Punctum Arts Advising & Guiding
Bespoke art consulting and guided art & culture tours tailored to encourage discoveries and a deeper understanding of the arts & of the self. The focus is on individual preferences with meticulous attention to detail, enabling an experience of the treasures of art & culture, right in the artist's studio and elsewhere.
The Discovery
The Studio Roam
The Studio Roam
Experience art as it excites, stimulates, soothes, hurts and makes you feel alive...
Daily, we are bombarded with cascading images: the flow of the world, its weather, the movement of people and their machines, the muscular topography of bodies and emotive faces, our own image in the mirror. There is so much to absorb that we too often unconsciously tune out the bulk of it, the daily and the mundane.
Let's gain a different perspective, rediscover something old so that we may see something new.
The Studio Roam
The Studio Roam
The Studio Roam
From the Artists Studio to your home.
Whenever possible, Punctum Arts aims to connect viewers and budding collectors with artists directly. Or visit them at their studios to see artists' works being created and to meet the maker. Discovery their stories and experience the works in the raw...
The Punctum
The Punctum
The Punctum
Punctum (org. latin, means a small, distinct point)
The term punctum was coined by French literary theorist & philosopher Roland Barthes in his book “Camera Lucida” in 1980. In his writing he is specifically using it to explain how some photographs provoke emotional responses in the viewer. I like that idea and I want to expand it to the entire realm of the arts. Some art works can provoke this sensation and that is the beauty of it...
The SPA
The Punctum
The Punctum
SPA (Salon Punctum Arts) is a contemporary re-imagination of French Enlightenment's brilliant idea of the Salon, a key disseminator and promoter of education, that provided a place for people to come together for intellectual discourse. They form the perfect consonant to the Studio Roam. (Read more about it on my Blog.)
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