Some of the work from Shiro Masayuma’s show Farming Life at Leitrim Sculpture Centre
ayo SHEEP/ JUMPERS/ BAILS/ SHAPES/ HAY AND OTHER GOOD STUFF
camera went dead, coulda done with a video for drumroll below
(not sure about the last one couldn’t find a card for it, had to put it up cause its cardboard like)
nice wandering through the space, enjoyable show.
Bo Saris - She’s on Fire (Maya Jane Coles Remix) (by Bosaris)
Willie Doherty
‘Photo/Text/85/92’
Matt’s Gallery, London
18.4.2012 - 27.5.2012Matt’s Gallery hosts an exhibition of Willie Doherty’s black and white photographs from 1985–1992, which have rarely been exhibited before. These early works developed conceptual and formal strategies that resided in Doherty’s practice over the next two decades to the present. In particular, they foreshadow his distinctive use of voiceover and disjointed narrative in the body of the video works he has subsequently produced.
Doherty’s ongoing concerns with the complexities and contradictions of contested terrain were firmly established early on. These works probed the tensions and anxieties of what was visible and invisible, of what could be said and what could not. The works in the exhibition reveal something of the social and political conditions of the period that saw the entrance of the Irish Republican movement into the political process and negotiations with the British government over the North of Ireland. They also bear traces of the artistic possibilities and debates at the time of production, which sought to politicise conceptual art practice. The specific content of these works – of boundary building and the pervasive nature of surveillance, the apparent incommensurability of polarized political factions and the scars these divisions leave on the landscape – remain relevant today.
Willie Doherty was born 1959 in Derry and currently lives and works in Donegal. His work in both photography and video has been shown internationally in institutions since the 1980s. In 2011 his work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville and Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. The artist is currently completing a new video projection to be included in dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel in 2012. In 2013, his video work will be the subject of a survey exhibition at the Museo de Arte of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.
A publication accompanying the exhibition will be available free to all gallery visitors with text by Declan Long.
Generously supported by Arts Council England.
velazquez’s jpegs
[The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset] looked at Velazquez’s mature style and saw a revolution. Here is an artist who for the first time paints things without any sense of their tangible solidity. He turns the world into “pure visuality”.
“All that matters to him are the fleeting images his retina recreates in the blink of an eyelid. And each painting of this genius is, rather than a fragment of the world, like an immense retina.”
He painted it, and he can unpaint it.
The great realist, he insists, is really “an unrealist, making the things that surround us into impalpable, incorporeal presences.” His figures become “intangible visual spectres.”
quotes from an article that appeared in the independent (uk) 22/09/2006
article author unknown.
“Alan Belcher has produced new work for this exhibition, a ceramic multiple edition. Known for his pioneering of the “photo-object_ genre (artworks which fused the disciplines of photography and sculpture); he has furthered that exploration with a multiple series of what can be seen as perhaps the ultimate “photo-object”. Belcher has taken the ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg, and solidified its default icon into a standard image surrogate. The edition entitled “______.jpg” was fabricated in China, is a series of 125 pieces each signed and dated.” 25 Years of Talent at Marianne Boesky Gallery, curated by Michelle Grabner May 2 - Jun 16, 2012.
I kinda want one. And I never would have been curious about this question until now, but: who took this photo originally, and who now owns the rights to it? (I assume Apple) But until it was made into an object like this, I never even thought twice about the image itself.
I love this.
want one
want too many
And hey there little sexy pig*
*And hey there little sexy pig, you mated with a man
And now you’ve got a little kid
With hooves instead of hands
And hey there little mockingbird, they sing about you in songs
‘Oh where ya been? Have ya broke a wing?’
I haven’t heard ya in so long.
2007
