This is the second part of the WLASze: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences & zero economics.
The first part focused heavily on sciences and tech, so let's focus on art this time around.
Swedish-born photographer Maja Daniels has won the first Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize for her Mady and Monette series: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2295829/maja-daniels-wins-contour-by-getty-images-portrait-
An interesting note on the state of the arts in St Petersburg: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-scene-in-St-Petersburg-hits-an-alltime-low/30463
Of course, the city is suffering from the chip-on-the-shoulder syndrome: the greatness of the last weighing heavily on the present. But aside from that, there is plenty of more current events that make for hard environment. Like censorship?..
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/in-the-frame/#Russian artists’ icon banned from the web
and the episode covered here:
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/09/792013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html
On a positive note, contemporary art festival Territory will be running October 1-8 in Moscow. Here's some info in Russian: http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/65750. And while on topic, a very interesting article on Moscow Biennale and politics of art: http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/65479
More on the topic: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Moscow-biennial-curator-and-artists-explain-why-we-shouldnt-boycott-Russia/30410
Here are some images from the Biennale:
Alia Syed, Panopticon Letters: Missive I (still), 2010‐2013. Single-channel HD digital video, sound, 22:46 min.
Gosia Wlodarczak, Window Shopping Frost Drawing, 2012. 18-day performance, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
On unrelated (to Moscow Biennale), but closely linked to the Sayed's work: superbly airy and depth-focused photography of Peter Zeglis: http://peterzeglis.com/abstract
All via http://cargocollective.com/
Street art and nature art are two concepts that impose art onto the landscape usually without any desire to be organic or 'natural'. But nature itself is a fantastic manipulator of imagery. Here's a fascinating set of photographs from Mauritius that shows an underwater seabed structure which creates an image of a waterfall… Funny thing is - if this was man-made, we'd call it Art (as if everything man-made is not subject to randomness), this being nature, we call it a natural wonder (as if nothing in nature can ever be driven by anything but chance...)
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/mauritius-underwater-waterfall
A matter of chance as a matter of design or vice versa?..
"The layering of the text renders it illegible", according to the Idris Khan's work that involves repetition of textual lines into forming a meditative exercise that is supposed to translate into a meditative experience for the observer. There is no literal meaning. The show is at Victoria Miro, London.
IK_Beyond-the-Black_2013-k.jpg)
Art historian Erwin Panofsky thought that we invent the future out of fragments of the past. Here we invent our own reality out of fragments of artists hyper-real and potentially subconscious meditation… The above images are from 'Walldrawing 2013', an installation "featuring 120,000 lines of text, stamped directly onto the white wall of the gallery".
'Less = more'. But 'more of less = more'… Such is non-euclidian geometry of art… My students at UCD will get it… and my TCD class - be ready - you will get it too...
Good Sunday to you all!
The first part focused heavily on sciences and tech, so let's focus on art this time around.
Swedish-born photographer Maja Daniels has won the first Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize for her Mady and Monette series: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2295829/maja-daniels-wins-contour-by-getty-images-portrait-
An interesting note on the state of the arts in St Petersburg: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-scene-in-St-Petersburg-hits-an-alltime-low/30463
Of course, the city is suffering from the chip-on-the-shoulder syndrome: the greatness of the last weighing heavily on the present. But aside from that, there is plenty of more current events that make for hard environment. Like censorship?..
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/in-the-frame/#Russian artists’ icon banned from the web
and the episode covered here:
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/09/792013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html
On a positive note, contemporary art festival Territory will be running October 1-8 in Moscow. Here's some info in Russian: http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/65750. And while on topic, a very interesting article on Moscow Biennale and politics of art: http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/65479
More on the topic: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Moscow-biennial-curator-and-artists-explain-why-we-shouldnt-boycott-Russia/30410
Here are some images from the Biennale:
Alia Syed, Panopticon Letters: Missive I (still), 2010‐2013. Single-channel HD digital video, sound, 22:46 min.
Gosia Wlodarczak, Window Shopping Frost Drawing, 2012. 18-day performance, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
On unrelated (to Moscow Biennale), but closely linked to the Sayed's work: superbly airy and depth-focused photography of Peter Zeglis: http://peterzeglis.com/abstract
All via http://cargocollective.com/
Street art and nature art are two concepts that impose art onto the landscape usually without any desire to be organic or 'natural'. But nature itself is a fantastic manipulator of imagery. Here's a fascinating set of photographs from Mauritius that shows an underwater seabed structure which creates an image of a waterfall… Funny thing is - if this was man-made, we'd call it Art (as if everything man-made is not subject to randomness), this being nature, we call it a natural wonder (as if nothing in nature can ever be driven by anything but chance...)
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/mauritius-underwater-waterfall
A matter of chance as a matter of design or vice versa?..
"The layering of the text renders it illegible", according to the Idris Khan's work that involves repetition of textual lines into forming a meditative exercise that is supposed to translate into a meditative experience for the observer. There is no literal meaning. The show is at Victoria Miro, London.
IK_Beyond-the-Black_2013-k.jpg)
Art historian Erwin Panofsky thought that we invent the future out of fragments of the past. Here we invent our own reality out of fragments of artists hyper-real and potentially subconscious meditation… The above images are from 'Walldrawing 2013', an installation "featuring 120,000 lines of text, stamped directly onto the white wall of the gallery".
'Less = more'. But 'more of less = more'… Such is non-euclidian geometry of art… My students at UCD will get it… and my TCD class - be ready - you will get it too...
Good Sunday to you all!
