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RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The International Center of Photography’s current show is a stunner, the best show on view in New York right now and a must-see for anyone interested in the political, documentary, and aesthetic potential of the photographic image. In fact, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life a must-see for anyone [...]

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GIGOLO’S HAND ON A SILK STOCKING

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Writer of amazing texts and books such as ‘Against Interpretation’, ‘Marat/Sade/Artaud’, ‘Illness as Metaphor, and AIDS and its Metaphors’ or the exuberant essay for ‘Story of the Eye’, marvelous book of Georges Batailles. Tea with Thomas Mann, dinner with (Herbert) Marcuse, sex with F, thoughts on books, religion, life and lots were hidden in Susan [...]

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MARTINO TREATS #02: IF ONLY GIO KNEW

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We can’t talk about Martino Gamper’s work without talking about his use of waste material, and we can’t talk about Martino’s use of waste material without talking about his project taking apart and reassembling furniture by Italian master designer Gio Ponti – so here you go, in our second little excerpt of our very current [...]

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Hell-Bent

Monday, July 30, 2012

Hell was invented in 1896. 80 years later it felt like this…

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OBSERVING WITHOUT PERSPECTIVE

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Miniatures create a new world by abandoning perspective. Various spaces positioned side by side tell several stories in one plane. Levni, one of the most famous Ottoman miniature artists who lived in 18th century, was known for his humorous way of depicting women figures or the intrigued life in the Ottoman Palace with its festivals [...]

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MAP OBSESSION

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Our apologies for this one, but we really couldn’t help it… Maps, of course, are wonderful and highly addictive things, and we are sure that Mr David Rumsey is going to agree: having gathered more than 30,000 and counting fine historical examples of cartography in his rather mind-blowing collection. The histomap above is taken from [...]

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… AND EUROPE WILL BE STUNNED!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to Poland in order to re-establish the annihilated Jewish community. The movement was initiated by Israeli-born artist Yael Bartana in 2007 and has since spread internationally. It aims to create an atmosphere for a Jewish appearance in Europe. The Jews of [...]

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EXECUTION PORTRAITS

Monday, April 23, 2012

From Doug Rickard’s terrific site American Suburb X, haunting portraits of Cambodian prisoners at Tuol Sleng taken soon before their execution by the Khmer Rouge (the images were published by Twin Palms in Killing Fields). What is most incredible and most terrifying about these images is the lack of emotion on most of the subjects’ [...]

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STORYBOARD #01: SOVIET WAR MEMORIAL

Sunday, April 1, 2012

One of the nicest invitations so far this year came from my favourite Japanese magazine, the men’s style bible Huge (which was founded a long time before men’s style bibles became popular in Europe, by the way), who asked me to participate in a monthly column called Storyboard, in rotation with B Store from London [...]

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PUNCH AND JUDY

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Jan Svankmajer, who have influenced artists such as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, is a Czech filmmaker. This surrealist artist’s exaggerated sounds and speed-up sequences make his work all the more fascinating, creating a disturbing nature. In his films and stop-motion animations usually  food and eating has a significant role. Arcimboldo-like heads,  weird situations and [...]

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