Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.
Together with Dada, Surrealism (and they really are two acts of the same play) was the most inventive of modern movements. An overwhelming number of contemporary practices and attitudes can be traced back to them. Most fundamentally they are responsible for a paradigmatic shift in the definition of the artist. From a craftsman practicing a hard won skill, the artist became…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.
It was the daybreak of the twentieth century when the machine, well known friend nowadays, began not only to be valued for its use, but for its look as well. While America in the 1920s and the early 1930s was increasingly a machine-driven culture, the world of photography was ruled by…[read on…]
Interview by Angela Connor in Berlin // Feb. 16, 2013
If you haven’t already heard of Jiga Eva Masumi, you soon will. Already, the distinctive style of the band has attracted the attention of the international art and music scenes. In addition to their recent tour of Israel, they are scooping up key gigs with…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
Berlin based Dirk Bell’s latest exhibition at BQ, Schön und Gut features a motley collection of drawings, sculpture, painting, text, installation and found ready-made objects. The exhibition is a morass of romanticism and otherworldly mysticism; a fictional universe that revisits mythological creatures, symbolism, linguistic grid structures and gothic influences from Bell’s…[read on…]
Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
It’s that time again! The annual Berlin-based festival, the transmediale, is just around the corner! Focusing on presenting new media works that question the relations between technology, art, and society, the festival returns with the theme of Back When Pluto Was a Planet (BWPWAP)…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jan. 08, 2013.
Appropriately, the old bell sits within a bell jar, muffled in glass, its ticking heard in a minute radius surrounding it. Taken outside of the body, here is the sound of the heart; here is the strange recollection of old school bells; the ringing of forgotten alarm clocks. The feelings are tender, the way memories are…[read on…]
Interview by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 02, 2013.
The HomeBase project is an artist residency program based in Berlin, New York and Jerusalem. Siting itself in an “urban environment undergoing transitional changes” such as Pankow, the project aims to rise up to Modernism’s formative challenge of integrating art and life, utilizing the notion of ‘home’ and the domestic as a pivot to…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.
Activating the gallery space with acrylic paint, cardboard, foil, plexiglass, paper, cellophane and enamel, Diana Sirianni’s exhibition at Figge von Rosen Galerie forms a vibrant aesthetic of abstract forms and shapes…[read on…]
Interview by Devon Caranicas – in Los Angeles; Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.
Although currently based on the west coat, visual artist Cayetano Ferrer spent many of his formative years in Las Vegas, a metropolitan anomaly that continues to be a subject source for much of his work. Ferrer’s visual fascination with the city began as a teenager barring witness to the demolition of casinos along the…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.
We all know that crowds spoil the viewing of art. Since the late 1960’s, we have see the various rises and falls of the blockbuster exhibition and there has been much debate in major…[read on…]
Interview by Elizabeth Feder – in San Francisco; Friday, Dec. 07, 2012.
As much art arguably should, Flemish artist Jan Van Oost’s work conjures up some complex and conflicting responses. Delicate and exquisite treatment of materiality used to render images and figures of morbidity draws one in with simultaneous curiosity and revulsion. Oost is speaking from another era, drawing his inspiration from the expressive energy of 19th century Belgian symbolists like Antoine Wiertz, Léon Spilliaert and…[read on…]
