La animación permite no sólo percibir el mundo de manera distinta, sino también crear otros mundos diferentes mediante dos herramientas poderosas: la fantasía y la imaginación. Aunque estos dos términos no encontraron una diferenciación en la teoría estética hasta avanzado el romanticismo, en el léxico de las lenguas neolatinas, como escribe Maurizio Ferraris , «subsiste, […]

To watch Lan Tran’s one-woman performance Elevator/Sex is to see her transform into facets of her psyche. Speaking through five different characters—a professional hugger, an old woman, a pickpocket, a surfer and a photographer—Tran shifts identities and switches perspectives to take on one issue: the after-effect of sexual molestation. An autobiographical work, each of the […]

The first time I met my future husband Colin he asked me what I wanted to do for a living, I said, "To be a painter." "So you paint?" he asked. "No," I replied, and it remained that way for another ten years. I was born in London in 1968, the eldest of four. I […]

Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio, one of the leading sculptors of her generation, born in 1963, is due to arrive in Brazil in the beginning of July for her first solo exhibition in South America, which will occur at Galeria Leme, São Paulo, as from July 11. Throughout her career, her ambitious and often large-scale works […]

The representation of body and self, loss, transition and personal identity are the themes I am most concerned with within my work.  My own personal life stories, as with many artists, are the catalyst to me producing the work I do. Coming from a family where my mother had breast cancer for nine years, a […]

The experience of video art is becoming closer to film in order to tap into art’s powerful transportative quality. Including the drama and suspense of film, as well as a dry documentary-style, video projection and video installation aims to be interactive or overwhelming quality, comparable to an IMAX experience. A total art experience is afforded […]

Be it a building, a body of water, a field of corn or a city park, Angel Orensanz is known for transforming anything that he touches into a work of art. In his recent exhibition Reflectant Universe at the Mãe d’Agua das Amoreiras Reservoir, one of the Museu da Agua’s three Lisbon exhibition spaces, the […]

Lee Wells is a NYC-based video and installation artist and independent curator. Wells was named the Independent Curator of the Year by the -scope Art Fair, has exhibited around and has organized exhibitions nationally and internationally.Leah Oates: Please speak about your background and how you became an artist.Lee Wells: I moved around a bunch as […]

For more than 3,000 years farmers have been using scarecrows to protect their crops from hungry birds. The Greeks carved wooden scarecrows to look like Priapus, the son of the god Dionysus and the goddess Aphrodite. Priapus, who was quite ugly, played in the vineyards, scaring the birds away and protecting the grapes for a […]

Pittsburgh boasts among its varied cultural contributions the birthplace of the world’s most notorious contemporary artist, Andy Warhol. Despite the fact that Warhol fled the city of steel, the spirit of the pop art patriarch persists, most obviously through the Warhol Museum, as well as through a myriad of alternative artistic centers and initiatives. Steel […]