Beyond the Canvas
On World AIDS Day
New York City-born Frank Moore (1953-2002) was a visual artist and an activist who was involved in the creation of the Red Ribbon, which...
top of page
Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 7
- 1 min
'Epic Waste of Love and Understanding' - Ragnar Kjartansson at Louisiana Museum
This is the first time that I write my thoughts about an exhibition and have no photos or videos to share. And that's because, believe it...
6 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 10
- 1 min
Ron Mueck at Fondation Cartier, Paris
“I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day.” - Ron Mueck Mueck's work...
12 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Aug 15
- 1 min
Isaac Julien “What freedom is to me” at Tate Britain, London
"His works tell important stories, prioritising aesthetics, poetry, movement and music as modes of communication." (from the exhibition...
2 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Jul 31
- 1 min
Andreas Gursky: Visual Spaces of Today - MAST Foundation, Bologna
"I do see myself as a chronicler. My pictures try to encapsulate our time." - Andreas Gursky Whatever he sees himself as, Andreas Gursky...
4 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
Simone Leigh's Sovereignty at the U.S. Pavilion, Venice Biennale
"I like the idea of thinking of femininity as something solid and enduring rather than always something fragile and weak." - Simone Leigh...
19 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Remembering David Wojnarowicz, artist and activist (1954–1992)
"One of the strongest feelings I have about death is that it's a time when the energy we carry is dispersed and becomes a part of...
13 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
Gates of Turan, Firouz FarmanFarmaian at the Venice Biennale
Sometimes the Venice Biennale takes you places you'd never dream of going to. A decision to escape the mad crowds of San Marco and take...
4 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Humilevskiy
"During the quarantine period, I began to create staged self-portraits at home. In the photo, which was the beginning of the series, I...
13 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Volokitin
Artem Volokitin was born in 1981. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, home to 1.4 million people and less than...
16 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 26, 2022
- 2 min
Ukrainian artists: Oleg Tistol
My dear Ukrainian friend Halyna makes veggie borsch for me. She also makes kapusta (red cabbage), Olivier (Russian) salad and blinis,...
12 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Marina Skugareva
There are moments in life when our fear is such that we scramble for ways of taming it, in the hope that this crippling fear will somehow...
15 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
Throwback to Rudolf Stingel at Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Current rabbit hole update: scandals and crimes in the art world, of which I am delighted to inform you there is an abundance of. One...
12 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
On World AIDS Day
"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live." - Robert Mapplethorpe In this powerful self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe looks...
5 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Paula Rego at Tate Britain, London
Coming out of this extensive and excellent survey, you get a strong sense that Rego's work is an intoxicating blend of the political and...
83 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- May 24, 2021
- 2 min
Richard Mosse - Displaced, Fondazione MAST
'Beauty is the main line to make people feel something.' - Richard Mosse It's easy to be fooled by the alluring colours of the striking...
19 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
Laura Aguilar's courageous rebellion
“My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography...
13 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
Kerry James Marshall IS the canon
“Who needs to NOT think of you as a Black artist to consider you a real artist?” - Kerry James Marshall There are a handful of artists...
10 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
May Steven's Dark Flag
"Political activity does not interfere with my work, it feeds it. And if I'm interested in racism and fighting racism, then that should...
38 views0 comments
Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Kim Abeles' Smog Collectors
"The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or...
14 views0 comments
bottom of page