DALI: MULTIFACETED
Javanese Mannequin (detail) Even people who detested Dali’s perverse personality, gentle association with Fascism, and occasional forays int...
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: VARIOUS ARCHETYPES
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Saint Benedict Chapel (Architect: Peter Zumthor ) 2000/01 gelatin silver print 149.2×119.4 cm ©Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courte...
Marlene Dumas
"Feather Boa" and "Turkish Girl" "Anger, sadness, bereavement, and love – these days we rely on photograph...
Asae Soya: Prism
"Circles" Perspective, by its invocation of distance, divides things and people from each other. While such divisions help ...
FICTION FOR THE REAL
"Bathroom" Apparently the blurry, furry divide between reality on one side and fiction n' fantasy on the other concerns ...
Modigliani & Hebuterne
Modigliani and Jeanne Hebuterne were the Pete Doherty and Kate Moss of their generation. Just like the former Babyshambles singer, Mod...
Henry Darger: Outsider Inside His Own World
Outsider artists often present a pathetic spectacle to the rest of the world: forgotten inmates of mental institutions, shuffling, mutt...
KEN YABUNO: EUROPA RE-REMEMBERED
Everything Appears If You Stand Still (2005) The Fascist dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco may not have been everybody's c...
Iwami Furusawa: One man’s porn is...
Daughter of Bacchus (1983) Sexuality is polymorphous. It has to be. This is because — rightly or wrongly — it often faces rigid repre...
Ikuo Hirayama: Seeking Solace on the Silk Road
Mount Sumeru of the Western Pure Land (2000) Ikuo Hirayama clearly represents how the Japanese like to see — and project — the...
Fuyuko Matsui: Pinpricks in the Darkness
The Beautiful and Disturbing art of Fuyuko Matsui Art, despite all its complexities and convolutions, is and always has been...
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