Tag Archive for: art

Anselm Kiefer / The Seven Heavenly Palaces

Art&Culture | Words
Just like the intricate labyrinth described by Borges in The Garden of Forking Paths, "in which all men would lose their way", in Kiefer's art there is always a narrative trap intentionally left, that could lead to a cul-de-sac or could open the path to all the possible meanings. Words by Larisa Oancea.

Daniel Turner / Man is a God in ruins

Art&Culture | Spotlight
The following essay is not an attempt to define my own version of the sublime, but rather apply other writers’ postulations on the subject to the artwork of Daniel Adam Turner. Man is a god in ruins, words by James Michael Schaeffer.

Last year in Marienbad

Art&Culture | Words
Between these walls covered with woodwork, stucco, moldings, pictures, framed prints, among which I was walking - among which I was already waiting for you, very far away from this setting where I now stand, in front of you, still waiting for the man who will no longer come, who no longer threatens to come to separate us again, to tear you away from me. Are you coming? A film by Alain Resnais, articulated in a note by Marco Giuliano.

Eye, Ghost

Art&Culture | Words
Eye touch a face made of glass. The nothing that builds itself while Eye sleep. Eye smash the construct to remember its ghost. Eye never reach the edge. Words by Ben Mirov and images by Paula McCartney.

Spacious Monochromes, Intimate Void

Art&Culture | Words
The black square on the white field was the first form in which nonobjective feeling came to be expressed. The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling. Words by Larisa Oancea.

Hangover from the past

Photography | Spotlight
In some way my whole childhood memory exists in these images, of semi-staged moments where Marilène, my mother, was the photographer who handled the scenery and the lighting and where I had all freedom to be any character I wanted to be. An analog series by memymom.

Messy Paper

Art&Culture | Spotlight
Colors, overlay, controlled mess, irony and non-sense. A brief view through paper artworks by Italian illustrator Claudio Parentela.