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Erotic Prague
Erotic Prague A veil deliberately concealing nothing. One hand intentionally placed near her pubis. A yearning look. Venus impudica in full view. Luxuriant floating hair long enough to cover her shame. One hand raised in an attempt to hide her breasts from view. A modest look. Venus pudica laid down inside a pump. Photo of…
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Jolly Prague
Jolly Prague Her cheerful laugh. His serious look. I think it’s funny. Jirasek thinks otherwise. Photo of the week: Prague, Czech Republic 2005
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Fondness
Fondness Which one shall we take? The food vendor smiles. The mother chooses. Love streams. Photo of the week: Gion, Kyoto, Japan 2008
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Sublime simplicity
Sublime simplicity The house: a floor with tatamis, sliding walls, a roof. Height of Japanese architecture. Walls slide open. The spectacle begins. Photo of the week: Katsura Villa, Kyoto, Japan 2008
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Painters and painters
Painters and painters When leaving TKM Warehouse, the Kochi Biennale venue where I had just seen Prabir Gupta’s installation (see last week’s post), I thought of the roadside painter’s shack in front of the warehouse. Two years ago it was there. Then I had peeped in and taken the photo above. I still remember the…
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Puzzling painting
Puzzling painting Not just a painting, a whole installation! A little paper on the wall is telling us: “Restore Icons: 1799, a Chassis from Paris Iconising Dalits and Blacks.” We know that the artist, Prabir Gupta, was born, lives and works in Kolkatta (Calcutta) and that he is influenced by the political activism in his…
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Of what is,…
Of what is,… “Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not”. A long title for a long work of art, 17.4 meter! In Dodiya’s little photo (see last week’s post) we saw the centre part of the tapestry. In the photo above we see the right end part of…
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Anju’s dressing room
Anju’s dressing room Anju Dodiya had a whole series of works at the KMB 2018, that have a little photo of herself at the centre, almost like a selfie. The Biennale guidebook tells us: “In the ambience of an actor’s dressing room, with its row of double lights, the viewer encounters the artist/protagonist as a…
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A reminder
A reminder Name: Aaron Place of Birth: Cochin Age: 18 or 19 Sex: M Seller: Jan Dircx de Beer Buyer: Johannes Muller Price: Rds 55 Sold at: Cape Town 17.6.1687 Me, a Dutchman, looking at old Dutch names written on T-shirts hanging on a clothesline at the waterfront of Fort Cochin. Container ships passing in…
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The Kerala floods
The Kerala floods When it comes to site-specific installations the Bangladeshi artist Marzia Farhana has done a fine job with her work for the KMB 2018. The August 2018 floods in parts of Kerala had caused, apart from loss of lives, a lot of destruction of homes, crops and the natural environment. Farhana has made…
καιρός remembered
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καιρός remembered 