intricately made, culturally resonant, and visually sumptuous as El Anatsui’s. Anatsui was born 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. Anatsui earned a bachelor’s degree in sculpture and a postgraduate diploma in art education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is […]
Walls of Memory
I try, always try, to create a space where I can probe my identities vis-à-vis the world around me. Using a wide range of mediums, I often attempt to explore the world of illusion against a background of memory, a memory nearly always based on reality. By sensing and exposing a metaphorical world that hides […]
