Yearly Archives: 2012

Soutine, a bohemian in Paris

Being in Paris is like being in a theme park or a time capsule that transports you to a glorious epoch of art and culture, one that not only was maybe the greatest but that will never come again, so we might as well go to this city to revisit...

Put on a Frederik Lens

The first impression can deceive you. The proof is at the “Out of the Blues” exhibition at waterside contemporary in London until January 23rd. As you walk into the exhibition space, at a first glance you see random objects scattered on the floor and think: “what’s that?”. At a second...

II II II

11 11 11 II II II was first presented in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 11/11/11. It is a chamber of senses created by Coletivo Moleculagem and curator Manoela Bowles based on her Masters thesis “Emancipation: The Power of Art”. They used art as...

FRIEZE London 2012

Wandering through the busy corridors of the greatest contemporary art fair in London, my eyes did not know where to look with so many works of art in display. The paintings caught my attention the most, like Fiona Rae’s Something is about to happen (2012) at Timothy Taylor Gallery, representing London’s...

Rothko/Sugimoto at Pace Gallery London

Pace Gallery opens its first space in London with 8 acrylic on canvas paintings from the series of Grey Paintings of the Russian-American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko in parallel with 8 gelatin silver prints from the series Seascapes of the contemporary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Until November 15th the exhibition...

My First Thursdays

I was planning on going to First Thursdays for quite a while now, a late night art event on the first Thursday of every month in east London. Since I first moved here in April I have been trying, until this month I finally got to go. There is a pretty...

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

Thank God for art dealers and collectors, if it wasn’t for them many great works of art would have been lost. This is the case for the mythical Picasso prints from The Vollard Suite. Commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, the greatest avant-garde Paris dealer and print publisher of his day, Picasso...

Tate Tanks

It is a very exciting journey to enter Tate Modern’s new exhibition space in what used to be underground oil tanks at the former power station turned into art museum. Rehabilitated by architects Herzog & de Meuron, responsible for the original refurbishing of the place, the spaces kept their raw...

II II II

What is space? What is time? Who makes the grass green? Where does reality happen? Is dream a reality? Is reality a dream? Why do I perceive things this way? Is the colour red for me the same as for you? There are so many answers that it is hard...