Art is so diverse that it might be said to embrace nearly unlimited fields of expression. We will try, dear readers, to present its most interesting and aesthetic representatives.
Posted in art | 13 December 2022 An exhibition of extraordinary photographs, taken by astronomers, further clarifies how small we are, and... the glorious immensity of the universe. We travelled 45-minutes to Greenwich, to visit an exhibition that would leave almost all viewers, in my opinion, euphoric. We, who dwell on earth, who are [...]
Posted in 'art' Katia & Maurice Krafft – en.wikipedia.org Katia and Maurice Krafft were a French couple who studied volcanoes in Iceland, Hawaii, Zaire, Italy, Colombia and Japan all their lives. What made them tick? Katya studied chemistry and physics at the University of Strasbourg, and Maurice studied geology. They met as students. Maurice first [...]
Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director, brought life to the big screen and made a film. His ability to discern small moments and place them on a photographic pedestal is undoubtedly a talent that deserves to be highlighted. Sorrentino also wrote the script and directed film, which is inspired by his biography. Some of the facts [...]
Animation is conquering our cultural space, and not by chance. Visuals are instantly captivating because they require less time than linear reading. The power of an image is that it can simultaneously present a subject, interpret it and sometimes even pass judgment. This advantage is understandable, especially, in an age when the pace of life [...]
Earlier in 2021, Arooj Aftab released an extraordinary album, Vulture Prince. Since I found her music both mesmerizing and almost completely unfamiliar, I asked a musician, Yair Dellal, for help focusing on what my ears heard and my “heart” wanted more of. Yair Dellal responded immediately. “Aftab has an amazing voice, with a dark hue, [...]
We tend to think about video games as a form of entertainment, but over the last couple of decades there has been a growing movement that considers games to be a fully-fledged artistic and narrative medium. This relatively new medium enables us to explore topics and questions in ways that traditional media can’t accommodate. In [...]
On March 13, 2016, a brutal terrorist attack struck Grand-Bassam, a coastal town in the Ivory Coast, near the home of artist Joana Choumali. Three weeks after the attack, Joana photographed the location and its people on her cell phone, as if she needed to bring the reality to life. The idea of embroidering the [...]
Sometimes we are captivated. That is what happened to me when I first saw paintings by Moufouli Bello, an artist from Cotonou, Benin, a small country in west Africa. After studying law, out of commitment to the social rights of the local population, she decided to dedicate herself to her great passion, painting. To painting, she has added other [...]
Influenced by the Nordic design tradition combined with a Japanese sensitivity to aesthetics and handmade elements, we would like to introduce you, our readers, to a project that caught our attention: a vacation home on one of Sweden's beaches, in a rocky archipelago. The architectural firm Norm Architects from Copenhagen was responsible for both the [...]
The work before you will surely surprise you, too. Its creator is Junya Ishigami, a Japanese architect, who received the 2019 Obel Award for this work. The representative of the Danish Foundation that awards the prize, Martha Schwartz, described the work as “architecture of space, not of an object, functioning in accordance with architectural conventions. [...]
Art is so diverse that it might be said to embrace nearly unlimited fields of expression. We will try, dear readers, to present its most interesting and aesthetic representatives.
