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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…
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Vibration of Light
Vibration of Light During the Venice Biennale art works by Heinz Mack are shown in the ‘Sala Sansoviniana’ of the old Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. Mack is one of the founders of ZERO (1957), a group of artists with a preference for painting in monochrome, to distance themselves from the abstract expressionism of their contemporaries. They…
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The Prolific Beauty of Our Panicked Landscape
The Prolific Beauty of Our Panicked Landscape They haven’t yet become extinct at exhibitions of contemporary art but they are rare: paintings, canvasses painted with paint. All the bigger my surprise to see three very large paintings by British artist Jadé Fadojutimi at the Venice Biennale. I have chosen here the most beautiful one, and…
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My take on Leigh
My take on Leigh Simone Leigh is prominently present with her sculptures at the Venice Biennale. Her large bronze statue Brick House represents a black woman, her body shaped as a domed African clay house. Leigh applies this more often in her sculptures of women cast in bronze or made of glazed stoneware. It gives…
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Visiting Venice
Visiting Venice The Art Biennale in Venice is still on. I like going there, for the art and for Venice. The visitors, if not in too large numbers, sometimes also contribute to the pleasure of my visit. And when I need a break of the Biennale art I can always walk into the San Zaccaria…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 