7 Questions for Polish Artist Paulina Olowska on Her New Paintings Inspired by Female Film Stars
The artist s new show 30 Minutes Before Midnight is currently on view at Simon Lee, Hong Kong.
Paulina Olowska, 30 Minutes Before Midnight (2021). Courtesy of Simon Lee.
Paulina Olowska is an excavator of the past. The Polish artist scours histories looking for hidden clues and meanings that we may have missed during the lived moment itself.
She’s painted idyllic utopias of the post-war era, and in one series, titled “Applied Fantastic,” she painted a set of postcards from the 1980s that featured women posing in patterned sweaters a relic of life in the Cold War era.
Unique project turns the spotlight on statements of women from Central and Eastern Europe
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Genesis Belanger’s Scrumptious Last Supper
At The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artist s series of stoneware works offer a feminist critique of domestic life under the unmistakable presence of death
I’ve never wanted to put an artwork in my mouth more than Genesis Belanger’s stoneware devilled eggs. I think she’d accept that as a compliment – or at least feel that I’d fathomed the spirit of her delicate sculptures of victuals. What is it about the hard candy shell of her unglazed porcelain vegetables that suggests a bubble-gum interior? What is it about the splatter of white marbling on pink haunches, peering out from beneath browned skin, that makes you want to befoul the sweet dinner ham? Belanger’s ceramic smorgasbord presents an inoffensive spread, but it solicits the depraved desire latent within a certain manufactured, tame domesticity.
On my radar: Chantal Joffe s cultural highlights Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe is an American-born British painter. She completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1994 and her work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery and Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Jewish Museum in New York. Joffe’s large-scale paintings mainly depict women and children, and includes many self-portraits. In 2018, she painted herself each day as she went through a divorce and, in 2019, she created the series Pictures of What I Did Not See, which captured a traumatic illness. Her latest show, Story, focuses on ageing and motherhood and will open at Victoria Miro Gallery, London N1, when restrictions are lifted.
New platform aims to empower and impact the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene
Steeve Nassima and Suzanne Landau. Photo: Meir cohen.
TEL AVIV
.-Nassima Landau is a new and ambitious platform that aims to empower and impact the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene, by showcasing emerging and established International artists. Nassima Landau will act as a foundation identifying and supporting artists with outstanding talent, quality, and promising market value, whilst engaging in activities yielding financial support. Its innovative program includes exhibitions, site-specific installations and one-time events of the highest standard in its new art space located in the center of Tel Aviv.
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