Notorious Humanity Contemporary visual arts, in past as well as today, reflect the realities of life. Today’s frantic exchange of the images on the screen dictates our everyday reflection and behavior. History is reduced to the short segment of time, lasting as long as the still frame exists. Each and every preceding image and its […] Više
Elizabeth Cohen’s Strap-ons
While analyzing Medieval and Renaissance carnival traditions Mihail Bahtin describes the grotesque body as a body in making, a body that builds and creates a different body in order to, at least briefly, achieve a sense of closeness and cosmic fusion between man and everything surrounding him. That which we recognize […] Više
The More You Travel, The Less You Know
Agnieszka Wolodzko is an artist, an author of texts about art, and an organizer of exhibitions. She co-operates with Wyspa Gallery, works at Laznia Contemporary Art Center, lectures at Gdansk Multimedia Academy. However it seems that first of all she is, is a globetrotter. She has […] Više
When in 1997 French Immigration Office denied her the permit of stay and asked her to leave France, Ghazel, artist of Iranian origin, did not peacefully wait further, in any case unfavourable, development of events. In her own way she met the challenge so typical for lives and fate of multimillion population of dislocated. She […] Više
Not to compromise his authority in front of the crew who would not understand that even a sailor feels the need for artistic expression, Zlatan Dumanic – releasing banked up energy and relieving psychological plights that define his hypersensual nature – drawing and writing during his voyages (most often using a blue ball-point pen) on […] Više
