Author Archives: jolanta
Madny al Bakry
The ornamental richness of Arabic calligraphy expresses more than just the meaning of words. Madny al Bakry The ornamental richness of Arabic calligraphy seems to imitate the basic rhythm of life. Infused with African motifs and patterns, my unlimited color palette is what I would call "Calligraffiti." This one-by-one-meter panel is part of a […]
Saya
In love with nature, it is when Saya gets in touch with earth that she feels in total symbiosis with Creation. In love with nature, it is when Saya gets in touch with earth that she feels in total symbiosis with Creation. From her soul to her hands, shapes are brought to life, oscillating […]
BROADTHINKING: Unnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature
An art exhibit curated by Chris Twomey at Broadway Gallery in Soho is a compilation of installations by eleven individual artists metamorphing natural or waste products into another form of existence, giving new life through use of the materials and ideas. As artists, they are able to manipulate, control, recycle materials into other products that […]
Curious Eyes
Leah Oates: Please describe your background and how you became an artist. Yasmine Chatila: My grandmother was an artist. She studied 19th-century painting in Italy at the Academia di Belle Arti in Turin. I remember many afternoons where she used to give me lessons on how to draw and paint. I think I was about […]
Migrating Thoughts
Andries Botha’s work explores the loss of self as people participate in mass migration in search of new imagined futures. Responding to a question about the work, Botha said, “Our contemporary modernity has resulted in a global pattern of human migration. Survival, desire, romance, greed, and tragedy are all metaphors that fuel the human imagination. […]
Probing beneath the Façade
Loulou Cherinet’s work connects through the documentary, despite a deliberate staged setting. Cherinet focuses on setting the appropriate conditions for her storytelling. This can be a dinner party where a number of black people dressed in the same striped jersey tell stories about their relations with white women as in White Women (2002). In Personal […]
A Solitary in the South
Zhu Qi: How did you start to get interested in the gardens in Southern China? Dong Wen-Sheng: I think it’s because of the environmental surroundings of my life and the educational background before my views on the world and the art had been developed. I live in a small city in Southern China, named Changzhou, […]
Wall of Fame
Clunie Reid uses photographs, drawings, media images, and text to create aggressive and unrefined collages. Through the use of cheap materials and a rudimentary approach to display, Reid works against formality and the ideologies suggested by images of wealth and beauty dispersed within the work. Utilizing a deskilled aesthetic and emphasizing the act of composition […]
Life of Art
An important event took place in Milan at PAC (Contemporary Art Pavillion): Nouveau Réalisme from 1970 up until today—Homage to Pierre Restany (1930-2003) was on view in February, curated by Renato Barilli. Milan owes homage to Pierre Restany. He had found a second home in Milan, a more hospitable city than Paris. He is one […]
