Carlos Amorales has been working on compiling an archive of images since his early artistic projects. His imagery combines contemporary subculture, traditional crafts, popular culture and conceptual art. Having grown between the Mexican and the European iconography, Amorales has created his own aesthetics. His narratives, based on art historic research as well as on personal […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Paul Lee: Challenging the Surface Topography Through the Senses and History
Paul Lee’s work is born from the relationship between the use of particular material forms and unspoken narratives. Towels, washcloths, light bulbs, and tambourines are humble objects that find their way into Lee’s expressiveness. Recreated and reassembled with basic materials, the space of these objects and their properties is abstracted into an implied pictorial space […]
Edi Rama’s Colorful and Avant-garde Democratization
“If art cannot make politics more sane, politics, with its insanity, can sometimes make art even better”[1] expressed Edi Rama, elected Prime Minister for the Socialist Party since 2013 in Albania. Born in 1964 in Tirana, Rama followed the artsy-political steps of his sculptor father who also worked as an official when Albania was under […]