Existence & Spirituality ·
Confrontation: Meeting Inner and Outer Truths
“The heaviest burden a person can carry is themselves.” From Jung to Goya, we look through art at the moments of confrontation we run from, and at our shadow.
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Slow reading on art: works, artists and the act of looking.
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Essays & Criticism ·
Indecision: The Weight of Choices
“Man is condemned to be free.” From Sartre to de Chirico, we explore through art how indecision is not a weakness but the existential burden of modern life.
Art & Seeing ·
Time and Art: Permanence, Memory and the Aesthetics of Disappearance
Can art stop time? From Heidegger to Dalí, from On Kawara to Bill Viola: an in-depth look at time, memory and the desire for permanence in art.
Essays & Criticism ·
Absurd Creation: Making Art Without Seeking Meaning
Art does not console; it confronts. In the light of Albert Camus’s philosophy of the absurd, we look at the absurdity of existence in the works of Louise Bourgeois, Francis Alÿs and Bruce Nauman.
Anatomy of an Artwork ·
Anatomy of an Artwork #3: Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897)
“Can the three great questions of existence fit into a single painting?” We explore the visual testament Gauguin created in Tahiti and the cyclical anatomy of life.
Art & Seeing ·
The Spring That Blossoms Within: Rebirth
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” From Camus to Kahlo, we explore the aesthetics of being reborn from the places where we broke.
Existence & Spirituality ·
The Art of Sisyphus: The Aesthetics of Persistence
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” We explore Camus’s absurd hero and the aesthetics of persistence through examples from art history, from Titian to Stuck.
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