Author Archives: jolanta
Levity at the Drawing Center
The Drawing Center’s “Levity: Selections Spring 2007” explores lightness in both material and metaphoric terms, featuring 14 emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program. The term “levity” might be used to describe any number of works of drawing, implying a “light touch,” lightweight or light-colored materials, a sense of humor or even irreverence towards high […]
Makor Marathon
The Fall 2006 Makor Artists-in-Residence program draws artistic inspiration from the many faces of the urban landscape. Throughout the program, Makor’s 27 Artists-in-Residence have navigated through ancient, mythical, imaginary and contemporary urban settings, including the cities of Babel, Jericho, Jerusalem, New York, Berlin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. With these settings as focal points for exploration, […]
Depicting the Wild, One Nano-Stroke at A Time – Matilde Digmann
The New York-based artist John Kleckner opened his first solo show in Berlin on November 11th. Here, he exhibited a choice selection of his most recent works on paper. John Kleckner’s images can be described in many ways. His work could be explained as proto-emotional, pictorial phenomena employing metaphors of biology and evolutionary ecology. His […]
Ear Appeal – Doreen Mende
As curator, it was very important for me to try to reflect a variety of the presentation formats of audio culture, which deals with the production of space and with the construction of society. How can you exhibit an invisible reality that is permanently in flux outside of the exhibition space and within the spaces […]
Who’s Buying Art In Beijing? – Ellen J. Twaddell
At a recent preview in Beijing’s Red Gate Gallery, artist Zhou Jirong’s large mixed media canvases drew a substantial crowd. The contemporary art gallery is housed in a Ming Dynasty guardhouse, where the work has to be exceptional to compete with the beauty of the architecture. Inside, Chinese art students rubbed shoulders with prospective buyers […]
Matt Forrest
Searching for a way to develop cross cultural spiritualized imagery and applying it to current concerns in contemporary printmaking Searching for a way to develop cross cultural spiritualized imagery and applying it to current concerns in contemporary printmaking, I am driven to link historical and mythological iconography with the free play of recent art discourse […]
My Affair With Graphic Design – Julie Joliat
Can we call graphic design “art”? There are two approaches: one is when I work to express myself, the other is when clients come with a request and I have to find a solution. But, in both cases, there is a similitude: creation. It feels sometimes like graphic design consists of solving problems. I have […]
Deng Guo Yuan – Laurens Tan
On September 26th, last year, the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts celebrated its Centenary Anniversary. The Academy may be seen as Tianjin’s key contemporary cultural agency in promoting new visions and technologies within the Fine Arts—both traditional and synthesis practices are offered in its courses. Deng Guo Yuan – Laurens Tan Guo Yuan, […]
Civic Culture Spotting: Tainjin – Laurens Tan
My proposal to research the civic role of public sculpture in China was the basis for the Australia-China Council artist in residency in Beijing. This research was to inform my new work for “Critical Mass,” an Australia-China exhibition to be held in Sydney and Beijing during the Olympics in 2008 (curated by Binghui Huangfu, of […]
Sibylle Hauert & Daniel Reichmuth
Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth work together as artists and performer in the field of new media art and research… Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth work together as artists and performer in the field of new media art and research with an educational and training background in theatre, music and electrical engineering. They work on […]
