Only rarely have I experience a calming melancholy when I walk into an art exhibition. The space at Prague City Gallery was kept in semi-darkness, islands of lights reflected on lonesome portraits that looked and felt desolate, strangely affecting. Czech artist Vlasta Vostrebalova Fischerova lived in tumultuous times and is considered a distinctive female representative [...]
A unique exhibition marking 60 years of continuous exploration of achromatic colors by Robert Ryman, one of America’s leading pioneers of Minimalist painting, is currently on view at the DIA Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York City. In the show we get to see a careful selection of Ryman’s works, from the 1950s through 2000s, [...]
Colombia has earned a privileged position in the global art scene during the last few years due to two important international art events - the annual ARBO international trade fair and the Medellin International Art Encounter (MDE), which is held every four years. MDE, which usually lasts for as long as 6 months, opened at [...]
Fernando Botero's fat ladies may be familiar to people around the world but they are certainly a novelty in China. For years, the famed Colombian artist has tried to show his work in China. He has had more than 50 exhibitions in major cities around the world but China was missing. There was always something; [...]
by C.C. You went to the world’s most important air fair, the Art Basel Miami, what did you see? The answer to that question has always been the same: everything. There is always too much to see, too much to learn, too much to think about, too many people to meet. The experience is that [...]
by C.C When I told my friends I was going to see Miami Basel 2015, I was told that I would be seeing a lot of Cuban art since the US and Cuba recently opened their diplomatic relations. I also expected to see Latin American art since it was a long known fact that over [...]
by B. Palacios It is not unusual to find a painter who can master the use of colors to express their unique perception of reality. But, to convey the reality of happiness is a different matter. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, we have found a painting exhibition doing just that. The Philadelphia [...]
The woman on the screen is in a completely empty auditorium. She is singing and her voice is shrill and long, like a wounded animal. In her voice there is also a yearning, a pleading, as if she were praying. At the same time an immense tenderness is felt, as if her song were a [...]
Four Cuts into the Space A world mostly in black and white and many shades of grey. But more than that, Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin’s works are dense with texture, images that set the imagination free, distortions of space and time, shades that change when viewed from different angles. Zheng’s current solo exhibition [...]
"Reflection alone can give us the idea of what perception is" We saw these words in pale white neon lights above the stairs leading to the basement gallery at New York's Sean Kelly art gallery. We paused and wondered who wrote these words, and who was the artist who noticed them and used them to [...]
