The current land and seascape paintings combine near-abstraction with realistic references. The portraits, initially inspired by increasing signs of intolerance towards minorities in Québec, are also set within abstraction. I continue similar works in Toronto. Julian Samuel […]
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On the face of it, Icaros: A Vision brings together two pathologies, a shaman’s developing blindness and a rich Westerner’s spreading cancer. Both the blindness and the cancer will be victorious, in spite of a healing forest.
Artist’s statement: During the 1950s in Lahore and Karachi I rarely saw women who were Burkaized or Hijabized. Most women during that era did not cover their head. In the UK in the 1960s I never saw any Hijabs or Turbans. We […]
Carlos Ferrand interviewed by Julian Samuel Carlos Ferrand was born in Lima, Peru. For the past 35 years he has worked as a filmmaker, screen writer, director of photography and he has directed several works which have been shown in […]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, directed by Mira Nair 2012 Duration:130 minutes Starring: Hanluk Bilgner, Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson It’s an evening during le joli mois de mai and I’m off to see Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist […]
Welcome to Canada (1989) and Monsieur Lazhar (2011) This film review will comment on two Canadian films that deploy immigrants and political refugees. These films are separated by over two decades. Within this period so called “visible minority” film directors […]
I am walking along 21st Street toward 11th Avenue to see one exhibition which takes place in three different art galleries. Extractions, the name of one part of the exhibition, shows bronze sculptures made from images of cancer tumors by […]
