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It has been incredibly long since i’ve written anything here, and this is due not to laziness or lack of interest, but due to overwhelming work-load, lack of sleep and the huge amount of writing I had to do this year for my dissertation. I sort of exhausted my writing capacity and only now feel […]
March 12, 2012
The idea of mechanics and sculpture coming together is far from new. It’s forerunner, kinetic sculpture, depends on movements for its effect and has Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel as its first official exemplar. The 50s-60s are considered its golden age and Jean Tinguely, Alexandr Calder, George Rickey and others are among the most prominent figures working in this field. Today […]
February 18, 2012
This week saw the world’s three biggest auction houses conduct their highly prestigious contemporary art evening sales in their London branches. In total, the sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury made a little bit less than £135* million, quite a figure taking into account the whole talk about the upcoming second wave of the […]
May 11, 2011
I am feeling very sleepy today. Stress, the lack of sleep and the amount of consumed caffeine didn’t really make my work day easier. I started with barely keeping my focus at a meeting with two artists while discussing the title of the upcoming exhibition and the possible placement of pieces. I spent the day […]
May 8, 2011
Today is mother’s day and all of us, or at least some, are thinking of our dear ones. When it comes to art, though, the ‘Mother’ figure is not that popular of a subject matter. Lovers, prostitutes, wives and casual flings is what fascinated the Modernists, the exploration and exploitation of the woman’s body and […]
January 3, 2013
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