“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. … [Read more...]
An Immaterial Drawing in Space: Alberto Giacometti’s The Palace at 4 a.m. (1933)
A 1933 sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. relates to "a period of six months passed in the presence of a woman who, concentrating … [Read more...]
The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere
Stijn Jonckheere, a Belgian self-titled "experimental architect", works on the brink of architecture, illustration and graphic design. His working … [Read more...]
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert
Kevin Lucbert (Paris, 1985) is a young illustrator who got a diploma in 2008 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad) in Paris … [Read more...]
Madelon Vriesendorp’s Manhattan Project
«These works weren't created to commission!», (Vriesendorp) comments smiling, almost hesitantly in Basel. They «were created as the result of an … [Read more...]
Paul Kirchner’s The Bus (1978)
Paul Kirchner's comic strip 'The Bus' was published in 1978 and appeared regularly on Heavy Metal Magazine for seven years. In every strip the … [Read more...]
