I start my work by making monochrome photographs and then painting them. I begin with a fairy tale and add eroticism to it in order to create original erotic stories. Each story is composed of roughly five to ten images, which form a story. These tales inspired in me a form of erotic delusion. However, […]

Perhaps my most extraordinary move as a beginning visual artist, around 1967, in my own middle-late 20s, was the decision to work primarily with words, only words. It was an innocent move, really, made less from intelligence than the lack of it; I never learned to draw likenesses or make collages or anything else that […]

The fifth edition of “Santa’s Ghetto,” the annual exhibition staged by the “Great Communicator,” Banksy, and his associated print house, Pictures of Walls, took place right in the middle of London’s West End, at 15 Oxford Street. There, in an old Clark’s shoe store, some of the most noted artists of the international underground scene […]

Art that envisions the human body in architectural terms is not a new phenomenon. Last year, Kestenbaum & Company auctioned a 1707 Hebrew, Latin and Turkish edition of Tobias Cohn’s medical encyclopedia, Ma’aseh Tuviah (“The Work of Tobias”), in which artist Antonio Luciani drew Cohn with bared innards. Cohn’s body is mapped out over a […]

Art is a coded projection. All great art is myth. In contemplating this new solo show of 18 stunning, mixed media conceptual photography works by the ever-imaginative, ever-growing John Baldessari, it is possible to ask questions of the works that lesser artists might also try, and fail, to answer in theirs. Baldessari himself doesn’t try […]

My introduction to the world of fine arts began when I was young and tired of my own books and so decided that my mummy’s illustrated books were far more interesting. Through them I acquainted myself very well with history’s masterpieces and the sordid details of the hands behind said masterpieces. My pre-pubescent pursuit as […]

At my solo show, “Venus In Hell,” in Melbourne last year, I overheard two young women, both artists, discussing my work. The graphic sexuality and undercurrent of violence in many of my images visibly unsettled one of them. She wondered aloud about my emotional stability, “God, how messed up can one women be?” “I guess […]

My art history studies in France made me aware of a number of complex integrations of visual, performance and music-based art forms. Since I moved to New York, I have become interested in the idea of encountering places, fallen boundaries and unusual translations. The abundance of art in New York, the countless studio visits and […]

It is no easy task to try and define, or at least outline, the creativity of a specific geographical area. Over the last few years, there have been a series of exhibitions that have raised geo-political issues, and to the point of creating the need for a whole new field of investigation. This all began […]

Among the many issues that call into question the placid façade of American social harmony, the question of race is primary. Especially after Hurricane Katrina, racial issues are once again central to the American discourse about its social make-up and the idea of reparations stands central in its divisiveness. For years calls have been heard […]