Nicholas di Genova is a 25-year-old artist based in Toronto, Canada. His series of recent paintings on Mylar were the subject of an exhibition at Chelsea’s Fredericks and Freiser gallery.Colleen Becker: "Death from Below: The Upper Layers of the Hades Geofront" is a rather lengthy and specific title for a show. Could you explain its […]

In Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz, a bulldozer is noisily demolishing a wall, adding red glass shards to a pile of rubble, a pile that is slowly growing larger than the building that is being destroyed. This is not an unlikely scene in a city that, until recently, was known as the largest construction site […]

“Wer ist da, bitte?”“Uhh…English?” It was Stephen. I’d suspected this is what he’d do. I hadn’t heard anything from him for over a month. The day before, I’d said to Janna, “We’ll come home one day and he’ll be standing in front of the door.”That summer I got an email from him, “ I quit […]

You know all those sure to be jaw-dropping, monumental collages that you tried your hand at every month or so throughout high school and college from the pages of years’ worth of hoarded fashion and design magazines? The ones that always ended up appearing specifically trite and completely tasteless despite even your best artistic intentions? […]

Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, better known as Kira Kira of Reykjavik’s Kitchen Motors, talks with curator and artist Trong G. Nguyen about dangerous music, ghosts and the collective she started with fellow composers Johann Johannsson and Hilmar Jensson. Kira Kira recently performed at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival and, a week later, produced a mixed media […]

I have been following the work of Ivan Stojakovic ever since he began painting. Therefore I have a bit of an illusory belief that I am capable of understanding all the changes which occurred in his creative artistic personality during the last decade. But, since he is “far away” (in New York) and I am […]

The Nobel Prize winner and most well-known writer of Iceland, Halldór Laxness once wrote that the Icelandic psyche resembles the Icelandic landscape and weather—chaotic, rough and soft at the same time. As visitors tune in to the energy of Iceland on their arrival into the moon-like landing area close to its capital, Reykjavik, they will […]

There is an artificial island in the bay of Kotor, off the coast of Montenegro, which is being built by the townspeople of Perast (population: 360). It is very much a work in progress, begun in 1452. They began building this island to accommodate a church, Gospa od Skrpjela (Our Lady of the Rock). Both […]

In these new paintings, I am attempting to realize the “unreal” through the use of mythical references. Utilizing witches to explore the depths of sexuality, mysticism and power, I compose the paintings as conceptual cinematic storyboards and tell a story from multiple points of view. Invoking, at times, sexually explicit subject matter, while looking to […]

I’ve always been fascinated with mythology: Metamorphoses, the Kalevala, Popol Vuh, the epics of Gilgamesh, it doesn’t really matter from which era or location. Mythology is the imagination’s primordial attempt to overlay a structure onto life, to give an architecture to things only seen obliquely and sensed peripherally. These mythological works—which purportedly arise from the […]