Julie Upmeyer on ‘Possibilities of a Pond, an origin story’

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A pleasant feature I suppose, a novelty.
Relaxing. Reflection. Ripple.
An unknown world beneath the surface.
Liminal. Limitless. Live.
Transparency echoing the sky.
In the interests of amenity.

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Signifier’s Six Shot is a new online gallery that showcases just six images by each artist. These images are linked in an understandable way — perhaps from the same project, series or dealing with related subjects. They may be linked by aesthetics, techniques, processes, philosophies, formal or conceptual elements. …

Film Review

Louis Camnitzer is a German-born artist whose family were refuges from the Nazi regime. So, he grew up in Uruguay and lived his formative years against a backdrop of war, violence, revolution, suppression and oppression. This led him to produce political work that deals with control constructs, their authoritarian perversion, and their societal subversion.

Language is a construct that can be used to either reveal or conceal, to educate or to obfuscate. …

The Kiss is Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s most famous painting — a celebration of love and the joyous loss of self in the moment of passion. It’s remains popular as a print and poster because it captures a universal human emotion, a glorious expression of love between two who have, if only for an instant, become as one. He completed the painting in 1908, but chances are the image has been exchanged thousands of times today as the ideal Valentine's Day Card!

The figures appear to merge, almost losing their individual forms, united by the glowing aura of gold. The…

Eureka Blu-ray Film Review

The Capella degli Scrovegni is also known as The Arena Chapel as it was sited adjacent to the ruins of a Roman arena in the Italian town of Padua. Built at the dawn of the fourteenth century, its exterior is comparatively modest, though there’s an interesting combination of Gothic accents with predominantly Neo-classical features. Inside, it’s a different story...

Between 1303 and 1305, Giotto di Bondone decorated the interior of this purpose-built chapel with more than fifty scenes showing an extended biography of Christ. It’s unusually comprehensive, starting with Mary’s father Saint Joachim, then the life of Mary, then key…

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Stephen Green on ‘Porth Annwn Variations’

I became interested in the idea of a portal to another world, and how it might manifest itself. My drawings were becoming increasingly abstract, allusions to illusions, representing my ideas that had arisen through looking at, drawing, and thinking about, landscapes. From this personal material I put together thoughts and notions on the theme of travelling to Annwn — most importantly, how to get there…

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Each exhibition at the Signifier Six Shot Gallery…