The Easel

28th August 2018

Superforms and Praying Machines: Massimiliano Gioni Interviews Thomas Bayrle

Massimiliano Gioni | artspace | 4th August 2018

Prescience is a word often associated with Bayrle. In his first job in textiles, he realized that large images could be created using mass repetition of a small image. His “superform” style resulted and it resonates strongly in our digital age. “I believe in total individualism, even in the largest mass. I think that’s the richness of art, to define this singularity in the mass.”

21st August 2018

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment at the International Center of Photography

Ed Voves | Art Eyewitness | 15th August 2018

Cartier-Bresson is synonymous with the term ‘the decisive moment’. That is often taken to mean a split-second action shot – like his famous image of a man jumping a puddle. But, as a New York show highlights, this view is too narrow. Cartier-Bresson’s aim was bigger; to capture the ephemeral event that revealed a bigger truth, to “”trap” life – to preserve life in the act of living.”

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