Author Archives: jolanta

War and Peace: Artists’ Voices Various Artists During a recentinterview for a publication on the impact of 9/11 on New York’s art world,I declared that my work hadn’t been this political since GW’s fatherwas in office. Then I thought about what I had just said. Well, yes and no. I’vealways engaged with gender representations in […]

Visual Arts Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Fabio Cavallucci In this momentwhen discussing the 50th edition of the Visual Arts Exhibition of La Biennaledi Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, one cannot comment on much more thanthe title: perfect. Dreams and Conflicts represents in an impeccable way thedialect between these contrasting factors and a theme […]

Reconstructing the Past: Robert Whitman Projections John Perreault The problem withart that involves time is also its glory. It is not frozen in time. I am thinkingof technology-based art when the technology is superceded. I am thinking of Happenings,Events Performances. Site-specific installations that have time limits mightalso fit into this sink-hole of the ephemeral. But […]

The History of the World Vs. Your Aesthetic Erik Bakke p>Coming to gripswith a strong minded artist’s aesthetic can be difficult. And when thisaesthetic is offered along with a super abundance of cultural and historicalreferences the task can seem overwhelming. Three recent exhibitions in Manhattanmake this point overt in that each exhibition contains hundreds of […]

Specificity Denise Carvalho p>In a time whenour conception of history is not only non-linear and multidimensional but alsosimulated and sensational, the notion of a movement or a style or a school iscertainly obsolete. One might have to accept that the authenticity and rationaleof prior histories led to how we envision the art of today. “Specificity”can […]

SCI-ART: Post-Photography, Documenting Our Genetic Possibilities M-1000 When Roy Ascottwrote about our post-photographic age, he suggested that nowadays nobody reallycares about the debate over what is real or how much truth is unveiled in photographydue to the explosive use and incorporation of the digital medium. Meaning, theperspective of viewing photography solely as a journalistic medium […]

Buenos Aires: Crisis and Rebirth Xil Buffone and Eduardo Costa Sometimes art bloomsin poverty, like some plants that refuse fertilizers, opting for their naturaldiet and a genuine growing rate. A somber political and financial picture inArgentina has doubled the creative response with the visual arts, the movies,music and the performing arts going into a good […]

Lance Denh�’s Delivery Aaron Zimmerman I don’t need much from an image: bold color, a unique sense of form andlight, and something that revives my purpose to make paintings. Lately I’vecraved it more and more. Maybe it’s the war. Maybe it’s the springthat is still winter here in New York. Whatever the case my needs […]

Andreas Jaeggi @ Berliner Kunstprojekt, A SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND MEANING Agustina O’Farrell and Erica Snow Andreas Jaeggiis constantly searching for beauty, harmony and balance in his artmaking. Butmore importantly, one might add, he is searching for truth. What would be thecontent suggested by these generalizations—often misused and abused terms—isalways a challenge for any artist […]

An Interview with Tom Wesselmann AJ Nadel Tampering with an icon, even by its creator, poses considerable challenge andrisk. Tom Wesselmann’s Great American Nude series was introduced in the1960s to make representation of the figure as exciting as could be achieved bythe brush strokes and deconstruction of De Kooning. Colors were kept realisticbut the size, […]