Tag: Art
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Okame
Okame Okame is the name for the mask of a young woman with a small upturned nose and big round cheeks. It is also the name of the wife of the master carpenter who built the large hall of the Senbon Shakado temple in Kyoto where I saw this nicely illuminated mask. The story goes…
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Noh apparition
Noh apparition In a Noh museum one can expect to see Noh masks. With their painted high eyebrows (hikimayu) and other typical features, Noh masks often have a striking appearance. But this mask, emerging from the dark, looks more like a phantom, with elements of the background faintly shining through its face.Do we see here…
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A drunk’s dream
A drunk’s dream Had the bottles been full this would have been a drunk’s paradise. Empty they’re his worst nightmare. Photo of the week: Bottle room, Mythri Manasa Sangama, near Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2019
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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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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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