Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth - Tiger & Turtle (2011) - A walk-along “roller coaster”
Chromatic Typewriter Prints
Tyree Callahan has recycled (or upcycled, perhaps) a classic 1937 Underwood typewriter by replacing letters with sponges soaked across the spectrum with bright yellows, reds, blues and combinations thereof.
Amazing.
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Alejandro Guijarro - Momentum (2010-12)
“The artist travelled to the great quantum mechanics institutions of the world and, using a large-format camera, photographed blackboards as he found them. Momentum displayed the photographs in life-size.
Before he walked into a lecture hall Guijarro had no idea what he might find. He began by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall was included, the blackboard frame was removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. Effectively these are documents. Yet once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Color comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.”
1. Cambridge (2011)
2. Stanford (2012)
3. Berkeley I (2012)
4. Berkeley II (2012)
5. Oxford (2011)
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Taras Polataiko “Sleeping Beauty”, 2012
Performance // National Art Museum in Kiev, Ukraine
Five women evoke Sleeping Beauty, as they take shifts lying on the raised bed.
Members of the public may kiss the beauty on the lips or face, to see if the kiss might awaken her. The parties have signed contracts so that, if she opens her eyes, they they will marry.
While the contracts couldn’t be binding, it seems there is a palpable energy in the space as people confront their desires, internalized fairy tales, and experiences of passivity and initiative. So far, only one of the Beauties has been awakened by a kiss —- the kiss of a woman. Gay marriage is not allowed in Ukraine.
Polataiko hopes that the public might discern a political allegory in the performance as well. Ukraine is perhaps too passive as a nation, tolerating oppressive governments, when a full awakening is called for.
Sandra Kantanen - Untitled (2011) - varnished photographs swept with paintbrush while wet
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Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura (2007-10)
Artist’s statement:
“I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991. In setting up a room to make this kind of photograph, I cover all windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness. Then, I cut a small hole in the material I use to cover the windows. This allows an inverted image of the view outside to flood onto the walls of the room. I would focus my large-format camera on the incoming image on the wall and expose the film. In the beginning, exposures took five to ten hours.
Over time, this project has taken me from my living room to all sorts of interiors around the world. One of the satisfactions I get from making this imagery comes from my seeing the weird and yet natural marriage of the inside and outside.”
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Tomas Saraceno - Poetic Cosmos of the Breath (2007)
Poetic Cosmos was an experimental solar dome launched at dawn on September 22, 2007, in Gunpowder Park, Essex. Saraceno’s utopian vision for cities that float in the air—transforming and joining together like clouds—led him to create a series of experimental structures such as balloons or inflatable modular platforms that could be inhabited and exploit natural energies.
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- Head of a Child III, 2000, oil and acrylic on canvas, 299 cm x 218 cm
- Helnwein working on “Head of a Child II”, 1998, oil and acrylic on canvas
Previously blogged: The Disasters of War
My friend Jose and his awesome idea for metal art. I want one of these turned into earrings or a necklack pendant. Hop to it! :-)
Duh, why didn’t I think of this before?? #metal #art #quarter #cutout #eagle #America #dope (Taken with Instagram)
Everything I post is from alecshao. I don’t care.
Suzy Lelievre - Gravity (2009-2010), engraving and painting on resin
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The title of this may be my favorite thing about it…
Chris Cobb - There is Nothing Wrong in this Whole World (2004), 20,000-book color spectrum
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