minimal exposition

maarit suomi-väänänen: up and about again

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:10:00 +0000

up and about again 2009
maarit suomi-väänänen

excerpt:

up and about again is moved by motion, laid back in the outback.
dreamlike images depict a datsun100a driving, covered in a thick layer of snow and ice, through a summer landscape. something inexplicable has turned an otherwise ordinary day upside down. pain is hidden.

found at instant cinema

antoinette rouvroy: two videos

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

antoinette rouvroy's youtube channel

more antoinette rouvroy

sander meisner: nacht

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

many thanks to sander meisner for permission to post these images!
all content copyright © sander meisner all rights reserved

via www.sandermeisner.nl
(reposted from 4.27.11)

cy twombly: photographs 1951 - 2010 @ centre for fine arts, brussels

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

cy twombly photographs 1951-2010
01.02 > 29.04.2012
centre for fine arts, brussels

yard sale, lexington 2008

brushes, 2005

untitled, lexington 2008

the artist's shoes, lexington 2005

cabbages, 1998

painting detail and 'by the ionian sea' sculpture, bassano in teverina 1992

tulips, rome 1985

sunset, gaeta 2009

lemon, gaeta 2008

foundry, rome 2000

the exhibition cy twombly photographs 1951-2010 presents more than 100 dry prints, generated from polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on july 5th, 2011. cy twombly’s photographs have been a rather recent discovery. snapping photographs with his polaroid camera since his student days, the artist did not make available to the public his photographic material until the 90s. the subject matter of his photographs varies considerably. from still-life images of flowers and brushes, snap shots of his studio and museum interiors, details from his paintings to views of ancient temples and atmospheric landscapes, the ethereal and delicate photographs reveal the themes that have nourished the artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic art.

photos courtesy bozar.be

more cy twombly

bartholomäus traubeck: the sound of years

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:59:00 +0000

years 2011
a record player that plays slices of wood. year ring data is translated into music.
modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm.

a tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. this data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. it is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). the foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

thanks to land salzburg, schmiede, pro-ject audio, karla spiluttini, ivo francx, vvvv, rohol.

bartholomäus traubeck website

found at everyday listening

dana lynn harper: gender rituals, false fantasies, disguised objects, manipulated viewers

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

enjoy the little things. for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things
9'x13'x2'
sponges, ivory soap, paper towels, found table and dishes

dreamcatcher
5.5'x13'x2'
eggshells, resin, string, embroidery hoops

happiness is homemade
18"x14"x8"
yarn, string, found footstool and mixer, dry soap

statement

many thanks to dana lynn harper for providing the images for this post!

all content copyright © dana lynn harper all rights reserved
via danalynnharper.com

meditation: pétur thomsen | imported landscape

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

all content © pétur thomsen
via pétur thomsen photography

repost from 9/09

more meditation

louise p. sloane: narrative abstraction

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

recent work:

hblues 2011

hblues detail

from narrative abstractions:

mms-1 2004

mms-3 2005

from color/square texture:

blue mass

grey texture 2009

red2009 2009

shiny blue green 2009

nwbluegreen 2008

ys32008 2008

from tactile expressions:

oh brother where art thou?III 2003

hosah 1995

eureka! 1998

from encaustic paintings:

sea foam 1985

many thanks to louise p. sloane for providing the images for this post!

all content copyright © louise p. sloane all rights reserved
via louisepsloane.com

louise p. sloane lives and works in new york. she has been actively engaged as an abstract painter since 1974.

aaron rothman: idle speculation

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

from the series 'idle speculation' 2011
exhibited at pennsylvania academy of the fine arts
october - december 2011

details:

installation:

i fell in love with photography because of its direct connection with what it sees, but i also think that it’s necessary to interrogate how we see. as a photographer, i make both “straight” and obviously manipulated pictures. i don’t see any real separation between these ways of working, but understand them as points on a continuum of photographic transformation. suspended between a literal and direct connection with the thing pictured and the irrevocable distancing of the image itself, photography can function as a kind of metaphor for the limits and possibilities of our perceptual experience and understanding of the world. landscape and architectural space—as a container and distiller of elements of the landscape—are at the core of my work. i am interested in how we, as individuals, experience the landscape on a phenomenological level, as well as how we, collectively, understand ourselves as a part of the landscape.

all content copyright aaron rothman all rights reserved
via aarothman.com

tom friedman: at luhring augustine

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:43:00 +0000

current show at luhring augustine gallery nyc
2.11.12 - 3.17.12

untitled (video camera), 2012
detail

untitled (kite), 2012
wood, paint and monofilament
diameter of base: 41 1/2 inches

untitled (kite, 2012)
detail
figure: 1 1/8 x 3/8 inches

untitled (sun, 2012)
wood, styrofoam and paint
approximately 3,650 12-inch wooden dowels, painted yellow, were stuck and glued into a 12-inch styrofoam ball, at varying angles.
32 x 32 x 32 inches

untitled (pixelated static), 2012
styrofoam and paint
a sheet of styrofoam was carved into a form simulating the curvature of an old television screen. a grid was then drawn onto the surface. a photograph of television static was pixelated, then printed as a value reference for squares cut out of paint adhered to the surface within the grid.
35 x 43 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches

untitled (pixelated static), 2012
detail

untitled (video camera), 2012
wood and paint
63 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches

untitled (apples), 2012
styrofoam and paint
diameter: 68 inches

untitled (apples), 2012
detail

all content via lurhing augustine gallery

found at bill sullivan's fb page

roger ballen: memento mori

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

from the world of photographer roger ballen. a saskia vredeveld film. a netherlands film fund & peacefield film.

many thanks to rogerballenmedia for the link!

roger ballen: boarding house

roger ballen: boarding house

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

fragments 2005

head inside shirt 2001

concealed 2003

bite 2007

retreat 2005

culmination 2007

apprehended 2005

predators 2007

three hands 2006

twirling wires 2001

all content © roger ballen all rights reserved
from boarding house 2009 phaidon press

more art photography
more black and white

folkert gorter: the neurological basis of consciousness is unknown

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

disclaimer at superfamous.com: as you read this, you do not really see the pixels, the screen, your hands, and the surroundings, but an internal and three-dimensional image that reproduces them almost exactly and that is constructed by your brain. the photons emitted by your screen strike the retina of your eyes, which transform them into electrochemical information; the optic nerves relay this information to the visual cortex at the back of the head, where a cascade-like network of nerve cells separates the input into categories (form, color, movement, depth, etc.).

how the brain goes about reuniting these sets of categorized information into a coherent image is still a mystery. this also means that the neurological basis of consciousness is unknown.

all content copyright folkert gorter (superfamous), some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC-SA)
superfamous.com
flickr
but does it float

bachelot & caron: délit d'initiés

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

bachelot caron’s current project belongs to a subterranean history of photography. a history going back to the very origins of the medium, to those archaic mises en scène stuffed with melodrama and fable; a history taking its course today in equally impure jumblings of the painterly and the photographic. a history that is above all that of immoral photography. given that photography has to do with morality. not as we might think because of social codes and decency, but because photography, in all its forms and all its uses, has built up its own set of values. values concentrated in the observation of technical rules and the ensuing aesthetic: a photograph has to match reality or be officially fictional. no muddling of the true with the false.
continued at bachelot caron: délit d'initiés - (la lettre de la photographie)

more at bachelotcaron.fr

cy twombly: sculpture 1954 - 1993

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

untitled 1953

untitled 1955

untitled 1954

untitled 1955

untitled 1959

cyncus 1978

orpheus (du unendliche spur) 1979

untitled 1981

aurore 1981

untitled 1983

untitled 1985

rotalla 1986

untitled 1990

thermopylae 1991

untitled 1992

untitled 1993

all content © cy twombly
via cytwombly.info

more cy twombly
more precursor(s)

christian hetzel: recent paintings

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

(paperwork) 2011

brown stripe 2011

orange black abstract 2011

two 2011

lines b01 2011

texture b38 2011

orange in black 2011

texture b42 2011

abstract 01 2010

wall texture 2007

abstract de terre 2011

silence 2011

package 1996

many thanks to christian hetzel for providing images for this post!

all content copyright © christian hetzel all rights reserved
via hetart.com

rachel de joode: altars, still lifes, and work in progress

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

altars:

still life:

the residue of those celestial objects bound to our sun by gravity:

work in progress:

found at iGNANT - video via iGNAN.TV

all content copyright © rachel de joode all rights reserved
website: racheldejoode.com
tumblr: racheldejoode.tumblr.com

brian kakas: between tradition and innovation

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

from the projects:
architectonics - lh
tectonic perceptions - gaya cac

studio projects - large scale fabrication:

statement

all content copyright © brian kakas all rights reserved
via briankakas.com

found at ceramics now magazine

andré wagner: visible energy

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

express
berlin 2003

swing
spain 2004

vibrations
india 2004

torchlight
new zealand 2006

treptower park
2004

to play with fire
2006

all content © andre wagner all rights reserved
via andré wagner.com

more light painting

nina brauhauser: 2 dimensional objects

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

"o.T . 10201004", 2010

"black composition" 2010

"blue composition" 2009

"5 minute architecture #3", 2008

"5 minute architecture #1", 2008

"flächeraumgefüge 3", 2008

"whites 2", 2007

"flächeraumgefüge 2", 2008

"flächeraumgefüge 4", 2008

"flächeraumgefüge 1", 2008

ausstellungsansichten nina brauhauser "5 minute architecture" in der galerie schütte, 15. august bis 19. september 2009

magdalena jetelová: installations 2002 - 2009

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

atolls: das folkwang atoll baldeneysee 2002

regensburg kunstforum ostdeutsche galerie 2006:

duisburg stifkung-DKM 2006:

stalin monument prague contemporary 2007:

kunsthalle recklinghausen 2007:

brno art open 2009:

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john divola: notes on the observer

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

recent work currently at gallery luisotti, santa monica through 3.10.12

on the occasion of my 60th birthday, 6.6.09, 2:40pm to 2:55pm pst, n33°948.068’ w117°31.096’, 2011

hillside, 1.15.2010, 4:23pm to 4:39pm pst, n33°957.087’ w117°309.025, 2011

summer breeze 3.1.2010

arroyo 2.12.2010

katharina zeimet

many thanks to john divola for providing the images for this post!

all content copyright © john divola, all rights reserved

website: www.faculty.ucr.edu/~divola
more john divola

christian marclay: the clock, telephones

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

excerpt from the clock 2011:

the clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time. marclay has excerpted each of these moments from their original contexts and edited them together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is viewed—marking the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours. the sampled clips come from films of all genres, time periods, and cultures, some lasting only seconds, others minutes, and have been culled from hundreds of films, famous and obscure, into a seamless whole. the result, a melding of video and reality, unfolds with a seemingly endless cast of cameos.
in order to respect the concept of christian marclay's work, spectators are kindly requested to play this video a 0.04 pm, local time. if time is passed, please wait for tomorrow or another day same time. thank you.

telephones 1995:

wilhelm sasnal: at haus der kunst 2.3.12 - 5.13.12

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

untitled 2009 (pope)

untitled (kacper and anka) 2009

kacper 2009

tsunami girl 2011

roy orbison 1 2007

anka in tokyo 2006

forest 2003

the polish painter wilhelm sasnal (b. 1972) paints images using subjects he finds in daily life, the mass media or in history. his subjects range from portraits of his family and friends, to icons of pop culture, from pictures in the current news, to some of the distressing chapters of polish history, including the second world war and the holocaust. from a stylistic point of view, sasnal’s work amalgamates romanticism with realism, pop with abstraction; it shows his expertise in, and enthusiasm for, the history of painting and for painting as a medium. from the mass of pictures that he found in comics, newspapers, on the television and the internet and that are often easily overlooked, he selects a few and creates a unique and very personal documentation of life today. the exhibition provides insights into sasnal’s work since the end of the 1990s and it shows over 60 paintings plus a selection of his films.
the exhibition is organised by
whitechapel gallery, london,
in collaboration with the haus der kunst
all paintings oil on canvas

kate carr: marks, lines, squares, stacks, fabric, plywood, stain

noreply@blogger.com (the viewer) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

from: material sequence
galleri urbane marfa texas 2010

square 3, 24 x 24 inches, baltic birch plywood, wool felt, gel stain

square 8, 18 x 18 inches, baltic birch plywood, wool felt, graphite powder, gel stain

square 1, 36 x 36 inches, baltic birch plywood, wool felt, graphite powder, gel stain

square 4, 24 x 24 inches, baltic birch plywood, wool felt, gel stain

square 6, 18 x 18 inches, baltic birch plywood, wool felt, graphite powder, gel stain

from: lineland
box gallery, new mexico 2009

fabric stack 4, starched cotton, 5.5" x 3" x 3"

fabric stack 3, starched cotton, 12.5" x 3" x 3"

fabric stack 8, 2010, 12 x 6 x 3 inches, starched cotton

from stack series 2008
materials: plywood, fabric

stack 03

stack 02

stack 04

many thanks to kate carr for providing the images for this post!
photos by bill stengel, santa fe nm

statement
art in america 2.23.10

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more at katecarrart.com