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9 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 9 minutes
Chen Jia: Dancing with the brush
Chen Jia practices calligraphy and landscape painting according to traditional Chinese disciplines. Trained by meticulous copying of ancient masters, he combines in his work the expressive power of monumental landscapes and theoretical rigor. His compositions manifest that rare quality where movement inhabits stillness.
8 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 15 minutes
Chase Hall: Coffee, cotton, and hybridity
Chase Hall, a self-taught American painter, creates portraits using Ethiopian coffee and raw cotton canvas. His works question mixed-race identity and the representation of Blackness in the United States. By leaving blank spaces in his compositions, he materializes the complexity of existing between multiple racial and cultural worlds simultaneously.
7 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 11 minutes
Nikola Vudrag: Forging the Myth in Steel
Nikola Vudrag sculpts Corten steel to materialize ancient myths through monumental works that combine geometric rigor and symbolic depth. His public interventions, from Venice to Malta, reinterpret the figures of Atlas, Prometheus, and Heracles by questioning our contemporary relationship with form, light, and tradition.
6 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Emmanuel Taku and his Ghanaian demigods
Emmanuel Taku, a Ghanaian artist based in Accra, creates monumental portraits where black bodies become demigods with white eyes, dressed in sumptuous screen-printed fabrics. His canvases erect a metaphorical temple of blackness, reinventing the codes of representation through an aesthetic of collective veneration and visual sovereignty.
5 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 8 minutes
Jigger Cruz: Cover, erase, be born
Jigger Cruz covers copies of old masters with thick layers of oil paint applied directly from the tube. This iconoclastic practice questions the weight of colonial history in contemporary Philippine art. By obliterating classical images, Cruz constructs a visual language that refuses debt to the Western canon.
4 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Kyle Dunn: Theatricality of Queer Everyday Life
Kyle Dunn creates acrylic paintings on panels depicting domestic interiors inhabited by male figures in states of contemplation, solitude, or vulnerability. Inspired by melodramatic cinema and the American trompe-l'oeil tradition, he constructs scenes laden with symbols where narrative ambiguity becomes the very subject of the work.
3 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 8 minutes
DeeKay Kwon: Philosophy of the Pixel
DeeKay Kwon creates digital animations that capture the universal moments of human existence. Through a minimalist style inspired by retro video games, this South Korean artist explores time, memory, and human relationships in works sold to international collectors for substantial sums.
2 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
The rusty artwork of Theodore Ereira-Guyer
Theodore Ereira-Guyer creates works that inhabit the interstices between painting, engraving, and sculpture. He etches steel plates with acid and then prints them into fresh plaster, producing images where corrosion becomes the expressive medium. His portraits, landscapes, and animal figures explore memory as a process of simultaneous loss and reconstruction.
1 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 8 minutes
Gongkan: When Bangkok Meets New York
Kantapon Metheekul, aka Gongkan, creates surreal paintings populated with silent figures and black portals. His work explores inner migration, social discriminations, and the impossibility of belonging. Between water basins and black holes, he paints the collective anxiety of a generation stuck between multiple worlds, multiple identities, multiple impossibilities.
31 October 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 9 minutes
Stephen Wong Chun Hei: Between Reality and Screen
Stephen Wong Chun Hei paints Hong Kong like no one has ever seen it: its mountains, valleys, and skyscrapers merge in saturated chromatic compositions where memory meets the virtual. Influenced by video games and the plein air tradition, he reinvents the contemporary landscape with radical colorist freedom.
30 October 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
JR: When the street becomes a museum
Armed with his camera and liters of glue, JR takes over walls around the world with giant black-and-white photographic portraits. This anonymous French artist displays the faces of forgotten communities on urban facades, prisons, and borders. His clandestine art gives monumental presence to the excluded in the international public space.
29 October 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Maja Ruznic: Between Jung and Rothko’s Legacy
Based in New Mexico, Maja Ruznic paints ghostly figures emerging from vast chromatic fields. Her process relies on active imagination: she pours diluted paint, watches the stains dry, then extracts forms from this colorful chaos. Her works combine Slavic shamanism, the memory of Bosnian uprooting, and Rothko's quest for the sublime.