Art & Seeing ·
Loneliness and Spiritual Emptiness: Representations of Modern Life
Is modern loneliness a lack, or a projection of our age? From Hopper to Abramović, we trace spiritual emptiness and silent screams in art.
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Slow reading on art: works, artists and the act of looking.
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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.
Anatomy of an Artwork ·
Anatomy of an Artwork #2: Remedios Varo, Sympathy (1955)
In Remedios Varo’s Sympathy we explore the anatomy of cat, woman and cosmic bonds. Sympathy or empathy? A surrealist search for tenderness.
Essays & Criticism ·
This World Will Not Come Back: Ecological Grief in Art
Ecological destruction is a spiritual destruction. From Refik Anadol to Pınar Yoldaş, we look at art in ecological mourning and at the lost possibility of a future.
Existence & Spirituality ·
The Animal Within: Nature, Body and the Primal Self
We explore our break from nature and the primal self within us through artists such as Francis Bacon and Ana Mendieta. Body, instinct and art’s wild confrontation.
Existence & Spirituality ·
Surreal Reality: Dreams, the Unconscious and Art
The pure reality that appears when reason lets go of control. We explore surrealism through the language of dreams and the liberation of the unconscious.
Anatomy of an Artwork ·
Anatomy of an Artwork #1: Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (1939)
“When your heart is left exposed, what do you mend it with?” We read Frida Kahlo’s most personal self-portrait, “The Two Fridas”, through the divided self and identity.
Essays & Criticism ·
See Like a Child: The Power of Naive Art
We explore naive art, which chooses feeling over technique and simplicity over complexity. From Rousseau to Pirosmani, the aesthetics of a childlike view of the world.
Essays & Criticism ·
Banned Art, Growing Resistance
However often it has been banned throughout history, from Goya to Banksy, art has always found a way. We look at works that censorship could not silence and that grew through resistance.
Essays & Criticism ·
Art and Resistance: The Voice of Freedom
We look at examples of art becoming a tool of resistance through artists such as Ahmet Öğüt and Ai Weiwei. Not an aesthetic but a political stance.
All articles: 24
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