An Interview with Michael Ray Charles Mireia Cirera Agitador de conciencias e ir�nico provocador por excelencia, Michael Ray Charles (Lafayette, EEUU, 1967) quebranta las reglas establecidas por la sociedad y lanza aut�nticas aut�nticas bombas a la humanidad, impregnadas de temas raciales.    (Forever free) Chocolate Beacons, installation of chocolate figures and pottery, 2002 La Cotthem […]

Poetic Realism in Las Vegas Daniel Rothbart Surrealism is not a foreign concept to Las Vegas. In the arc of a twenty minute stroll along the strip one encounters the most revelatory combination of environments from a circus big top to a circle of wagon trains to a pirate battle raging on a seaside inlet. […]

Dawn – On the Safety Curtain by Thomas Bayrle Daniel Birnbaum Thomas Bayrle consistently produces extremely large works and his Christ in the city installed temporarily on the Safety Curtain at the Vienna State Opera House is one of the largest. The elements of this picture are small, very small. The tension between two scales–the […]

An African Horseman Attacked by a Lion Selma Stern ‘An African HorsemanAttacked by a Lion’ for the first time attributed to Pietro Tacca A Aix… Un aveugle croit qu’il pleut Mais s’il pouvait voir dans sa canne Il verrait les fontaines bleues Chanter la gloire de C�zanne. (Jean Cocteau about a copy of Tacca’s Boar […]

Everyday and Everynight Simon Sheikh Everyday and Everynight: The articulation of the city in two works by Knut Asdam.   A keener awareness of everyday life will replace the myths of ‘thought’ and ‘sincerity’ — deliberate, proven ‘lies’ — with the richer, more complex idea of thought-action style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>. Henri Lefebvre    Knut Asdam, still from […]

Sculpting Water Danielle O’Steen  Winand Staring has created a context of nature in his paintings that speaks to his own experiences with the land and with water. He seeks to pay tribute to nature’s precious resources and portray a seemingly objective entity, water, as a personal experience. The connection between the artist and the paintings […]

Jim Dine’s Kara Vander Weg  During the first ten years of his professional career, Jim Dine began his lifelong pursuit of the themes of self, body, and memory through a variety of mediums–painting, performance, mixed-media assemblage, and sculpture. Apparent in nearly all of Dine’s early works is his use of everyday objects as surrogates for […]

We Want More: An Interview with Walton Ford Daniel Menges When you first see a Walton Ford painting—and I don’t mean glancing, like one glances at an advertisement—after you really see a Walton Ford painting you are never the same. You’ll never look at animals—or people, the same way. The animals stare at you while […]

Saskia Hetzer: New Flavour Constanze Musterer New Flavour? Welchen Geschmack haben wohl Saskia Hetzers Fotografien auf Esspapier aus der Serie "Von der Verdaubarkeit alter Meister"? Die visuellen Reize der Kunst vereinen sich seit Jahrhunderten mit einem eigens dafür organisierten gesellschaftlichen Essgenuss. Die Organisation des Gesellschaftlichen zur Kunstbetrachtung ist geblieben, doch das Residuum des oralen Genusses […]

„perfect silent blue" Ingeborg Middendorf Er hatte sich selbst zugeschaut, sich beobachtet in den Spiegeln, während er sich auszog und sah sich weiter zu, wie er sich zu ihr ins Bett legte. In diesem Moment waren sie beide allein und nackt zusammen – ein Mann und eine Frau – in diesem dunklen verspiegelten Raum, der […]