Dmitri Prigov’s marvellous monsters live in the gap of all that is logical.
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Living just past her 100th birthday, Bessarabian artist Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu had seen the world twist and turn and change for a full century.
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Each artwork is a story. Having missed last week’s post doing much the same thing in 2024 as the fine gentlemen in Alfons Walde’s 1927 “The Ascent of Skiers”, I took a super quick amateur look at the evolution of skiing through art.
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And now for something different. Some time ago I started writing (very) short stories inspired by art from the artists that I represent. This is one of them - inspired by the “Old Warrior” by Mamuka Dideba.
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With titles like “Inside the Brain of a Bird” and “Drowning in the Tulip”, Lebanese-born artist Ihab Ahmad fires the imagination with enigmatic works populated by a myriad of colourful details. It feels almost like receiving a set of vibrant Lego pieces that you can form into a fantastic tale governed only by the further reaches of your imagination.
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One of my favourite themes in the work of Iranian artist Reza Derakshani is the Hunt - a concept central to traditional Persian culture and one which on Derakshani’s canvases becomes a hunt for eloquence, or for colour, or even for the hunter.
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Islamic Art had enchanted and captivated me for quite some time - a passion shared with Paul Gauguin who once explained to his friends that the facial features of his 1888 self-portrait, Les Misérables, are directly inspired by floral designs in Persian carpets.
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There is magic in a winter landscape. The stillness; the soft sounds muffled by the snow, the light reflecting off the myriad of sparkling snowflakes interwoven into a blanket of white. Everything feels more - more luminescent, more colourful, the best version of itself. Here is how various artists over the years perceived the winter wonderland - arranged day to night rather than chronologically.
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The unique trajectory of Valentino Monticello’s fascinating life story is far beyond the 1-min read parameters of this blog, but here’s a glimpse.
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In the sunshine or the moonlight, overlapping the last burnt-orange bursts of autumn or accentuating the colours all around it, fresh snow envelopes us in a muffled cocoon of joyful, wondrous, irresistible beauty. The striking archival pigment prints by Detroit-native Jef Bourgeau capture the joy, colours, and stillness of these moments.
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There is magic in the air this holiday season. Despite all that is going on, joy has taken a stronghold and refuses to give up.
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Japanese-born Irish printmaker, Yoko Akino, gently questions our narrative of reality through images centred in nature that seem to ask, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
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Kassou Seydou conjures a world where humans live in harmony with nature and each other. In the warm palette of his canvases, nature is an inseparable part of the human figure and the human experience.
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It’s high time we talked about love. Toma Stenko delves into this complex and life-sustaining emotion through a kaleidoscope of colour, balancing movement and stillness to tell stories and create magic.
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Part 3 of 3 of Lagidze’s art in his own words. In this last instalment, I take you to a quote that is at the heart of the magic of his works, as well as to an award-winning short film by Elene Montgomery of INSIGHTelevision capturing an Artist Talk with Lagidze at our London exhibition last year, and much more.
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Part 2 of 3 of Lagidze’s art in his words. Part of the magic of Lagidze’s masterpieces is their ability to reflect back to us the best parts of ourselves. This is how he sees it.
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Part 1 of 3: You are in luck. Throughout the month-long exhibition by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze, I am dedicating this blog to his work in his words. These are no ordinary words.
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Curating a new exhibition by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze is a process filled with pleasure and anticipation. As in Forest Gump’s box of chocolates, “you never know what you are going to get” - but in this case, I know I am going to like it.
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