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Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts
09 March 2011
18 December 2010
A sea of seeds
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| Ai Wei Wei's infinite sea of porcelain sun seeds at the Tate Modern in London. |
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| They look very much like the real seeds but they were all made and painted by hand in China in one town where all of a sudden every body had this temporary job. As you know we are not allowed to walk on them as it was first possible, but now we can't even touch the work and there is a person checking you don't get nearer than a meter. Well, what can I say, at least I could take pictures of the seemingly dirty seeds. |
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| The most interesting part of this work is possibly the metaphor on China, its inhabitants, the way of working, the "made in China" concept. It amazes to know there are so many millions of seed reproductions, one by one they are imitating nature, and probably a seed that we had never paid that much attention before. The total work is not an extremely beautiful work, it is just a sea of seeds. |
12 December 2010
30 works in 30 days
Demián Ortega takes The Curve of the Barbican by surprise. 30 works made on a selection of news in the month September 2010. He selected and reacted to the newspaper news with one installation or sculpture per day.
The chairs photo comes from the facebook page of the Barbican as half way the exhibition I was asked not to take photographs. Why not?
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| as soon as you see the photo from Barbican FB page. |
09 November 2010
03 October 2010
Carry-on
'Carry-on', an exhibition of David Horvitz. Photos, video, installation.
Here a re-installation of an installation of Bas Jan Ader based on the original description by the artist. Another work is the Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film.
One of the paintings by Marley Freeman, one of the selected artists for 'Carry-on' by David Horvitz
The rest of the artists: Michael Bell-Smith, Paul Branca, Colleen Brown, Dylan Chatain, Joanne Cheung and Beau Sievers, Dexter Sinister, Marc Handelman, Tim Ridlen, Maxwell Simmer, Ed Steck, Penelope Umbrico.
Galerie West, The Hague
Here a re-installation of an installation of Bas Jan Ader based on the original description by the artist. Another work is the Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film.
One of the paintings by Marley Freeman, one of the selected artists for 'Carry-on' by David Horvitz
The rest of the artists: Michael Bell-Smith, Paul Branca, Colleen Brown, Dylan Chatain, Joanne Cheung and Beau Sievers, Dexter Sinister, Marc Handelman, Tim Ridlen, Maxwell Simmer, Ed Steck, Penelope Umbrico.
Galerie West, The Hague
17 September 2010
The last suppers
All about food.
An impressive and moving exhibition of Raul Ortega Ayala at Stroom The Hague.
The presentation of The Last Supper (Het laatste avondmaal) The Hague version and other works.
Hungry? or Satisfied?
A fatty Babel's Tower.
After one week.
mmh?
Re doing the buffet at the World Trade Center. Ready.
After one week.
Art?
I wonder if the food was so good at the original restaurant. I think (nearly) every body was at the same time thinking of 9/11 as they were enjoying the food.
The work I was most impressed with at the exhibition was the menus of last meals from famous people like JFK in a very sober, traditional surrounding.
(Not) The Last Supper, after one week.
The Last Supper after two weeks.
The video 2x
The (last table) and the video underneath.
The artist Raul Ayala, in pink, with his family.
Photo's by LNA Da Santis and Marisa Polin
An impressive and moving exhibition of Raul Ortega Ayala at Stroom The Hague.
The presentation of The Last Supper (Het laatste avondmaal) The Hague version and other works.
Hungry? or Satisfied?
A fatty Babel's Tower.
After one week.
mmh?
Re doing the buffet at the World Trade Center. Ready.
After one week.
Art?
I wonder if the food was so good at the original restaurant. I think (nearly) every body was at the same time thinking of 9/11 as they were enjoying the food.
The work I was most impressed with at the exhibition was the menus of last meals from famous people like JFK in a very sober, traditional surrounding.
(Not) The Last Supper, after one week.
The Last Supper after two weeks.
The video 2x
The (last table) and the video underneath.
The artist Raul Ayala, in pink, with his family.
Photo's by LNA Da Santis and Marisa Polin
16 September 2010
12 August 2010
30 June 2010
23 May 2010
First television convention, #2
(Mini)Re-enactment of The First Television Convention (1978) of Raul Marroquín (also) at The Jan van Eyck Academy (JVE) of Maastricht, only during the KunstTour this weekend. Mini in size, 50 instead of 250 televisions, intensity, insanity and time.
Recently, installation and performance revisionism has taken over the art institutions . With the Marina Abramovic's show at the MoMA as the best example. Curators, art historians and art philosophers have found a new way of trying to re-direct the art path.
One of the performance re-enactments.
Curator Lene ter Haar from B32, talking about the origins of the First Television Convention.
They are the new art-cheologists, recovering and studying dusty attics and archives, gathering old material, and finding new 'Mc-Luchanist' reasons to the art works of the 60's and 70's.
The Jan van Eyck Acadamy is honouring the founders of the former Agora Gallery of Maastricht (1972-1985) where many of the video, fluxus, art mail and performance artists started their professional careers.
Theo van der Aa from Agora.
Artist Raul Marroquin, gallerist Sandra Stevens and Ger van Dijckfrom from Agora.
Left: Artist Martha Hellion also an ex- JVE artist.
The JVE also published a great catalog of the findings of The Agora Archives by Marc Goethals.
Until Monday, also important works from the Agora archives including the Fandangos magazines.
Recently, installation and performance revisionism has taken over the art institutions . With the Marina Abramovic's show at the MoMA as the best example. Curators, art historians and art philosophers have found a new way of trying to re-direct the art path.
One of the performance re-enactments.
Curator Lene ter Haar from B32, talking about the origins of the First Television Convention.
They are the new art-cheologists, recovering and studying dusty attics and archives, gathering old material, and finding new 'Mc-Luchanist' reasons to the art works of the 60's and 70's.
The Jan van Eyck Acadamy is honouring the founders of the former Agora Gallery of Maastricht (1972-1985) where many of the video, fluxus, art mail and performance artists started their professional careers.
Theo van der Aa from Agora.
Artist Raul Marroquin, gallerist Sandra Stevens and Ger van Dijckfrom from Agora.
Left: Artist Martha Hellion also an ex- JVE artist.
The JVE also published a great catalog of the findings of The Agora Archives by Marc Goethals.
Until Monday, also important works from the Agora archives including the Fandangos magazines.
18 April 2010
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