122 Rue du temple, 1968 Jacques Villeglé torn-and-pasted printed paper on canvas 62 5/8 x 82 3/4" (159.2 x 210.3 cm) Museum of Modern Art The words of French crime novelist Leo Malet comes to mind every time I encounter a work by Jacques Villegle: “The collage of the future will be done without scissors,… Continue reading 122 Rue du temple, 1968
The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism (Vilém Flusser, 2013)
Vilém Flusser, a philosopher and communication theorist born in Prague in 1920, spent most of his life in exile. In 1940 he reached London on the run from the Nazis, from there he went to São Paulo after only a short time to settle in France in the early 1970s. He never saw his native city of… Continue reading The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism (Vilém Flusser, 2013)
Seeing is Believing
Through Greek, Judeo-Christian, and the Post-literate societies The common interpretation of the cultural aphorism "seeing is believing" is that "you need to see something before you can accept that it really exists or occurs." Throughout its modern usage, it is usually uttered as a rebuke to assumptions made without visual evidence. In the Oxford Dictionary… Continue reading Seeing is Believing
Cain at Abel (Lino Brocka, 1982)
Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, and he has to go through all this, it is this material that he has to work on, to extract from it the elements of a people who are still missing (Lino Brocka). (Gilles… Continue reading Cain at Abel (Lino Brocka, 1982)
The Cave (Jose Saramago, 2000)
"Man never sees things themselves, but always only their shadows", Plato once philosophized in his allegory of the cave. And before Saramago's hero turns his back on the shadow on the wall of the cave and finds the exit from the cave, he must fear, doubt and hope for a long time - and the… Continue reading The Cave (Jose Saramago, 2000)
Perjalanan ke Berlin
Pekan terakhir ini saya mendapat hak istimewa bepergian ke Berlin, ibu kota Jerman. Anda dapat membayangkan bahwa pergi ke kota Eropa mana pun menarik, tetapi bagi seorang geek sejarah seperti saya ini adalah kota yang saya nantikan lebih dari yang lain. Berlin adalah naik kereta cepat dua jam dari Hamburg yang mencakup 179 mil. Sebagai… Continue reading Perjalanan ke Berlin
Throw Away Day
A new documentary on the life and work of abstract expressionism's invisible man, Clyfford Still and the quest to reclaim one of his paintings in an auction at the Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale A few minutes after four and the day slipped into darkness, signalling stagehands at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to finalize… Continue reading Throw Away Day
