STICKY-TAPE PERSPECTIVES

Multidisciplinary artist Damien Gilley creates sculptural installations

 

Multidisciplinary artist Damien Gilley creates sculptural installations that quickly redefine space through the use of optical illusions. By combining math with various materials including paint, masking tape, drywall, vinyl, wood, and foam core, he finds all kinds of ways to alter his viewers' perceptions of reality. The installations, which feature fake walls extending out from real walls, tape drawings, and imaginary hallways emerging off of flat surfaces, are Gilley's attempt to "reconfigure the built environment to provide alternative viewing experiences that complicate rational space."

 

The Oregon-based artist doesn't limit himself to four enclosed walls. He finds ways to travel beyond the limitations of architecture and he invites his viewers to come along for the visually intriguing experience. Each of Gilley's constructed walls are purposefully placed to react naturally with the existing interior and, from a distance, it's quite difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. All of his deceptive, incomprehensible spaces are simply mind-blowing!
 

All to be found on mymodernmet.com LINK

ALL APART

Todd McLellan 

Calls himself just a photographer with a camera or two. He has a taste for taking things apart. 
Her some examples:

Here's his VIMEO

BARTEK ELSNER [PAPER WORKS]

Bartek Elsner, if that's his name, makes the most beautiful pieces of cardboard artworks.

To see where this came from: Click here

SMALL FILM ON BIG BALDESSARI

The ... made a wonderful film on John Baldessari. For those that have not heard of this man.

Leave it to filmmakers, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost of Supermarche, to come up with an original way to shorten the biography of world-renowned, American artist, John Baldessari to 6 minutes. Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual “Art + Film Gala,” honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood, the short documentary, written by Gabriel Nussbaum and narrated by the definitive voice of Baldessari’s dear friend Tom Waits is a refreshing take on the classic video interview. The doc captivates and informs its audience with a witty narrative, using graphics and visuals, not unfamiliar to Baldessari’s own work.

Supermarche is known best for their somewhat controversial, documentary-style feature, Catfish, about a relationship that blossoms over the internet. Good to see that they they continue to push the limits of documentary filmmaking.

John Anthony Baldessari (born June 17, 1931) is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica andVenice, California

Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid 1960s. In 1970 he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography.^[1]He has created thousands of works that demonstrate—and, in many cases, combine—the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language within the boundaries of the work of art. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.^[2] His work influenced Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Barbara Kruger among others.^[3]

John's home

PARIS - LE MONSTRE DE MORETTI

Good news: The Monster of Moretti is back to visit.


The 'Monstre' is located in the bowels of La Defense, it is a sculpture and installation by Raymond Moretti. he built it in the studio that he lives in the brand new architectural 'monster' La Defense, possessed.
Les Journées du Patrimoine [guardian of the Parisian heritage] reopened the workshop and living space by Raymond Moretti, abandoned since 2005, the year of the death of its creator.

Right the chimney of the 'Monster'

Before 2005, the installation was open to the public every day

Moretti stond bekend om als ontwerper van posters

The installation seen from the balcony
(for security reasons you can not descend)
The shadows on the walls are painted

Parts are scattered on the ground

A walk in a theatrical setting

Subscribe to a visit of the machinery

Pictures made by the visitors, who to their surprise were guided as a group of six, by an expert on the history of the business district, offering everything some very passionate commentary.
More information in the blog article Condition Venus.

ROME [1] DOMENICO GNOLI

It is quite some time ago when I visited The Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna eContemporanea. I guess it is still there, at the Viale delle Belle Arti and did not merge into the new MAXXI.

The interesting thing of the museum is it's chaotic [Italian?] charm. A lot of different painters 'hurled', more or less chronologically into the halls. 

I love a museum like this. It gives you a chance to discover new names. It also offered the opportunity to see some Gnoli's. 

His oeuvre is not that big and his work is seldom on show.

Now there was suddenly some exposure. I discovered it on Trendland. 

Domenico Gnoli with Black Hair, s'Estaca, Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain, Summer 1969

Life exerpt: Is there any question more vexing for the devoted fan than what could have been? Admirers and collectors of the late Italian artist Domenico Gnoli must surely be asking themselves this question yet again this week now that New York’s Luxembourg & Dayan gallery has mounted the first U.S. show devoted to Gnoli since his death four decades ago. In 1969, after a successful solo show at the trail-blazing Sidney Janis gallery in New York, the beautiful, bohemian dandy with an abundance of talent—he was also a leading illustrator and stage designer early in his career—was poised to become a major art star. But his career was cut tragically short, when he died a few months later of cancer, at only 36.

Read more on Wmagazine

For NY-ers: Luxembourg & Dayan on show untill june 30 [2012]

Source: http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/thedailyw/2012/05/01/artist-domenico-gnoli.htm#ixzz1ysaldGCt

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

I was struck by the works of artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. You can browse his website and see so many interesting ideas  / photos / films. There is enough for everybody. Some things will remind you of Eliason, some of Abramovich. But it's more this time captured then looking like.

Lozano's Website

Here are some of his videos:

It also reminded me of an interview by Chris Dercon in Dutch Newspaper NRC [5-3-2012] where he makes a statement about the enormous lust for participation, visitor's of museums have nowadays. There is a link, but only available for subscribers of NRC

Quote: 'De Tate biedt een vorm van troost' Volgens Chris Dercon, directeur van Tate Modern, is de nieuwe museumbezoeker geen consument meer maar deelnemer. Er is een enorme zucht naar participatie ... 

LES LALANNES

The American Gallery Paul Kasmin organizes a retrospective of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. Claude Lalanne (b. 1924) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) were a couple that dominated French art for quite some time with their interpretations of nature, especially animals. There is an interesting surrealistic tinge to their work. At the beginning of his career Brancusi introduced Lalanne to artists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Tinguely. Francois-Xavier met Claude at his first gallery show in 1952. The show signified an end of painting for Francois-Xavier as he and Claude began their career sculpting together.

The Paul Kasmin Gallery  / More pictures on Trendland

It makes me greedy to look at their work... 

ANISH KAPOOR / PARSIFAL / AMSTERDAM

The Dutch Opera [DNO / De Nederlandse Opera] has brought out a new production of Wagners Parsifal. It went on show in June 2012. Interesting because of the scenography, which is by Anish Kapoor. 

A huge mirror used back and above the singers Had a huge effect on the scenes, as seen above.
Some other examples can be found in the links below.

Kensington Gardens / Smile for London / Turning the world Upside Down

Leviathan / Grand Palais / Paris

And watch this delightful film about a building in New York, yet to be built.

Herzog & de Meuron / Tribeca Plans

In Holland we can always collect our share of visual pleasures in De Pont in Tilburg.

Next a link [maybe only for dutch viewers] showing an interviewing with Kapoor and Audi.

MUSICAL FALL

Old but a delight to watch again...



Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
The man, the maker: Renaud Hallee

SONARSOUNDS 4 CHRISTMAS

Old already but a delight to watch whenever...


Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
The man, the maker: Renaud Hallee

THORSTEN BRINKMANN

Once again German artist Thorsten Brinkmann  

German born artist Thorsten Brinkmann moves between painting, photography, sculpture, readymades, collage and performance.

Thorsten Brinkmann (Herne, 1971) is an active collector. In his hometown of Hamburg, he has a large shed completely filled with found objects. Everything you can find at the flea market, you also collect Thorsten Brinkmann at: discarded wardrobes, lamp shades, tables, rugs and more. From this series he draws freely in installations, sculptures, videos and photos.

The photographic self-portraits dresses and masks Thorsten Brinkmann is always another way. One time he pulls secondhand clothes over his head. Other times he hides his face in a flowerpot or lampshade. Using the items from his collection molds Brinkmann each his own body into a new representation of himself.

[Some Dutch tekst hier]

YSL

I will always be fascinated by YSL. His rise and, almost yearly but never actually, fall...
His master craftmanship never wavered. I found this endearing film on Another Magazine.

WAYS OF SEEING / JOHN BERGER

The other day, I was reorganizing my books. It seems the books I own longest are still my treasures and some later aquisitions could be disposed of rather easely. 

I rearranged my collection and first of all I put all books together that I keep for their images, not their text. One wonders how their could ever be a world without books. Art history for instance: I can't imagine you can compare on a computer screen? 

My second catagory are books I find teaching treasures. I only have to look at the book to know how I can use its content in my teachings. John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” is one of my favorites. An in depth look on art, the way people view it and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. The beginning of the book goes into the issue of how people now look at art versus how people in the past look at art and how reproduction has effected this.  The relationship between social status and the subjects of oil painting, particularly the female nude is discussed as well. Berger turns to modern day and explains the role that publicity takes in our daily lives and how it is modeled after the traditional oil painting of the past. It's all there. 

Now in YouTube's era, I thought I'ld give it a go and yes, someone has taken the trouble to upload it all. 

Thanks manwithaplan999. 

He has also shows later series of Ways Of Seeing.

 

Episode one

 

Episode two

  

Episode three

  

Episode four

Wiki: Ways Of Seeing

AUSTIN KLEON

Austin Kleon is a poet.
Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need.

Watch his site www.austinkleon.com and permanently new work on his blog.

There's also a revealing review of his book [and more] on YouTube.

LEONORA CARRINGTON [1917-2011]

De Britse schrijfster, kuntschilder en beeldhouwster Leonora Carrington is in een Mexicaans ziekenhuis overleden. Ze werd gezien als een van de laatste grote surrealisten en is bekend om haar spokerige, dromerige werk. Carrington werd 94 jaar oud.

Het overlijden is door de Mexicaanse raad voor de kunst bevestigd, maar een doodsoorzaak is niet bekendgemaakt. Carrington (wiki) behoorde tot een groep artistieke en politieke vluchtelingen die in de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw emigreerde naar Mexico. Daar vormde ze een invloedrijk trio met Frida Kahlo Remedios Varo.
In Carringtons werk figureerden vogels, katten en eenhoornachtige dieren vaak in bevreemdende situaties. Ze schreef artikelen, romans en gedichten. Maar het meest bekend is ze van haar schilderijen waarvan ze er duizenden maakte en die onder meer in grote steden als New York, Los Angeles, Londen, Parijs en Tokio werden geëxposeerd.
De Briste, geboren in 1917, vertrok op haar twintigste naar Parijs waar ze in contact kwam met Salvador Dalí en Max Ernst. Met laatstgenoemde kreeg ze een relatie, maar nadat Ernst door de nazi’s werd opgepakt raakte ze depressief en kwam in een kliniek terecht. Ze wist echter te ontsnappen en richting Mexico te vluchten.

Bron: NRC

HERMèS MOVES / HERMèS BOUGE

About a year ago, Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka made these windows for Hermès' Tokyo shop. Not able to embed the link press here. 
In olden days there used to be the so called AIDA formula, by which one could analyse the marketing possibilities of your design.
Its an advertising formula that has been time-proven for over 100 years and involves only 4 simple steps.

See the explanation of the formula beneath the picture.

Also note that Tokujin Yoshioka is a great conceptual designer, on which we will blog soon again.

AIDA 

First, you grab your prospect’s attention over what you've got to offer.
Second, you elicit their interest about what you sell.
Third, you amplify their desire to purchase your offer.
Fourth finally, you influence them to take action. Buy!

Buying seems not te be so much the objective here, but a tremendously well-done thing is achieved on the first A of attention grabbing!

Let me present Significant Objects, a website, now lying a bit low, because of the book they're making. The goal: A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

In other words: "Significant Objects combines one of the oldest of all media — the near-improvised short story — with the reinvigorated writer-reader relationship afforded by Web 2.0." — The Independent's Couch Surfer. Follow us on Twitter; join us on Facebook.

Do have alook! http://significantobjects.com/

SNOW BY TOKUIJN YOSHIOKA

Tokujin Yoshioka, the man that designed the fabulous Hermès window display december 2009 [see previous post] did an installation september 2010 [both in Tokyo] called SNOW. Rather appropiate these days... It was a feather snowscape, build up in a 15-metre wide glass space. The dynamic installation was made to move by visitors passing by and was part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum.

Watch the video:


Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka from mocoloco on Vimeo.

And watch Tokujin's website for more fascinating venues.

MOSCHINO'S DALI SALUTE

The New york shop of Moschino showed a Dali inspired windowdisplay this year. Soft furnishing as a salute to the man and his surrealistic art. 

It reminded me of a great story I once read;

It was summer, 1939, when Dali was asked to design a window display for New York 5th Avenue, department store, Bonwit Teller. They may have gotten more than they bargained for, but management might have anticipated the interest the window would create. Salvador Dali was at that time, one of the most famous and notorious painters of his day. 

The theme of the display was Night and Day. But here no ordinary depiction. A four-poster-bed covered with black sheets, scarred with burn marks, symbolized night. The canopy over the bed was a buffalo; in its mouth was a pigeon dripping blood. The feet of the bed were the four feet of the buffalo. Across the bed, covered in cobwebs and dust, lay a wax mannequin, its head propped up on artificial burning coals.

The depiction of day was even more extraordinary. A bathtub lined with ermine and filled with water

occupied most of the window. A mannequin in a voluminous ball gown was stepping into the tub, her features reflected in a mirror held in front of her by two wax arms that reached up from the floor. Flowers sprouted from every available surface of the display.

Once the display was set up, Dali left the store for the night. But when he returned the next morning, he could not believe his eyes. His precious work had been tampered with by an overzealous employee concerned that the window display did not focus on the ballgown. The bed had been removed, the decor altered, and the wax mannequin stepping into the tub had been repositioned so that her gown could be seen to better effect from the street. Dali felt that the whole display had been ruined. 

So enraged was Dali that, without waiting for an explanation, he stormed through the store and forced his way past the store assistants into the window display. In protest he tried to overturn the tub of water, but his foot slipped. In the ensuing melee, Dali and the bathtub crashed through the plate glass window out onto the sidewalk, showering the watching crowd with cold water and splinters of glass. The police were summoned and Dali was arrested on charges of wilful destruction.

Brought into court, Dali was given a suspended sentence.