The Central Social Institution in Prague, the largest vertical letter depository in the world (1937)
Deep Black – Benoit Courti
Dimineaţa devreme pe o plajă normandă
Miniseria 3: Street
Dimineaţa poate fi perfectă
Grădinile ȋncȃntătoare ale Domnișoarei Du
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…
Szpilki – True Virtue Fears No Criticism A History of a Legendary Polish Satirical Magazine
In a world where humor is often reduced to easy jokes, “Szpilki” (“Needles”) remains a poignant reminder of an era when satire not only amused, but also took a stand. Founded in 1936 in Warsaw by a trio of left-wing intellectuals – Zbigniew Mitzner, Eryk…
Ce faci când te întâlnești cu Ursul?
O scurta recenzie de Violeta Stanciu, psiholog Tipare sociale și tipare emoționale într-o interpretare originală la „Teatru pe Țeavă”. Într-o seară de august în care lumea e încă plecată în concediu, iar în oraș se mai derulează și alte evenimente, sala din Bălcescu 90 a fost…
Hashima – Japan’s Industrial Ghost and Hollywood Inspiration
Just a 30-minute ferry ride from Nagasaki Harbor, off the western coast of Japan, a concrete silhouette rises from the waves like a relic of a forgotten industrial nightmare. It’s Hashima Island, better known as Gunkanjima – “Fighter Ship Island.” With its massive shape and outline…
Sebastião Salgado, A Photographer in Search of Paradise Lost (2)
Known for his intense blue eyes and rapid-fire speech, Mr. Salgado was remembered by his colleagues as a champion of documenting the human condition who respected the people he photographed. In the 1980s, German paleontologist Markus J. Poschmann discovered an archaic creature in a sandstone…
Sebastião Salgado, A Photographer in Search of Paradise Lost (1)
May 23, 2025 marks the tragic death of Sebastião Salgado for the world artistic and cultural community. Considered a giant of photography, Sebastião Salgado gave shape to the complexity of life on earth but also actively involved himself as a social and ecological activist…
Paperart by Asya Kozina: from fashion eccentricity to immersive combinations
MOTTO: The versatile white paper is used not only as a tool, but also as a concept which helps to express the historical process in a symbolic fashion. Asya Kozina In 2014, the fascination with the plasticity of paper led young artist Asya Kozina to…
The world needs artists!
“The world needs artists”, Pope Francis said upon visiting the Venice Biennale last year, becoming the first Pope to step inside the Vatican’s Holy See Pavilion and citing artists like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, and Sister Mary Corita Kent as teachers of the human condition.…
Venus went for a walk in the city (a photographer’s fantasies)
Motto: No stage. No applause. Just rain, metal, memory… and a body that learned to rise where it once broke. She doesn’t wait to fly. She is the landing that no one sees coming. I dance through turbulence (The AEYE) Once upon a time Botticelli…
Creator of alien worlds or the zoomorphic uncanny of Dariusz Klimczak
A complex Polish artist, Dariusz Klimczak (born 1967, Sieradz), who died in 2023, left behind a vast body of work that contains a multitude of visual compositions in a surrealist style. The technique used is montage or digital collage, a method in which the creator…
Director David Lynch, passionate photographer: “I like female nudes and factories!”
On January 16, 2025, David Lynch’s family announced on Facebook: “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world…
Ce faci cu secretul tău?
Ce faci cu secretul tău? Violeta Stanciu, psihoterapeut sistemic de cuplu și familie, psiho-oncolog Din punct de vedere psihologic, răspunsul la întrebarea – problemă „să spui sau să nu spui” este categoric da, după cum ne arată și psihogenealogia. Un secret, oricât de bine păstrat, alterează…
Professional modelling was born from a love story
Models represents a permanent fascination in today’s world, these women and (less) men, being an interface between the offer of art, the beauty-fashion industry, stock photography, various promotions, etc. The legends of modeling generate true patterns and standards, which have a manipulative role and generate modern…
Japan: Hairdressers and the passion for photographic portraiture
Fishing in the ocean of images of the moment, in the hope of catching a goldfish or maybe a white whale, I discovered on Instagram, a very interesting passion of Japanese hairdressers for photographic portraits. You will say that it is a somewhat trivial fact,…
The Central Social Institution in Prague, the largest vertical letter depository in the world (1937)
The offices of the Central Social Institution in Prague (Czechoslovakia at that time) in 1937 contained the largest vertical letter cabinets in the world. The office consists of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling levels, which covered over 4,000 square meters, containing over 3,000 drawers…
Winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 with the theme of domestic abuse and torture in South Asia
Motto: I started working on this series because I had to process the pain of growing up in the midst of domestic abuse. It was a personal journey that I was trying to share, but when I met other survivors of DV, I realized that…
The history of a photograph: The kiss in the middle of street riots
Vancouver, Canada, 2011. A Stanley Cup ice hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins turned the city’s streets into a real battlefield. Vancouver officials said nearly 150 people required hospital treatment and nearly 100 were arrested during the riot. The violence and…
Cât de conștient trăim? Întrebarea care mă frământă! (How consciously are we living? The question that nags me!)
Motto: „Nu trimite pe nimeni să afle pentru cine bat clopotele. Bat pentru tine.” (John Donne) A venit la cabinet într-o stare de agitație, spunând că anxietatea sa a atins cote maxime fiindcă tocmai a aflat de moartea cuiva, o persoană pe care nu o…
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 falls, so that the real person appears. Philippe Halsman Philippe Halsman‘s Jump Book was first published in 1959 and included…
M E T R O P O L I S
One of the greatest films of all time, despite its apparent simplicity, allegorical concept, every detail being full of deep meaning and its images will remain forever engraved in the cultural memory of humanity. It is the first film registered in the UNESCO Memory of…
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…
Covid19 în artă: Marco Mandolini şi autoportretul din spatele măştii
Motto: Am văzut cel mai de sus cerc al puterilor supreme. I-am dat acelui cerc numele de Dumnezeu. I-am…
