Art as a Lifelong Pilgrimage
Wallace Chan: From the Microscopic, Building the Monumental
Section 1, visual artWallace Chan: From the Microscopic, Building the Monumental
Section 1, visual artDesigners operate on instinct: hours of experimentation, failure and success that eventually manifest as a tangible commodity.
The season when the leaves start to turn always marks a new wave of art exhibitions around the world, offering plenty of reasons to visit museums, galleries and other art venues. This period will bring together a variety of themes in the fields of art and culture, ranging from cultural memory and history to fashion, design and pressing social issues.
Photojournalism finds one of its fathers in the Scottish photographer John Thomson, who in 1873 travelled through rural China with one of the first portable cameras, a “dark mysterious instrument” which, combined with an intensified eyesight, held the power “to pierce the very souls of the natives, and to produce miraculous pictures by some black art” (John Thomson, Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873 to 1874).
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Much of contemporary art, at least implicitly, engages with the human condition. So what does an exhibition titled Human Being add to a subject that is already so familiar? Alexandra Resnikov’s answer, staged at the Mandarin Oriental Savoy in Zurich last October, was to shift both the context and the terms of the conversation.
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The season when the leaves start to turn always marks a new wave of art exhibitions around the world, offering plenty of reasons to visit museums, galleries and other art venues. This period will bring together a variety of themes in the fields of art and culture, ranging from cultural memory and history to fashion, design and pressing social issues.
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Photojournalism finds one of its fathers in the Scottish photographer John Thomson, who in 1873 travelled through rural China with one of the first portable cameras, a “dark mysterious instrument” which, combined with an intensified eyesight, held the power “to pierce the very souls of the natives, and to produce miraculous pictures by some black art” (John Thomson, Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873 to 1874).
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