Finders keepers
The dream of every antique collector, finding a piece of artwork behind your shed or in your attic and discovering it’s a century old and that it’s priceless. at first you must be glad to find anything at all. but if someone told me I had something old and incredibly valuable in my possession, I [...]
Visions of Horror
War. the word itself inspires terror, fear…it reminds us of death, it reminds us of losing our loved ones and living in fear as they fight for their country. It also Inspires Artists. Some reproduce war as something patriotic and wonderful. In the case of Jack Nichols, War is portrayed in a wat as to [...]
I’m not a lumberjack and I’m okay
The biggest “Automatiste” exposition west of Montreal. the automatiste movement of artists (Riopelle, Borduas…) Of these artists, only Jean-Paul Riopelle gained a somewhat modest but international reputation. The father of Automatisme, André Breton, called Riopelle : “un trappeur supérieur” a kind of artist woodsman swinging his painterly axe in the urban wilderness. the show, exhibiting [...]
No bubbles here
I stumbled onto some pictures of some guy’s sculptures. Mostly animals and portraits and basic sculpture subjects like that. So I kept on reading and I found out that the guy’s sculptures were made out of bubblegum. My first reaction was :”God I hope it’s not chewed bubblegum, it would be pretty gross to have [...]
