Cairns are man-made constructions made to serve humans by marking places that are meaningful in terms of remembrance, orientation, or victory. They are made of wood, stones and other materials found in the area and stand out as human artefacts in plain nature. One of the common traits is their usage as markers. The exhibition [...]
The Futuro: Constructing Utopia
As a reader of this site, you are probably well aware of my love of architecture, especially the old styles of Romanesque and Gothic. But I love (good) architecture in all of its forms, and lately I’ve been really loving Modernism – that style born out of the late 1950s early 1960s that hinted at [...]
FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE At LU.C.C.A.
CHRISTIAN NICCOLI How many sides does fragility have and how can this sentiment be represented, while being a clear sign of our times? This is precisely what the exhibition of video art “Fragile: Handle with care”, edited by Carolina Lio aims to investigate and probe through the work of eighteen video artists of international caliber: [...]
Jacco OLIVIER At Galerie Thomas Schulte
The painter and filmmaker, Jacco Olivier, links painting with the moving image, creating short, small-scale animation-videos; series of small paintings, loose in style, are continuously revised and photographed systematically at every new stage of development. Incidentally, the films that emerge from this procedure are baffling though astutely conceivable. Through continuous mediation between representation and abstraction, [...]
