Arthur Tonnerre

Art Journalist

Author: Arthur Tonnerre

  • Paul Sietsema

    Paul Sietsema

    Preview article on exhibition by Paul Sietsema

    “Sietsema’s current exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery demonstrates this practice in full maturity. The new works on the ground floor (with their unplugged rotary telephones and paint-soaked CDs) exist as archaeological artefacts of our own recent past, whilst the earlier pieces in the basement reveal the artist’s commitment to excavating the material memory embedded in cultural objects. Together, they confirm Sietsema as one of contemporary art’s most rigorous investigators of how meaning accretes through the physical residue of use, time, and exchange. In an era defined by the dematerialised circulation of images, his insistence on the thereness of objects (their weight, their decay, their indexical traces) offers a counterpoint, reminding us that even in reproduction, something material remains.”

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  • Golnaz Fathi

    Golnaz Fathi

    An article on Iranian artist Golnaz Fathi.

    Excerpt online full article in print.

    “What attracted you to calligraphy? What about it do you find so expressive?

    For discovering calligraphy, I am thankful to my father: one summer at the age of 14 he took me, my sister, and a few of our friends to the calligraphy association in Tehran for the two months of summer classes. His aim was that we would have nice handwriting and in future that would help us a lot if we wanted to get a job—he never knew that there would be computers and we won’t fill out the applications by hand to [need to] have this priority to have nice handwriting! I fell in love with calligraphy in the first section and I was the only one who continued it. For me it was purely a meditation; when I was practicing, I wasn’t in this world, my body was here but my soul somewhere else. This love was that strong that it made me continue professionally in the highest level. I think calligraphy is spiritual and mystical; it’s a kind of deep meditation which needs a lifetime practice.”

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    Golnaz Fathi: Calligraphy, movement in Iranian art The art of Iran is intrinsically bound with religion and the calligraphic interpretation of their sacred texts. Golnaz Fathi

  • Art Writing by Arthur Tonnerre

    Art Writing by Arthur Tonnerre

    This is a blog for the articles and essay by Trebuchet writer Arthur Tonnerre

    About me:
    Ex-London based reader of art and culture. LSE Masters Graduate. Arts and Culture writer since 1995 for Trebuchet. Future Publishing, Conde Nast, Wig Magazine and Oyster. Specialist subjects include; media, philosophy, cultural aesthetics, contemporary art and French wine. When not searching for road-worn copies of eighteenth-century travelogues he can be found loitering in the inspirational uplands of art galleries throughout Europe.

    I’ll post links here but you can read the full length pieces at Trebuchet Magazine