Ana Álvarez-Errecalde
The work of Argentinian artist Ana Álvarez-Errecalde is at it’s core motivated and formed through her experiences as a mother; by the worries and joys of raising children and her concern for the world we will leave them. Ana’s gaze is frank and her images challenge the more established views derived from Art History and Hollywood,...
Klara Grancicova
Daily thoughts are freely shared on the Internet, but few with as much guileless depth as the Czech artist Klara Grancicova. In fresh daily posts on her blog Klara somehow communicates much with an economy of words and drawing. It’s easy to make the simple complicated, but to articulate the complicated clearly is not easy...
Oliver Jeffers
Speaking imminently at Barcelona’s OFFF Festival is the artist Oliver Jeffers. He’s not easy to pigeonhole: from paintings, installations, illustrations and picture book making, the variety of his production is as sparky as his award winning Children’s book illustrations. Though born in Australia he was brought up in Northern Ireland and now works from...
Somewhere.com
Somewhere.com is a wily new beast that has emerged in the rapidly evolving online media arena. Recently launched in Berlin, somewhere.com is a recruitment platform to rival Linkedin, and which borrows the best of Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram. Yet it is somewhere.com’s vision of what the new world of work should be about is what...
Roger Daniel Guillet
Roger Daniel Guillet is an artist who comes from Saint-Aignant in the Loire-et-Cher region of France: ‘born beneath the shade of the Chateau Loire’. Guillet’s artistic journey began in Arles with his father who was a visual artist, and a drawing master from New York. Art carried him to Paris, Avignon and Cannes. Each place...
Mariana Orozco
Lifted out of its better-known life as a novel, Maridos (Husbands) by Angeles Mastretta is being shifted or rather erased by the artist Mariana Orozco into a form of visual poetry in which the book will be an artist book and object rather than a text. Ulises Carrión the Mexican poet, artist and author wrote...
Williamsburg
Williamsburg, the ‘Hipster Capital of the World’, is a neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York, just one subway ride away from a glossy Manhattan and into very different territory. If New York is the Capital of the Art World then Manhattan is its epicentre. It wasn’t always so glossy and it was the abandoned downtown manufacturing...
Between the Intangible and the Material
Some months ago two young artists, Marcela Antunes from Brazil, and Masha Perskaya from Russia, together presented their work in Galleria Paspartu, Gracia, Barcelona. The title of their show was ‘Between the Intangible and the Material’. As a performance artist Antunes uses her own body as a tool of investigation and the site where objects...
Sharp threads
Emil Naula is a Swedish artist who deftly uses the clean visual impact of his installations, drawings and sculptures to raise serious questions and to provoke discussion. Naula studied Political Science in Sweden, followed by Journalism. Nourished by his studies was the underlying production of art that developed from his late teens towards sketching and...
Meet Rodríguez Gerada
Since basing himself in Barcelona in 2002 Jorge Rodríguez Gerada has focussed on his art practice of urban interventions, in different ways, in cities throughout the world. Through community interaction he started to compliment urban surfaces and materials with large-scale ephemeral portraits of anonymous locals in his Identity Series. Rodríguez Gerada further developed this in...
Kirsten Campbell
In an event titled Mend the artist Kirsten Campbell showcased her recent work, on Wednesday the 3rd of April in Tatiana Kourochkina Art Gallery, Barcelona. Her sculptures stood charged and poised, and further enlivened in supporting stills, where each work becomes the mantle of the motion that drove it, enacted by Campbell. The Minimalist Richard...
