Author Archives: jolanta
Hamlett Dobbins
I use painting to focus on an experience and to wrap myself in the moment. By building the experience with paint I begin to understand I use painting to focus on an experience and to wrap myself in the moment. By building the experience with paint I begin to understand what about the moment […]
Movements Creating Time And Space – Claudia Albertini
“Bodies discovering dreams” is the theme of this year’s Beijing International Dance Festival, an event that started in 2004 and that, for the first time, dedicates an annual contribution to the cultural environment of the capital city while providing the artists with more communication opportunities. From this perspective, body and language are today brought onto […]
Material World – Zhao Yonggang
Popular culture in everyday life is all around us. It should be the most familiar and common thing. However, as Hegel said: familiarity is not true knowledge. We actually know very little of the popular culture in our everyday life. From the beginning of the 20th century, due to its fast development, society has gradually […]
Jon Schluenz – Matilde Digmann
Jon Schluenz is a New York based artist who works with paintings, installations and sculpture. His latest show in the M Gallery titled “M is for Mmmm” proves him to be not only talented, but also on his way up in the New York art scene. I had a talk with Jon about his thoughts […]
Ali Gallagher -Victoria Mayer
It was a surprise to meet a genuine, happy girl with positive energy when sitting down with the young, New York-based artist Ali Gallagher, whom I knew painted dark and vivid imagery. I talked with Ali and discussed her recent artworks. We touched upon how death, spirituality and the unknown influence her overall aesthetic.Victoria Mayer: […]
Ben Frost
Ben Frost is a painter, who currently livesand works in Sydney, Australia. His work explores themes of alienation, dispossession and perversity Ben Frost is a painter, who currently livesand works in Sydney, Australia. His work explores themes of alienation, dispossession and perversity that exists behind the facade of contemporary western society. By subverting mainstream iconography […]
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture – Anne Ellegood
The notion of uncertainty is both disconcerting and liberating. By definition, uncertainty resists definition. Most synonyms for the word carry negative connotations: doubt, skepticism, mistrust, suspicion. While the term may seem unsettling, and perhaps appropriately reflects a shared awareness of the complexity of modern life, uncertainty can also be quite compelling in an artistic context. […]
Ric Burnsââ¬â¢ Andy Warhol – Richard Kostelanetz
Not unlike others involved in the art world, I viewed attentively from beginning to end Ric Burns’ four hour public-television feature about Andy Warhol, admiring it initially for excerpts of 16 mm films not seen in decades (especially Chelsea Girls, which is his masterpiece), and then for insightful commentary by the critics Stephen Koch, Wayne […]
Susan Smolinski
I’ve always been a very autobiographical painter. Many of the scenarios and images in my paintings have been metaphors for events… I’ve always been a very autobiographical painter. Many of the scenarios and images in my paintings have been metaphors for events in my life such as molestation, self-mutilation, and incarceration on psychiatric wards.I am […]
Herwig-Maria Stark
My artwork is based on the human beeing and specially on the interpretation of it’s face and his different and multifaceted expressions… My artwork is based on the human beeing and specially on the interpretation of it’s face and his different and multifaceted expressions revealing the inner life of humans also in connection with their […]
