The March of Intellect and the Automated Future. From 19th-Century Caricatures to Artificial Intelligence and the New Knowledge Revolution (1)
What did British caricaturists foresee for the year 1829? Machines replacing servants, transport through vacuum tubes, near-instantaneous intercontinental travel, and a world where knowledge became accessible to everyone. Nearly two centuries later—as artificial intelligence promises to automate not only physical labor but also intellectual pursuits—the engravings…
Sarah M.-C. Secară: Cronica de film „Fauteuils d’orchestre”
În Anul omagial Brâncuși, un film cu un „Sărut” de-al său… Este vorba de „Fotolii de orchestră”, de văzut acum pe Netflix (sau pe o rețea de streaming, dacă vreți), pe piața engleză fiind „Orchestra Seats”, iar în Canada și Statele Unite ca „Avenue Montaigne”. Un…
Zhao Xiaoli. Beyond Trash, Beyond the Screen: The Art of Reinventing the World
An old door, a 1980s television set, or a chair with a broken leg can become a canvas for spectacular paintings. Chinese artist Zhao Xiaoli transforms discarded objects into works of art, turning the creative process itself into a spectacle watched by millions. Blending recycling, painting,…
In front of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, a child sleeps on a dog
In front of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, a child sleeps on a dog. The cobblestones of the square rise up over them like a blanket. They are Nello and Patrasche, the characters from the novella *A Dog of Flanders*, published in 1872. Nello is…
Photography as Historical Document: The Memory of War
War photography does more than record an event; it preserves the traces of a collective experience. Its historical, documentary, and anthropological value is essential for understanding the past and reclaiming the memory of communities scarred by violence, conflict, and loss. Beyond serving as immediate visual testimony,…
The Millimetric Desire
We measure the pulse in fractions of air, A millimeter of want on the edge of the tongue, Not the vast hunger of oceans, but the rare, Still architecture of a day just begun. To touch the grain of a wooden sill, To trace the shadow…
Control Neurosis: How Much of Our Life is Experience and How Much is Just Self-Sabotage?
Man rows with all his might, but the sea beneath the boat is no longer water — it’s a tangle of measuring tapes, each with different numbers, with no logic between them. Maybe this is what our lives look like today: we give our all, we shrug,…
Moldavian Chronicles, (Almost) Weird
Moldavian Chronicles, (Almost) Weird by Adi G. Secară A Titan of Primordial Colour, an Australian in Galați We should all know who the Titans were—or were not! To any rational person, they did not exist in reality; but in that “most interesting reality, if not the most…
Ananke: The Inflexible Destiny
“The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: It is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes” – Nick Brandt Ananke is the Greek personification…
Mincéirs or Irish Travellers in the photographic documentation of Joseph-Philippe Bévillard
In the photography of Joseph-Philippe Bévillard, the world of the Mincéirs – officially known as Irish Travellers – appears not as an exotic spectacle, but as a space of intimacy gained over time, through trust and presence. It is not about an external gaze that consumes the…
David Hockney (1937-2026)
David Hockney belonged, above all, to light. It pulsates in his Californian swimming pools, enters through the wide-open windows of his interiors, glides through the trees of Yorkshire and returns, surprisingly naturally, on the screen of an iPad held by an artist who has never lost…
Szilveszter Makó: the silent theater of the image
In Szilveszter Makó‘s photographs, the portrait is never just a portrait. It is a setting, a ritual, a stage, a mental construction. The famous faces he photographs – Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Monica Bellucci, Elle Fanning, Bad Bunny or Michelle Yeoh – are taken out of the…
An artist of contemporary illusions
Born in China and based in London, Hongxi Li is an artist who works at the intersection of performance, installation, sculpture and moving image. Her rigorously conceptualized practice investigates how social, economic and ideological systems shape behaviour, affect and the body, with a particular interest in the…
A photographic reinterpretation of Balthus’s work – between innocence and eroticism, through the lens of Hisaji Hara
In the enigmatic universe of 20th-century art, the paintings of Balthus (1908–2001) fascinated and provoked, raising questions about the boundaries between innocence and eroticism, sacred and profane. Between 2009 and 2011, Japanese photographer Hisaji Hara made a remarkable contribution with his series “A Photographic Portrait of Balthus’…
Pussy Riot and FEMEN – joint protest action at the Venice Biennale 2026
For the first time, the Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian group FEMEN have collaborated in a joint action at the Venice Biennale, one of the most important international events dedicated to contemporary art. The protest took place in front of the Russian…
Povești de cuplu și răni vechi: miza profundă a unei cărți de psihoterapie
Povești de cuplu și răni vechi: miza profundă a unei cărți de psihoterapie Violeta Stanciu, psihoterapeut sistemic de cuplu și familie, psiho-oncolog S-a spus deja că această carte a Laurei Pănăzan, publicată la Editura Trei în 2025, „Un dulău și un arici pe sârmă. Note de…
Anastasia Sierra, Second Prize in the Life Framer Edition XI Series, with “The Witching Hour”
Photographer Anastasia Sierra was awarded Second Prize in the Life Framer Edition XI Series for her deeply personal project, The Witching Hour. The series was judged by Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish, co-curators at Pictura Gallery. Sierra’s proposed photographic project develops as a visual meditation on…
María María Acha-Kutscher: Architect of a Memory Recovered through Digital Collage
In the age of speed and infinite scrolling, our gaze has often become a form of superficial despotism. We pass over images without really seeing them, accepting visual clichés as immutable truths. But if there is one work capable of stopping you in your tracks and forcing…
Când teatrul devine exercițiu de luciditate: „Oscar și tanti Roz”
Când teatrul devine exercițiu de luciditate: „Oscar și tanti Roz” O recenzie de Violeta Stanciu Privește lumea în fiecare zi ca și cum ai vedea-o pentru ultima oară – ne îndeamnă, cu o înțelepciune tulburătoare, Oscar, un copil de numai zece ani care își trăiește ultimele…
Girls in the Windows – The Story Behind Ormond Gigli’s Iconic 1960 Photograph
In 1960, American photographer Ormond Gigli turned an ordinary New York street into one of the most memorable fashion images ever captured. Girls in the Windows portrays 43 elegantly dressed women gazing out from 41 windows of brownstone buildings on East 58th Street—just one day before…
Arthur Fellig (Weegee), Time Is Short, 1942
Lower East Side, Manhattan Taken months after America entered World War II, this photograph captures young men headed to war and the women who linger beside them, acutely aware of time’s uncertainty. A defining example of Weegee’s Naked City style, the image transforms an ordinary street scene…
Cattelan’s Horses: Collateral Victims Between Postmodern Spectacle and the Tragedy of History
From the „irreverence” of anti-functional design to installations that freeze the gaze, Maurizio Cattelan remains the „terrible child” of contemporary art. His latest challenge, Kaputt, is not just an exercise in conceptual taxidermy, but a visual reverberation of one of the most atrocious images of World War…
Fişe de dicţionar: Gülten Abdula Nazare, personalitate marcantă a minorităților naționale
De mai bine de zece ani o cunosc personal pe doamna Gülten Abdula Nazare, cărturarul valoros și omul politic deosebit pe care l-a dat Galațiul multietnic, un „monument viu” al culturii și spiritualității turcești, dar și românești, la Dunărea de Jos, simbol aparte al prieteniei româno…
“The Spirit of Time”: Reflection and Wisdom by the Artist Gérard Rancinan
From Photojournalism to the Philosophy of Image At the Danubiana Meulensteen Museum of Contemporary Art in Bratislava, Slovakia, the public had the opportunity to enter the intense universe of the French photographer Gérard Rancinan, supported by the writer Caroline Gaudriault, through the exhibition “A Spirit of Time”.…
Integrarea unei experiențe sau cum găsești toate piesele unui puzzle real
O recenzie de Violeta Stanciu, psiho-oncolog Cartea doamnei profesoare Laila Chitic, Puzzle Cancer, reprezintă o cale și o călătorie. Este o cale, o manieră de a aborda boala – cu ironie și umor –, dar și o călătorie, anume călătoria unei eroine care se confruntă cu…
Postal Cats: A Failed Belgian Experiment
In the 1870s, a curious experiment in the Belgian city of Liège captured public attention and demonstrated how far human imagination can go in the search for innovative solutions. The Belgian Society for the Elevation of the Domestic Cat launched a peculiar project: testing cats’ ability to…
“P I G S” – Art that disturbs, art that awakens: a manifesto against conformism at BlackBOX Hala, Galați
In a world where ideologies are radicalizing, thinking becomes standardized, and art risks being reduced to mere decoration, the “P I G S” project signed by Monica Turcu and curated by Vincentziu Pușcașu, comes as a visceral cry of artistic and social lucidity. Part of…
Coincidences and Similarities in Artistic Expression: An Analysis of Visual Influences and Dialogues Between Works of Art
Visual art is a field marked by a continuous interaction between innovation and tradition, and between them lies a thin line of similarity and coincidence that can border the line between inspiration and plagiarism. In a world where the boundaries between author and imitator are…
Mincéirs or Irish Travellers in the photographic documentation of Joseph-Philippe Bévillard
In the photography of Joseph-Philippe Bévillard, the world of the Mincéirs – officially known as Irish Travellers – appears not as…
Art Dedicated to Joy: Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book
Motto: When you ask a person to jump, their attention is mostly directed to the act of jumping, and the mask…
Five photos, five stories with extraordinary women
The baroness and the Mercedes Here is the Prussian baroness, Gisela Josephine von Krieger, with the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious (2)
You begin to squeeze your eyelids until it hurts, until you feel drops of the sweat of your soul appear.…
Metamorphosis, in contemporary artistic visions – Metamorfoza, în viziuni artistice contemporane
One of the great advantages of global connectivity is the ease of traveling to a space where the intellectual…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious
Motto: The Greek word for „return” is nostos. Algos meaning „suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning…
Cine a inventat “selfie-ul”? (Who Invented the Selfie?)
Who Invented the Selfie? A sometimes obsessive form of portrayal of the 21st century, the optical recording of one’s…
Proprietarul norilor: Aurel Mihailopol, unul dintre cei mai mari fotografi români
Unfortunately, in this age dominated by speed and anger, memories hang on the Internet. This makes great talents and names,…
Un paradis în care poţi să crezi – Seminariştii lui Mario Giacomelli
Motto: Mă interesează o realitate care respiră, care continuă să se miște, pentru că spune ceva și acest lucru contează…
