In the words of John Edward Masefield: All I need is a tall ship and a star to guide her by… And as early cartographers were so used to printing on faraway, uncharted corners of their maps: here be dragons…. So all I need is a tall ship and maybe a reliable chart! Things that we now, […]
Photographer, filmmaker, film and music video producer, publicist, painter and sculptor. Erick Ifergan has come a long way in his creative career, and in many directions, before landing Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence, and getting us into a surrealist dream. Erick Ifergan’s work is the perfect transposition of his personality into painting and sculpture, as […]
Can an artist encapsulate the spirit of all artists, of all epochs, in his own work? In theory, yes: there’s a common thread that links all human beings who dedicate their lives to art, and every artist studies, is inspired by, influenced somehow by those who went before them through the centuries, as well as by […]
Ralph Rugoff’s curation of the 58th Biennale involved the entire art world in what today is certainly a globalising issue: May you live in interesting times. A title drawn from an English expression wrongly attributed by certain British politicians to an ancient Chinese curse, alluding to periods of crisis, uncertainty and disorder; “interesting times” as, […]
David Bailey. The name instantly conjures up a whole series of monochrome images of the legends of my early teens, growing up in the Liverpool of the late ‘sixties with a burning desire to get to London before the swinging sixties came to an end but born just a couple of years too late. From […]