KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa… And just sometimes, my reality has mornings and daylight. It’s filled with fallen leaves, purple mist, endless pink grass, tea, long walks, books, imaginary worlds and gentle love. The world is what you make of it. Text and photography by Elsa Bleda @elsableda
Amedeo Modigliani expired at the rather young indeed age of thirty-five on 24 January 1920. The strong-willed Italian portraitist’s early demise was much more the natural byproduct his personal cosmology than a freakish accident. Revolted by his comfortably stagnant bourgeois upbringing, he convinced himself that only struggling for crusts in nonconformist squalor could produce true art. Toss in…
Reading International is pleased to present ‘reading in Reading’, a series of events and exhibitions by David Raymond Conroy, Ghislaine Leung, Cally Spooner and Jesper List Thomsen, who have been invited to respond to Reading through the use of various narrative structures, closely related to aspects of the town’s contemporary culture. Collectively, the artists have…
Zhang Huan is an artist from Henan, China, renowned for being one of the country’s most provocative and influential artists. He is best known for his conceptual and performance based work, but, more recently, he’s created more paintings and sculptures. What really brings his work to life is the amazing range of materials used to…
Chris Funk of The Decemberists is no stranger to snooping around for unusual, rarely heard sounds. When his trail led him to Williamsburg, Virgina in the USA he sought out Dean Shostak straighaway, one of the last true masters capable of playing the glass armonica – an enchanting instrument lost to time. First devised in…
In celebration of its imminent ten-year anniversary, The Saatchi Gallery Magazine: Art & Music announces LOVE ART, a competition open to any artist with a genuine creative passion aged 11-29. With six thousand pounds-worth of art-related prizes provided by competition partners Cass Art and Christie’s Education, LOVE ART welcomes entries in any visual medium, with…
Fancy footwork and fine couture set in a mid-century goes modern editorial fantasy. Step across the pages of a recent fashion spread with prima ballerina Maria Kochetkova, commissioned by Melina Chen for Vogue Taiwan. Frozen poses pop against decadently patterned, almost animated, backdrops, arresting the eye with stop-and-go movement and swaths of pleasingly contrasted peculiar colours. Photographed by JUCO,…
Maria Primachenko was born on 12 January 1908, in a small village known today as Bolotnya, Ukraine. She began creating pictures as a young girl, soaking up the customs, dress and legends intrinsic to her rural world, injecting them with imagination and spilling them out in giddy gouache colours onto paper and canvas. Throughout her…
BY NICOLE PARKS / Her Very Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will regale the peoples of television-viewing dominions with an hour-long fairy tale from her own experience this weekend. A tale complete with flowing ermine, a nerve-wracked stomach jolting along atop gilded carriage axles, a fleet of prancing Windsor Grey ponies, an Abbey of some…
Frida Kahlo was more than just meets the brows. The Mexican artist had a life full of pain, romance and above all, powerful artistic talent. But here are a few things you might not have known… She was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón: she only changed her name to Frieda in 1935, which comes…