You Only Live Twice at Kunsthalle New. Curated by Bea Fremderman. Featuring Sterling Crispin, Rachael Milton, Dmitri Obergfell, Mike Ruiz, Jordan Tate and Guy Michael Davis. “WHEN APPROACHING AN ART OBJECT WE BRING WITH US NOTIONS OF MATERIALISM, SCIENCE AND LOGIC. SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THAT MOMENT WE ARE PROVIDED WITH A RELEASE INTO BELIEF, ILLUSION, OR […]
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Doug Rickard
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Doug Rickard Work from A New American Picture. The older notions of photographers physically exploring their world may have in some ways come to pass. The Egglestons, Shores, Levitts, Winogrands ventured out with perhaps only the loosest intentions or framework of a “project” and allowed the world to provide. It is common now for artists […]
Thomas Eberwein and Marc Kremers
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Thomas Eberwein and Marc Kremers Work from As Found. “The Image as it is. As-Found is our creative response to the trillions of images available on the Internet. The ‘As’ in As-Found stands for the perfection we perceive in these images. These images, as they have been found, are perfect in our eyes, and we want […]
Marco Manray
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Marco Manray Work from Why is there something rather than nothing? and Flatlandia. “Why is there something rather than nothing? This is the question that Leibniz poses while wondering about creation.Entering in the Metaverse, the question remains the same.Why is there something rather than nothing?How will the future landscape be? Where will our avatars pose […]
Tacita Dean
Friday, 29 January 2010
Tacita Dean Work from Floh. There is a fantastic lecture on this work @ Coventry University by Joanna Zylinska. “I do not want to give these images explanations : descriptions by the finder about how and where they were found, or guesses as to what stories they might or might not tell. I want them […]
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel Work from Evidence. Below is a section of Larry Sultan’s (1946-2009) obituary from the New York Times, Larry died yesterday in California. “…In the mid 1970s using a grant and a letter of introduction from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. Sultan and Mike Mandel, who had met as […]
Online Feature
Friday, 11 December 2009
From a recently curated feature for culturehall. ___________________ These works represent an acute awareness of the implications of process. Each image is a self-reflexive critique of photographic processes, digital technologies, contemporary aesthetics, and how the medium functions. The struggle is to connect these four works conceptually in a way that elucidates this meta-photographic inquiry but […]
Leslie Grant
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Leslie Grant Work from Pointing. Pointing is a collection of fantastic and enjoyable appropriations and recontextualizations of images found at flea markets and yard sales, and most likely various and sundry other places. Enjoy. – via The Exposure Project.
Mark Wyse
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Mark Wyse Work from Disavowal. “Disavowal is an engagement with our conflicted relationship to desire. If in a crude sense modernism is an embrace of desire and postmodernism is a critique of that desire, this show seeks to commingle the two. In doing so it explores key works by both contemporary and historical artists who […]
Penelope Umbrico
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Penelope Umbrico Work from the series TVs, Office / Still Lives (as Photocopies), and Mirrors. Umbrico is a photographer/curator of sorts who sources home improvement catalogues/websites as fodder for cultural/conceptual commentary. Her website is full of great projects, that only afraction of are represented here. Some others that I didn’t have the space to publish […]