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
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…
The “Water Mirror” from Bordeaux – tribute to the waters and sky of the Mediterranean
Mirroir d’Eau (Water Mirror) is a spectacular art installation created in 2006 by Jean-Max Llorca, Pierre Gangnet and Michael Corajoud, which alternates a mirror effect and artificial fogging in an extraordinary way. The water mirror of Bordeaux is the largest reflecting pool in the world,…
The „Golden Child” of postmodernism in a new personal exhibition in New York
Motto: We are completely immersed in violence every day, and we’ve gotten used to it. The repetition has made us accept violence as inevitable. —Maurizio Cattelan The famous New York art gallery Gagosian opens its doors on April 30, 2024 for a new solo exhibition of…
Richard Serra, the artist of high tonnage subtleties, left us in March 2024
After, as if in a Stendhal syndrome, upon seeing the painting „Las Meninas” by Velazquez in the Prado, the young Richard Serra gave up the idea of being a painter, embarking on a six-decade career in which he offered transcendence to raw matter, giving it spirit…
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 Roadster and above, the Hindenburg, the famous Zeppelin. The baroness lived in the United States but died in Europe in 1989. But the car remained in…
A digital remake in the style of Primitive Flemish Art (Early Netherlandish Painting)
Returning to established themes, styles, or works of art is common in the cultural history of painting, music, or film. Also known as covers in music or remakes in the visual arts, they celebrate and honor the original creators but also show a permanent desire…
The bizarre bestiary on the beaches of the Bahamas
Tourists who tour Pig Beach (officially called Big Major Cay), one of the 360 islands in the Exuma Cays, are in for an amazing experience. The island itself is no more than 1.5 kilometers long and can be crossed on foot in an hour or…
2023, the AI storm in the art world
Denied by some and loved by others, artificial intelligence has rapidly asserted itself as a new frontier in the world of art of any kind: photography, film, video, music, poetry… and that any newly discovered territory is haunted by a bunch of people in fortune…
Story of a photograph: Lauren Bacall in Helena Rubenstein’s Bathroom, 1943
A 1943 Harper’s Bazaar cover shot by photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe is credited with launching the Hollywood career of 17-year-old model Betty Joan Perske, who became a major screen diva under the name Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September…
Sergio Toppi, a demiurge of graphic illustration
Making an illustration means taking on the task of translating between languages, to decipher but also to synthesize in images, multiple words, pages or books. The Milanese Sergio Toppi shows us the illustrator’s response to visual ontogeny, a picture of the multiple variables of the…
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. And then the memory turns into 100 labyrinths, then into a thousand labyrinths. Thoughts and sensations flow through them like little precious stones. We are born…
The artist Dodo, German women and the Weimar Republic
The long lines, of a strange elegance, show the desire for beauty, a simple, transparent ether. On the other hand, there is a permanent sadness, which resides in the ineffable of the vulnerable female figures, in contrast to the dominant and indifferent male partners. The compositions…
Tribute to a brilliant photographer-Erwin Olaf
When his destiny was tragically broken, on September 20, 2023, he was mourned by the King of Holland himself. An artist of astonishing complexity, with works that cover vast cultural fields and who has navigated professionally casually through commercial photography, fashion, conceptual, philosophical, cinematographic, portraiture…
The wood recovered from the waters becomes an art exhibition
Today, ecological approaches to art and nature are very varied. From raising awareness to militancy, representations of environmental issues are everywhere in art fairs and exhibitions. Through their work, artists try to raise public awareness to create a better world, putting humanity in harmony with…
EcoArt 2023: photography between heaven and hell
Motto: Man, this possessed king, as Pascal calls him, is condemned to slip over things. There is an essential difference between knowing and naming, even if the latter form of thinking brings benefits. (Petre Ţuţea, Romanian philosopher) Our world is revealed to viewers and artists…
„Les Batailles des Fleurs”, the spirit of spring on the shores of the Mediterranean
Winter is not a time of rest for a large part of the inhabitants of the city of Nice, on the famous French „Côte d’Azur”. They gather their strength in preparation for an event that takes place during February, a moment that coincides with an…
Interestingness 2023 – trends in the visual arts
Just as life desperately clings to survival, art constantly pursues human society. Many voices lament a certain decay of the contemporary cultural quality, including the visual arts, but the vigorous talents fighting for existence and helped by the power of information can be noticed relatively easily.…
„Tightrope of Our Hope” or how art reminds us of the sadness of history (“Tightrope of Our Hope” sau cum arta ne aminteşte de tristeţea istoriei)
“Tightrope of Our Hope” sau cum arta ne aminteşte de tristeţea istoriei Opera grafică a lui William Kentridge, expusă la Marian Goodman Gallery, este intitulată “Tightrope of Our Hope”, şi este lucrată în cărbune, creioane colorate, tuş şi colaj pe hârtie. Această creaţie ne aduce…
Lowbrow Art, a surrealism „à la pauvre”? (Lowbrow Art, un suprarealism „à la pauvre”?)
Lowbrow (English) – adjective (mainly), disapproving, unassuming, not complicated or requiring much intelligence to understand; art that is not serious and is intended for people who do not know much, unintelligent, with low tastes. Lowbrow is an antonym for highbrow. As adjectives, the difference between…
Moments of the Gulliver International Animation Festival
The theatrical show is a wonderful source of entertainment as well as education, the stage raising the creativity of children and youth, at the same time introducing them to universal culture. Cultural ability combined with creative imagination are essential for the development of the young…
O (aproape) istorie
O (aproape) istorie recenzie de Violeta Stanciu De la strada Antim la cartierele rezidențiale bucureștene, de la demagogul Stănică Rațiu la o întreagă clasă politică, de la Pascalopol la Costin (într-o oarecare măsură, ca să nu spun „specie”), Cristian Fulaș face o radiografie a societății…
The painter who defeated ancestral fears (Pictorul care a învins spaimele ancestrale)
The painter who defeated ancestral fears The Chilean artist Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro, born in 1984 and currently living in Barcelona, thinks, feels and works in a manner of the splendid grandiose. His large-scale works are a revelation of contemporary art, being appreciated internationally, the…
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…
