Looking far beyond the sea, at mysterious eyes, insects, sensual Juliets, and time travelers, the Puzzle Solver is at home in a world of magical particles.Through her bits and pieces, the 1000s of images that are manipulated to fashion unique…
Flirting with the Apocalypse
The grotesque skeleton of a rotting fish lies next to the sub-human’s feet as this New Life Unfolding figure contemplates crossing a river to confront two scowling Maori tribesmen. “Do not come here,” they warn. “Your destiny lies in your…
Listening to the Snow in Romania By Mariangela Bruzzi
Huddled in a small minibus, their bags full of food and other necessities of life, Romanian women in tattered coats tried to stave off the evening chill. They held their possessions tight as if an unknown force were about to…
The King in his New Realm
The King was relentless. Nothing stopped him from shooting a photograph that would shock our senses. If it meant rushing into a toilet to photograph Billy Idol or The Ramones, he was ready, quick to chronicle what was happening. He’d…
Time, A Chair, and Other Musings from My Country
As Time moves forward, tick, tock, tick, tock…eternity vibrates through space, mysterious and scattered like the dust on old books. We are bedeviled. What to make of this notion, Time and its philosophical adjustments. Do we dare take the journey…
Jean-Pierre Sergent & Thierry Savatier AT THE BESANÇON FINE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM – Interview
INTERVIEW-TALK BETWEEN ARTIST JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT AND ART HISTORIAN THIERRY SAVATIER IN FRONT OF THE FOUR PILLARS OF HEAVEN EXHIBITION AT THE BESANÇON FINE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM | JULY 2nd 2021 Transcription of the filmed Interview between Jean-Pierre Sergent and…
Once Upon a Time in Texas
The erotic was taboo. Though Marilyn Monroe was baring all, sex was hidden, a pleasure rarely discussed in polite 1950s company. All Shook Up Elvis was suggestively shaking, but talk was never about frolicking in the bedroom. Postwar America was…
IMAGINATION TAKES FLIGHT
It’s a unique form of travel. One from a land of innocence and carefree joys to a subterranean haunt of bafflement and foreboding. Such an exploration demands an insightful Eye, an acute sensitivity, for a Birthday Party (2007) can be…
The Other Side By Eily Vong
Everything turns blurry. Conflicts and contradictions abound. Time passes and becomes hazy in your mind. This is the darkness that engulfs, makes life bewildering, for amid the chaotic profusion of images, there are no truths. No fixed landmarks to guide…
Ascending Staircases to Heaven
Stripping away all clutter and the superfluous, the Roaming Photographer ignores all grayness around him, and follows Frank Stella’s dictum. “What You See is What You See.”Such simple purity, removing all emotion and only being engaged with geometric shapes, could…