Author Archives: jolanta

Rico Frico aka Rico the butcher aka Error 404, is wearing a white apron splattered in red paint and tattooing the words “No Style Fuck” onto the ass of a girl leaning over a table covered in red satin. I’m sitting outside on the sidewalk with some people, watching the display through a storefront window, […]

For a country with a population of only 300,000, Iceland is one hopping place. Of these, three-quarters live in the capital, Reykjavik. Like the volcanic lava and rock that gives its thermal pools life and energy, Icelanders are similarly teeming with a creative force of nature that is at times freakish and awe-inspiring. The number […]

Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse opened its season this past fall with the inauguration of more than five new galleries, making it one of the most heavily gallery-populated streets in the city. However, one of the most interesting exhibitions was not associated with any gallery, but was rather the independent effort of an artist who has been living […]

Nicholas di Genova is a 25-year-old artist based in Toronto, Canada. His series of recent paintings on Mylar were the subject of an exhibition at Chelsea’s Fredericks and Freiser gallery.Colleen Becker: "Death from Below: The Upper Layers of the Hades Geofront" is a rather lengthy and specific title for a show. Could you explain its […]

In Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz, a bulldozer is noisily demolishing a wall, adding red glass shards to a pile of rubble, a pile that is slowly growing larger than the building that is being destroyed. This is not an unlikely scene in a city that, until recently, was known as the largest construction site […]

“Wer ist da, bitte?”“Uhh…English?” It was Stephen. I’d suspected this is what he’d do. I hadn’t heard anything from him for over a month. The day before, I’d said to Janna, “We’ll come home one day and he’ll be standing in front of the door.”That summer I got an email from him, “ I quit […]

You know all those sure to be jaw-dropping, monumental collages that you tried your hand at every month or so throughout high school and college from the pages of years’ worth of hoarded fashion and design magazines? The ones that always ended up appearing specifically trite and completely tasteless despite even your best artistic intentions? […]

Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, better known as Kira Kira of Reykjavik’s Kitchen Motors, talks with curator and artist Trong G. Nguyen about dangerous music, ghosts and the collective she started with fellow composers Johann Johannsson and Hilmar Jensson. Kira Kira recently performed at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival and, a week later, produced a mixed media […]

I have been following the work of Ivan Stojakovic ever since he began painting. Therefore I have a bit of an illusory belief that I am capable of understanding all the changes which occurred in his creative artistic personality during the last decade. But, since he is “far away” (in New York) and I am […]