Spanish painter, Carlos Aquilino, works in a variety of styles to explore themes as wide-ranging as the role of the individual in society to the rhythms and logic of chaos.  His background and approach to art marking are distinctive and compelling. He started his career with his first exhibition in 1975 in Las Palmas (Spain), […]

In tempo di crisi le gallerie più intraprendenti si impegnano nella ricerca. È così che nasce Astuni Public Studio, un progetto col quale la Galleria Enrico Astuni a partire da ottobre 2009, nel suo nuovo spazio inaugurato lo scorso gennaio a Bologna, presenta una serie di iniziative nell’ambito dell’arte contemporanea curate da alcuni dei migliori […]

There are always multiple ideas that I could choose from when I am making another piece of work. As boring as it may seem, I choose it very logically and mechanically. I simply choose the idea from my notebook that is the least like the work I just made. It acts like smelling salts, wakes […]

Haizan Shaw’s Red Flower Girl is composed of large, stiff, ellipses of crimson gather round each other, colonizing into bunches, pointing in, at other times proudly growing outwards. Caught in these different stages, these ranging moments of the flowers give the piece a still movement. These crowding clusters of petals orchestrate the photo’s atmosphere, providing […]

Filling Chace Center to the brim, the largest gallery at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art in the City of Providence, Inner City comprised an astonishing array of architectural-scale models and tiny figurines fashioned entirely out of clay. All the little male people—the sculptor’s version of Everyman—strikingly similar in their facial and […]

Art should be in the streets surprising people, not necessarily in galleries or museums. Art should be part of everyone’s daily journey into work. Art should make us laugh and catch people unaware. Art should show us something that we can all understand. Art should make us think effortlessly. Art should question its own what-ness. […]

My work is about how artificially identities are constructed, and how it is possible to undermine the myths of social conventions such as the political borders, languages, religions, and last but not least, art. The tool used is just to take to the extreme the logic contained on them. I put into dialogue drawings, photographs, […]

To me, performance art is not only a medium or material to create with, but also a reflection of an artist who keeps his independent spirit and creativity. In 2001, China’s Department of Culture Supervision released an article that states, “Violent or pornographic performance art is prohibited in public.” However, what is pornographic or violent […]

Because of greed, human beings always want the best interest for themselves, and not for others. Unfortunately, this seems to be regarded as the drive for human progress. The world today cannot bear any more of humans’ greed. People are exhausted by their own never-ending desire and caught up in this vicious circle. If things […]

The Ishihara Color Test is the most common clinical test for red-green color vision deficiencies in humans. It comprises 38 plates, each containing a circle of dots randomized in color and size, which form a number that is visible to people with normal color vision. However, the number in the dots is invisible, or difficult […]