Spouts Installation The world famous Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, who is not allowed to travel outside of China since 2010, opened a solo exhibition for the first time in his home country. I was lucky to arrive at the opening before it became too crowded. The exhibition took over two adjacent galleries and [...]
by A.P. With the theme of “All the world’s futures”, the Nigerian Okwui Enwezor, the first African guest curator in the Venice Biennale’s 120 years of history, has got together 136 artists from 56 countries, of whom 89 artists are showing their work for the first time. Enwezor’s intention is to “build a new focus [...]
Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson), 2009Oil on canvas The latest exhibition of the American artist Kenhinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum in New York has powerfully challenged traditional concepts of portraiture, and introduced an updated meaning to the issue of identity. When we saw the title of the exhibition- The [...]
If you're going to San Francisco on a spring day,make sure to take the historic trolley and get off at The Castro district. There are numerous stylish shops, Eco-friendly cafes and bars but the thing to do is to look for murals. They are not easy to find but once you do, they are [...]
Egg Bed Crystal Shell, 2014Plywood, cotton fabric, polyamide textile, polyurethane foam, semiprecious stones, and pulley Life is for enjoyment and happiness. To Ernesto Neto, one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, this is not just a statement about the purpose of life. This is what he does with his art work, which provides [...]
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin In Mamma Andersson paintings, what is apparent is always the flip side of consciousness. The present may as well be the past, while the past with its heavy hand, can deftly reveal a sudden lightness of being. From where comes this painter’s dialectics? An Andersson [...]
Ceiling high works that can measure as long as seven meters. All-over paint and collages of precious metals, bumper stickers, rubber tires, cracked eggs, a hundred dollar bills in Ziploc bags, trash. Overwhelming in scale, dynamic in sense of color and texture. For Michael Chow, better known as the celebrity co-founder and owner of the [...]
by Light-man The symbiotic relationship between the artist and the land, the soil, natural elements is gaining momentum as the world is more aware of the woes of growing environmental crisis. Already this issue concerns basic human survival, just as what the Land Art movement in the 70s predicted when they pioneered an art [...]
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin The vision of deities and their familiars, among animals, tends to exclude humans from those with the ability to see the progress of eternal forces in the actual world. Perhaps this is because our vision is more pragmatic. Unlike dogs and birds, we don’t [...]
From the series of essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin On the road from Frankfurt-am-Main to Leipzig, departing Hessen into Thuringia, a vast heap of salt towers above the passerby. This inert, looming, giant byproduct of industry dwarfs the relevance of anything nearby. The power of its sheer enormity stuns the senses, pressing the [...]
