Author Archives: jolanta

The relationship between human and animal is a theme that has threaded itself through art and literature since ancient times. MART?s recent exhibition offers a journey across the centuries: from ancient art to medieval bestiaries; from symbolist representations to contemporary artworks. We are used to hiding our instincts, the dark or weaker sides of ourselves. […]

Like many contemporary artists who work at the improbable yet frequented nexus of Minimalism and Representationalism, Arcady Kotler seeks to create new narrative possibilities by appropriating the pared-down aesthetic of Minimalism as his formal point of departure. As with Felix Gonzalez-Torres? stacks of printed paper, Kotler adopts the white cube as an object, rather than […]

Maja Bajevic left Sarajevo in the early 90s to study in Paris, and then found she couldn’t return because of the war. Much of Bajaevic’s work is about this exile and the social and political conditions surrounding it. She had her US solo premier at P.S.1 in Fall 2004, in which she set up thirty […]

When I walk into a gallery playing French New Wave music, the last thing that I expect to see are large-scale lightboxes illuminating images of naked women rolling around in blood or posing with pregnant bellies and chartreuse feather headdresses. The titles don’t help much–the latter piece is called Next in Green, its counterpart, hanging […]

Since the birth of the Chinese Media Movement in 1997, the hastened proliferating networks engendered a large group of new media artists that, unlike their predecessors, didn?t engage only with flat and static forms of art like oil painting, prints or sculpture. As the methods of communication rapidly transformed, people became comfortable with sending e-mailing […]

Montreal’s leading festival of experimental electronic music and media arts heads on a three-city China tour MUTEK, Montreal’s festival of digital music and media arts, has already proven itself to be one of the world’s premier festivals of its kind. But the festival didn’t stop at adding to its hometown’s already fertile indie music ground: […]

Hypomnemata Art (Localization and Catabolic Practices) The Art Question is introduced by its author Niegel Warburton as a book of deliberate briefness in attempting to unveil useful intuitions around the classification of art in the xx century by concluding on the philosophical indefinableness of its character as related to both exhibited and relational properties. Forms […]

"9 Lives — The Birth Of Avant-Garde Art In New China" written by Karen Smith Academic discourses have thus far largely dedicated surveys and retrospectives to the birth and development of Chinese contemporary art and its transition to global modernization in the last twenty-seven years. Since art entered the cultural enlightenment programme nationwide, historicism has […]

The sun after the rain is much clearer than the usual, and the sunlight shines over the not yet crowded road. The rain water quietly flows into the lanes on the side of the street, mixed up with wooden sticks, paper pieces and similar waste. In the dirty rivulet a sparkling golden candy paper shows […]

Spring 2005 is full of promises for the Beijing artistic stage. The lyrical season will be true to its epithet, nurturing the development of literature and arts in Beijing. May "a hundred flowers blossom and all school of thoughts contend," when the Dashanzi art district of the city will host galleries, start-up events, a festival […]