Business Relations, Father/Son Relations, and Genuine Love Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg Jesper Just, A Fine Romance, 2004, DVD, Ed. 5. Three fascinating stories form the new solo show by the young artist Jesper Just at the Gallery Christina Wilson in Copenhagen. "A fine Romance" is the overall title of the three video works: "No Man is an […]

Spatial Proximity of the city Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg The focal point of Trine Boesen’s new exhibition, “Flowers Crack Concrete”, at the leisure club MOGADISHNI in Copenhagen is the city. Webs of everyday commodities encircled by buildings, houses, tents, and huts symbolizing at one hand our private sphere and at the other hand that we are never […]

Crescite Stefania Carrozzini   Roy Andrew Beyer, Insulinde, 1992, family portrait, 82x82cm, series 2/6.     Quando parliamo di crescite che cosa intendiamo? Crescita vuol dite partire da un punto A e con un percorso lineare arrivare ad un punto B. Ma nella storia dell’arte questa evoluzione non è così poi semplice e lineare. La […]

Now on DVD Tony Zaza  cover of Umberto D (HomeVision)   Thisstartling transfer to DVD preserves the essential mastery of Vittorio De Sicain its presentation of his deep-focus black and white cinematography that madeuse of actual locations using a portable camera and natural light. To haveachieved this exquisite deep composition with available light is simply […]

INSIGHT/OVERSIGHT Varda Genossar   Daniel Rothbart, Wares 1, March 2002, c-print, 11 x 14 inches     The titleof Daniel Rothbart’s new exhibition provides a clue to the essence of hisoeuvre – semiotics, the language of signs, which naturally includes the signsof language. A literal translation of it into Hebrew would miss the point. Theelements […]

ELECTRIC ART Lily Hatchett Artists are jumping boundaries in a mind boggling feedingfrenzy. Everywhere I look, painters and sculptors are making movies, shootingvideo clips, and photographing digitally. In this millennium, multi-tasking isa creative need, as well as the stuff of survival. Communication andcomprehension are mandatory: try surviving without them, whether you are aNeanderthal, a tiger, […]

FILM AS METAPHOR FOR FILM� Lily Hatchett Film as metaphor for film is a topic touched on by filmmakerslarge and small. The tale told in The Last Supperstyle=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>,style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>a very independent film fromSlovenia (Tribeca Film Festival, 2002), has entered that realm with the help oftwo very delightful inmates in a psychiatric lockup. This fantasy needs nobatteries […]

Tribeca Film Festival 2003 Lily Hatchett   photos by Lily Hatchett     Greenwich Street was my address in the late seventies,when it was a dark and empty NYC zone. The outpost of the city, a place whererats didn’t run away because it was their domain, theirs and some humans wholooked like they were straight […]

MC5: A True Testimonial, Directed by David C. Thomas Lily Hatchett��       style="mso-spacerun: yes">   MC5, the Detroit rock band thatinspired punk, hardcore and noise metal, has earned the reverence reserved forthose seminal creators, artists that really have something “new under the sun”.style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Theywere outrageous. Fred “Sonic” Smith said that they could […]

NATIVE AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2003 Catherine Wayland image of V. Blackhawk Aamott   Organized by the Film and Video Center of the SmithsonianNational Museum of the American Indian (FVC), the festival was presented in NewYork City at the NMAI George Gustav Heye Center, the Donnell Media Center ofthe New York Public Library, and […]