Work

I have been working hard on a performance by Performaria, an academic group I'm directing. And also, in the free time, seeing films at the Indielisboa festival. I hope to bring more on all of the above soon.

Christian Tedeschi

I believe in art that one trips over,Tumbles blindlyDown several flights of stairsTo end up on their own two feet.Virtually unscathed, andInto the arms of their sweetheart. - says Christian Tedeschi. And it is true of his works: at first glance they seem scary, dangerous,...

A Glimpse of Infinity?

Camera Obscura 2005/1-Inf is a worldwide project in which two holes of a twin-holed pinhole camera are being auctioned simultaneously on Ebay every week. This project is dedicated to the polish artist Roman Opalka and his work 1965/1-∞. The highest bidders in each case...

Cattelan's perverted victory

Of course, it's not his fault. He simply made the art. And if someone interpreted it wrong, well, they interpreted it wrong.As many of you know, in 2004 the Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan hung three plastic dolls of children from Milan's oldest tree.Shortly after being...

3 pics of people by Ron Mueck

What I like in Ron Mueck's work is not so much the "life-likeness" of the figures (that has been done and re-done). It is their dramatic character, their theatricality. They have their stories, personalities, they are not types of people (like Duane Hanson's characters...

Writing down the dance

The history of contemporary dance knows many attempts at pinning down the choreographic composition. None of them is perfect though - and the main flaw is that they are mainly character-based, i.e., they create signs to represent movements. This semiotic approach has obvious...

Condom for Mobile Phone

Technorati: sex, erotic art, art installation, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

Oscar Guzman: the surface of dreams

It is not quite as the artist, Oscar Guzman, would have it - those images are not photos. We can hardly say they have "characteristics of a photographic record", as the author puts it. They are clearly painted, in a style resembling some computer games. But that's where...

Ad

"The effort for Childcare, India aims to help more than 20 Million Indian Children who beg on the streets each day."Found this powerful ad on a very entertaining site for ad-lovers. It has some brilliant ideas. Fascinating, how the world of advertizing is close to the artworld,...

A pic and a quote

Adam Cullen and Cash Brown, Garden SlutYou might need to cross the Polish-German border a couple of times (filled with tens of brothels and thousands of garden dwarves for sale) to enjoy it as much as I do.Oh, and the quote has nothing (?) to do with the pic:“Politics is...

Automatic art criticism

Technorati: internet art, net art, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

The Berardo Collection

Wim Delvoye, Betonmolen (Cement Mixer) (1992)Margaret Wharton, Chair (1980)Ernesto Neto, Body Object (1999)Allan D'Arcangelo, Smoke Dream (1963)Antony Gormley, Bearing (1993)I've seen a part of it on exhibition, some two years ago, in Sintra near Lisbon. I couldn't believe...

Space Invaders

I completely forgot about them. Space Invaders. Are they the cutest thing? Or are they simply a street-art version of Nike? A proof that the "alternative" world is also easy to manipulate into "fun symbols"? Or are they simply fun?Technorati: art installation, art, contemporary...

Tags/ Categories

I'm fighting hard to get some sort of categories or tags working in here. So far, without any true success, but I haven't given up. BTW, if anyone has any solutions, HELP.

Designing better, for a better world

Today, two stories of people deciding to make a difference - and create something beautiful while they're at it.The first one is the story of a man that lived the American dream until it bored him to death. And he decided to do something good. And he invented a shelter...

More pictures of Ernesto Neto's recent sculpture installation, The Malmö Experience.

Technorati: art installation, visual art, fine art, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

245 Cubic Meters of controversy - Santiago Sierra's latest

How could I have missed this!Santiago Sierra is back. And, as usual, he's creating a stir. If it seemed to you he's been controversial enough, paying people to be tattooed or to carry stone squares around or to stay walled in during an exhibition, well, this time he seems...

By popular demand

Since the Richter quote seemed to bring some interesting questions (thanks Theo and Hans! I knew I could count on you!), here is some more fuel..."pure painting is inanity, and a line is interesting only if it arouses interesting associations""The Photo Pictures [a series...