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Allan Kaprow made his first public happening, Communication in April 1958 on an American university campus. Except that at the time nobody knows what is happening, including Allan Kaprow who do theorize that shortly after, always in spring 1958, in the journalAnthologist, where he published the article: "Something to take place: a happening. " Artist and academic Alla Kaprow revisit throughout his career Environments, Actions and Happenings he created. These are read in light of this: "I am interested in this continuity, so it is not a reinvention and reconstruction. Using a metaphor or a material that I remember, I invented new work in relation to the current circumstances. "(Mac Allan Kaprow in Lyon, works entered the collection in 1996 and 1998, 2010 .) Today to 40 years of LCdr 40 tonnes of tires are dumped into the nave of the CAPC. Yard and "reinvented".
Environment cult American artist Allan Kaprow, Yard knows his first intrusion into the courtyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1961, success.
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Revealing The Truth: Long long time ago a stranger asked me to make his portrait... So I did. I sent him the image and I never heard back from him again since…
Laboratory to observe, register and archive current events in art. Ephemeral art, performance art, processual art, interventions, feminist art.
“Eternal Performer” and her/ his position within the context of the contemporary world - Milan Kohout’s reply to Wladyslaw Kazmierczak’s text Performance-education-fiction
Milan Kohout, 2011-12-12
Before we investigate the position of artists within the contemporary world, we should first define what is her/his historical role within society. According to my definition, art is an endless Aristotelian circle (wheel) with three rotating words in it — art is politics is life is art is politics is art.1 Of course the word politics is understood as the derivation of the old Greek word “polis” being the city state, where politics was perceived as community anchored care about the common welfare.
Therefore I have always taught my students not “how to make art” but “how to be artists”.
There are three basic faculties defining art: esthetic, cognitive and ethical. And the latter one is absolutely superior. I have been using the metaphor of “eyes” which see just the surface “esthetic” beauty and “brain” as the cognitive processor of the “cunningness” of the work of art. But above all these the most important is “heart” which is caring ethics —morality —which makes us human.
And it is the artist whom I call “The Eternal Performer” who understands this function of art through the ages.
• The Artist - “The Eternal Performer” working in media of his/her historical period and always the indicator of the presence of any ethical decay within a society.
• The Artist - “The Eternal Performer” who is constantly fighting everlasting stupidity of any people's formations and their social systems.
• The Artist - “The Eternal Performer” who from the outset of tribal times, using the artistic and therefore the most communicable tools, always woke up the given community and warned it about the danger of the power deviation created by some of the members of that community.
Du 15 novembre 2012 au 10 février 2013, le CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux confie ses espaces à deux artistes à la forte personnalité et dotés chacun à sa manière d'un puissant impact visuel : Jonathan Binet et Michael Krebber, tous deux peintres. Jonathan Binet, La petite moitié. La présence du corps et des gestes est lisible dans le travail de Jonathan Binet. Chaque toile, chaque ligne, trait, etc. est le résultat d'une préméditation qui génère un parcours truffé d'obstacles, aussi spontané que calculé : l'exposition. Pour Jonathan Binet, le contexte est primordial et l'oeuvre doit s'adapter à l'espace qui devient la condition d'émergence d'une peinture performée. Michael Krebber développe une approche conceptuelle de la peinture en questionnant les racines fondamentales de ce médium, avec et contre les conventions picturales. Sa pratique est empreinte de subversion, d'intransigeance et d'une gestuelle feinte.
The impossibility and enjoyment of attempting to find meaning of a show with references as diverse as Shakespeare, to the Twilight series, to the cosmos.
We’ve been seeing a lot of art in, on, or related to phone booths recently. It makes sense — with cell phones, the structures are on the fast track to being completely obsolete, and being a rather large and awkward, they might as well be used to an artistic end. With that in mind, we’ve put together a brief survey of some of our favorite works of phone booth art from around the world. Some are functional, some are purely artistic, but all of them are interesting odes to an outdated but iconic mode of public communication.
Via Andrea Zeitz
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A spinoff of the food-truck phenomenon, White Walls Boston looks to bring art to public spaces. The U-Haul made several stops outside Boston last weekend and will host two more shows this summer. A 26-foot U-Haul carrying what looked like a sparkling black hole made passersby stop to look in wonder last weekend. The truck was part of a traveling art exhibit called White Walls Boston that visited both predetermined and random locations in Cambridge, Allston, and Jamaica Plain on June 30. It was the first in a three-part series this summer that will showcase projects by local artists.
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce "Twice Told," the gallery's inaugural solo show by emerging artist Stephanie Washburn. Featuring photographs from “Reception” – a series of "television drawings" - her work explores the persistence of human touch in relationship to pictorial flatness, and the resulting interface between painterly and digitally mediated images.
Christo's 'Over The River' project just took another step forward. On Tuesday, commissioners in Fremont County approved a permit for the fabric art project which proposes to hang 5.9 miles of aluminum coated fabric panels across a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River.
At the exhibition "Sensing Nature" Tokujin Yoshioka presents a 15-meter-wide dynamic installation, "Snow" 2010 (1997-).
The scenery of the hundreds kilograms of light feather blown all over and falling down slowly will call for the memory of the snowscape within people's heart.
As a primary member of the Light and Space movement, Pashgian played a pivotal role in establishing the legitimacy of California art in the second half of the 20th C. However, being one of the only women in LA’s macho art scene of the era, her work was often overshadowed. An exhibition of new sculptures at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills, as well as her inclusion in a recent encyclopaedic Pacific Standard Time show, aims to set the record straight.
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Throughout his almost 50-year-long career, Daniel Buren is best known for his use of contrasting stripes as a visual tool that reveals the specific features and dimensions of a site, often transforming the environment for which it was specifically designed. He alters the perception and context of one’s surroundings by modifying the navigation of space, enhancing lighting, obstructing viewpoints, and highlighting certain architectural features. Buren installs his work—much of which is temporary—in the architecture of both public and private spaces ranging from subway platforms to prestigious museums.
Work in situ- “denotes a work made for a particular site, for a particular time and exhibited in this particular site, and therefore not transportable to another place.” Buren has also identified himself as an artist who “lives and works in situ."
Situated work- “a work for the most part inspired by a particular location, but made with the intention that the very same elements of the original work can be reinstalled in different sites following a series of rules, changing each time in response to the given place. In turn, the site is changed by the work.”
Sicilian artist Guiseppe Licari has done the unthinkable. What you see are tree trunks emerging from the ceiling of a gallery space. The idea of “Humus” was to symbiotically combine the growth of trees and lighting to create foreign, organic chandeliers. The work articulates a world where visitors are able to get an exclusive peek at a hidden world beneath a park or forest.
This is not an illusion ~ 2013 is here!
There is nothing wrong with aimlessly wandering through an art gallery. It is actually a favorite pastime of mine. Passively gazing at works enables me to momentarily silence the whirring microprocessor of my mind, escape myself, and even occasionally make room for creative thoughts to drift in. “The exhibition takes its title from Max Frisch’s 1980 novella, Man in the Holocene, in which the narrator gathers selections from encyclopedias and books to preserve knowledge as a deluge threatens to destroy his village. Of particular interest to the narrator is information about our geological present, the Holocene, which includes the development of human civilization. The Holocene is thus our period of geological time, in which we attempt to understand the physical and natural laws that govern the universe and the origins of life, while also coping with the significant extent of our own impact on the Earth’s ecosystems.” Now that that’s out of the way.. I approached In the Holocene at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center without pretense. I simply came equipped with an open mind and a curiosity as to how such a vast and multi-layered subject would be tackled in a gallery setting.
Cardboardmusicboxes by Nic: "My installations are usually made from very simple materials like painted wood, masking tape, or cardboard. I like that when you get close, it looks simple or like something you could do yourself, but when you step back it looks like fiction, like it could be floating in space even if it's just mounted to the wall. It's all a bit banal, but at the same time it's magic."
How much from all what we see or experience, we actually like? Actually very little... Art( as symbols) is supposed to re-create a feeling of connection between things, but the reality is that it happens very rarely, and too often just do the opposite -- make you feel disconnected. We end up disengaging or just passing by...
Freedom, in this estimation, need not be the opposite of discipline. Freedom may be simply this: the creation of our own systems of belief, methods for transforming ourselves, modes of perception, disciplines for living, and collective rituals.
Foucault, during this same period, also came to discuss philosophy, and the work of the philosopher, as a parallel type of practice of self-transformation. He came to see work as a way not simply of communicating our ideas to the world, but of challenging our own positions and changing our thinking. And in this way, Foucault identifies the work of the philosopher with that of the artist, in which the process of doing our work has the capacity to change us, artistic practices that are not just communicative but self-transformative. In the same 1983 interview with which I opened this lecture, Riggins posed the question to Foucault: “Is there a special kinship between your kind of philosophy and the arts in general?” Foucault answers:
“Well, I think I am not in a position to answer. You see, I hate to say it, but it’s true that I am not a really good academic. For me intellectual work is related to what you could call aestheticism, meaning transforming yourself...I am not interested in the academic status of what I am doing because my problem is my own transformation. That’s the reason why, when people say ‘Well, you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else,’ my answer is, [Laughter] ‘Well, do you think I have worked like that all those years to say the same thing and not be changed?’ This transformation of one’s self by one’s own knowledge is, I think, something rather close to the aesthetic experience. Why should a painter work if he is not transformed by his own painting?”
The glass project proposes installations that are staged
to deceive the viewer's mind in order to bring back
the playfulness that is hidden in us. Le cube can juxtapose the real with the virtual
which brings confusion of the genres!
True theatricality of the moment. Fragility of being in the presence of our image,
in the presence of our absence . . . Free & Unique Expressions are the only answer. . . The "glass project" is a visual concept developed by the artist Philippe Lejeune. A new approach to Images happening in real time that don't reflect one specific point of view. More ephemeral & transcendent images defining "each of us' " position in relation to the socio-cultural context. https://projeqt.com/tiil
Les héritiers de cette dynastie de marchands de tableaux ont utilisé leur collection de maîtres pour des montages opaques. Leur chef de file, Guy, mécène de l’UMP, est rattrapé par le fisc. Impossible de savoir le nombre de toiles de maîtres détenues par cette famille. Des centaines, des milliers, valant plusieurs milliards d’euros - entre trois et dix, selon les estimations. Le pionnier, Nathan Wildenstein (1851-1934), né en Alsace, était passé du négoce de chevaux à celui des Watteau, puis des Fragonard. Georges (1892-1963) a élargi sa collection à Cézanne, Degas ou Monet. Daniel (1917-2001) a misé sur Bonnard tout en constituant - retour upper class à la case départ - une écurie de chevaux de course. Guy Wildenstein (65 ans, principal héritier depuis le décès de son frère Alec en 2008), collectionne plutôt les procédures judiciaires et fiscales. Certains tableaux sont parfois prêtés à des musées, sans jamais mentionner leur authentique propriétaire mais sous la sobre mention «collection privée». La plupart ne quittent guère le coffre-fort d’une banque suisse, servant de caution à des montages financiers : ils sont gagés pour emprunter à taux réduit auprès d’une banque, l’argent étant ensuite placé avec un rendement supérieur. Un courrier de 2002 de la banque Coutts (celle de la reine d’Angleterre) aux gestionnaires de fortune de la famille Wildenstein détaille la manœuvre. «La sûreté sera constituée d’une collection d’œuvres d’art d’une valeur estimative pouvant représenter 250 millions de dollars [197 millions d’euros, ndlr], conservée dans l’entrepôt de Zurich. Coutts Bahamas obtiendra une facilité de prêt d’un montant de 100 millions, et investira ces fonds dans le but d’obtenir un rendement suffisant pour payer les intérêts du prêt et générer des flux de trésorerie disponibles.» L’opération est chiffrée : emprunt à 7,4%, placement à 11,2% pour un gain annuel de 3 millions par an. De l’art de se constituer légalement quelque argent de poche tout en dormant.
Paris' Grand Palais was getting ready to showcase French artist Daniel Buren's work for the fifth Monumenta exhibition on Wednesday (May 9). Each year Monume... Buren said he wanted the visitors to take possession of his work, an important notion in his career. "If it (the artwork) is fluid and coherent enough, then I think that the public can have a kind of freedom, do what they want. They wander about; as it is very big they can discover by themselves all the different angles possible. There isn't one part better than the other, for me at least. One can say this is the best angle, but it is the point of view of the one saying it," he told Reuters Television. Visitors wandered below the coloured roofs, but the main attraction of the structure was the mirrors installed by the artist right under the dome of the Grand Palais, the highest point of the museum.Buren's challenge in this exhibition was to make the Grand Palais seem more human to visitors, so they could have a different perspective of it.
L'artiste chinois Li Wei se met en scène dans des situations où, défiant les lois de la gravité, il interroge, non sans humour, nos perceptions de l'espace, nos relations affectives et sociales. Chinese artist Li Wei portrays himself in situations where, defying gravity, he asked, not without humor, our perceptions of space, emotional and social relations.
Some of the works strive to be indecipherable from their everyday inspirations, while others play with scale and material to impart an understated surrealism. All of the lifelike objects contain a quiet poetry, asking viewers to step outside of the endless flood of images and focus on just one. Ron Muek's sculpture "Crouching Boy in Mirror" gains a supernatural power from being "too human," while the delicate texture of Yoshihiro Suda's "Weeds" betrays its materials. These humble works question the limits of authenticity. Can it be perfected? Manufactured like a craft? Our spectacle-centric lives capture and distort authenticity at once by putting it on view. This exhibition, in a way, does the opposite. It doesn't aim to capture authenticity -- the works are obviously replicas made by the artists -- but aims to transcend it, giving it "magical realism." Encountering these pieces gives a similar feeling to seeing a blender for the first time and swearing it must be extraordinary.
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