Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini chose to title one of his short stories, “The Earth as Seen from the Moon.” The story centres around a widower and his son who are searching for the perfect woman. Apart from the beautiful story, what most impressed me was, and still is, the title. I have…
Alighiero Boetti and Donald Judd are two artists who have used external collaborators, those existing outside and not involved with the conceptual stages of preparing the artwork, in the creation of their art. They do so by using skills commonly associated with handmade crafts. Giorgio Guglielmino examines the close ties between two separate modes of…
To start a new series of Jamini with a topic like “Crafts” will no doubt strike some as a peculiar decision. When we think of crafts, we think of a medium that is closely linked to tradition, embedded in manual work and far from cutting edge contemporary art. This indigenous art form stands in stark…
