Robert Irwin Work from his oeuvre. “In the 1960s and ’70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or by playing with light through the use of transparent, translucent or reflective materials, […]
Archives for the Month of August, 2012
Michele Abeles
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Michele Abeles Work from her oeuvre. Interview via Rhizome “Your Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: series makes inventive use of the male nude. Many of the images seem to have a humorous consciousness of the history of the female nude in painting and photography. Can you talk a little bit about your use of the male nude and the context in which you […]
Charlotte Poseneske
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Charlotte Poseneske Work from her oeuvre. “Charlotte Poseneske is a German artist who created minimalist and performance-like sculptures and reliefs in the 60s. Having the claim to avoid any subjective artistic statements she preferred to finish her work in truly objective materials like chipboard, corrugated cardboard and steel sheets. In a further step she experimented […]
Clement Valla
Monday, 6 August 2012
Clement Valla Work from The Universal Texture (including the full post / essay from Rhizome) These artists (…) counter the database, understood as a structure of dehumanized power, with the collection, as a form of idiosyncratic, unsystematic, and human memory. They collect what interests them, whatever they feel can and should be included in a […]
Antoine Lefebvre
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Antoine Lefebvre Work from Base Camp at Bielefeld Kunstverein. “Artists Unlimited is pleased with the first exhibition with the cooperation initiative Bielefeld subculture. Antoine Lefebvre, our 80th Guest artist shows his work in the new number to place. The New York artist Antoine Lefebvre plays with targeted media and materials. Raised in the South of France, he lived for a […]
Fayçal Baghriche
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Fayçal Baghriche Work from his oeuvre. “A globe spinning so fast the continents can no longer be made out, flags wrapped around themselves, showing only their red colour, a video reversing the course of time – starting from the formulation of a hypothesis, the works of Fayçal Baghriche undermine our most familiar points of reference […]
Jay Shinn
Friday, 3 August 2012
Jay Shinn Work from his ouevre. The below text is from Post-Op at Mixed Greens. “Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Post-Op, a group exhibition exploring the influence of Op Art within contemporary visual art practice. The recognizable movement of the mid-60s was dismissed by many critics of the time, but the movement—grown out of […]
Egon van Herreweghe
Thursday, 2 August 2012
Egon van Herreweghe Work from Obituary of Time. “To celebrate the last night in my former studio I threw a little party. For me, the experiment was about the elusive nature of time and the accompanying sense of loss that is omnipresent in the act of experiencing. I reflected upon the discobolus sculpture with its […]
Alma Alloro
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Alma Alloro Work from Further Abstracts @ Caesura Gallery. “Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro’s later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany. In pen drawings on architectural paper, later developed into short frenetic animation pieces, Alloro revives the Bauhaus movement’s celebrated core […]