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Assembly
Assembly The men look down on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. I thought of giving them some distraction with a girl in Paestum making her toilet. Photos of the week: (left) Piazza del Popolo, Rome 1998, and (right) Sculpture souvenir shop, Paestum 2000, Italy
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year Let’s start the new year with a smile. Photo of the week: Holy Ghost Church, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2019
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas A little messy?A little hidden?A little unobtrusive?A little clandestine?Merry Christmasin Hindutva land. Photo of the week: Catholic Club, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2019
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No fire, no smoke
No fire, no smoke No smoke curling up out of the kitchen chimneys.The sultans have long gone,their palace has become a museum.And the tree, delighted at having been saved,happily twists its branches this way and that. Photo of the week: Chimneys on Sultan’s kitchen, Topkapi palace, Istanbul, Turkey 2003
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Light upon light
Light upon light Rays of the setting sunilluminating spacewithout and within.Light …Space …Peace … Photo of the week: Sultan Ahmet Camii, Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey 2003
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Sacred pomp
Sacred pomp It reminds me of my catholic youth in Holland. Sunday mass in the 50s of last century. A nostalgic image of a distant past. Forever gone … but not in Poland! Photo of the week: Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
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Fallen angel
Fallen angel Fallen from his heavenly nest, wings too small to keep his baby-build up in the air. Photo of the week: Fallen angel, Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
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HISTORYNOW
HISTORYNOW During the consecutive lockdowns of the last few years Marc Quinn has made tens of artworks for his project HISTORYNOW which were to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. The basis of all these works is each time a screenshot from his iPhone of news and stories…
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Marine sculptures
Marine sculptures Meeting with the installation Migrations by Marguerite Humeau at the Venice Biennale my first reaction is: this isn’t for me. Her strange sculptures don’t appeal to me, falling completely outside of my esthetic framework. The three sculptures have names of important oceanic currents and the accompanying text talks about ‘supernatural, biomorphic sculptures’ and…
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Dadamaino
Dadamaino In the 1960s, when ZERO was active in Germany, the Italian avant-garde started to explore the ‘perceptual dynamics of programmed art’. Dadamaino (Edoarda Emilia Maino) was one of them and the picture shows one of her works from the series Cromorilieve, made in the early 1970s, in which she has fixed solid forms on…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 