“A manual laborer seeking to exhibit his work in an artistic light needs precise vertical and horizontal coordinates through which he can rummage in search of ineluctable truths.” Emilio began with stockings in the 60’s. ‘The stocking is the frozen image […]
Juxtaposing soft, delicate flowers and pastels with darker hued provocative accessories, Helena Calmfors’ debut solo exhibit, curated by Indira Cesarine at The Untitled Space, certainly lives up to its name: Floral Disciplines. The exquisiteness of contrast is imbued by interlocking blooms and crosshatched lingerie, situated among cuffs, ticklers and other fetish iconography. Fractallizing various mediums—albeit […]
Robert Mango’s art lives in the space where the real and the imagined converge—a place of myth-making, dream-making, and surrealist logic. From his formative years in Chicago, he stood out at the School of the Art Institute, where he quickly became, as he puts it, “the darling of the teachers there” because he had “a […]
