Chinese lovers of art–especially collectors–began long ago compiling typological catalogs of images, imitating in that respect the thinkers and enquiring minds who, from the early decades of the Han empire onwards (i.e. the second century of the Christian era) drew up inventorial lists of everything that existed, a shared fundamental Read more…
“Copying”: this practice, in China as elsewhere, was and still is the first exercise of every apprenticeship at the same time as an irreplaceable technique for spreading know-how, talent, and innovation; but the place and interest accorded to it throw light on the rather special positions being taken up. Thus, Read more…
Photographs are still some of the best inventions of digital technology; somewhere in our hearts, we love the paintings. There are so many crazy people around the world who are still curious about photo to painting. If you are also one of those creative personalities but are not able to Read more…
Le fait moderne, c’est que nous ne croyons plus en ce monde […] C’est le lien de l’homme et du monde qui se trouve rompu. Des lors, c’est ce lien qui doit devenir object de croyance: il est l’impossible qui ne peut etre redonne que dans une foi. La croyance Read more…
Le monde dans un cristal, le jardin comme metaphore de l’univers. Des archetypes d’ordre spatial existent, au niveau non de la forme mais du concept. Ils sont independants du temps, du lieu, des conditions psychologiques et sociales ou des expressions individuelles. Pour parvenir a un dialogue entre une structure abstraite Read more…
A recent exhibition of works by west coast sculptor Mowry Baden presents three sculptures, three drawings and five maquettes. The sculptural works are the central elements of this exhibition and continue this artist’s longstanding concern with one of the most difficult practical challenges in the realm of art making: that Read more…
On ne peut scruter le travail de Juan Geuer sans’s interroger sur la nature meme de telles installations. Art ou science? Rationnalite ou sensibilite? Complexite ou simplicite? L’oeuvre entier semble, d’entree de jeu, vouloir s’ingerer dans l’un comme dans l’autre aspect de ces dualites, en explorer l’ecart, la felure, le Read more…
The world in a crystal, the garden as a metaphor of the universe. Archetypal orders of space exist not on an amorphous but on a conceptual level. They are independent of time, location, social and psychological conditions or individual expressions. To achieve a dialogue between an abstract structure and a Read more…
Astrid Klein’s world is one of a shared history, of past tragedy and dark premonition with a subconsciousness of unnerving ‘reality’. It is expressive of a psychological state rather than grounded in a recognisable visual world. Entering the recent exhibition at the ICA one is confronted by the shadowy apocalyptic Read more…