Author Archives: jolanta

It is not easy to be confronted with the painting of a master. It is unsettling. It unnerves one. It may even bring tears to the eyes. How can one look at Picassoís Les Demoiselles DíAvignon and not reexamine oneís notion of art? Forget traditional concepts of art. Ignore ideas of beauty and harmony. Picassoís […]

I had always believed that it was the primary role of the artist to challenge and reinterpret the medium in which it performs. With photography, this becomes a major annoyance and contradiction. Photography began as an artist’s way of capturing a moment in time, as the Dutch would say, a "blik" of the natural world. […]

Every artist is an outsider until they are discovered- especially by a gallery. The recent smatterings of “Outsider Art” shows and fairs that invaded New York during dull February served to declare that even dwarfs started small. Some of my favorite gallery folk, Ricco/Maresca, Andrew Edlin, Galerie St. Etienne, and Phyllis Kind and a worldwide […]

Elaine Angelopoulos is onto something big in her work—not in terms of scale, though she has worked in large formats, but in terms of meaning.  She has been producing webbed and interconnected sculptural forms using string, ropes and boxes and she also does performance works. Her art elides between the personal space of the body […]

In his latest exhibition Meeting the Mirror at The Marmara Pera Gallery Art and Life in Istanbul, Ahmet Yeşil confronts spectators with their own existence: their appearances, feelings, actions, surroundings, dependencies, desires, fears, needs and ability to comprehend. He sends viewers on an emotional journey consisting of oil paintings that are beautiful and shaking at […]

The last decade proliferated with exhibitions focused on the relation between cinema and visual arts: “Art and Film since 1945: Hall of Mirrors at MOCA,” “Dream Extension at the S.M.A.K.” or “Future Cinema,” “The Cinematic Imaginary after Film” at the ZKM at Karlsruhe to mention only a few recent ones. “Collateral,” held in L’Hangar Bicocca […]

The latest exhibition of Polish media neo-avant-garde, already displayed in some important galleries and museums in Poland, has just opened in the City Gallery BWA in Lublin. The exhibition presents three distinguished veterans of Polish media neo-avant-garde: Antoni Mikolajczyk, Jozef Robakowski and Zygmunt Rytka, who are three of the first artists practicing media, installation and […]

The works of Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca are rich in meaning and take shape through the interaction of representational means, processes and actions. Through blending biological and technological, natural and artificial, real and imaginary, mental and physical elements and by a process of layering, relationships and connections become the powerful driving force of the artist’s imagination. […]

White, often seen as neutral, blank, and empty, is also laden with cultural, social, and historical associations and significations. A group of twelve Korean and American artists collaborated on a feminist art exhibition in Seoul, Korea around the theme white and used the color white as the lens through which to view Korean culture. In […]