

Phillips de Pury Contemporary Art Sale
A very quick review on the Contemporary Art Sale preview in Phillips de Pury. The Evening and the Day Sales will take place on the 16th...


The Fallen Angel
I see you every time I close my eyes for you are the darkness, the appearance of black in this constant colour space… Out of all the...


Fly to Baku: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan
They say, when you have something stuck in your mind it is always better to share it with someone and so let it go! An exhibition...


I Call it Video Art
I always wondered how exactly Steve McQueen, a young British filmmaker, also a winner of the Turner Prize, was going to surprise the...


Crying Kapaz
It is not everything painted on a piece of canvas that I actually enjoy looking at. I’m specifically speaking about two subject matters:...


Voices from a Silent Generation II
Ashraf Murad. Valentina Tereshkova, 1985 Ashraf Murad. Still life, c 1865 Kamal Ahmed. The Parrot. Kamal Alhmed. Javad Mir Javadov....


Voices from a Silent Generation
Kamal Ahmed. Self-Portrait, 1988. After spending my winter holidays in Azerbaijan, where the line between me and the culture of my...


Jazz Rhythms
“Man is a mystery. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.” - Fyedor Dostoyevksy A very dear friend of mine,...


Die Traumdeutung
When you look at Marc Chagall's painting you see fairytale-like, happy, sometimes childish images, painted usually in blue. According to...


Picturing Movement
"Why, monsieur, do you always do ballet dancers?" "Because, madame, it is all that is left us of the combined movements of the Greeks."...