Maria Keil and the Portuguese modernism
Modern & contemporary art of Maria Keil Exposição “Maria Keil, itinerários artísticos”, was the text on the poster in front of Igreja da Misericórdia de Silves during our trip through the south of Portugal two years ago. I can’t speak…
Jean-Paul Goude: magician of the image
Dream world of Jean-Paul Goude In my head I almost hear Jean-Paul Goude scream: AAAAAND ACTION! Dramatic music from the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) is turned on and a female choir is loudly shrieking melodramatic lines in harmony. Lines which are partly based…
Beaton & Pollock: The New Soft Look 1951
March 1951. A three-page spread on Jackson Pollock was published in Vogue titled American Fashion: The New Soft Look. Sir Cecil Beaton, one of the most praised British portrait photographers ever, had taken the photos in which Pollock’s radical and dazzling…
Fondazione Prada opens permanent space in Milan
The ExPRADAmental art of Fondazione Prada Wow, time flies. It’s almost 4 years ago that I graduated with honors for my master’s in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Amsterdam. My thesis? It’s called: ‘ExPRADAmental Art. The integration of contemporary…
Laurent Chehere’s Flying Houses in Paris
Lift me up to the sky One look at the surrealistic series Flying Houses of Laurent Chehere (1972, Paris) and the Pixar movie UP comes to mind. A movie in which a retired man named Carl ties balloons to his…
Merchantainment by Ralph Lauren
The perfect blend in supporting brand experiences Nowadays projections on buildings aren’t the ones American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer produced in 1996. Today projected messages on architectural structures are not only carried out in words and pictures but transcended by complete dynamic 3D…
