The Soul of Matter

All painting is an accident. But it’s also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) The making process behind any artwork hides a series of pitfalls which are at the basis of any...

José Heerkens. Paint to Write

Words in art are words,Letters in art are letters,Writing in art is writing,Messages in art are not messages,Explanation in art is not explanation.Ad Reinhardt, Art in Art is Art as Art, 1966. The series of paintings Written...

A Snake, A Ladder

Sarah Wren Wilson A Snake, A Ladder, 2021 AN UNSEEN SHOWA book made possible2020 A Snake, A Ladder is a limited-edition artist book documenting Sarah’s studio practice in the year of a global pandemic, 2020.Sarah’s work was selected for exhibition in...

The astonishment of colour

Shozo Shimamoto The astonishment of colour, 2021 The astonishment of colour includes essays An antelitteram artist,  From Gutai to maturity (an anthology in essence) and The Bottle Crashes as a dramaturgy of colour. This catalogue, in association with...

Judy Carroll Deeley. Plantationocene

This new body of works of Judy Carroll Deeley is still concerned with the word ‘paraphernalia’, whose etymological meaning comes from the ancient Greek parapherna, and then later from the medieval Latin paraphernalis. Today this word has largely...