In this issue
Jack Rosenberg
Tatawa ( Wei Tan )
Anita Le Sech
Lael Burns
Joshua Healey Lapena
Mona Niko
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Sandra Janjatovic Serbia
At the very beginning of my exploration in the field of art I developed an affinity towards abstraction and abstract expression . Even when we had a classical study of human body as an assignment , I gravitated to its abstracting by painting close-ups of various parts of the body . In that way , I started to develop a painting of amorphic forms that fill up the space of canvas . During the exploration of amorphousness of the nature that surround us , I worked in different mediums like painting , sculpture , installation , video animation , photography … The main theme of my artworks is motion , motion in nature and its laws . I found similar patterns in motion of the water , and its resistance to objects , in motion of smoke and its resistance to particulate matter , even in the behavior of gravitational waves . Recently my attention is attracted by the Einstein ’ s theory of gravitational waves , which is the main theme of the video animation . In this artwork , we can feel the forces that fill the so called empty space of universe , and make the planets move in their orbits . The mystical sound that contribute to that feeling is the sound recorded by NASA ’ s Voyager , the sound of electromagnetic fields of Jupiter . Our universe is not empty and silent .
Lisa Birke United Kingdom
Time-Image and Movement-Image series are practically an attempt to capture live Butoh dance performance into the continuity of movement contained within a single image plane rather than such movement being described through a succession of discreet and static moments or images . Being receptive to chance and accident opens possibility for the production of the new experience of the in-between stages of movement as a whole . Timeimage is an image which is infused with time . In order to invite discovery , creative discourse must bridge multiple areas of interests and fields of study , and I use everything that I know and record . I begin by looking at options , which is different from acting at random ; learning to see by thinking and feeling more complexly about visibility … While representational techniques may be part of my skill set , for me , artmaking is a " flexible instrument ," a developmental tool , a way of mapping thinking that can be circuitous , improvisational , or highly structured . Drawing helps me to record events and ideas and share them with someone else . It can be a container for curiosity , banking undeveloped ideas to percolate into something later .
Tatawa ( Wei Tan ) Germany
Tatawa ’ s art is an act of selfrevelation through improvisation . Each artwork is a journal entry where outer influences are purged and inner responses are confessed . Like making soup , materials are thrown onto the canvas and mixed together through spontaneous gesture . Often a period of mindless doodling is carried out before the painting emerges with an unexpected coherence . Influences of sight and sound are exposed : the colour of a coffee mug , the shape of a distant hill , the meow of a cat , the piano playing next door . The process of improvisation allows each layer of influence to be shredded until the limitation of habit is revealed . This limitation is then challenged so that each painting is a set of broken habits . Tatawa ’ s commitment to authenticity results in an inconsistency in style . Each day a new character emerges and the old one disappears like shredding skin . The only constant is the desire to truthfully express the fluctuation of current states .
Irena Romendik
Sandra Janjatovic
Caren Kinne
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Special thanks to : Charlotte Seegers , Martin Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar , Tracey Snelling , Nicolas Vionnet , Genevieve Favre Petroff , Christopher Marsh , Adam Popli , Marilyn Wylder , Marya Vyrra , Gemma Pepper , Maria Osuna , Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman , Yelena York Tonoyan , Edgar Askelovic , Kelsey Sheaffer and Robert Gschwantner .