Author Archives: jolanta
Investigating Space
There is a basic animal need to ascertain and define what is going on within a space. My work exploits this by setting up scenarios for experiences without trying to control the end experience. My work tests the limits of human perception and cognition, catalyzing curiosity for mixed feelings of doubt and unease. I am […]
A. L. Steiner + robbinschilds
The project called “C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience),” installed in the museum’s Shaft Project Space, comprises the following: a series of looped videos on monitors in the closet-size gallery, with a driving instrumental sound track playing softly and piles of rainbow-dyed clothing stashed here and there; a projection, on a wall outside the museum, of […]
Entering area3
area3 is a group of artists, designers, programmers, and musicians founded in Barcelona in 1999. It is a craft studio in which research, development, and experimentation are the basis for high-quality projects of technology, music, or graphic design. With the exhibition in NY Arts Beijing, area3 celebrates its tenth anniversary. The discursive axis from which […]
The Rebirth of Humanity
Mieke Kooistra: Why did you call this show Trauma? What does the title mean? Dumith Kulasekara: “Trauma” is a Greek word for “wound.” It is a physical injury or an extreme emotional shock that may lead to traumatic neurosis. This exhibition is called Trauma because I want to confront the spectator through my work with […]
Abject Romantic: Guido van der Werve at the Hayward and GSK Contemporary
Guido van der Werve’s videos, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, are the kind of thing art writers describe as ‘hilarious’, although they’re only hilarious in an art way, meaning that any laughs that do come are snorty expulsions easy to mistake for symptoms of the cold that everyone seems to have at the […]
Deconstructing a Gaze
In the video installation Night Watch, a watching eye gazes down at passers-by. The piece is a dialogue on the concepts of safety, conspiracy, and the mechanics of control. Night Watch premiered at the Art under the Bridge Festival in 2006 in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The Manhattan Bridge is considered a main terrorist target, and consequently […]
The Impossible Revolution
A brief over view of Kehinde Wiley’s short career reveal many bodies of work. There are the equestrian paintings based on theme of war, religious work, and ceiling frescoes installations created for Miami and the Brooklyn Museum, a body of works inspired by late French Rococo art, and more recently, a series of painting reflective […]
José Parlá: Layered Days
José Parlá’s first New York solo exhibition is on the fourth floor of an old Soho loft building; a manually operated freight elevator takes you up to a space that has been cleared of its usual offering of furniture to make room for his paintings, works on paper and ceramics. Parlá began his career writing […]
In the Open Air
Thanks to the intrepidness of its founder and chief curator Paolo De Grandis and his hard-working staff—among them Carlotta Scarpa, De Grandis’ co-curator for the past three editions—Open, the international sculpture and installation exhibition held annually on the Lido Venice, has been growing in size, reputation, and vision, ever since its inception 11 years ago. […]
Passing Transferals
My work addresses ambiguities in perceptual experience. It reveals simultaneous connections and divisions between site and image, interior and exterior, reality and illusion. As the installation immerse the audience, viewpoints shift and unfold. The physical experience of the work opens up new relationships between the viewer, space, and image. My installations are environments that connect […]
