It’s a Holiday Thing

There is magic in the air this holiday season. Despite all that is going on, joy has taken a stronghold and refuses to give up.

Katrine Levin12 December 2023Comment

Someone is Always Awake

Japanese-born Irish printmaker, Yoko Akino, gently questions our narrative of reality through images centred in nature that seem to ask, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

Katrine Levin3 December 2023Comment

Humans in Nature

Kassou Seydou conjures a world where humans live in harmony with nature and each other. In the warm palette of his canvases, nature is an inseparable part of the human figure and the human experience.

Katrine Levin26 November 2023Comment

Seeing the Invisible

It’s high time we talked about love. Toma Stenko delves into this complex and life-sustaining emotion through a kaleidoscope of colour, balancing movement and stillness to tell stories and create magic.

Katrine Levin20 November 2023Comment

Not Lost in Translation

Part 3 of 3 of Lagidze’s art in his own words. In this last instalment, I take you to a quote that is at the heart of the magic of his works, as well as to an award-winning short film by Elene Montgomery of INSIGHTelevision capturing an Artist Talk with Lagidze at our London exhibition last year, and much more.

Katrine Levin12 November 2023Comment

Presence in Absence

Part 2 of 3 of Lagidze’s art in his words. Part of the magic of Lagidze’s masterpieces is their ability to reflect back to us the best parts of ourselves. This is how he sees it.

Katrine Levin6 November 2023Comment

A Natural Progression

Part 1 of 3: You are in luck. Throughout the month-long exhibition by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze, I am dedicating this blog to his work in his words. These are no ordinary words.

Katrine Levin29 October 2023Comment

Horizon

Curating a new exhibition by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze is a process filled with pleasure and anticipation. As in Forest Gump’s box of chocolates, “you never know what you are going to get” - but in this case, I know I am going to like it.

Katrine Levin22 October 2023Comment

Reverie

Owen Gent is a British artist and illustrator based in Bristol, so he doesn’t exactly fit my niche of art from places less explored. Yet this image made such an impact that I cannot resist sharing it.

Katrine Levin15 October 2023 Comment

Introspection

I am writing this blog while travelling in Portugal, at a time when Israel is again at war, when the world that knows better falls again into the deep grooves of history’s wheels. So it seems appropriate to focus on a Portuguese artist whose introspective works give us hope for peace.

Katrine Levin9 October 2023Comment

Down the Rabbit Hole

Akira Kusaka gives us a glimpse of a parallel universe which opens a window into our reality - or our illusion?

Katrine Levin1 October 2023Comment

My Portrait

As we are preparing for a London exhibition of all new works by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze, it’s a good time to share the story of this portrait - Lagidze’s portrait of me to be precise.

Katrine Levin24 September 2023Comment

Faces of Music

A Hungarian artist, pianist, and synesthet, Gábor Winkler-Nemes captures the essence of genius musicians and composers such as Menuhin, Bartók, and Richter. Their power is palpable even if you are not close to classical music, their personalities transcend the confines of the canvas.

Katrine Levin18 September 2023Comment

In the Eye of the Beholder

Mamuka Dideba asks us if beauty is external, measured by the shifting social and historical perspectives or if it lies within, shaped by the imperfections of a life in the process of being lived.

Katrine Levin11 September 2023Comment

Inner Child

Mariya Golub captures the inner child who survives in all of us despite the process of growing up, where exists unscathed by life’s ups and downs the sweet innocence of pure joy for no reason, reminding us to believe in magic.

Katrine Levin3 September 2023Comment

Orange Flight

Whether it’s sunset or autumn, there is something about the colour orange that lifts the soul. For me it’s the deep, burnt-orange variety that is almost physically luscious, like surrendering to the smooth embrace of a spoonful of orange soufflé.

Katrine Levin28 August 2023Comment

Journeying Within

The hardest journey is the one within. It takes courage to break the safe lull of the familiar daily routine for some time in solitude and quiet contemplation; courage to dive deep for a private audience with your soul, facing the unknown and the darker crevices, a requisite passage towards the light.

Katrine Levin21 August 2023Comment

A Lost Landscape

A Lost Landscape - is it something that once was, the traces of which are left solely in our memories or marked by the void left by their passage? Or is it something waiting to be found - a bright landscape of our dreams and hopes, lost only slightly, waiting for us to find our way to its shores?

Chen LiKatrine Levin13 August 2023chen li, woodblocks, woodblock printsComment