Each of the five images in this exhibition is far more conceptually complex than a cursory glance suggests. Text entries in pencil, like a field-scientist’s notes, appear here and there around the beautifully drawn animals. In this rendering of an indochinese tiger, silhouettes of historical figures and politicians emerge from the black stripes of the…
A Shrug of the Shoulders We generally give to our ideas about the unknown the color of our notions about what we do know: If we call death a sleep it’s because it has the appearance of sleep; if we call death a new life, it’s because it seems different from life. We build our…
Every Part of Me’s Bleeding left: “The Hut” 1999, rebuilt beach hut once co-owned by the artist. right: “Psyco Slut” 1999, applique blanket 96×76 in. foreground right: “Leaving Home” 1999, metal tub, gin, two keys, two suitcases, chains, spool of thread 59×54 in. A significant segment of the contemporary art public is amused by forms…
Book Works 1982-1997 Installation view Lipski is a master manipulator of the found object, salvaging and ingeniously re-working them. With boundless wit and humor he concocts absurd juxtapositions and mixed messages that capture the spirit of both surrealism and Dada. Lipski believes that art can be made with anything, and he proves it. Behind the…
Philosophy is the question: from which side shall we look at life, God, the idea, or other phenomena. Everything one looks at is false. I do not consider the relative result more important than the choice between cake and cherries after dinner. The system of quickly looking at the other side of a thing in…
Hamish Fulton detail: A 21 DAY COAST TO COAST WALKING JOURNEY ON ROADS AND PATHS STARTING ON THE FIRST DAY OF MAY FROM THE MOUTH OF THE KAMENO RIVER IN WAKAYAMA ENDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE MIYA RIVER IN ISE TRAVELLING BY WAY OF SHIONOMISAKI KUMANOHONGU SHAKAGATAKE OMINE MIWASAN MOUNT HIEI MIUNE YAMA KII…
MEMO: do I get it that the screen-saver triggers the photoelectric cells mounted on the monitor, sending electric signals to the pencil-sharpeners which whirr for a couple of seconds every time one of the wandering discs of light passes under the photoelectric cell? This is an ingenious labor-saving device. We will rush it to market…
“David LaChapelle is a photographer who tends to create his own visionary world, rather than reproduce what’s visible in the world. …Performance obliterates banality, just like Drew Barrymore’s breasts can become grapefruit halves with a cherry; we hear the distant echoes of Lewis Carroll; eat me, drink me, big becomes small; the Tour Eiffel becomes…
Francis Bacon works from the estate “In the complicated stage in which painting is now, the moment there are several figures – at any rate several figures on the same canvas – the story begins to be elaborated. And the moment the story is elaborated, the boredom sets in; the story talks louder than the…
Shahzia Sikander has embraced the tradition of miniature painting from her native Pakistan. She is pioneering a revival of the form by combining the traditional motifs and techniques with her own personal visions, politics, and sexuality. The resulting hybrid uses as its main formal device a version of the Surrealist’s collage/juxtaposition principal, while her concerns…
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