You are an old fashioned person. You believe in keeping things and not forgetting the old ways. You are honest. You always said exactly what is on your mind. At a time when being an immigrant and being a woman wasn’t easy, you became a businesswoman. You didn’t succeed by making yourself invisible, you spoke out and spoke up. You are a spontanous speechwriter, never at a loss for words - everyone knows this about you.
Visual Artist, Cinematographer & Film Director
In the fading twilight,
Everything in the world becomes one and the same,
Silhouettes of the same shade
In her face, he sees the moon, serene and still. Inching closer, Lucas carefully pulls their covers up around her shoulders, so her sleep turns sweeter, as morning blooms.
Come, have a seat!
Would you like to sip from the glass I just have had drank water?
Or shall we begin without it?
In my dreams I became mad too many times,
Interview with Mariam Al-Ali
When one thinks of calligraphy, the first words that come in mind are preciseness, distinctness, measure, and beauty.
At the crossroads of Africa, Europe and the Middle-East, Morocco’s musical culture is at the image of the country’s ethnical diversity. In his Tableau de la musique marocaine, Alexis Chottin reminds us of Morocco’s unique spot as both a “member of the Muslim family” and Northern-African country. As such, its musical culture bears witness to its complex history of slavery, racism and Islamic spirituality, interwined in Gnawa culture.
As the entire globe experiences the difficulties and dangers of Covid-19, many areas of life are being affected. Not only have restaurants and malls closed to promote social distancing and prevent further spread of the virus, art galleries, museums, and artist all around the world are struggling to show their work.
I open John Ruskin’s “Work” which he delivered at the Working Men’s Institute at Campbell. I try to tempt myself with the deception that I would enjoy preparing for this class as the topic of class disparity is close to my heart.
Time is one of the elements that everybody in the world experiences. As we encounter time in the present, this moment instantly becomes the past and the future becomes the present. However, according to the spacetime continuum, time is relative to space on a constant world line.
During this quarantine period, the world seems extra surreal. The outside is unsafe, close contact with other human beings are discouraged and the digital world is taking over our lives more distinctly than ever. All of these resulted in forming hyper realistic but highly stressful and disruptive dreams.
For me, I like that I can create images that connect with other people as well as educate them on the forgotten history of American History. I focus on Black history and the Black experience because that is the history I grew up with but as I got old I realized that others around me had no idea what I was talking about.
Inspired by Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1819), the paintings and cyanotypes show what Europe is planning today: free exchange of goods on a global scale and rejection of human beings in exile at its borders.
Wüthrich considers that after having colonized the world (for its own profits), our continent forgets its own migratory history and curls up on its achievements. The many tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea are just one of the obscure consequences. Paintings, sculptures and photos to question the current world and its dysfunctions. An extension of the Horizons and Orange vests series presented during the Tour du Monde event in 2 p.m. in September 2019 at the Cité internationale des arts. Emmanuel Wüthrich (Switzerland) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the program of the Republic and Canton of Jura. Send feedback History Saved Community
Inspirés par le Radeau de la Méduse de Géricault (1819), les peintures et cyanotypes donnent à voir ce que l'Europe envisage aujourd’hui : libre échange des marchandises à l’échelle de la planète et rejet de l’être humain en exil à ses frontières.
L'artiste considère qu'après avoir colonisé le monde (pour ses propres profits), notre continent oublie sa propre histoire migratoire et se recroqueville sur ses acquis. Les nombreux drames en mer Méditerranée n’en sont qu’une des obscures conséquences.
Des peintures, sculptures et photos pour questionner le monde actuel et ses dysfonctionnements. Un prolongement des séries Horizons et Gilets oranges présentées lors de l'événement Tour du Monde en 14h de septembre 2019 à la Cité internationale des arts.
Emmanuel Wüthrich (Suisse) est en résidence à la Cité internationale des arts par le biais du programme de la République et Canton du Jura.
Born in Dijon, he works at Maison-Alfort. Starting from the observation of a reversal of the perception of the world which is constantly observed and watched over, the artist quips by watching himself. Victim, suspect or director, he puts himself at the heart of ambiguous situations. It parasitizes the video surveillance system by viewing it as a narrative point of view; fiction plays with reality. The artist freezes, deconstructs and reveals his videos, through drawing and print, which he sees as a filter, reproducing the deformations inherent in the recording of a screen by a lens. Through a game of scale, the images obtained are both figurative and fixed from afar, and abstract and kinetic from close up. Like stopping the video image and moving the still image. These psychedelic freeze frames take us on a journey through the history of art by going back and forth between present and past where video and etching engrave take turns in an anachronistic relationship. This work echoes a work of shots and various experiments carried out in the district of square Clara Zetkin in the 13th arrondissement in Paris with the association Art Exprim in 2017.
Né à Dijon, travaille à Maison-Alfort. Partant du constat d’un retournement de la perception du monde qui s’observe et s’épie en permanence, l’artiste ironise en se surveillant lui-même. Victime, suspect ou metteur en scène, il se met au cœur de situations ambiguës. Il parasite le système de vidéo-surveillance en l’envisageant comme un point de vue narratif ; la fiction se joue de la réalité. L’artiste fige, déconstruit et met en abyme ses vidéos, par le dessin et l’estampe, qu’il envisage comme un filtre, reproduisant les déformations inhérentes à l’enregistrement d’un écran par un objectif. Par un jeu d’échelle, les images obtenues sont à la fois figuratives et fixes de loin, et abstraites et cinétiques de près. Comme pour arrêter l’image vidéo et mettre en mouvement l’image fixe. Ces arrêts sur image psychédéliques nous font voyager dans l’histoire de l’art par des aller-retour entre présent et passé où vidéo et gravure à l’eau forte se relaient dans un rapport anachronique. Cette œuvre fait écho à un travail de prises de vues et d’expérimentations diverses menées dans le quartier du square Clara Zetkin dans le 13e arrondissement à Paris avec l’association Art Exprim en 2017.
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Art will remain important after the era of transition to digital sources. Again, the price will be created by the hands of art.
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Art and the creative process allowed me to return to a deeper identity than the one I had built for myself to survive. In doing so, I was able to discover the energy that inhabited me beyond the vicissitudes of life.
I believe deeply in art as a tool of transformation, both individually and socially. Contemporary artistic practices enable dialogue with issues that affect all of us as inhabitants of the same world, affected and affecting by the same imaginaries, symbols and dreams.
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Yumiko Ono’s theme is utopia/utopian architecture, an ideal world that exists in imagination.
Painter · Engraver
It is the desire to express my emotions through my works that makes me the creator that I am. For this I left Japan to fully live my passion: creation.
I am artist because I can not not other things. My artwork is the fruit and the result of an art research. I try to give to see what can be in the order of feminine.
The Creative Process: Podcast Interviews & Portraits of the World’s Leading Authors & Creative Thinkers
Inspiring Students – Encouraging Reading - Connecting through Stories
The Creative Process exhibition is traveling to universities and museums. The Creative Process exhibition consists of interviews with over 100 esteemed writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Faber, T.C. Boyle, Jay McInerney, George Saunders, Geoff Dyer, Etgar Keret, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, and Yiyun Li, among others. Artist and interviewer: Mia Funk.
