N° 4 2006 August/September
Scarcely a week goes by without an exhibition of his work opening somewhere in the world and virtually every exhibition is devised and drawn by him on the spot. The Romanian artist and cartoonist Dan Perjovschi is having the busiest years of his career. American artist Otto Berchem is a big fan of drawing and cartoons and managed to entice Perjovschi into a conversation about his oeuvre which is just as taciturn as it is boisterous.
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Work by the young, London painter Anj Smith (Pembury, 1979) was recently shown in the exhibition Don Quijote in Witte de With. Several small canvasses with meticulously painted scenes revealing a fantastic, strange and seductive world. Seemingly without effort, Smith transforms such timeless themes as the sublime and death into well-wrought representations that are notable for their virtuoso combination of traditional oil painting techniques and expressionistic details.
Read more..Reflections in Film: The Making of Existence Installations by Cora Roorda van Eijsinga
23/08/06 Christel Vesters
In an installation by Cora Roorda van Eijsinga, you do not have enough eyes and ears. There is a lot going on, often all at once. Out of the entirety of film fragments and performances rises an image of a socially inspired artist who does not flinch from the poetical elaboration of images.
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Nowadays art academies are no longer simply institutes for art education, but places whre art is received, produced, collected and distributed. The idea of the open academie has consequences for art, te practice of exhibition making, and art education itself.
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The emergence of the academy in the exhibition circuit is connected with the popularity of ‘relational aesthetics’. Pursuing contact may well have led to a lot of talk in the exhibition circuit, but a genuinely critical dialogue has been lacking until now. It’s more a question of talking for talking’s sake. According to Robert Garnett, ‘the exhibition as academy’ is weighed down by a threatening academicism. It’s time to disrupt the prevailing relationships.
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