Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Dear Cheryl, This is me on the way to promontory after setting up at the church. I don’t remember who I was walking with, I think Adam, probably my mom. When we started out everyone was behind me, following. I stopped for a while to let them pass. That’s you in my arms — Anders Nilsen, The End About dying as a concept and as a process, about love, about […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) American artist Jon Smith proves the ordinary is nothing but a state of mind, with his amazing series of high-speed photographs of explosive light bulbs, all going back to a most touching personal story. How many people do you need to change a light bulb? Surprisingly enough and in spite of the ancient laws of standard humour, it seems like you only need one. American artist Jon Smith created a vividly […]
Yasmine Canga-Valles, Correspondent (Art) Paris — All over the world, badges, T-shirts, posters and all other kinds of artefacts bear the signature of one of the greatest pop artists/idols of the 20th century: Keith Haring (1958–1990). From April 19 until August 13, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (MAM) and the CentQuatre pay a tribute to Haring’s oeuvre, offering a real insight into the unfamiliar political character of his work. The two […]
Vaiva Seskeviciute, Correspondent (Art) On August 3, 2013, 16 museums opened their doors in Antwerp, Belgium, for the ninth annual Museum Night. From 7 pm till 1 am the museums’ fever had been spread all across the city inviting more than 7,000 art-lovers to spend their night in a non-traditional way. A huge range of different museums including MAS, FoMu, Cinema Zuid, Letterenhuis, M HKA and others participated in the event. According to the organisers, Prospecta, 30,000 visits were registered, which is around […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) When Hong Kong- and London-based illustrator and product designer Kevin Leung designed the series Ordinary Behavior, a piece of art so pleasing to the eye and enlightening for the intellect was created. The moment he started describing his project to me, in the middle of moving from London to Hong Kong, mind you, I was fascinated by his vision. And so we began a dialogue on the many spins of […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Polish artist Pawel Piotrowski creates the Sandwich Book, a delightful piece of artistry aiming to spotlight the many angles there are to seeing a book. Like all seemingly commonplace things, books have a long and convoluted story behind them. Since the dawn of time, history was written on clay tablets, then papyrus scrolls, followed by parchment and all these coexisted peacefully for a while with the codex. Made of separate […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) For some years now, the oxymoronic phrase of dark optimism has been gaining ever more supporters. The expression was tailored by the editorial team of Triple Canopy magazine as a sensible description of the present conditions of a planet torn between ecological as well as economic and socio-political instability and technological thriving, factors interwoven to create a 21st century moving towards a destination yet unknown. While the events of Hurricane […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Without lessening the part played by the word, believed by Biblical chronicles to be the first of all things, let us not forget how lavishly the visual fuels the mind. Clear as it has been for centuries that images give world’s true ideological colours, it comes as no wonder that, at times, they are the ones to show where the wild things are. Ukraine-born artist Sveta Dorosheva has been dedicated […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Year after year, the Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts The Archibald Prize for portraiture, celebrating ‘some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia’. This longstanding tradition started with celebrated Australian journalist and publisher J.F. Archibald’s late bequest and is valued by connoisseurs for putting Australian portraiture on display while celebrating the great men and women of Australian history. […]
Andreea Saioc, Editor (Art) Lin Tianmiao’s installation ‘Badges’ puts on display an entire modern-day vocabulary of femininity, with words from Gold Digger to Cougar, from Diva to Beauty Queen, embroiled on sixty-something delicate hanging hoops. One of the first Chinese female artists to gain worldwide recognition, Lin Tianmiao was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province in 1961. She was raised in a thoroughly artistic family, with her father being a accomplished ink-painter and her mother […]
