Romantic transformations
Eurozine Gallery In cooperation with "Studija", the Eurozine Gallery presents Latvian artist Henrihs Vorkals. Critic Laine Kristberga describes Vorkals as "a conceptually thinking perfectionist", who has always had a contemporary view on art, even during the Soviet era. [ more ]
Read also Laine Kristberga and Mark Allen Svede on Vorkals' work. [ more ]
Without words
Eurozine Gallery In cooperation with "Varlik", the Eurozine Gallery presents some of Semih Poroy's political cartoons, a powerful, wordless comment on current affairs, always on the side of free speech. [ more ]
Read also Tan Oral on Semih Poroy. [ more ]
Three chapters for a future of the unplanned
Eurozine Gallery In cooperation with "dérive", the Eurozine Gallery presents Barbara Holub. Her drawings create an opportunity to reassess habitual ways of seeing, and tell us: there are no innocent images; the images are already in us, writes Ines Gebetsroither. [ more ]
Read also Ines Gebetsroither on Barbara Holub's works. [ more ]
Heisszeit
Eurozine Gallery In cooperation with "Polar", the Eurozine Gallery presents Anna Meyer's series of paintings "Heisszeit": a powerful response to ecological and economic crisis and "a call for art once again to be negotiated politically", writes critic and curator Maren Lübbke-Tidow. [ more ]
Read also Maren Lübbke-Tidow on Anna Meyer's paintings. [ more ]
Stolen history (and other projects)
Eurozine Gallery Together with A Prior Magazine the Eurozine Gallery presents four projects by Daniel Knorr. This, writes curator and critic Dieter Roelstraete, is an art "wholly woven into the bodily fabric of everyday life, of a relentless and vital physicality". [ more ]
Read also Dieter Roelstraete on Daniel Knorr's bare necessities. [ more ]
Leonhard Lapin
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 ]
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 ]
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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