Thursday, February 25, 2010

IN THE ABSENCE OF GRIEF


Currado Malaspina &
Zoe Bat-Leytzan
Malaspina seems to relish in the

the precarious. His unstable public and private conduct always capers on the crag of scandal. From his well-documented addiction to morphine to his gloomy obsession with fashion models and starlettes, Malaspina is a shattered cough of unhurried self-destruction.


That his career has flourished in the process says more of our societal fetish for frail celebrity than about his genuine contribution to the artistic discourse. One would have assumed that the publicity surrounding the horrific suicide of Zoe Bat-Leytzan would have been his undoing, but alas, Currado, the plaster manikin 0f monstrous unfeeling soldiers on.



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

MALASPINA MISSIVES

The scholarship surrounding the oeuvre of Currado Malaspina is astonishing by any measure. Critics, art historians, pundits and poets have all weighed in throughout the years contributing to the ever expanding Malaspina literature. This recent video was sent to me by my former student and current Canadian Undersecretary of Domestic Housing, Chantalle Shegli.

It's nice to know that she is still interested in the arts.