Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012

Tauba Auerbach


















Tauba Auerbach (American, b. 1981). RGB Colorspace Atlas. 2011. Digital offset print on paper, case bound books, with airbrushed cloth cover and page edges. Binding co-designed by Daniel E. Kelm and Tauba Auerbach. The books were bound by Daniel E.Kelm and assisted by Leah Hughes at the Wide Awake Garage. 8 x 8 x 8″ (20.3 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm). Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Tauba Auerbach.


http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/ecstaticalphabets/tauba-auerbach/


Samstag, 28. Juli 2012

Freitag, 27. Juli 2012

The Amateurist Network







































An A.N. event today at Tate.



Our (Boo Wallin's and my) poster (produced for an event at the ICA earlier this year) projected during the event:





















Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012

Estorick Collection: Munari and co.


















The Estorick Collection in Islington is currently hosting an exhibition on Italian Abstract Art from the 1930s up until the 1980s. Among others, it shows work by Munari. Islington Exhibits, an event and exhibition series organised by Rowan Arts organised a free talk with the assistant curator Christopher Adams today.




Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012

First Clown



On a walk on Pentonville Road I discovered the grave of the first clown. "Joseph Grimaldi, 1778-1837. Joseph Grimaldi was 5 years old when he first went on the stage of Sadler's Wells with his father, and worked there for 43 years as performer and part-proprietor.
From his debut in 1806 at Covent Garden in Mother Goose he was adored by all and could fill a theatre anywhere. The name Joey has passed into our language to mean a clown.
He lived all his life among the people of Clerkenwell and died at 33 Southampton Street now called Calshot Street.
Islington Council has called the park in which he lies buried the Joseph Grimaldi Park to commemorate a great artist and a great man."

Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012

IRMAR: By heading towards nothing, we allow all to appear

"Wir finden, dass es zuviele Dinge gibt. Aus diesem Grund haben wir entschieden, das Nichts zu erforschen. Insofern als das Nichts (die Stille oder die Leere) nicht existieren, sind es ihre Potentialitäten, denen wir uns stellen. Anders gesagt: den Größt-Möglichkeiten eines Dings, eines Geräuschs, eines Ereignisses.
 Indem wir auf das Nichts zusteuern, erlauben wir Allem zu erscheinen.
Um das zu erreichen benutzen wir Dinge, Geräusche, Schauspieler. Für die Schauspieler geht es darum, Verbindungen zu knüpfen zwischen den Dingen und den Geräuschen; und das im durch den Theaterraum definierten Rahmen. Es geht darum räumliche oder auditive Systeme zu erschaffen, die zum Nichts führen, also zu nichts anderem als zu dem was sie sind.
Bei unseren Arbeiten steht das Spezielle des Theaterraums zur Debatte. Wir positionieren uns in einem traditionellen Bühne/Zuschauer-Verhältnis, wir benutzen also dieselben Mittel wie die meisten unserer Kollegen. Was es allerdings bei uns nicht gibt, ist eine fiktive Erzählung, es gibt auch keine Schauspieler, die Emotionen interpretieren oder vermitteln. Es geht vielmehr darum eine neutrale Spannung zwischen Oben und Unten zu entwickeln, die die « Zuschauer » dazu bewegt, eine permanente Aufmerksamkeit den Ereignissen auf der Bühne entgegenzubringen – sich zu jedem Zeitpunkt befragend, was passiert." IRMAR http://irmarien.blogspot.co.uk/

Montag, 9. Juli 2012

Wilhelm Deffke

J.A. Henkels

"Precision guided Deffke's practice at every turn. In 1909 he worked for the leading design precisionist, Peter Behrens, and watched as he built-up the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) brand through the concerted integration of graphics, product design and architecture. Deffke learned that a pure mark void of superfluous ornamentation could communicate directly with the public like few other business tools. After leaving Behrens' employ, Deffke became a design consultant to Otto Elsner Verlag, where he focused on developing the firm's identity."
(etc. from the designobserver by Steven Heller)

Otto Elsner Verlag

Altona A.D. Elbe

Sonntag, 1. Juli 2012

Sally Mann, 10x8 (~)

Art:21 | Sally Mann

Edward Burtynsky at the Photographer's Gallery






















A truly impressive exhibition.

"In 1997 Edward Burtynsky had what he now calls his "oil epiphany". Having just filled up his car at a petrol station, it came to him that, as he puts it, "the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over 20 years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine". His work ever since has been about oil: its production, transportation and myriad uses as well as the environmental cost engendered by the same." (from: Guardian.com)

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

http://www.burtynskyoil.com/