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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part IV
Primal Catholicism / Marian Magic / Evadah / A throw of the dice Primal Catholicism As a graphic practitioner, Richard was a farmer and gardener through and through, one who furrowed lines with sigil-magical ploughs into which he spread evocative seeds, only to have them emerge in the end into a colourful talismanic sea of […]
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Unter Wölfen – Zweierlei Naturrepräsentation. Julia Schmid im Kunstmuseum Bonn (Ausstellungsbesprechung von Rolf Bier)
Not translated: Julia Schmid (*1969) ist mit hyper- oder gar metarealistischen Bildern von Pflanzensammlungen bekannt geworden, die sie an oft eher unscheinbaren Orten ihres jeweiligen Aufenthalts vornimmt und dabei keinen Unterschied zwischen Unkraut und Blume macht, – in Kleingärten (Hannover 2002), auf Spaziergängen in der Stadt (New York 2004-05), auf Straßenabschnitten (Hannover 2008, Braunschweig 2010) oder Plätzen (Rudolfsplatz […]
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Werner Pflaum and Peter Schlosser, Bad Gastein , Bad Gastein, Austria (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this adventurous episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi accompanies two Austrian hunters on their nightshift in a deerstand.
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Some notes on the ACRE series of pencil drawing
28 drawings made during a residency in Acre, Brazil as part of my invitation to the 27th Sao Paolo Bienal, ‘How to live together’. Drawing as reportage: I have tried to merge historical, environmental, anthropological research with my own experience of rituals, exchanges, and travel during my residency in Acre. This series does not capture […]
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Hélio Melo – The Whole of Acre in a single Tree
In the work Estrada da Floresta [Forest Highway] by artist Hélio Melo (1926–2001, from the Brazilian state of Acre) a rubber tapper – in Portuguese, seringueiro –approaches a big rubber tree, which in the wild can measure in excess of thirty meters in height and almost three meters in diameter. The picture does not therefore […]