In my paintings, the world is turned into a place that is slightly more mysterious and evocative than a naturalistic landscape, as it is intended to celebrate the oddity within it. Jena Thomas Jena Thomas is a young painter whose research, up to now, has focused on landscape and perception. In the conjugation of both, […]
“Strangeness is the condition of the landscape.” Lyotard, 1988 Landscape is everywhere. It defines our particular idea of nature, but it is not nature in its simple definition. We can think of a landscape as “a social product, the result of a collective transformation of nature, and the cultural projection of a society in a […]
“It was a non-objective approach that naturally led me into the field of abstract painting. In the year 2005 I became a painter—strictly committed to a non-objective approach.” Vincent Serbin Coming from the world of experimental auteur photography, visual artist Vincent Serbin decided in 2005 to take up painting, transforming the rhythms of creation of […]
“If I knew that painting was dead, I would kill myself right now.” Raquel Forner It is not surprising that, in contemporary times, in the face of the great diversity of expressive modes or ways of making art, the presence of painting seems diminished. The tools available to generate artistic creation are innumerable, but […]
“My work encompasses the architectural, geographical, cultural, and social spaces encountered as a person of the diaspora.” Eugene Agyei Current migrations are reflected in the complexity of their displacements and their desires for insertion in the new territory of arrival or reception, in which they raise their particular concerns as active subjects of their […]
“No human being can exist in complete independence from a nation or a culture. Yet… while individuals might be geographically bound within a nation, while they might be located within a given culture, their imaginations are not; they can transcend boundaries”. Megan Sickmueller: Understanding Afropolitanism https://retrospectjournal.com/ Ibrahim Mahama A Grain of Wheat,1918–45 2015–18 Mixed media […]
“I have been interested in light for as long as I can remember. Light is everywhere and affects the world and our daily lives in many ways.” Kari Kola To be a light artist is to know how to create situations and environments by manipulating the play of luminosity. It is to alter and generate […]
If there is anything contemporary Art has taught us, it’s that Art does not need to be restricted to paint and marble. It comes in many formats, materials, and media. In one variation, the use of electrical light as the predominant medium in a work is known as Light Art. Light Art is created through […]
Defined in the logic of an expansive process of capital, technology and culture, globalization has inevitably arrived and with it various modes of commercial integration, markets, symbolic capitals, border ruptures and other consequences that have transformed the way in which art is now defined within an apparent loss of territoriality and new combinations of representation. […]
The diversity of the languages of art seems to have displaced the prominence of painting as the noblest of the arts. It has displaced its preeminence over the rest of the expressions, of the complex theoretical frameworks that have been formulated about it, and that now have become references in memory of the treatises of […]
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