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Zoë Landau Konson: A self-portrait

Zoë Landau Konson I was born and grew up in London and this is where I've lived ever since. I have an ever increasing love affair with this place and its vitality. Everything about it appeals to me and I find it a continual source of inspiration and energy.  I was born into a refugee family who escaped from Germany but were deeply affected by the aftermath of their displacement, betrayal and huge loss. These experiences translated themselves into a series of legacies which in turn affected our daily family life; a preoccupation with death, survival, identity, unacceptance...... and all the while hidden beneath a veneer of success and jollity. Our bohemian home brimmed with secrets, stories, an eclectic range of unusual visitors and huge creativity. My mother was the first female Photo Journalist to work on Fleet Street and used to travel abroad photographing the rich and famous, later becoming a Jeweller. My father was a doctor and gifted musician who preferred playing,

CROSS OVERS. A Summer’s Journey through Modernism and Post-Modernism

CROSS OVERS. A Summer’s Journey through Modernism  and Post-Modernism Reflections on Contemporary Art by Bruni Schling What is art? This question is as old as art itself, but has probably never been asked more frequently than these days when apparently “anything goes”. Never before has the wind of change and innovation blown more vehemently through the art scene, leaving behind a trail of confusion for the public and the artist alike. And yet most people will agree that far from producing only ephemeral and tangential creations, there are artists who succeed in integrating the onslaught of influences from everywhere and create works, which epitomise the spirit of the age. Among the encounters of art I had last summer there were four that stood out for me as attempts to bringing together established notions of art with new and unusual elements. Each work or artist took a different route in mediating between cultures, genres, generations and styles. For i

solo show by artist Ida Ivanka Kubler

“THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA” Curated by Laura Cave A solo show by artist Ida Ivanka Kubler At Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace Notting Hill  21st November 2013 – 4th January 2014 (private view on the 21 st  of November 2013, 6-9pm)   For this exhibition Ida Ivanka Kubler will present new artwork pieces from her successful series “The Birth of an Idea”. These artworks are rectangular painted canvases with sculptured, colored and arranged silk cocoons. The resulting half-object paintings are kaleidoscopic. Tension is created by the silk cocoon groupings and contrasting colors. The repetition in her artwork is at once geometric and ordered but is also subversive in its use of color. The overall effect is one that the viewer finds instantly known, visceral and transcendent or what the artist calls “imaginative touch”. The artist says “My art introduces the viewer to the passions of tactile experiences, which I feel when I am producing those artworks”. “The Birth of an Idea” series ha