A Personal Amalgam of Past and Present, East and West, Conflicts and Resolutions
Chun Kwang Young is best known for a series of work titled Aggregation that focusses on one central theme: the remembrance of the past and the rebirth of the new. Growing up in South Korea, he remembered seeing medicinal herbs wrapped in mulberry paper, tied into small packages and hung from the ceiling at the local doctor’s office. Mulberry paper [...]
Bruno Catalano, An Artist of the Whole and Its Void
A hole, a tear, is often a mistake for a sculpture. In Bruno Catalano’s case, however, it completes the whole. When I first saw one of his “travelers” (Les voyageurs series) on the sidewalk, I had to pause and make sure my eyes were not deceiving me. The sculpture was a realistic depiction of a man walking, dressed in a [...]
Space. Lights. Water. Sounds. My Heartbeat…
by Elena Chow An immersive art experience ignites all your senses. Your vision sharpens, your hearing tries to capture the most miniscule sounds, your sense of touch is more sensitive, you are fully invested in everything that surrounds you. At the hands of sophisticated artists, you let them lead you to many worlds of wonder. Superblue “Every Wall is [...]
Timeless
When I visited the National Museum of Reina Sofia in Madrid this summer, I had to pause when I passed by Rosario de Velasco’s “Adam and Eve”. The oil painting made in 1932 portrays a relaxed couple lying on thick foliage, barefoot, fully dressed, looking at each other in the eyes, comfortable in each other’s company. The time seems to [...]
Art from Hidden Spaces
What am I doing here? There is a place in the womb of Bogota, capital of Colombia, where night clubs open at all hours, where prostitutes and transvestites cross their paths, they turn around and collide into each other as if they were atoms on some psychedelic high heels. There, on the 23rd Street down the Caracas Avenue, an [...]
rosa Brille – Beauty of Colors and Mysteries!
by Arthur Barron Art Basel, Miami Beach Convention Center, November 30, 2022 Commenting on Albert Oehlen (Durch die) rosa Brille, 2006 Acrylic and oil on canvas 110 ¼ x 133 7/8 inches This is a belated article due to my mulling over process involving a number of pieces before coming down to and settling on writing about the selected [...]