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16 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Javier Calleja: The big eyes of sincerity
The characters of Javier Calleja, with their watery gazes oscillating between sadness and mischief, embody an intermediate zone where the imaginary and the real coexist without friction, creating a space where art can still touch us without the need for convoluted explanations.16 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 9 minutes
Dana Schutz: The Last Laugh Before the Apocalypse
Dana Schutz creates monumental canvases where distorted figures, impossible bodies, and situations so unlikely that they become terrifyingly true coexist. Her paintings are like distorting mirrors of our society, reflecting our collective anxieties.15 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 11 minutes
Mohammed Sami: The Ghosts of Memory
In Mohammed Sami’s paintings, everyday objects pulse with eerie strangeness. The shadow of a plant turns into a menacing spider, a rolled-up carpet evokes a shrouded body. His technical mastery transforms pictorial matter into a theater of struggle between revelation and concealment.15 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Robert Longo: The Artisan of Shadows and Light
The work of Robert Longo strikes with its exceptional mastery of black and white. Through his monumental charcoal drawings, he captures the critical moments of our time, transforming media images into contemporary icons of striking power.14 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Tony Cragg: The Sculptor Who Reinvents Matter
Tony Cragg reshapes our perception of contemporary sculpture, crafting forms that blur the lines between the organic and the industrial. In his Wuppertal studio, he orchestrates symphonies of shapes that redefine our understanding of the material world.14 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Caroline Walker: The Gazes of the Invisible
Caroline Walker dissects social reality with the precision of a surgeon and the sensitivity of a poet. Her brushes dance between shadow and light to reveal what our society strives to ignore: the massive yet invisible presence of women in our daily lives.13 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Ugo Rondinone: Dialogue Between Nature and Artifice
Ugo Rondinone transforms our perception of reality by creating works that oscillate between nature and artifice. His monumental installations and intimate sculptures invite us to engage in active meditation on time and space, profoundly renewing our relationship with the contemporary world.13 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Martin Wong: The Poet of Urban Ruins
Martin Wong was a visionary artist who transformed the decaying walls of the Lower East Side into visual poetry. Painting each brick with obsessive precision, he created a unique body of work where social realism and urban mysticism, desire and spirituality intertwine.12 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 7 minutes
Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Master of Time
Armed with his large-format camera like a magic wand, Hiroshi Sugimoto takes us through temporal dimensions with the elegance of a Zen master and the precision of a quantum physicist. His main artistic quest? Capturing the very essence of time.12 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Ewa Juszkiewicz: The Nature of the Mask
In her Warsaw studio, Ewa Juszkiewicz transforms the tradition of European portraiture into a captivating surreal spectacle. Her impeccable technique serves a bold artistic vision in which female faces, masked by drapery and vegetation, become spaces of resistance and reinvention.11 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 7 minutes
The Velvety Impulses of Issy Wood
Issy Wood's paintings transform luxury objects into contemporary vanitas. Through her depictions of car interiors and gleaming watches on velvet, the artist unveils the deep psychological mechanisms of our consumer society, where desire and anxiety are inextricably intertwined.11 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Christina Quarles: The Anatomy of Ambiguity
In her monumental paintings, Christina Quarles orchestrates a pictorial revolution where bodies intertwine and transform, transcending identity categories to create a new visual language that celebrates ambiguity as a source of infinite possibilities.10 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 9 minutes
William Kentridge: The Master of Metamorphosis
William Kentridge transforms his charcoal drawings into living performances where shadows dance upon our conscience. His animations, where each altered stroke leaves a trace, become metaphors for our inability to erase the past, creating art that resists easy simplifications.10 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 6 minutes
Derek Fordjour: Choreographed Vulnerability
In his New York studio, Fordjour creates works that confront us with a fundamental truth: vulnerability is not a weakness, but a universal condition of existence. His characters - athletes, circus performers, majorettes - are engaged in perpetual performance.9 February 2025 ❖ Art review ❖ 8 minutes
Henry Taylor: Art That Transcends Borders
Henry Taylor turns each portrait into an act of resistance against historical erasure. His seemingly raw and spontaneous technique conceals a deep sophistication, reinventing the pictorial language to address the urgencies of our time.