Many things can come to your mind when you wonder about Escher. The artistic period in which he developed his marks is for sure one of a kind, filled with several different influences. Even the …

Throughout the month of September the Good Luck Gallery reinvented itself as a bookstore, focusing on the collector as artist. Old and Curious Books from the collection of William Dailey displays a selection from the …

A light box with an almost silent motor creates a movement reminiscent of sunlight dappling through a tree; a door recreated with frosted acrylic, a black ring where the handle used to be, is both …

«C … what it takes to change» is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica in Linz, where the C stands for change and for confidence but also for creativity, collaboration and catalysts. The fascinating …

Droste Effect Magazine is very proud to host a conversation between curator Viviana Checchia and artists Giuliana Racco and Matteo Guidi on The Artist and The Stone, a project by Giuliana Racco and Matteo Guidi. …

I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool in the self-chosen title of Isa Genzken’s exhibition curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen at Kunsthalle Wien. This statement, as we can read in the booklet of the exhibition, characterises …

Through an experimental printmaking technique, Lovorka Lukani researches the possibilities of the white area of paper. She doesn’t use any pigments, the images printed onto the paper are only visible through a play of light …

“If you are committed to love, courage, magic, fearless adventuring into the unknown, and continuous expansion for all on this earth and beyond, please take a booklet.”  The invitation from artist Jennifer Moon is written …

The curator Jessica Silverman was inspired by Daniel Spoerri’s 1961 documentary novel/map An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, suggesting that “chance is not random, but shaped by ritual and repetition.” This group show, with Bruce Nauman, …

Anxious Spaces: Instillation as Catalyst presented six artists working in what Rosalind Krauss called “the expanding field” of sculpture, forging new modes and styles of sculpture. More precisely in the exhibition’s case instillation art, although …

Years ago a dear friend of mine pointed out to me that most of the plants that we usually call “weed” come from South America. They arrived in Europe after the colonization of the American …

Christine Elfman is a practitioner and teacher of photography, and her technical rigor is evident: images and diptychs convey both the essential and the ephemeral. In Looking Back, the play of light/shadow, background/foreground, and immediacy/mystery …