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14 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 9 minutes
Calvin Marcus and the Freedom to Displease
Calvin Marcus works in visually distinct series, moving from monumental dead soldiers to miniature ceramic fish. Based in Los Angeles, he invents new material approaches for each body of work, abolishing the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation. His work probes troubling psychic territories with an impassive tone that keeps the viewer in a productive unease.
13 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Geographies of the Body
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy creates monumental paintings, ceramics, and performances that explore identity, desire and pleasure. His work crosses cultures and eras, drawing from classical Japanese literature and Brazilian craftsmanship to build spaces where the body becomes the place of all possibilities.
12 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 7 minutes
Yan Cong: Comics and Painting
Yan Cong creates graphic stories that combine comics, acrylic painting, and collage. His characters with animal heads wander through dilapidated Chinese industrial landscapes, between reality and fiction. Represented by galleries in Beijing and Hong Kong, he also publishes in Europe, obstinately refusing to choose between contemporary art and popular culture.
11 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 11 minutes
Antonio Obá paints the invisible Brazil
Antonio Obá builds from Brasília a body of work where painting, sculpture, and performance question Afro-Brazilian identity. His canvases with rural colors simultaneously invoke Christian iconography and Yoruba traditions, exposing the violences of colonial miscegenation. Each image refuses a univocal reading, keeping the viewer in a fertile tension between traumatic memory and spiritual hope.
10 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 12 minutes
Ju Ting: Depth beneath the epidermis
Ju Ting constructs monumental pictorial architectures by layering dozens of coats of acrylic on wooden panels, then incises, tears, or strikes them to reveal the buried chromatic complexity. This Beijing-based artist explores the relationships between surface and structure, accumulation and destruction, concealment and unveiling.
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.