Giancarlo Vulcano: Here Is a Story—”Mineral Black Box”
Usually, words about pictures and pictures that talk, but this is words and music that make pictures. —CNQ Text by Julien Bismuth Music composed by Giancarlo [...]
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David Brody: The Placeless Flowing Space of Tones
IMHO it’s a rather abstract title for a fast-motion film about propagation, sexual and asexual, that culminates in an orgasmic puff of fertilizing dispersal. But [...]
Sketchbook # 13: Sophie Balhetchet
The black cloud on the horizon (or is it a little closer than that) is the first thing, but then the parallel sun emerges while receding, the top and bottom of the painting [...]
Sketchbook # 12: Brent Ridge (includes a stop-motion film of a painting in progress)
The most playful, inventive, carefree, totally off-the-wall painter around. The sketchbooks are the laboratory full of ideas, possible approaches and experiments with color, [...]
Sketchbook #11: Ying Li
“Ducks’ Ditty” All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! From “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame [...]
Sketchbook #10: Rachel Youens
If you only know Rachel Youen’s paintings of constructed, labyrinthian still lives, you might think she never goes outside. Not true. Dense forests, an aerial view of a [...]
John Berger / Mike Dibb “Ways of Seeing” Part I
John Berger and the documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb are populists. They believe that painting is for everyone. And so do I. The conundrum that every contemporary painter must [...]
A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Drift of Juicy” and “Heiliger Abend” by Ursula Pürrer
Drift of Juicy looks like it was made with high-tech digital effects but Pürrer made it in 1989 with analog video. It was unique then and is literally inimitable today. [...]
Peggy Ahwesh into the Night
The restless night owl Peggy Ahwesh likes to travel and “have adventures”. So since the “world was topsy turvy this summer,”* she scouted locations in upstate NY [...]
To Copy a Burchfield…
…is not easy though I thought it would be. Of course Fantasy of Heat is a watercolor: it is painted transparently with easy fluid brushstrokes and I can’t paint that way. [...]