Calmly disguised and eerily blurred, the paintings of the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans thrill viewers with their abstract narratives. Borremans’ is an unconventional way of abstraction that emerges from the narrative instead of the technique. Familiar agents, in some cases adult men or women and sometimes children and animals, are positioned in alien tales of ambiguity. … Continue reading
Salman Rushdie describes exile as a dream of glorious return, stating that exile is a vision of revolution in his controversial book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie also adds that exile always has the same paradox of looking forward by looking back. Marcel Duchamp’s escape from Nazi-occupied France in 1935 led Duchamp create La Boite en … Continue reading
Needless to say, the city makes us people spoiled. The abundance of possibilities and limitlessness of the outreach perpetuate a lifestyle centered around endless shuffling and seeking the ‘newer’, ‘the prettier’ or simply ‘the better’. Small Town Gay Bar, Malcolm Imgram’s 2006 documentary about two gay bars in deep deep Mississippi serves as a reminder of how not every dish is served with the same ease and hospitality to everyone’s plates. Continue reading
“I blame Shelley and Stoker,” says Eve, one of the main vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive. Eerie and existentialist can be perfectly convenient for defining Jim Jarmusch’s cinema. Since his major feature film Stranger Than Paradise, he has been keeping his auteur soul with a filmography dedicated to character development, atmosphere orchestration and visual … Continue reading
We sat down with Esther K. Smith and Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press in their TriBeCa studio where they have been pressing, drawing, sawing and cutting for more than 20 years. Continue reading
My recent visit to the Friedrich Kunath exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery once again proved the deliriousness of the minds of our contemporaries. Continue reading
Forget about your wool scarf that your grandmother spent three months knitting for you. These days the city is wrapped around queer threads–colorful, uncompromising and double stitched.
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Movie goers lately have left the theaters with question marks in their minds. Endless discussions on the way to post-movie dinners or on the F train about ‘so did she or didn’t she‘ have kept on going until eternity. Besides considerably more experimental foreign films such as 2011’s A Separation from Iran or Israel’s 2012 … Continue reading
An artist is, beyond all of its transcendental and inventive impulses, a body–a physical statement, a functioning machine. Furthermore, a work of art, same as its creator, is a corpse–the kind that is compact, variant and mythical, waiting to be decoded and configured for its true meaning. Continue reading
Two next door neighbor exhibitions in Chelsea are making these invisible walls actually visible for the viewers. Luhring Augustine’s Reinhard Mucha show titled Hidden Tracks and Andrea Rosen Gallery’s new Josephine Meckseper exhibition presents actual vitrines as components of the artworks. Continue reading