Author Archives: jolanta

Is the sky transparent? Or is the glass transparent? The heart is transparent. The heart resembles the sky; it also resembles the glass. Because of the heart, air can then produce numerous kinds of colors. Glass is the mirror of the sky, while the sky reflects the heart. The glass thus is full of life […]

Alpher Xian: Your photographs have a dreamy quality to them. They seem to me that they come naturally, rather than just being “taken.” Do you research your subjects or do you know them intuitively? Do the pictures find you, or you do go out to look for the pictures?Alec Soth: I usually have a list […]

As festival director of something called Optronica, I’m always getting asked what the project is all about, and how it developed. For me it’s really the culmination of 15 years of work. In the early 90s, as an impressionable 20-something, I relocated to London from my hometown of Paris, simply to immerse myself in the […]

My work embodies a place where thoughts and ideas are tentative, worked out, where the process of thinking is exposed rather than resolved. In fact, what got me interested in the grids was coming across the term “monkey mind” in my reading; implying a jumping around from thought to thought rather than staying calm and […]

I started painting the way I do today about 10 years ago at the HFBK state school of arts in Hamburg, Germany, in the art class of Professor Stanley Brown. After a short period of abstract painting, I came up with the little figures that I depict in my recent pictures, the little girl and […]

Natz Spetsman, the self-titled “Egotainment Filmaker,” is anything but. His visionary portrait, “Natz in Berlin,” is a series of emotionally evocative vignettes of the heart and soul of Berlin. It’s both intoxicating and intimate. As the stories unfold, Spetsman draws us into his world. We see an exotic dancer in pinks and reds in an […]

A faint mechanical whirring, interspersed with periods of unhinged, impish cackling, accompanies one’s entrance into the “Quantum Circus” show at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis. The space is dim, thanks to maroon curtains strung across the gallery windows, and the lighting eerie, thanks to the subject matter of the exhibition. Situated throughout the […]

I am currently developing a body of video and photographic work looking at acts of faith, be they religious or otherwise. My interest in the social world, and belief systems in particular, stems from my pre-fine art, academic background in social science. I suspect, however, that the strongest influences on my work go much further […]

Established in August of 2001, Cuchifritos, a reference to Latin and Caribbean cuisine, is also the name of a Lower East Side art gallery situated inside the Essex Street Market. Surrounded by various businesses including a botanica, barbershop and cheese stores, the gallery represents a wonderful position as an interlocutor in the debates between capitalism, […]

Gertrudis Goldschmidt brings no tintinnabulation of recognition to most contemporary art enthusiasts. Perhaps it is because this female avant-garde artist enjoys the euphonious sobriquet of Gego. She plucked geometric shapes from the wraiths of wiry sculptures to create curious, timeless works of lines and parallelograms. Gego’s unique, sculptural achievements span the entire lower level of […]