Giancarlo Pagliasso – Arte Debole
July 21, 2022In your life there are some good people that open doors for you. Giancarlo Pagliasso, artist, theorist, curator, critic and art world flanuer was just such a person. He was very kind to me and my friends, and opened some doors to a wider art world which had been impossible for us to imagine. As time went on we got to know Giancarlo’s career and his work. He was one of the founders of Arte Debole in Torino, and was involved in all aspects of Art – performance, assemblage and painting. He taught at the University there. He showed his…
Neil Williams @ Pazo Fine Arts
Neil Williams was one of the artists Lawrence Alloway included in his Systemic Painting exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1966. While at that time very well known as an exemplary character, Williams traversed some difficult ground in the New York art world of the ’70s.…
The Spaces In Between
Ruri Yi and Don VoisinePazo Fine Arts21 May – 7 July 2022 My good friend and fabulous artist/painter Paul Corio @paul.corio has curated an excellent exhibition at Pazo Fine Arts. “When considering the works of Ruri Yi and Don Voisine, certain affinities announce themselves immediately: most…
Cézanne’s Tree
Cezanne's tree, Modernism, failure and an enjoyable lunch with George Hofmann and Michael Zahn.
A Precedes B – Mike Zahn
These common constructions are symbolic evidence of visible dimensions which characterize the pictorial turn shaped by electronic media, and the contemporary networks of which things are a part.
A Precedes B – George Hofmann
Hofmann’s essay “Fractured Space” characterized discontinuity as Greenberg didn’t, and likely couldn’t have. The difference Hofmann raised in his writing acknowledged “a piling on of history, experience, and emotion.” In Hoffman’s hands, a thoughtful framework was surmised for a contemporary…
A Precedes B – Max Estenger
By the late ‘80s, abstraction had turned away from private experiences which shaped it, and was passing through what came to be understood as a linguistic turn.
A Precedes B – Lorenza Panero
Lorenza Panero calls forth memory, and how descriptions of it are made visible. Light is her principal medium, and her practice is rooted in the irreducibility of language.
A Precedes B - Works by Four Artists - Max Estenger, George Hofmann, Lorenza Panero & Mike Zahn
the referee only sees the retaliation…
“The first rupture was provoked by the diffusion of photography. As underlined by Rosalind Krauss, “Photography calls into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author… and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”…
German or French? Part III
“I don’t think Expressionism is the issue. I think what’s going on in painting now is coming out of national identities. People have withdrawn into their own histories try to find meanings. So you have art that seems like it…
