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Depicting Process through Forms: Works by Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998)

German graphic designer and painter Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998) worked on the possibility of describing actions and forces through abstract compositions. Far from the depiction of physical properties, his visual research did not aim at depicting physical properties, but at giving shape to the forces acting behind intangible scientific processes and societal relationships. The … Read More

Imants Tillers: This attempting to be That (1980)

Imants Tillers is an Australian artist, curator, and writer. Trained as an architect, he participated to Christo’s wrapping-up of Little Bay in 1969. His interest in conceptual art is expressed by his vision of reality as a construct of the mind and art as a key system in conceptualization. His series of 1979-80, This Attempting to … Read More

When Body Draws the Abstract Space: “Slat Dance” by Oskar Schlemmer

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“Slat Dance” is a ballet conceived by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer in the 1920s. The main feature is a specific costume that connects poles to the body of the dancer in order to limit his movements, but also to underline the direction of the movements in space. In Schlemmer’s research, the poles refer to the … Read More

Jeff Wall, Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’, (1993)

There’s a fine line between fact and fiction, between a moment and a perfect representation of that moment. Melissa Denes, Picture Perfect, the Guardian, 15 October 2005. Jeff (Jeffrey) Wall is a major Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit photographs and the corpus of theoretical texts that made him a major figure in Postmodern … Read More

Tim Mara’s Prints Narrative

Despite his focus on ordinary scenes and everyday objects, Irish artist Tim Mara (1948-1997) always rejected the qualification of Pop artist and rather identified himself rather in the lineage of Piero della Francesca, Velasquez and Vermeer, with a particular interested towards still life. “I like the constancy of life, like Shakespeare in modern dress.” he stated. … Read More

A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii

The city of Timgad, in today’s Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a defensive bastion against the Berber invasions. The city had a peaceful existence for the first centuries of its life, but was sacked by the Vandals in the 5th … Read More

Indian Memory: A Series of Ceramics by Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1972-73)

Pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Basilico, Cherry, Lapislazzuli, Camomilla and Sugar are eight colorful potteries designed by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 and 1973 and produced by a young master ceramist, Alessio Sarri, in 1987. With this series, called Indian Memory, designer and architect Ettore Sottsass Jr. managed to translate architectural archetypal forms, discovered during his 1972 Indian … Read More

Comic as Theater: Gianni De Luca’s Romeo and Juliet (1976)

Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His works are formally revolutionary, but always for the sake of content: the representation of the movement, the solutions in the board’s layouts, the cancellation of the cartoon scanning for the “table-sequence”, … Read More