“The image of a city is as much a discourse on the city as a description of the city.” (Jean-Marc Besse) Through painting, there is an exchange of views between the spectator and the city, in a game of representation and transcription of reality. Attached to lines and colors, the Bulgarian artist Kaliya Kalacheva searches …
Kaliya Kalacheva and the representation of places Read More »
11/11/2018 Severine Grosjean Dragos Badita is a young Romanian artist whose painting has a classic style marked by a strong awareness of life as something ephemeral and that time goes by irreparably. He represents the ephemeral in order to eternalize it in time. It is another vision of the existential that vibrates in his work. …
When I came into contact with this impressive sculpture of Atlas in October 1989 which is formed as a column (telamon) I had the privilege of immediate observers on all sides of the sculpture. Because of its unusual style and perceived body disproportions I wanted to discover the name of the unknown artist who created …
Leonardo da Vinci: A newly attributed work by the Renaissance genius Read More »
28/10/2018 Severine Grosjean The visuality of the work of Jakub Matuska aka ‘Masker’ is based on figuration and street art. Jakub Matuska’s painting emanates a rich range of expressive elements. He brilliantly unites the bright colored and aggressive genres that come close to German expressionism. These works show a derisory and pathetic humanity. His characters …
21/10/2018 Severine Grosjean The young Lithuanian artist Lina Albrikiene draws inspiration from her personal life in her artistic practice. Childhood, family and memory are the bases of her research translated into installations, videos or photos. This way, she invites you for a trip in the past. In her 2009 video “Vilnius from the Archives of …
Welcome to Barranquilla, a Colombian Caribbean city and land of inspiration of the artist Rafael Barón, also a scientist and anthropologist. Barranquilla is a city with a deep colonial history, which is considered a land of no one, due to the attitude of all its inhabitants. Each one built their life with their own customs …
08/10/2018 VHMOR Thiago Moyses has worked in countless short and feature films as cinematographer, film editor, special effects designer, scriptwriter, and animator. His feature film “Sindrome de Pinocchio” (2010) was one of the only ten movies pre-selected in Brazil to represent the country in the running for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. …
VHMOR interview with the filmmaker Thiago Moysés Read More »
25/09/2018 Severine Grosjean Young painter, she creates organic and cellular forms inspired by her interest in the human organism. Her work is characterized by a search for form in the process of painting itself. Through her monochrome paintings, she seeks the interior of these layers. She creates an illusion of blur by washing the applied …
11/09/2018Severine Grosjean The work of the young Uruguayan artist María Agustina Fernández Raggio could be summarized in this phrase by the French art critic René Huyghe “A portrait is a direct trace of the experience of time”. In fact, Maria Agustina explores in all its forms a classic theme of the history of art: the …
28/08/2018 Fabio Salun In this brief text, I propose to think some modern trends in Brazilian photography from a technical question and from an aesthetic that seeks in the language itself the modern problems of creation and originality, in short, in the visual displacements proposed by the photographic researches and in the differences established with …
Modern photography in Brazil: displacement and research in photographic language Read More »
