Contemporary Culture Carousel 2
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaHave you noticed how when you see two people talking anywhere in the world, one is almost always smiling?continue reading this poem
Hop on the contemporary carousel for a breathless worldwide art news round-up taking in the fresh air of art shows and cultural events in Amsterdam, Madrid & Paris, Beijing & Buenos Aires, New Delhi & New York. With lots of image links for virtual visits to art shows round the globe and a few “best of 2011″ lists.
Jonathan Wateridge
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaWe all kept grinding our respective pestles into the assigned mortars, despite the lack of intrinsic beauty.continue reading this poem
Jonathan Wateridge (b.1972, Zambia, lives and works in London) paints what he describes as “elaborate fictions with visible seams” on a grand epic scale. Wateridge uses his “visible seams” in a Brechtian manner, to insinuate doubt about his apparently realistic narratives, and to produce a sense of unease, estrangement and disquiet.
Manabu Ikeda
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaI see fireflies instead of stars, stars instead of meteors.continue reading this poem
Manabu Ikeda’s drawing is so alarmingly dense that he can only manage one fist-sized area per day. However, with indefatigable patience, entire scenes gradually pile up, with the steady, inexorable accumulation of diary entries.
Sean Scully – The Inner Meaning of Abstraction
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita Caruanakiss me like a cab driver all fury and fumes consider the meter its hard click we've crossed into another borough all heart-stoppedcontinue reading this poem
I think what Scully does is restore poetry to geometrical abstraction. He makes it unexpectedly romantic, in the good old-fashioned sense of Romanticism. – Donald Cuspit for Art Net.
