Tag Archives: Abstraction

Mauron on Mallarmé

February 8, 2013

“All who remember the day when first they looked into the Poems or the Divagations will testify to that curious feeling of exclusion which put them, in the face of a text written with their words (and moreover, as they could somehow… Continue reading →

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One off: Andrés González.

September 16, 2012

  Photograph by Andrés González, from Some(w)here

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One off: Irina Rozovsky.

April 6, 2012

Untitled, from One to Nothing by Irina Rozovsky. “All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on… Continue reading →

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One off: Isabelle Fexa.

November 23, 2011

   I fell instantly in love with this picture – it’s full of quiet reverence, and is not merely gesturally elusive but doubly, and essentially so. Somehow it breathes life into stone, intimating a life of the mind not only… Continue reading →

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Portfolio, by Damien Rudd.

November 3, 2011

  There is, I think, a sense of secrecy and an intimately personal kind of abstraction in these portraits and landscapes by photographer Damien Rudd. His pictures embrace the manner in which we make of ourselves and of our built… Continue reading →

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Philipp Haager

October 14, 2011

                              Philipp Haager, by way of but does it float.

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One off: Michelle Arcila.

October 12, 2011

  Portrait by Michelle Arcila.  You scream, waking from a nightmare. When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I… Continue reading →

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One off: Mike Stacey.

October 12, 2011

  Photograph by Mike Stacey. “The sun does not rise upon our countrymen; our land is little cheered by its beams; we are contented with that twilight, which, among you, precedes the sun-rise, or follows the sun-set. Moreover, a certain… Continue reading →

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Paul Klee

October 6, 2011

    Paul Klee “The Twittering Machine”.

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Cy Twombly

October 6, 2011

 ”Turning away from an imitation of the smears and scumbles of Franz Kline or de Kooning, which he had been practicing at Black Mountain College, Twombly took up graffiti as a way of interpreting the meaning of Action Painting’s mark,… Continue reading →

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