Catch 22- A Personal Gaze at Art In the World
by Juan van Wassenhove For this special space of “Catch 22”, I have made a selection of the art that I have experienced in my travels this year covering China, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, North Korea, and Switzerland. The media of the art works range from ancient roman statues and architecture to visual and digital art. What is at stake here [...]
A “Studio Affair” to Remember
Historical photography shows more than reality; it depicts a moment in time when future is uncertain, and yet the moment portrayed may never know its participation in history. The Taikang Space gallery in Beijing opens an exhibition that reflects one such extraordinary moment in China’s recent history. “Home for Photography Learning: The Friday Salon, 1977-1980” shows a series of works [...]
A Monumental Immersive Art
The “Heroes Monument” in Bogota, Colombia, is a six-story rectangular stone tower dedicated to the warriors that had fought for the independence of six South and Central American countries from the reign of the colonial Spain in 19th Century. Forgotten and neglected, the door was always chain-locked. From afar, one could see the statue of “The Liberator” Simon Bolivar astride [...]
Picasso and Nature
Many of us know Pablo Picasso mainly for the powerful statements he has made regarding war and violence, revolutionary plastic approaches of Cubism and Modernism, his interest in African art, his passionate and convoluted formal explorations of portraiture, of human figure and women, his rather intimate and tender erotic etchings…But his relationship with Nature has not been explored much. Until [...]
Catch 22
by Juan van Wassenhove “Catch 22” is a phrase used to express a contradiction or an impossible situation, like a “mission impossible". It actually describes what I often feel when I visit an art fair and its satellite events: so many things to see in such a short period of time! To share with you my experience with the recent Miami Basel [...]
Feel the Pulse of Latin American Art at ARTBO
Of the multifarious art fairs in the world, why come to Artbo, the International Art Fair of Bogota? To feel the vibe of the Latin American art, to take the pulse of the art market, to enjoy the energy of young artists, new galleries, the satellite events and open studios spotted all over this vibrant city. “To see the world [...]