N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
It’s a recurrent discussion that makes a bundle out of art issues: why are art critics avoiding aesthetic criticism and, instead, doing critic of the art system, the nominal dimension and the historical value of the artworks, apparently neglecting the thing that makes an artwork what it is – the art aspect of it. Has conceptualism robbed art of…
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I confess: as soon as I heard about this project I was sold. The history is so special, so out of the ordinary, that it would be impossible for whatever projects that went in contact with it not to acquire some of that originality, depth and playfulness. The Wolfpack, i.e., the Crystal Moselle‘s documentary, follows…
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Anthony Mannix, 1989. Journal of a madman, Nr. 7 page 2. What follows is an excerpt of an article by Gareth Jenkins, published in the very first issue of ‘Elsewhere – The International Journal of Self-Taught and Outsider Art‘, featuring the work of Anthony Mannix and focusing on the notions of the erotic in his…
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© Lauren E. Simonutti, Manny and Josephine, 1999 Lauren passed away this April. An homage would be irrelevant compared to what she set off to uncover and offers us. Thank you for the enlightenment! A must see, hear and feel that reminds me of David Nebreda’s work, more than anything else due to the relation…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 