Author Archives: jolanta
Tim Hawkinson: Impressive, but I’m not satisfied. – Abraham Lubelski
Museum curators and artists should now better. The Tim Hawkins show, currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, entertains?but that’s not enough. Yes,the exhibit is playful, even a behind the Disneyfied venier. It provides a clever lens through which we view ourselves and the world around us. It is a beautiful installation full of […]
Tim Hawkinson: A Whirlwind Of A Show – Norma Drimmer
Once in a while you return from an exhibition so full of excitement that your mind is in a whirlwind of ideas and associations. Sometimes only a whisper is left after a day or two. A good exhibition will last, images returning unbidden to the retina in odd moments, long after the viewing. Tim Hawkinson?s […]
Tokyo Type Directers Club Award 2004: Technology Dreams – By Nana Kono
Before opening the show at Ginza Graphi Gallery the winners of the 2004 Tokyo Type Director’s Club Prizes spent two days discussing their works, their making processes and their histories. Tokyo Type Directers Club Award 2004: Technology Dreams By Nana Kono Before opening the show at Ginza Graphi Gallery the winners of the 2004 Tokyo […]
Where Do We Go From Here? – Diem Thuy Nguyen, HCMC
Neighbors rise at four in the morning to cook chitterling gruel. At six they move with push-carts through districts, raising their voices to cry out breakfast jingles. With the sound of the vendors Saigon awakens. By dawn the temperatures quickly rise and several vehicles can be seen whirling by in the streets. Each day is […]
Digging for the Roots – Nguyen Minh Thanh
This is the story of how Contemporary Art started in Hanoi in two small privately owned galleries, driven by the force of only four people. Hanoi had been a small city, but 15 years ago, with the application of “doi moi” (the open door policy of the Communist party), Hanoi’s population doubled. Everything in this […]
A Relevant Suggestion – Phuong Lien Vu
Those familiar with contemporary Vietnamese art will likely remember at least one of several installations, video or environmental artworks by Hoang Duong Cam, a young Hanoi-born and educated artist based in Ho Chi Minh City since 2001. A Relevant Suggestion Phuong Lien Vu Courtesy of the artist, Hoang Duong Cam Those familiar with contemporary Vietnamese […]
Virgins Ab-whored – By Jeroen De Schrijver
"The Adoration of the Virgins", Ellen Depoorter’s installation of six large-scale paintings arranged side by side to form one large wall fresco (measuring 7 by 28 feet), comprises almost the full length of the long and narrow Transplant Gallery. Virgins Ab-whored By Jeroen De Schrijver "The Adoration of the Virgins", Ellen Depoorter’s installation of six […]
Ricardo Trotti
Art and journalism are an essential part of the life of Ricardo Trotti, the professional duality that shapes his motto: "Art as a message and the message as art.” Art and journalism are an essential part of the life of Ricardo Trotti, the professional duality that shapes his motto: "Art as a message and the […]
Ricardo Trotti
Art and journalism are an essential part of the life of Ricardo Trotti, the professional duality that shapes his motto: "Art as a message and the message as art.” Art and journalism are an essential part of the life of Ricardo Trotti, the professional duality that shapes his motto: "Art as a message and the […]
From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City: New and Now – Rodney Dickson
War is usually the first thing that we think of in America, when we hear the word Vietnam. This year, Vietnam will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of that war, and life there has changed quite a bit since 1975. The economy has developed in recent years, and this period of relative […]
