January 1, 2019
Published in: Avant-Garde
“THE MYTH IS IN ART,” words spoken by abstract creator, Yves Klein. This line is taken from a piece performed on the stage in 1960. Simple yet strikingly complex. The Monotone-Silence Symphony (first performed in 1960), a performance in which an orchestra plays a single note for 20 minutes, followed by a 20-minute period of silence. Someone seen as divinely sublime. He was an e…
June 28, 2012
Published in: Avant-Garde, Editorials
Emily Senko has gone decidedly monochromatic in Marcus Ohlsson’s “Divine Swim,” for the July issue of Velvet Magazine. Shot in “pillar-style,” these black/white images take on the look of “Helmut Newton,” in his heyday. An era that was famous for these kind of “ground-up” angles, the result is a modern vision with vintag…