Noelia Towers’ “Opening an Umbrella Indoors” at de boer
The potential of this kind of work lies in its ability to pervert reality. This is not to say distort reality, to make it into a “cruel illusion,” but transform it: to manipulate and reconfigure reality according to one’s impulses and for its own sake.
Meetings with Max Jacob
Barry Schwabsky brings us Alberto Savinio's memories of the poet and painter Max Jacob.
Mallarmé, Our Contemporary
“If there has ever been a present to work in spite of, it is ours, but how different was that of the late nineteenth century? Or rather, is there a present? No such thing, thought Mallarmé — just a gap that the news tries to paper over.“