Contingency – Essence – Knowledge I am currently in Colombia on a beach, far away from the crowds because of the pandemic. And every year that I am on that beach, Picasso’s painting Les pauvres au bord de la mer (title in French) comes to my mind. From...
We had to reblog the story of Shirleyann Brough, an artist of Studio Italia. Undoubtedly, Refus Global or Total Refusal is one of the most important texts written in Canada. This anti-establishment and anti-religious manifesto, written by Paul-Émile Borduas and...
Mónica Márquez presenting Sevy Euqcoral from her series The Lives of Others Opening/vernissage Thursday September 16, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery d’Art d’Ottawa Mónica Márquez, Colombian-Canadian digital artist, photographer, and...
Radical-polemicist-radical or capitalist-strategist? Why does the negative attract us more than the positive? A timely post in the time of COVID-19 Commenting on Yves’last post, it is my turn now to comment on Mme Sourgins’ book, The Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet...
We are not living a crisis but a change of time “Urinal, you are” fountain “, and on this fountain, I will build my art! “(Christine Sourgins, Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet to be translated in English) Well, I have read Christine...
Viewing the painting = Reliving that Moment Currently in Europe; Studio Italia has ended, about to start Atelier Provence. One of our blog subscribers, a docent at the National Gallery of Canada, recently finished reading Michael Findlay’s Seeing Slowly; Looking at...
