Author Archives: jolanta
Otar Imerlishvili
The image of beauty in works of artist may be full of inner tension, built on glaring, but counterbalancing colorful contrasts… The image of beauty in works of artist may be full of inner tension, built on glaring, but counterbalancing colorful contrasts, musical rhythm of lines and contours of objects. His art is based on […]
Special Reconnaissance – James Hilger
In a bold attempt to lift a piece of the Department of Defense’s intellectual property, a group of 16 artists have united to five-finger the words “Special Reconnaissance”—they have endeavored to hold the syllables until they are as warm as we are, taste them, carry them around in their pockets for days next to a […]
Dance on the Dancefloor РPaule Hammer and Sebastian G̦gel
The work of “Hagel,” is the result of the collaboration between two Leipzig artists, Paule Hammer and Sebastian Gögel. In contrast to the painters of the Leipzig school, Gögel and Hammer seek, in their work, the use of sculpture and spatial installations as media of expression in order to place pop over the sublime, thus […]
The Uncertain Marriage of Dance and Visual Art – Andrea Liu
The notion of “star quality” would seem an anathema to those ensconced in the world of contemporary dance. It nods to the vacuous ethos of Hollywood’s commercial celebrity-dom; it is created, fictionalized, valorized and vulgarized by the variegated tentacles of a capital-intensive media, it simplifies complex artists into a superficial, je-ne-sais-quoi dazzle, often privileging appearance […]
The Organic and the Ornament – Kaisa Heinänen
The Finnish artist Saara Ekström is known for her unprejudiced material use. Ekström uses mainly organic materials that are rich in controversial meanings and symbolics. Her works often deal with the dualistic, major themes of life: death, birth, growth and withering, beauty and disgust. She has worked with pig meat, fruit, living birds, oysters, milk, […]
Eye of the Storm – Ali Gass on Nicola López
Nicola López’ artist statement begins, “The landscape that we live in has become saturated with signs of the easy mobility, speed, constant communication, imposition of structure, insistence on growth and glorification of technology that have come to be so characteristic of our society today.” Her work, a melding of printmaking, drawing and sculptural form, deftly […]
Process & Fabrication – Milton Fletcher
Milton Fletcher: Brett, what do you do at P.S.1? Brett Littman: As Deputy Director of P.S.1, I am responsible for overseeing the museum’s day-to-day operations which include: the finance department, education and public programs, development, human resources, visitor services, acting as executive producer of “Warm Up” (our summer concert series), consulting on www.wps1.org activities and […]
Strangers to Ourselves – Julia Trotta
More than a decade ago, Julia Kristeva, a Bulgarian-French post-structural theorist, published Strangers to Ourselves, a study seeking to understand the concept of the stranger not just as an outsider, but as a foreigner within each of us. Today, in 2007, the quest to understand the complexities of one’s identity still lies at the heart […]
MoveOpolis! Returns Image to its Origins – Lisa Paul Streitfeld
MoveOpolis dancers frequently look and gesture upward as if paying homage to an unnamed deity. This icon emerged in an astonishing winter program at Dance Theater Workshop in which Richard Move’s earlier works are revisioned through the eye of a virtuoso collaboration, Towards the Delights of the Exquisite Corpse. The transformation breaks new ground for […]
Charmed – Allison Unruh
Karen Kilimnik’s works flirt with different historical styles through loosely daubed paint and suggestive props—yet the rococo-tinged notion of charm found a fresh incarnation in her recent exhibition at the 303 Gallery in Chelsea. The Bluebird in the Folly, one of two installations that punctuated the gathering of intimately scaled paintings and drawings, is a […]
