Love for Lamps... to Take Over the World
(Nuok, 18/10/2010)
Lovelamp is one of the artists of Dublin street art scene. In the past few years he has been attracting the attention of the public with his posters and stickers of lamps scattered all over the city. We asked him few questions about his unusual work and his opinion about Dublin street art.
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The Blue Moment
(Sunday Tribune, 27/06/2010)
Richard Williams “The Blue Moment”
Paperback Faber and Faber Ltd. Release: 1 July 2010.
When Miles Davis’ sextet recorded Kind of Blue in a disused Manhattan church in the spring of 1959, the history of music changed its course. Not only jazz, but all music. Artists as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Keith Jarrett, Chris Rea, Robert Wyatt and many others, were all influenced by the two fateful sessions when Davis eventually achieved his aim: “learn all the changes”.
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Couch to Couch
(Compass Magazine and Irish Independent, Lifestyle, 9/06/2010)
French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote: “But the true travellers are they who depart/ For departing's sake; with hearts light as balloons,/ They never swerve from their destinies,/ Saying continuously, without knowing why: 'Let us go on!'/ These have passions formed like clouds.” If Baudelaire was alive, he would probably have appreciated the spirit of CouchSurfing.
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Bacon's Gamble
(10/12/2009)
DUBLIN - You visit his studio for the first time. There are tubes of paint everywhere, papers scattered on the floor, a broken mirror, slashed canvases, paint on the walls. Then you see the paintings. At first you notice a figure messed up by a series of spots and deforming lines. You look more carefully. You notice that the overall image has something – a movement, a peculiar composition of colours given just by those articulated marks. You see a painting that tries to imitate a blurred photograph. You wonder: is it all a “game of chance”, as Bacon used to say?
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