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Alevtina Kakhidze – Revolutionary Obedience

by on October 30, 2010 in New Art



“Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questions about the motives of that construction.” – Mike Kelle…

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Take a break

by on October 23, 2010 in New Art, sculpture



Remember Zimoun?Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

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Reverse

by on October 12, 2010 in exhibitions, New Art, painting/photo, Poland, sculpture



At the BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz (which has the most poignant introduction of any art gallery I’ve seen so far: “WHAT”), the Polygonum exhibition which opens on October 14th to showcase the Polish region’s visual talents has some tasty discoveries….

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Blocked Keys

by on September 30, 2010 in music, New Art, Uncategorized

The etude by Gyorgy Ligeti I would like you to pay attention to is the second one. It starts at 2’15″.Here is what a competent source has to say about the work: The third etude, “Touches bloquees” (“Blocked Keys”), uses the same technique that first a…

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Cattelan’s Finger

by on September 25, 2010 in controversial, New Art, sculpture

Yet again, Maurizio Cattelan achieved his admitted goal: he is on the covers of magazines.The finger, called L.O.V.E.*, has been erected in front of the Milan stock exchange for the duration of the Fashion Week happening in the city.Everyone is happy: …

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Old-Time Avantgarde

by on September 21, 2010 in Film, music, New Art

Oh, and on a different note, here’s a little bit of pre-mash-up mashing up, for your listening amusement, the one and only John Oswald:It is a fascinating feeling, to realize that today’s contemporary is tomorrow’s retro, that no matter what, everythin…

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How I Got Tino Sehgal

by on September 15, 2010 in exhibitions, New Art, painting/photo, performing, sculpture

1.The exhibition “Sexuality and Transcendence” at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine (open until 19.09) fulfills its task better than it could hope for. If you expect an overwhelming, total experience, you got it all wrong. The space was not desig…

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Within the Lines

by on August 1, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo, theory

What if there was nothing to discover? No story, no thousand words, no answer to a non-riddle? What if it was really, really, just a game of forms and colors?Would it be a sin?Does this lady need a past?Is it really so bad for something to be “just” a …

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Rain, not words

by on June 14, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo

N. Raghavan, Rain V (2009)One reason I like zapping through artist’s pages instead of always looking carefuly at their artist’s statements and curator’s notes is that I don’t need to undo the damage of their own thoughts about their work.The latter oft…

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We cannot go back

by on May 26, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo, Uncategorized

Maybe art, maybe some art, maybe this art, maybe some of this art, serves turning the absence opaque, that is, making it at once palpable and impenetrable, so we cannot go back, so we are stuck in the appreciation of this strange, utopic now, and any a…

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