Anti-Mass (2005)
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Stream, Serbia
Palais Garnier (Paris Opera) auditorium details
Frank Stella’s stars at the Royal Academy courtyard
Jim Dine at the Pace gallery, London
Richard Serra (more)
Bridging Lines performance (test)
This is a photo of Yong Min Cho and Katja Vaghi in between my Touching Air installation and Antoni Malinowski’s Line paintings doing test performance before the opening of the exhibition. Photo Angus Leadley Brown.
Il Gesù
Pantheon, pagan temple and sky through oculus
Bernini’s Pluto and Proserpina and Gaulli’s fresco Triumph in the Name of Jesus (details), Rome
Baroque in art and architecture is about bringing the sacred to the profane through the body, the senses and the emotions. Utilizing theatrical techniques Bernini was the master of such illusions in architecture, in sculpture and in painting making us feel the divine through our body and our senses. It is believed that he was the master and main supporter of Giovanni Battista Gaulli who painted the ceiling of the church of the Jesuit order, the Gesù, Taken under Bernini’s well-connected wing, Gaulli was introduced to the great patrons of seventeenth century Rome, and was taught to capture the spontaneity of expression of the Baroque.