The dark side of a fairytale by Camille Rose Garcia
A childhood in the suburbs of Orange County with regular visits to Disneyland does sound like a dream of candy floss and pink netlace. Punk concerts and William S. Burroughs cut-up literature not so much. Camille Rose Garcia‘s wicked artworks do have both sides in them, creating a “broken narrative painting of wasteland fairytales” which stages the witch in the fairytale rather than the princess.
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Painted escapism by Lois Wallace
Lois Wallace does create reclusive dreams by evolving her paintings from photographs and thereby building a beautiful narrative through the act of painting. This is maybe why her artworks seem for one thing within actual reach and at the same time completely artificial. Pure compressed wanderlust.
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La Biennale di Venezia 2017
It is THE art festival in Europe and I’ve been urging to visit la Biennale di Venezia since I first heard of it. Since I have moved to southern Germany a couple of months ago, a visit was finally within reach. In the end I only spend a good 48hours in Venice, but the impressions felt like it had been 2 entire weeks. So much great art accumalated in one small city – it was definitely worth a visit and I already saved the date for the next Art Biennale in 2019.
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