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Suprealism
Eurozine Gallery Estonian artist Leonhard Lapin's work mirrors the "suprealist world", where art is packaged for consumer culture. "Suprealism brings popular kitsch into the art gallery and high culture to the masses; it introduces into art the naivety of the producer of kitsch while retaining the elitism of the professional artist." [ more ]
Read also Leonhard Lapin's suprealist Manifesto. [ more ]
Cecilia Parsberg
The wall
Since 2003, graffiti artists worldwide have been leaving their marks on the Palestinian side of the demarcation wall being built between Palestinian and Israeli territory. Swedish artist Cecilia Parsberg's photographs in the Eurozine Gallery record what she calls "an international multitude, a writing-carpet". [ more ]
Networking on the wall
Palestinian artists and cultural workers talk about the "art" drawn on the wall demarcating Palestinian and Israeli territory. Their opinions are revealing of the wall's significance in the Palestinian experience and the function of "network as resistance". [ more ]
Josef Schützenhöfer
Art comes from labour
From 27 April to 29 May 2006, 24 oil paintings by Josef Schützenhöfer were on display on the facade of Rembrandtstraße 31 in Vienna and in the Eurozine Gallery. For over ten years, Schützenhöfer has worked with big-format series concerned with industrial workers, the conditions they work under, and the products of their labour. [ more ]
The social is not abstract
Josef Schützenhöfer's "Social Painting" and the provocation of the figurative
Residual authoritarianism and social inequality are both a target and a spur in the paintings of Josef Schützenhöfer. Drawing on (art) history and contemporary imagery, they articulate an original realist aesthetic. [ more ]
Mircea Stanescu
Airbag
Mircea Stanescu opened the Eurozine Gallery with an exhibition of elusive snapshots. [ more ]
In the heart of Romania
Mircea Stanescu's photo series "Airbag"
"Anyone travelling irony's winding path can escape the irreal, as long as they take an airbag for protection." Allusion and occlusion in images of the Romanian everyday. [ more ]
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