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Hans Bertschi
“My name is John Ford and I make Westerns”. Many western and thriller movies of his era are important sources of inspiration for me. Most of my portraits are “narrative” and are referring to cinematographic projections, close-up shots. I never ask people to pose but rather observe from a distance, waiting for the right “take”. […]
Douglas Lyell
The sea is a mirror of the human unconscious. When I paint the sea, I channel the spirits that come to me from the Ocean, and from Atlantis. I am irresistibly drawn to the sea, and on stormy nights I hear “an mordros”, the sound of the sea from my bedroom window. I believe […]
John Stezaker at Petzel Gallery
John Stezaker graces Petzel Gallery for the third time, presenting his latest exhibit—John Stezaker: Nude and Landscape. Stezaker, a native of the United Kingdom, uses the photographic image as a platform to challenge our understanding and the limitations of the photographic medium. Subtly combining a variety of vintage images Stezaker elegantly creates a space that […]
In Conversation: Cristina de Miguel Interviewed By Florian Meisenberg
Florian Meisenberg: How do you perceive and process the images or ideas you are trying to visualize in your paintings? Cristina de Miguel: Most of the images I use come from my mind. Normally I visualize them in my mind unexpectedly, especially when I’m lying on my bed about to sleep and my eyes are […]
In Conversation: Leah Oates talks to Carol Salmanson
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Carol Salmanson: I come from a family with a humble background and ambitious parents, who had no interest in the arts. I was passionate about both visual art and ballet, but my mother actively discouraged me until I was in high […]
Arne Svenson at Julie Saul Gallery
Arne Svenson’s most recent photographic series, The Neighbors, is on view at Julie Saul Gallery. Acting as voyeur and investigator, Svenson used a telephoto lens to photograph his neighbors in a highrise across the street from his apartment. The photographs remind us of film stills, or a slow-moving art-house picture. The work shows windows framing […]
Close to the Tower of Silence: Shirin Neshat by Nina Zivancevic
Shirin Neshat, originally from Iran, is a woman artist of an international repute. She always challenges the notion of femininity in her video work, her films, and her installations. Many things have already been written about her much awarded film Women without Men in which we see women, with or without men, who question all forms […]
Spatial Poetics: Milija Belic by Nina Zivancevic
Milija Belic is native to Serbia but has lived in Paris since the early 1980s. He’s a sculptor and painter whose geometric abstractions are endowed with a special lyrical quality that causes us to think of him as a poet among the sculptors. His expression is pure and oneiric, always on the track of the […]
Davor Vukovic: Adriatic Wonder
By Abraham Lubelski If you’re brave enough to enter into a world where objectivity is replaced by raw emotion, then feast your eyes on the works of Davor Vukovic. Visceral in their application of layered abstractions, paintings full of vibrant color confront the viewer. Vukovic’s work seems innocent at first. The vibrant color and free […]
