Above: Hewitt Callister’s painting palette in Berlin, 1989. The Material Fight and the Fortunate Few A painting should not come easily. If the surface lies there, smooth and obedient, waiting to be admired, then something has gone wrong. Art that submits too willingly to the artist’s will, or worse, to the audience’s expectations, has already […]
Above: Quilt by Lina Revere. The Trouble with Calling It Work I hesitate when I call art “work.” The word lands uncomfortably, as though I am slotting something intimate into an economic structure that was never meant to hold it. I use it anyway, because artists are workers, because I want to insist that making […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Lina Revere will join the Vantage Art Projects team as a writer and contributor of reviews and texts. We look forward to Lina’s poetic eye and generous spirit – Jennifer Mawby, Vantage Art Projects. My process – Lina REvere I would describe my writing style as conversational, deeply […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Hewitt Callister has agreed to become a regular contributor to Vantage Art Projects and will take on the challenge of writing about artists and their work. Here’s a statement about the position he comes from when approaching both the artworks and the person behind the works – Jennifer […]
Jennifer Tazewell Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel (1941) is a nightmare of knowledge, an infinite archive where every possible book exists, yet meaning itself is lost in the sheer chaos of it all. The librarians, trapped […]
West Berlin in the ’80s was a city in limbo, cut off from the rest of the world, but alive in its own strange way. It was modern and decayed, a Western capital stranded in communist territory. The Wall loomed over everything, dividing the city into two nervous halves. Some neighbourhoods, especially near the Wall, […]