Ricardo Reis/ A matter of perspective

Ricardo Reis/ A matter of perspective

Interview with the Portuguese photographer who explores the connection between individual and reality through a surrealistic black and white.

Can you introduce yourself? And how do you create your shots?

My name is Ricardo Reis and I’m an artist. When I started, I wanted to be a war photographer, but in my home country of Portugal, it’s very difficult to get the connections necessary to achieve that. Anyway, I was fortunate because I got an internship at a daily newspaper in Portugal. This activity led my work to being published in several major newspapers and magazines. Read more

When art reveals human frailties/Tishk Barzanji

When art reveals human frailties/Tishk Barzanji

Human interactions and emotions represented through the deconstruction of space and colors, the inconsistency of outlines, and the indecipherability of bodies. The Kurdish artist Tishk Barzanji illustrations make use of surrealism and modernism to depict human figures within unreal and cinematic scenarios and interiors, who at the same time seem trapped in uneasiness and impasse. Read more

Who’s next?… Sibilla Aleramo

Who’s next?… Sibilla Aleramo

Written by Valentina Biondini, literature amateur

“Why Have There Been No Great Female Artists?” was the title of a famous essay by the American Linda Nochlin, an essay that still has all its charm. It was 1971 and Nochlin, an art history teacher at Vassar College in New York, had thought of shedding light on one of the dark sides of her subject: the reason why the stage of visual arts had always been trodden, with a few rare exceptions, by male artists. Read more