Daily Archives: March 10, 2012
House in Norway
in and out of Stuyvesant Square
Stuyvesant Park and its immediate area is one my favorite places in midtown NYC.
PS Sometimes I just try too hard…
I don’t know what to call this one
Matt Lipps @ Josh Lilley
Matt Lipps @ Josh Lilley
Appropriation. They call them Mash ups now. Not a millisecond goes by now without a member of the public uploading one to youtube, or icanhascheesburger or whatever website. Everyman and his dog is now equipped with i-movie and photoshop and by god nothing will stop them humorously re-editing a hollywood film or dubbing someones home movie of a kitten to a Rick Astley song.
I’m of the opinion that Steve jobs has got a lot to answer for.
Right, anyway.
Appropriation worked brilliantly well for Warhol and Hamilton. But now the serious contemporary artist has to approach the technique of appropriation quite carefully. It’s normally under the guise of art history or cultural preservation. They carefully select, refashion and recycle their source imagery to create what seems to be an entirely new artwork with enough of a nod to the original to suggest academic endeavour…
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“Trust me I trust you” by Mihael Giba
![](http://mediavia.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/mihael_giba_trust_me_i_trust_you.jpg "Mihael Giba "Trust me i trust you" (picture by Artist courtesy)")
Mihael Giba is a Croatian intermedia artist, who is presenting the first solo exhibition of his work in Slovenia between 9 – 28 March 2012 at P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.
“The exhibition TRUST ME I TRUST YOU presents an installation of this same name, which is composed of a series of five artist books with the same formal character and elegance as the artist’s conceptual poetry(…) The artist’s chosen mode of mapping derives from his desire to create a dialogue between the state and its citizens that is as direct as possible. Through the visualization of data, he moves from the concrete to the abstract only to return again to the concrete. Such movement Lev Manovich has described as the real challenge of data art, which, he says, “is not about how to map some abstract and impersonal data into something meaningful and beautiful” but rather “how to represent the…
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Sunny morning roof ribbing
A Sweet And Practical Man
It was just that sort of unabashed enthusiasm that attracted me to Currado. Quoting Cioran, he said enthusiasm made him “opaque to death.” In fact, Currado was always quoting somebody and usually it was somebody I had heard of, should have read but never had. His intimacy with the world of ideas was both a severe intellectual reproach and a powerful source of inspiration. He was never pedantic, just matter of fact. When I visited his studio for the first time and saw the beginnings of his “Labor Of Memory” series, I was astonished by the fact that his work was known only to other painters, a few well respected critics and an odd number of European collectors. I asked him how he explained his relative obscurity and without the slightest trace of bitterness or sarcasm he cited Trollope as saying that “success is a necessary misfortune … but it…
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Great Modern Artwork by Local Artists
I escaped out of work early the other day to dash up to the shade store before it closed so we could finalize our big formal window blind requirements when I found myself being drawn into Zinc Details, a local store/showroom/creative space that features the very best in modern design. Its a great place to buy gifts, unique things for the home or just browse through and get inspired by but what really caught my eye was the fabulous art they had on display – all of which was done by local artists.
I LOVE this modern take on the painted ladies by Michael Murphy
And this one by Annie Galvin
And finally this one also by Annie Galvin.
Bay Area folks – I highly recommend checking out the design area of Fillmore street in SF and in particular this store.
« LE JET DE MON SANG CLAIR »: PURUSHA HONTOY POEMS AND ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI ART #3
![](http://robertoalborghetti.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/3-le-jet-de-mon-sang-clair-06524-800x600.jpg "ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI LACER/ACTIONS ART - "LE JET DE MON SANG CLAIR", POEM BY PURUSHA HONTOY")
Poème: PURUSHA HONTOY
Artwork: ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI
Lacer/actions – Images Of Torn (publi)City
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LE JET DE MON SANG CLAIR
(My Clear Blood’s Jet)
L’effroyable atteint l’infortune
La souffrance altère toutes les choses
J’ai mal
Le cœur se déchire
Le jet de mon sang clair
Nourrit le parchemin de ma mission
Vibrez
Aurons-nous la chance d’éjaculer
Notre libre arbitre
Nos choix
Hommes natures écoutez- moi
Dans la couleur projetée
Se tient l’anneau promesse
D’une vie nouvelle
Je l’ai peint avec amour immense de toute mon âme au sang clair
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© Poem Copyright Purusha Hontoy
© Artwork Copyright Roberto Alborghetti
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ABOUT PURUSHA
Purusha Hontoy est une amie des arts de la vie.
Diretrice et Formatrice chez l’Ecole l’Art de Vivre.
GALERIE PURUSHA (QUEBEC, CANADA)
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