“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information).”
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) – one of the most important, influential figurative painters working today.
With Dumas one may easy get into a trap of ‘an infatuated viewer’. Trap she has crafted herself [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Sam Brownback with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009.
This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life.
Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to [...]
SENSATION
A term commonly used to refer to the subjective experience resulting from stimulation of a sense organ, for instance, a sensation of warm, sour, or green. As a general scientific category, the study of sensation is the study of the operation of the senses. Sense receptors are the means by which information presented as one [...]
Captivating. Stirring. Uncanny. Bewitching. Bone-chilling.
Nature is genius even or – especially – when it goes wrong…
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A gifted boy with dirty imagination is back.
Eric Fischl (b. 1948, NY) has apparently abandoned his flamboyant yuppies and bad boys lost in their hedonistic activities on daddies’ yachts and in flashy apartments. Or rather – he grew up with them, since the new characters of his painted stories are middle- aged couples, lost again, [...]
Check out these two last posts on Henri Art Magazine:
In Hyperaesthetics – 19 sixty he describes our culture – POMO (Postmodernism) of an unacceptable lightness:
We are somnambulists and voyeurs, lost in the hallucinatory world of light-speed and lenses. We are no longer grounded. We float in the digital subjective, our voices not quite our [...]
~ The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything — gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness — rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate [...]
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