Unseen Art Scene (mirror)

  Cockatoo by Joe Pollitt | 2020   Cockatoo In the foreground a nervous bobbing, large, white feathered, Cockatoo, gyrates backwards and forwards. Perfectly balanced on a weathered moss-infested farmhouse gate. The striking yellow plumage on the top of the head and neck rises, like a wave in the Pacific; the white froth, having been touched by the waning sun, creates the illusion of a freshly made lemon sliced omelette. All of a sudden the direction changes and so begins the bouncing; up and down, like a lone basketball in a well-oiled gym. The thuds of boom, boom, boom on the clean wooden floor. Watching these trance-like Cockatoo practices has somehow, become somewhat, hypnotic... Sleezzpp. The strong talons grip to the rotting wood, holding onto the frame, perched on the sturdy far post. This firm grasp allows for a tiresome rocking movement, like a pyramid tempo on an upright piano. This rhythmical dance is an omen, an anxious preparation for the harsh months to come. ...

Adoration Exhibition at Beautiful Art Gallery, Vichy. “Flourism” Artist: Emmanuel Kavi from Togo Playwright Arthur Miller, wrote his famous one act play, "Incident at Vichy" in 1964, which observes a group of men detained in Vichy, France. The men are all held in a makeshift detention cell, awaiting the unknown. What they are being held for soon becomes apparent, their “racial inspection” by the gendarmes sous Vichy and officers of the German army during the Second World War. The play dissects the true nature of human-beings, focusing on what has been done in the town and how easy tyranny and intimidation can dominate the weak majority. The themes of this short Play revolve around the ideas of guilt, fear and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance.  With this troubled history in mind, to hear of a Congolese man, Christian Miltoni, had set up an establishment supporting the artists of Africa in the centre was qui...