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Archive for October, 2008
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Anti-Paintings
If a painter refuses to paint, is he still a painter? If an artist says that a painting isn’t a painting, what is it? What does it take to make a painting not a painting? These are the somewhat esoteric questions posed by a new ...
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Jeff Wall in Vancouver
The Pine On The Corner, 1990 , transparency in lightbox Born in Vancouver, Jeff Wall didn’t have a large show in the city since 1990. But now the Vancouver Art Gallery will be showing it’s collection of the artist’s iluminated transparencies until January 25. With ...
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Sarah Sze
American sculptor Sarah Sze builds environments out of collections of little household objects. Elegantly precise and beautifully naive her work is painting with props on space, virtuosic miniature ecosystems. Person Sarah Sze Right click for SmartMenu shortcuts
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1000 Artworks to See Before You Die
Marc Chagall Over the Town (1914-1918) The British newspaper The Guardian started today the series 1000 Artworks to See Before You Die and it will continue throughout the week. From the caves to today it’s the Guardian writers picking the world’s essential artworks. It’s going ...
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A Photographer's Life
Nicole Kidman by Annie Leibovitz Covering 15 years of Annie Leibovitz’s most recent work, the National Portrait Gallery exhibition (until February 1, 2009) includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated photographer. From her more personal work (photos of her family and friends) to commissioned portraits, ...
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Media Sculpture
Jonathan Schiper’s Invisible Sphere With a very well founded education as sculptor Jonathan Schipper‘s work is very in tune with our times. The Sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each camera is opposite to the monitor it feeds. It constantly recreates its surroundings on ...
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Window of the Soul
Nude with Hands Blind photographer, Evgen Bavcar, can’t see but can produce some very poetic and inspired images. His portraits are ethereal and his landscapes full of atmosphere. Walter Aue, the acclaimed Berlin poet, consider that after Niepce, Fox Talbot and Daguerre, Bavcar is “the ...
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Paper Cut
Paper curtains, dreamy nets. Go to Chis Natrop and visit his Multifaceted series for art that takes the room with shapes and shadows.
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Camouflage Chameleon
Unify the Thought to Promote Education 160 x 150 cm c-print Liu Bolin Urban Camouflage series explores the notion of how the environment shapes us the way we are. Using flags and slogans as backgrounds and painting himself to blend in, he comments the Chinese ...
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Portraits of Frida
Photo by Nickolas Muray Frida Kahlo on White Bench #30, 1938 Frida Kahlo is known for her self portraits. The San Jose Museum of Art is giving us the rare chance of seeing other views of her, through the eyes of renowned photographers in about ...