by Pablo | Oct 23, 2015 | Art Texts, Blogt, Statement
Intense moments of perception with the subtleties and grandeur of nature—and they are often one and the same—are among the most potent and lasting archetypes of Beauty and Transcendence which we, citizens of the post-industrial world, still experience. These moments—a...
by Pablo | Jul 3, 2015 | Artists, Blogt
Tohaku Hasegawa is one of most important Japanese painters ever, and the most important painter of the country during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, along with Kanō Eitoku, with whom he developed an important artistic rivalry. He was the founder of the so-called Hasegawa...
by Pablo | Nov 6, 2014 | Artists, Blogt
In a not-so-secluded, but unforgiving room on the fourth floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, three of David Claerbout’s videos formed a claustrophobic horseshoe of exuberance and brutality – Eugenia Bell See more artworks by David Claerbout...
by Pablo | Nov 6, 2014 | Artists, Blogt
Consider the suggestive confusion between wonder and wander – as if getting lost and digression were at the root of amazement, of change, even of knowledge – Casey Kaplan See more artworks by Anna Gaskell here.
by Pablo | Sep 19, 2014 | Artists, Blogt
I have visited a strange and beautiful place, a land containing creatures and locations that are fantastical but somehow familiar. A negative world. A landscape unknown. So close, but as yet undiscovered. While some people may think that most of their local landscapes...