Author Archives: jolanta
Herbert Tilly
I chose to use a camera to build up abstractions from fragments of reality. I believe in minimalism. I chose to use a camera to build up abstractions from fragments of reality. I believe in minimalism. I want the forms pure and strong. My playgrounds are industrial zones and dust bowls. An imaginary trip, aerial […]
Herbert Tilly
I chose to use a camera to build up abstractions from fragments of reality. I believe in minimalism. I chose to use a camera to build up abstractions from fragments of reality. I believe in minimalism. I want the forms pure and strong. My playgrounds are industrial zones and dust bowls. An imaginary trip, aerial […]
Beyond Experience: The New China – Luna Fenichel
Curated by Zhu Qi, one of China’s premier critic/curators, the multimedia “Beyond Empire” exhibition at Arario Beijing promises to be a holistic highpoint in 2006, with over 30 prominent and emerging Chinese artists. The show revolves around questions of the changing nature of the "New China" as cities are torn down and rebuilt almost overnight […]
Smooth Shatter – Leah Oates
Leah Oates: Your recent solo show at Priska Juschka was a significant change of focus for your work. Previously you had worked with underground urban systems to build new and fictional territories. With the current work there is sculpture and other media along with paint. Please speak about what precipitated this shift.Dannielle Tegeder: My work […]
Art?…Bar? – Hisa Yamamoto
It wasn’t until after the communists took over Vietnam in 1975 that a young girl and her family were finally able to return to Saigon—Ho Chi Minh City, where they used to live before the Vietnam War. What they discovered there, was a partially evacuated metropolis. All of the Americans had fled and anyone who […]
Dimensional Constructs – Whitney May
Blurring or distorting the boundary between the traditional frameworks of painting and sculpture is hardly a creative approach without precedent in the art world since the early 20th century. Yet, beginning in 1979, Serbian artist Miroslav Pavlovic’s neo-constructivist essays on the topic have effectively confronted viewers time and again with the issue of dimensionality within […]
Esther Varella – Eduarda de Souza
“It is all a little bit conscious and a little bit unconscious,” explains photographer Esther Varella, 27, about the juxtaposition between love and sickness, which synthesizes her work. This young Brazilian prodigy now resides in São Paulo, Brazil, after having lived nine years between New York and Los Angeles. She has been photographing since she […]
Francesco Dââ¬â¢ Isa
Since he was born in September 1980 (Firenze – Italy), Francesco D’ Isa loves synthesis and hates biography. He studied philosophy at the University of Firenze. He’s self-taught as an artist, his fascination with visual imagery has propelled him into mastering the required skills. Fashion imagery as long as contemporary and historical art tradition are […]
Circles, Squares, Objects? – John Zotos
Where most artists navigate a mature career by uncomfortably modifying what’s best about their work in order to stay current or hip, few maintain the nuance, authority and creative curiosity that makes a difference. As an example of the latter, this conclusion is what one comes away with after seeing Otis Jones’ latest work at […]
The Voracious – Liam Rosewood
Within the cannon of performance art, Sheila and Nicholas Pye delve into a constructed reality of photographic and cinematic possibilities. Sheila and Nicholas use the gestures of the body to build metaphors for marriage, dependency and mortality through imagery that is darkly poetic. Their latest exhibition, “A Life of Errors,” at Kasia Kay Art Projects […]
