Author Archives: jolanta
The Rise and Fall
In 1946, when Chairman Mao’s forces broke their truce with Chiang Kai-Shek’s and began battling once again for political control of the country, no one in China could have predicted what their homeland would look like 60 years later: a landscape where high-rise apartments are steadily replacing old family compounds, where newly purchased cars are […]
East Turned West
For his fourth exhibition at New York’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery, photographer Juergen Teller presented his recent body of work entitled Ukraine. Along with four other artists, Teller was commissioned by the PinchukArtCentre to interpret the country for the 52nd International Venice Biennale 2007, where a selection from this series was first shown. The New York […]
Best in Show
The first time I went to a reenactment pageant, I didn’t know exactly what I was going to see, but I had been told that people in a small town in Wyoming had been dressing up like settlers and Indians, and acting out a story from the pioneer era since the 1940s. I decided to […]
Leonardo Cremonese
Leonardo Cremonese is a Brazilian-born abstract painter based in Sydney, Australia. Leonardo’s practice is informed by the teachings Leonardo Cremonese Leonardo Cremonese is a Brazilian-born abstract painter based in Sydney, Australia. Leonardo’s practice is informed by the teachings of the Brazilian anarchist, Roberto Freire, and by the Dionysian religion of ancient Greece. He embraces abstraction […]
When Paint Came to Its Own
Expectation is seldom a good idea. I arrived at John Alexander’s retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts without prior knowledge of his work except for a few five-inch-sized reproductions I’d seen on Artnet.com. (True to my generation, I am an unabashed participant in the magical method of “just google it.”) Online I saw […]
Modern Trails along a Chinese Panorama
My focus is the message conveyed in the artwork instead of the form of the piece, whether it is an oil painting, a traditional photograph or digital photograph. What matters to me the most is the thought in it. Or shall I say, the emotions, which are intertwined with my life experience. As for the […]
Singapore Art Museum
The Singapore Art Museum’s mission is to preserve and present the art histories and contemporary art practices of Singapore and the Southeast Asian region so as to facilitate visual arts education, exchange, research and development. The Singapore Art Museum’s mission is to preserve and present the art histories and contemporary art practices of Singapore and […]
Musical Manipulation
The distinctions between noise, sound, and music is central to my work. I rationalize these distinctions as the perceptual nuances between hearing and listening as modes of auditory reception. Through lo-fi yet seemingly complex assemblages and installations, I attempt to isolate moments where noise is perceived as sound and sound is perceived as music. Noise, […]
Golden Bricks
Bricks in China have a long history. The traditional golden brick was for royalty use only. Everything about the material and production was extremely meticulous. A fine golden brick had a melodious sound when tapped, smooth as silk when touched. That was why one golden brick was worth a fortune. The word “golden” didn’t mean […]
Jean James
My work concerns light, color, and design and the influence of these elements on human emotions and understanding. Jean James My work concerns light, color, and design and the influence of these elements on human emotions and understanding. Many of my images, semi-abstract, or abstract have a sense of expectancy, a sense of the surreal. […]
