Author Archives: jolanta

In an age when Chinese art appears to be taking the world by storm and, given the ever-increasing population of China, one might assume that this is being done by a veritable horde of artists, but it might be surprising to some to find out that the actual number of Chinese artists is quite small. […]

In Huang Jiaoping, meetings with an artist occur in the afternoon, most of the time. The local artists are kind and welcoming, their studios are only considered fully equipped when furnished with a decent sound system and some facilities for making tea and coffee. Most visitors here are surprised to find a vast collection of […]

Russell Beighton: When I first started doing these works I questioned the hidden aspect of painting, like what was shown and what was not shown. Using the back of the canvas, I realized it also opened up to the possibility of another dimension; that of duplication and reflectivity through the use of mirrors and other […]

Ann-Sofi Sidén’s latest work, In Passing, is the fragmented story—told from a number of different perspectives—of a young woman who leaves her infant child in the baby hatch of a Berlin hospital. This act of desperation sets into motion a narrative following two parallel journeys—one of the orphaned child and another of its mother. The […]

Marking an important development in artist Anna Gaskell’s work, the recent exhibition, “Paint Your Own Pictures” at Yvon Lambert New York, consisted solely of films. The exhibition installation, designed in collaboration with architects EMA Designs, featured three new films, all completed in 2006 and 2007, titled Acting Lessons, Vermilion (That’s All I Remember) and Mirror. […]

What makes video art different? From a gallery’s point of view there are many answers to this question. Video, as a medium widely accepted in exhibition practice and which plays a dominant role in big art events like Documenta or the Venice Biennial, is still considered a newcomer by the art market despite its almost […]

My work stimulates unconscious emotions, desires and sexual compulsions, all unified within a dynamic that vacillates between the real and the fantasized. I explore issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, on feelings of anxiety, displacement and loss of identity. These emotions are depicted in […]

Chinese artist Zhu Ming is, without a doubt, one the most important performance artists of the international avant-garde. From his first appearance in the seminal group work by the Beijing East Village artists, To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, Zhu Ming has created performance works that leave an indelible impression upon the viewer […]

I’m a self-taught photographer in my late 20s living, unfortunately, in Florida. I’ve had no schooling or training of any sort in this field. Instead, I’ve learned by trial and error, and have just gone where my head has taken me. This has probably held me back technically some, especially since I started out making […]