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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Landscape by Stuart Hall © Stuart Hall
‘Oops,’ someone might have said when the last tree came down on Easter Island. One day, while making really cool art, the islanders realized they’d chopped down too many trees. Without logs to roll their art down the hilltops, or fruit from the trees, without timber for fire, and with the topsoil eroded, there wasn’t arable land left for crops, or wood for building boats to catch fish. The birds stopped coming. They were too far for a rescue. And, since no one noticed, the islanders began to selectively eat each other to stay alive.
© J F Rauzier - Cranach's Dream The New Garden of Eden?
From - If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. Image credit TJ Watt - Oscilloscope
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Tags: Alastair Mackie, Climate Change, Connected the film, Environment, Fairy tales, Forest, Hansel and Gretel, If a Tree Falls, Kahn and Selesnick, Kisa Lala, Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, new york, Park, Sleeping Beauty, Stuart Hall, Tiffany Shlain, Wilderness, Woodlands
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Sculpteur de Nourissons - detail © Charles Matton, Courtesy All Visual Arts, Photo: Tessa Angus
Sculpteur de Nourissons © Charles Matton, Courtesy All Visual Arts, Photo: Tessa Angus
A retrospective of handmade miniature interiors by
Charles Matton is on exhibit in London’s
All Visual Arts gallery. Matton, who died in 2008 of lung cancer, built ‘Boxes,’ that recreated artist studios and mise-en-scènes, emotive still-frames of inhabited interiors, empty hotel hallways, lonesome ateliers and imaginary boîtes. Poking one’s head inside one of Matton’s enclosures is being Gulliver trespassing into another reality and expecting the room’s lilliputian occupants to return any moment.
The fascination with doll’s houses is that we glorify our need for tidying and collecting objects with imperial strokes and a make-belief sense of omniscience. Replicating the world exactly had been Matton’s passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
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Tags: Alberto Giacometti, Baudrillard, Charles Matton, Francis Bacon, Jean Baudrillard, Kisa Lala, London, new york, Sigmund Freud, Sylvie Matton
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
©Patrick Witty - here is new york - exhibition at School of Visual Arts
Ten years ago, on just another week like this, with New Yorkers speeding to their next meetings, racing for subways with coffee in hand, and models primping for Fall Fashion week – a morning like any other suddenly unraveled. The following moments would gnaw at collective memories, punctuate lives, and instigate a series of devastating world events. It was a tragic start to the new century and an ominous beginning for the new millennium. It was America’s passage from puberty. Some still recollect their movements in dreamlike sequence, whether it was the moment of becoming first aware, escaping the avalanche of dust, peering from rooftops at the collapsing towers, or just smelling the acrid vapours alone in one’s room…
As seen from the world trade center in 2000- Horizonte Perdido, 2000 ©Roberto Linsker, Courtesy of 1500 Gallery, NYC
Tags: 1500 gallery, Christian Sievers, Elena del Rivero, New Museum, new york, new york fashion, New York Historical Society, Photographs, School of Visual Arts, september 11, Tim Barber, World Trade Center, wtc
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Mouth Eyes, 2009, video still, © Jessica Harrison
Jessica Harrison’s artworks are discomfitingly tactile, triggering a collision of senses, and sometimes even, immediate recoil. In this video still, Mouth Eyes, she places lips in the eye sockets, resulting in involuntary synesthesia in the viewer.
Harrison deconstructs the body, defining its interior space in relation to the exterior world of sensations, not just as a simple duality but an osmotic plane, exploring, as she describes it, “a complex chasm of surfaces and sensations that relate to and transgress one another. Rather than being a stable entity, the body emerges as one that is in constant flux, shifting, stretching, snapping, softening.”
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Tags: Jessica Harrison, new york, Times Square Gallery
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Aaron Barr
'Braindrop' - Photo by Marc Whalen
At the Escape to New York festival in Southampton earlier this month, I found myself sitting inside a 17-foot tall sculpture called Braindrop alongside it’s creator, Kate Raudenbush, and a mix of good friends and strangers. With eloquence and charm, Kate explained her inspiration for the artwork and how to best experience it – from the inside, lying on one’s back, looking up into the vortex – which reveals a surprisingly breathtaking, kaleidoscope effect.
Kate Raudenbush is a New York City-based sculpture artist who uses symbolism for social commentary and self-reflection. Integral to her work is the public’s participation, so it was nothing short of kismet that we found ourselves, friends and strangers alike, conversing and sharing, while inside a huge steel drop of water.
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Tags: Art, Burning Man, Escape to New York, Escape2NY, experience, experiential, festival, installation, Kate Raudenbush, Music, new york, Sculpture, Southampton
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Steel, aluminum, plaster, resin, stroboscope, 70 1/2 x 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (179 x 200 x 200 cm) Courtesy Merderme © Mat Collishaw - photo:Copyright All rights reserved by artimageslibrary
The Otherworldly exhibition at Museum of Arts and Design showcases artists who have built alternative realities using handmade worlds without using cyber generated effects.
Seen here is Mat Collishaw’s work which is a kind of zoetrope that when spun, gives the impression of continuous motion.
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Tags: Kim Keever, MAD Musuem, Mat Collishaw, Museum of Arts and Design, new york, Patrick Jacobs
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Kahn & Selesnick, King of the Birds, 2007, Archival pigment print, 54 x 54 inches, Edition of 10 © Kahn & Selesnick, Courtesy of the Artist and the Yancey Richardson Gallery
As featherless bipeds we’ve been haunted by avian myths and envied creatures of flight, but birds are now sadly neglected and bypassed in the age of jet travel, their status further diminished by their urban cousins, the flying vermin of city parks, along with their skinned and headless counterparts that come saran-wrapped in supermarkets, their flightless bodies fully-grounded.
Beautiful Vagabonds, a summer group show at Yancey Richardson explores through photography, sound and video, more fanciful visions of these winged gypsies.
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Tags: Alex Prager, Esko Mannikko, Kahn & Selesnick, Kisa Lala, Masao Yamamoto, new york, Richard Barnes, Sanna Kannisto, Terry Evans, Yancey Richardson
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
A photo taken at Burning Man, David Art Wales 2010
Festivals have been sprouting love, peace and happiness across the planet, and some like the Festival in the Desert in the Sahara in Mali, Afrikaburn, and Burning Man which take place over several days, become watering holes for artists, musicians and a place to show off distinct styles.
Escape to New York was a festival organized in early August in South Hampton New York with installations, live music, performance art and experimental theatre. The organizers put up private teepees, suitable for glamorous camping, “glamping,” to accommodate the Hampton’s taste for sanitized partying – in contrast to the tents and wagons that spawn chaotically in the crowded fields of Glastonbury.
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Tags: Africa, AfrikaBurns, Alison Lucek, Burning Man, Byronseque, Carnivals, David Art Wales, Escape to New York, Festival in the Desert, Glastonbury, Halloween, Mali, new york
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Werner Herzog in CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, directed by Werner Herzog. A Sundance Selects Release
The new Werner Herzog 3D film Cave Of Forgotten Dreams documents the most enigmatic ancient drawings ever found, drawn by human hands, on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in France. These 30,000 year-old cave drawings of the first ever human art were discovered in 1994, but since their exposure to the general public, the stale breath of human hordes and the stampede of foot traffic, had caused moulds to appear on the walls of the caves, and subsequently, access has been extremely restricted.
The film explores the first tangible evidence in the human instinct to make art. Hand prints of the artists immortalize the most basic human signature, and suggest a universal longing to be remembered. Some of the etchings were overdrawn with others 5000 years later, which indicates the walls were used for graffiti and art through many later generations of humans, and perhaps these ancient art galleries inspired communal and spiritual gatherings.
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Tags: 3D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, caveman, Film, France, IFC Center, Kisa Lala, new york, Werner Herzog
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
On the Road to Heaven the Highway to Hell, 2009, 75x30x88 cm, Remnants of a suicide bomber cast in dark chocolate. Artist: Stephen j Shanabrook, Photo: Veronika Georgieva. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Stephen J Shanabrook has a way of looking at things a little askew, and recently with new partner Moscovite artist Veronika Georgieva, he took the city for a spin. Attaching a camera on the wheel of their car, they drove around South Bronx on a hot afternoon. The result is an 8 minute video, Spin City (video excerpt below). Georgieva describes the venture as “A point-and-shoot camera mounted on the wheel of our car to see things from a tire’s point of view.”
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Tags: Cannes, Chocolate, Comme des Garçons, Ford Project, FordProject, Kisa Lala, new york, rachel vancelette, Reporters without borders, saatchi and saatchi, Sculpture, Stephen J Shanabrook, Tim Goossens, Veronika Georgieva
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