Author Archives: jolanta
Do-Ho Suh: Identity, Anonymity, Displacement – Anya Kamenetz
Do-Ho Suh: Identity, Anonymity, Displacement Anya Kamenetz Seoul Home style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>People entering a space where Do-HoSuh’s best-known work, the diaphanous, tent-like "Seoul Home/L.A.Home/New York Home/London Home" is installed, inevitably crane their necks and smile indelight like children seeing a large balloon float up to the ceiling. Alife-size, three-dimensional silk reconstruction of his childhood […]
Post-Human PROMETHEUS: Krzysztof Wodiczkoââ¬â¢s Technology of E-motio – H.J. Boisvert
Post-Human PROMETHEUS: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Technology of E-motio H.J. Boisvert In an apolitical and techno-centered age where the individual more readily falls prey to pre-Raphaelite pastiche and slumbering decadence, “political art” would seem to possess scant interest and even less impact. Yet the innovative and varied work of the polish born artist and industrial designer, Krzysztof […]
Vladimir Volosov
"My goal to have time to realize all possibilities, everything given to you by Nature" he said. Painting is neither work nor rest for him it is a joy. "My goal to have time to realize all possibilities, everything given to you by Nature" he said. Painting is neither work nor rest for him it […]
Vladimir Volosov
"My goal to have time to realize all possibilities, everything given to you by Nature" he said. Painting is neither work nor rest for him it is a joy. "My goal to have time to realize all possibilities, everything given to you by Nature" he said. Painting is neither work nor rest for him it […]
A Torn Tapestry – Holly Morganelli
A Torn Tapestry Holly Morganelli Quick! Name a topic that is at once redundant and silenced within the American tapestry. Yes! And for 1 trillion dollars in Dubya’s tax cuts, the answer is social class. The mainstream media packages the illusion that we are all middle-class, gives it the seal of approval and sends it […]
Crowds of Steel or Burlap Bodies: The Disturbing Sculptures of Abakanowicz – Daria Meoli
Crowds of Steel or Burlap Bodies: The Disturbing Sculptures of Abakanowicz Daria Meoli In Coexistence. Magdalena Abakanowicz sheds a beautiful tear over gang mentality. This powerful and surprising exhibit marks yet another evolution for the rebellious Polish artist. Born to aristocratic parents in 1930 and raised on an estate east of Warsaw, Abakanowicz came of […]
A flirtation between art and film – Danielle O’Steen
A flirtation between art and film Danielle O’Steen Exhibited along the main streets, piazzas and major hotels on the Lido of Venice, OPEN2003 style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>, the sixth edition of the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, style=’color:black’>ran in coordination with the Venice Film Festival from August 27th through October 5th this year. Boasting the theme Art […]
A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11) – David Shapiro
A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11) David Shapiro Andso the snow fell Andcovered up poetry. Andso the snow fell Andcovered up cities like bags of leaves. “5WTC, II”, mixed media collage on paper mounted on canvas, 14″ x 10″, 1998. Andso the snow fell Andcovered […]
Enter the Trans-Urban – Laura Lee Pederson
Enter the Trans-Urban Laura Lee Pederson From a graffiti-mapped commute to a faux cigarette commercial, Brooklyn-based Turf’s fall 2003 film project, Film @ 33 incorporated 14 artists, 3 installations, and 17 screened projects arranged thematically in 4 segments. Each self-contained segment worked in much the same way as rooms in a group show. Stephen Apicella-Hitchcock, […]
The New Pluralism: Visual & Verbal – Piri Halasz
The New Pluralism: Visual & Verbal Piri Halasz In the ’70s, people talked about "pluralism." A range of work was on view, but most fell into two categories. One was conceptual, video, performance and process art, and the other, hyperrealism. Hyperrealism sold well, but critics preferred conceptual-video-etc. It provided better opportunities for discussion, but was […]
