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HANNELORE BARON’S ART: STRANGE SIGNS, HAUNTING BEAUTY
The self-taught, German-born artist Hannelore Baron (1926-1987) created mixed-media collage-drawings and box-assemblage objects. Her family, which was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany in 1939, made its way to the U.S.A., and settled in the Bronx, in New York City. A recent gallery exhibition in NYC examined the enigmatic symbols, signs, and other motifs that became the distinctive visual language of Baron's art. Coming soon.
DAVID WINTER’S A.I. IMAGES: WOW!
The New York-based art dealer and collector David Winter has been using an artificial-intelligence program to create photographs of far-out buildings that exist in towns and cities somewhere in the imagination. On the other hand, given that today’s construction techniques and materials can now give tangible form to visionary architects’ most unusual designs, Winter’s imaginary structures may not be so farfetched. An exclusive photo portfolio.
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WHAT IS VISIBLE LANGUAGE?
The term “visible language” is used by graphic designers and linguists to refer, literally, to the ways in which language is depicted so that it may be seen and so that its meanings may be perceived and comprehended visually. Think alphabets, typography, handwriting, printed matter, neon signs, graffiti, and more. We begin examining different aspects of this essential aspect of societies and cultures in which written languages appear. Coming soon.
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TAKING ON THE CORPORATE POWERS — WITH HUMOR, STYLE, AND SASS
In Tokyo, “On Double-dealings, Demos & Discontent” (on view at Watowa Gallery through July 15) features works by Pedro Inoue (Brazil) and Sacco Fujishima (Japan). Both artists work in various genres using assorted materials. Both address the corporate and political forces whose assumptions, attitudes, values, and activities play such influential roles in shaping social and cultural norms. Their mixed-media works are clever and incisive in their critiques. A look at this exhibition curated by Shai Ohayon. Coming soon.
PHOTOMACHINÉES: VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY IN SWITZERLAND
On view a few months ago at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland: More than 450 photographs from the late 1800s to the 20th century, all made by unknown image-makers, many of whom manipulated their material to create fantasy pictures packed with personal or indecipherable meanings. A rich serving of vernacular photography. Coming soon.
HAROLD GRANUCCI: GEOMETRY = A PRECISE ARTISTIC VISION
Born in 1916, Harold Granucci worked as an accountant and furniture-store owner; after retiring, he dedicated his time to creating compositions rooted in mathematically modeled patterns. Granucci, who died at the age of 90, left an artistic oeuvre that is still surfacing and was recently presented at the 2023 Outsider Art Fair in New York. See our report, coming soon.
VIEW THE FILM, FREE OF CHARGE: “VALTON TYLER: FLESH IS FICTION”
The self-taught artist Valton Tyler (1944-2017) lived and worked in Dallas, Texas, and its environs. He created remarkable works — oil paintings, ink drawings on paper, complex etchings — that remain hard to classify according to existing style or genre labels. In 2017, Edward M. Gómez (brutjournal’s founder) and cinematographer Chris Shields made the first-ever film about Tyler’s life and art, which the artist saw before he died. This 42-minute-long film will reside permanently here, on the magazine’s website. It may be viewed in its entirety, free of charge. Watch it and get to know the bright, bizarre world of a techno-baroque visionary. Free access to the article and the film.
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