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Archive for May 2009
appropriating art by any means necessary
Needing to know more about Cy Twombly – who he was and his creative influences – I discovered an “incident” that occurred in France to one of his paintings. A fan was so taken with Twombly’s triptych “Phaedrus” that she kissed one of the panels (the mark is more like a grope in the back… (read more)
tale of two sculptures
Generally I’ve found sculpture to be thick, pointless and questionable. Whenever you hear someone ask, “Why is that called art?”, it’s likely that person is pondering incredulously at a sculpture. I don’t know how they get away with it, but sculpture artists have the seemingly unlimited ability to cloud our sense of beauty and poetry… (read more)
stop laughing and get serious
Artist : Camille Rose Garcia Of the stable of art magazines written for the western world, my favourite, and probably the most humble and true, is Juxtapoz; a monthly published out of San Francisco. Two separate, but similar comments in the May 2009 issue made complete sense to me regarding the focus of art in… (read more)
meet the hole in the wall gang
It’s no wonder art galleries are going out of business during the credit crunch. I just hope artists are rigorous in their representation awareness to know that, possibly the reason they might be starving artists is because the profligate galleries are busy sleeping or drilling holes in the wall. This past week, on my most… (read more)
art in your head
Contemporary art, it seems to me, requires contemporary creativity. I don’t mean from the contemporary artists’ point of view, I’m assuming they have an abundance. I mean from us folk: the contemporary viewers struggling to understand contemporary art in this oh so contemporary world. You can never know what the artist means through their peculiar… (read more)
the unremarkable becomes art
Can a photograph be art? Images constructed inside the camera, or via Photoshop can be art-like, so it’s possible that photography can mimic art. But if the image is everyday content, and it’s, well, big, does that make it more art-like? Art World (April/May 2009) makes a “rare” interview with Andreas Gursky about his photographs… (read more)
who needs paper?
In the June 2009 edition of Icon magazine, the Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati responds to a question regarding his working method. Olgiati claims he begins every project by talking. The people in his firm discuss a project and its specific needs and environment for hours, sometimes days, until the focus has revealed itself. During this… (read more)
old media explains contemporary art
“…the designer always has a recipient in mind, but an artist has a different, non-utilitarian agenda and it opens up enormous possibilities for new language.” (from Art World, April/May 2009)