text and typography artist research continued.

“a questionable choice” by kristin mciver

Not sure who this is by still trying to find out.

I liked the text of this and the composition.

If you’re looking for a hilarious ending to the design nerd controversy over the “Make Mistakes” poster on Fab, it’s certainly this:

The folks at @fab admit their mistake, agree to give profits to charity of my choice. (Planned Parenthood btw.) bit.ly/xCG3kk
February 27, 2012

Just because i liked it.

Kyung Woo Han: Greenhouse
 kyungwoohan.com

One day left till group B1 Exhibition

One day to go until our exhibition and even tho we have had a slight technical glitch with Dave's video, god dam hate macs, we do have a back up plan, which we are putting into action tomorrow. today has entailed checking that we have everything and cleaning up and painting the  gallery space. we have also started to put up signs. we will be spending all day tomorrow installing the exhibition so that the couple of hours we have Thursday morning can be spent checking everything, for 10am when the exhibition is due to start.

Just a few pics from today.

Feedback wall

Artists recommended to look at by Graham

Glenn Ligon
http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/glenn-ligon/


Impediment                                                                
2006
neon, paint
5 x 51.3 inches
12.7 x 130.3 cm
Ed. 7














(miserable) life #11

2008
oil stick and gesso on paper
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)


 


Janet Zweig www.janetzweig.com

Her Recursive Apology
1993
Paper, 4,386,375 apologies4" X 9' X 9'

The residue of a procedure. 4,386,375 apologies were randomly generated on over 8,000 sheets of continuous paper in tiny type. No two sheets are alike. The spiralling stacks grow progressively larger. A suspended work in progress.

Jacob van Loon interview (tumlr monday )link - http://artchipel.tumblr.com/

Andre Petterson (b.1950, Netherlands/Canada) - Cascade Forward. Mixed media on panel, 42 x 28 in.

http://artchipel.tumblr.com/We are pleased to have Jacob van Loon for this Tumblr Monday to share with us one of his favorite contemporary mixed media artists, Andre Petterson.

Stravinsky had a finger in every pot when creating Le Sacre du Printemps. Partnering with contemporaries Vaslav Nijinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, and Nicholas Roerich, he imposed the Avant Garde ideal onto ballet, a concert genre deeply engrained into the Russian Patronage. The fluttering dissonance of Stravinsky’s composition was regarded as unnerving by spectators. The visual barrage of Roerich’s costuming, activated by Nijinsky’s jutting choreography, proved too much for the audience that Paris Spring in 1913. By the second act, the groundbreaking event opened a sinkhole straight “to hell” in the brand new floor of Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Effective art confronts. It rearranges what is familiar, and does so thoroughly enough to generate questions without offering concerting answers. Andre Petterson is a Holland-born mixed-media Artist working from Canada. Synthesizing photography, drawing, and sculpture, his work focuses on objects ushered into obsolescence by unrelenting technological innovations of the 20th century. He expounds on this premise with drawings of typewriters, bicycles, sewing machines, books, and horses.

There is a sense of immediacy and apparent violence in his markmaking. In a less direct way, Petterson’s approach also has a comical element— the scale of the images are compromising, ebbing on either side of too large or too small in comparison to their real-life counterparts. The objects often read as flat, floating in the middle of a void. The singularity is iconographic and impacting in the same way a reliquary is, if stolen from a church. As a mixed media Artist, his use of photography as a medium enforces the concept, appearing as a seamless continuation of the narrative.

Outside of the commentary Petterson establishes on impermanence, the spectrum from which he pulls influence resounds visually. The dynamism preserved in each piece is allegorical to the movements of a symphony. His background as a musician, partnered with his upbringing as the child of two trade workers, is the braided strand unifying his retrospective.

Le Sacre du Printemps is regarded as a masterpiece; a hybridization of progressive Art forms which transcended the controversy of the debut moment. Stravinsky and his counterparts confronted their audience with a well-crafted synthesis of sound and object. Where Andre Petterson doesn’t aim to supplant, he confronts. The past is brought to the present and causes us to speak.

Just because i liked it.

Mathilde Roussel, Lifes of Grass. soil, wheat seeds, structure from recycled metal, fabric.

“The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Through these anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds, I strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world - of abundance, of famine - and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.

More JI Lee

pleaseenjoy.com

Duchamp Reloaded

Time Magazine: End of the World

Rejected proposal for the Time's cover for the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

Second rejected proposal for the Time's cover on the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

Approved version for the Time's article on the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

You're here. And...

Word as Image by Ji Lee

you dont get the full affect with the images but if you go to my tumblr link http://www.tumblr.com/blog/whatuseeiswhatugetme you can see them in action.

I Just really like this piece so I'm blogging it.

Meetings Along the Edge

Original Artwork: Patricia Oblack

http://paptriciaoblack.com    http://www.blurb.com/books/196889

Reading group 'Death of the Author' Roland Barthes ( Graham)

I found this reading really interesting, I have never studied philosophy but have always been interested in the subject, probably because I'm very opinionated. That is not to say I expect everyone to agree with my opinions. I wanted to just mention a few points about the text itself that interested me.

1. As with art it is the work that speaks not the artist.
2. All objects are just that,object, until found and life breathed back into the ( the ready made)
3. Respect of all mediums and artists present and that have come before. (except Damien Hurst)
4. We are all influenced by that which has come before whether this be consciously or unconsciously.
5. You can never truly understand what a work was originally about even if the artist explains it, as things get lost in all translation there is also the possibility of fabrication. This I feel is were Barthes ideas of the birth of the reader comes in. 

There was however one aspect that we talked about which i did however disagree with, which concerned Mallarme. this was in reference to a footnote that graham included about Mallarme's book (Le Livre) which he "envisioned as a cosmic text..a flexible structure that would contain .." all existing relations between everything".."this 'Grande Oeuvre',..freed from the subjectivity of its author and containing the sum of all books,represented for Mallarme the essence of all literature...the realization of this pure work....."  when this was discussed I made the point that Mallarme there for must have seen himself as Author/God. Graham disagreed with this and gave the opinion that he was more like a curator or librarian. This is where I go on a rant, as if he intended to create a tomb of sorts it would include all that he saw as literature or great literature, he would be the one deciding what was included and what would not be, even to the precise amount of people that he clearly felt there where in the world that had the right to read it. This to me congers up the image of a dictator or one of the many American so called religious! cult leader who bastardize the bible for there own benefit picking and choosing parts of it and rewriting it to fit in to there own narcissistic notions. Which is basically what Mallarme had the intention to do,to create, "the Essence of of all literature".

Text for 'does that make sense'

I've been looking at different artist that use text and the styles and themes they construct for inspiration for the text aspect of my piece. i came across Joseph Kosuth who's work The Beckett plays gave me the idea to have the words blurred as if out of focus.

These are some test pieces i did today using charcoal and inscriber pastels.

 

Self portraits

This is the first of the two self portraits that I am painting as mentioned in earlier blog.

Taken without Flash

Taken with Flash

miquel barcelo

The spanish government officially presented miquel barceló’s latest art installation in the UN’s palace of nations in geneva. the controversial work of art is a massive sculptural installation located on the domed ceiling of the building’s newly created human rights and alliance of civilizations chamber. the work consists of multi-coloured stalactite forms that appear to look like colourful icicles dripping from the ceiling.

Martin Kippenberger untitled 1991

Latex,pigment,acrylic on canvas.

Fabienne Verdier is a painter of contemporary French, born 3 March 1962 in Paris. ‘She paints on large floor-standing chassis with new tools she has crafted herself and that enable a new approach of line and shape. It seeks to explore the relationship between movement, matter and the fundamental force of gravitation. She regularly exhibits his work in Europe. It came in many collections, including the Centre Pompidou , the Musée Cernuschi in Paris or the foundation H.Looser in Zurich.

Howl inspired painting up date's 18/02/12

Thursday 16th Feb 2012

Friday 17th Feb 2012

I have started working on another painting, well a duo, of self portraits in acrylic, taking inspiration from Maaike Schoorel's self portrait in black 2010,

 and Keith Coventry's spectrum Jesus series.