Author Archives: jolanta
Pensive States
Pensive States Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Philosophic Pondering Simone Cappa Pensive States, a show at Broadway Gallery December 1st – 10th, 2008 Pensive States, one of Broadway Gallery’s more compelling recent shows featured an impressive roster of internationally-acclaimed artists working in a variety of media and styles. According to curator Christina […]
Still Life In Motion: Corin Hewitt
Still Life in Motion Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Still Life in Motion Corin Hewitt on view October 3, 2008 — January 4, 2009 at the Whitney Museum. His new work also elegantly refers to Roland Barthes’s theories on photography, time, space, image, and object, as investigated in his seminal text Camera […]
Southern Tongue
León Ferrari and Mira Schendel are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly […]
Aural Interventions
When we think of sculpture, we think of physical descriptors—terms like mass, weight, extension, and surface area. We envision objects that take up space and occupy three measurable dimensions. From the mammoth to the miniscule, the figural to the architectural, we all know that sculpture takes up space. But just how it goes about occupying […]
Spiritual Spoofing
Gong Jian: What was the motivation for these works you’ve brought to the exhibition? Huang Yang: There are three elements: first, it is a continuation of the methods used in my previous work Bible, but adding sound and form. Second, it is a small appreciation of things in everyday life, specifically the whistle that sounds […]
A Woman on the Verge
Mona Jensen: The Orientalist discourse was pinpointed by the Palestinian American professor and literary theorist, Edward Said. In his book Orientalism from 1978 he argued that since the 19th century, the West has reduced the cultures of the East into a mythical Orient. By distinguishing sharply between the West and the East, the West defined […]
Waste Evolution
Joseph-Francis Sumegné came to sculpture after having passed by painting, the work of copper in jewelry and cutlery, the tapestry, and basket making. Sumegné made his writing, Jalaa, a sum of all these techniques put at the service of a true transmutation of waste and rejects, which constitute the essence of his raw material. Didier […]
Primal Instincts
The Bud was inspired by the different roles each individual plays in society and in their personal life. The ropes give viewers a raw feeling, something that is original, not modified, and primary. The iron in the piece creates tension, symbolizes threats, and serves as a warning of danger. Rosin, sugarcoating the sculptures, making them […]
Luigi Caiffa
The figures emerge sculptural and disturbing, from an empty space that could be anywhere. The figures emerge sculptural and disturbing, from an empty space that could be anywhere. The works of Luigi Caiffa explore an ideology that every genuine experience is rooted in profound emotion, beyond the confines of space and time. Only in […]
Petra Nimtz
German-born artist Petra Nimtz blends drive and flair in order to produce canvases with a uniquely passionate bravado. Petra Nimtz German-born artist Petra Nimtz blends drive and flair in order to produce canvases with a uniquely passionate bravado. Balancing form, color, and movement with long brush strokes and bold gestures, she infuses her profoundly […]
