31 March 2009

Salvador Novo Street

The old and quiet Salvador Novo Street is just one street behind from the long ago covered river, begins next to the Viveros de Coyoacan and ends at the TaxqueƱa Av. now known as Miguel Angel de Quevedo.
I had never made the short walk completely. Mostly I cross it when I pass through the beautiful street of Francisco Sosa that cuts it in two, all this in the historical area of Coyoacan, Mexico City.

On the side of Viveros there are many new, perfect 'posh covers' of the old colonial style. Getting near to Francisco Sosa you find the real big colonial houses.

On one of these corners is the runned down wall and door of what used to be the house of the poet Salvador Novo. The house is probably long ago gone. Later on the left side is the Watercolor Museum, that I still have to visit for the first time (shame).

Nearly in front of the museum is the house of the late Mexican and Hollywood actress Dolores de Rio.

Next to it there are some -not as pompous- entrances to other houses but also making you wish to visit their interiors.

Near to the end with Quevedo you find two similar modern houses from probably the late 60's, strangely enough these are the houses that I have always noticed and I remember the most from my childhood. In one of them, the probably still handsome actor Jorge Riveo, used to live. These two 'modern houses' look now even nicer than then.

30 March 2009

Alexandra Roozen

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A visit at Alexandra Roozen studio some weeks ago was full of inspiring talks about space, simplicity, motivation, bigining and ending, abstraction, emotionality and endless movement.




25 March 2009

Harris Kondosphyris

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‘The idea of puberty, the moment of detachment from the family and the idea of lost innocence coexist in dozens of scattered, cement coated, previously life-full toys that now lie abandoned in a gallery corner…


23 March 2009

Alexandros Psychoulis

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Alexandros Psychoulis presents a installation of a huge wave made by black and white weaved cords at a.antonopoulou gallery in Athens, curated by Thanos Stathopoulos.




22 March 2009

Shirin Neshat

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Shirin Neshat 'WOMEN WITHOUT MEN' curated by Anna Kafetsi at The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens
The exhibition shows for the first time the artist’s new monumental film opus.




18 March 2009

17 March 2009

structuur 68

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the amazing collection of ceramic color examples at structuur 68 studio in The Hague




13 March 2009

Villeroy & Boch

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Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker have bundled their creative talent into the format Villeroy and Boch, which surely is more than 1+1.
Well known paintings from art history and their every day life as an artist today, form the inspiration for their work.
‘268 Masterpieces in RGB’ 19/3 – 3/5 on show at tent. Rotterdam.































Pleasing Panaroma 2009
300 x 200 cm
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Desperate Ambition 2008
200 x 300 cm
oil-alkid-acrylpainting on canvas


















Crossing the Alps 2008
300 x 200 cm
oil-alkid-acrylpainting on canvas