by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
“When I had just moved to NY I showed with UP&CO gallery (in the late 90s and 2000). UP&CO was also home to the editorial offices of VERY magazine and VERYstyleguide which we all somehow contributed to. A lot of team efforts! At UP&CO I met the most...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
Renowned for her eloquent translations of the intrinsic into form, German artist Erinna König (1947–2021) presented semantics through aesthetics. Having made the concept of ‘social sculpture’ her own while masterstudent of Joseph Beuys, her sculptural paintings are...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
The quest for life’s meaning and the self within, is as old as mankind. In Michelangelo Pistoletto’s words ‘from the first handprint in a cave’ man has been investigating the role of the self within the whole, our traces representing individua- tion of our being. Self...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
Michelangelo Pistolettos work “QR Code Possession – Autoritratto, from 2019-2023, preempts today’s discussion about digital IDs, anticipates potential chips in, or tattoed QR codes on, human bodies. Today in 2025, authoritarianism in the global West and North no...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
Conceptual artist Hans Peter Feldmann is renowned for assemblages of every day images, found photographs and objects either compiled or singled out, collated or reproduced in books or edi- tions, often in repetition. Appropriating works as elements in his compositions...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | ISSUE 8
For his current exhibition with WiHH Gallery Amsterdam, Cees Krijnen (56) presents a remarkable new work: a handcrafted coffin made for his mother and muse, Greta Blok (84). Designed by Krijnen in oak, birch and beech, the coffin was functionality and symbolism,...
