a circle
done
2 ways.

2 sculptors.
2 decades.

Turning the Place Over - Richard Wilson, 2007 from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.

circle.
images.........

1. gordon matta clark, antwerp.
An empty five-story office building in Antwerp was used for the project. Matta-Clark made two circular cuts which started inside the building, and went out through the roof. The two cuts took the shape of intertwining circles, inspired by the accidental rings left by teacups on paper. In an interview, Matta-Clark described the work: "Where these circles crossed, a peculiar, almost row-boat shaped hole resulted and was mutated from floor to floor as structural beams and available floor space dictated."

2. richard wilson, liverpool. (via today and tomorrow blog,) and lou.
"Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours. "

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a favorite blog,
a continuous lean...
(read here.)
presents this short on

Gadi Galan.
B4 It Was Cool
in the bowery.

Gadi Gilan Presented by ACL x Cole, Rood & Haan Co. from Michael Williams on Vimeo.

watch more ACL films here.

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"Ornament is a crime"
-Adolf Loos

"The house has to serve comfort.
The work of art is revolutionary;
the house is conservative. "
-Adolf Loos

images by:
top: neil tait
bottom: roni horn









"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."


"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."

"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."





- Adolf Loos... architect
1870-1933

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portrait of a man
pt 7.

fall.
fell.
falling.






































portrait of a man
pt 7.
fall
fell
falling.
(defeat.)

1. whitney hubbs
2. wolgang tillmans
3. collier schorr

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tree house
&
tree lamp





























tree house + tree lamp. images.

1. Andrew Moore. here...., crazy house, dalat
2. Susurrus ceramic lamp, here

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here.

Rich, Brilliant, Willing.
Richardson (RICH), Brill (BRILLIANT), Williams (WILLING)

"a Manhattan-based, collaborative design studio and consultancy. RBW creates environments, furniture and product design where the work draws primarily from the reinvention of materials. Riffing on industrial finishes and readymade components, Why do they work together? Simply put, 1+1+1 equals a lot more than 3. Each member has a different point of view; one explicitly loves materiality and interior spaces, another with an unconventional color palette and eye for sculptural form, the third is an inventor bringing spontaneity and theatrical energy to the work."

more on their site here.

strong form.
circular.
a statue.
insect ready to feed.
quiet strength.
awkward stance.
excellence.

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youhavebeenheresometime
reading list.

(i'd love to execute a design/art book exchange.)

"My mother hid my father under the floorboards.
He stayed there for a year and a half, between two floors in the house.
He'd come out from time to time--I'm living proof of that!"

-Christian Boltanki

"The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski "
MFA Publications Text by Christian Boltanski, Catherine Grenier.
Forword by Luc Sante.

Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little known and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist's sixty-fifth birthday, The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, written in the form of a book-length interview (which the artist likens to a "psychoanalysis" or "confession") with the art historian Catherine Grenier, is Boltanski's oral autobiography. In it, he recounts his unusual wartime childhood ("my mother hid my father under the floorboards. He stayed there for a year and a half, between two floors in the house. He'd come out from time to time--I'm living proof of that!"), his career, friendships and marriage, successes and regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, how he created various installations, his relations with dealers and the public, and other matters that illuminate as never before his complex, enigmatic works. Boltanski is refreshingly phlegmatic about the realities of the world (art and otherwise), and he relates his remarkable stories--some enormously amusing, others tragic--with a matter-of-factness and self-deprecating humor that highlight his capacity for humane responsiveness. As both the self-portrait of a major contemporary artist and a frank, fascinating memoir, this is a document of capital importance."

go here for more info...

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many
ways
to
light
a
room.












































































simple
executed
illumination.


1. guy brown, of farm design, present
2. jean royere, ceiling lamp, 1960's
3. hermes architect lamp, 1960's
4. christian boltanski
5. Dolly lamp by Louise Hederström

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But as Borges said,
"We don’t know what art should be,
and we don’t need to find out, either;
what we seek is to understand the reason why art exists..."

One of my favorite homes,
Gabriel Orozco, Mexico.
all images by, Iwan Baan.
go here to look at more.

"One thing that I’ve had to learn as an artist—considering how everything that I had learned about what art should be and what art was, and what an artist should be like (disciplined, following the love of the craft)—was that this didn’t work for me. Suddenly I had to take all of these notions apart, because they weren’t mine, they weren’t enough for me; they bored me and threw me into despair. It was a system that really didn’t work for me."

- Gabriel Orozoco

Realizing this gave me a very different vision; I think it has repercussions in the way in which my pieces started to turn out, because I understood at last that my urgent struggle was to find something that was not art. In that sense, I’m not sure if people who consider themselves “educated” understand what art is; I think not.

I saw that “educated” people as well as “ignorant” ones immediately viewed my work with disapproval: the yogurt lids, the balls of Play-Doh. With ignorant people, it’s obvious that you have to try to destroy their prejudices, but with educated people it’s the same thing, you also have to destroy their prejudices—and their judgment. In their case, it’s a prejudice regarding what they ask of and from art. But as Borges said, we don’t know what art should be, and we don’t need to find out, either; what we seek is to understand the reason why art exists...

all text taken from BOMB.
by Carmen Boullosa
read the interview here..

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the cube.
a square.
a stool.
some storage.
a sculpture.
a meditation on form.
to contain.
the box.

to compete with a sphere.

box.

1. richard woods, rock box 1, 2009
2. paul evans, aluminum
3. ettore sottsass, lidded box
4. commune crate, go here!
5. louise nevelson, 1969
6. forrest myers, red cube 2007
7. maria pergay, storage cubes, 1975
8. carl andre, 1988, concrete

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sonar
2010

FINISTERRE Sónar 2010 (teaser) from Sónar on Vimeo.

The Sónar Festival, with confirmed dates of 17, 18 and 19 June,
presents a line-up that will to a large extent be shared by the two cities.
Sónar 2010 presents its image - a journey to the end of the world along the Way of St. James. For the first time in its history, Sónar, the International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, will be split between two venues.
As part of the Xacobeo Jubilee Year, Sónar travels along the Way of Saint James, and will take place simultaneously in A Coruña and Barcelona.
As a result, there will be a double helping of Sónar,
the annual Barcelona festival and this one-off event, which will be called Sónar Galicia.

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time.
everyday.

"When Monday comes I want nothing
Come Tuesday morning I want the same
The days and nights fly by
Looking to embrace the nothing, of the everyday "

yo la tengo, "everyday"

hermes, 1960, hourglass.

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new music monday.

don't walk!
just linger.
(and quiet)

image by kanishka raja, here.
"sunny comfort"

linger and quiet.

excited about their new blog here.
their first mix on their blog here. (awesome g!)
now if they would bring their party to la...

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foam
and
rocks
























1. David Hammons, 2005, Rock and found hair mounted on pedestal
2. Mindy Shapero The Beginning of the World 1929-2009, 2009, Foam, steel, latex, rope, plastic and glass beads

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the clientele
"house on fire"

"I am in this house on fire
but I was only watching clouds go by

midnight coming back around
the summer heat that wears me out
is rising to my eyes behind the flames
I have come to disbelieve
exactly what I hear and see
as through the door to summer
through the door to summer
I pass away"

the clientele

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autumn.
eastbound.

"Eastbound", by Ola Podrida.

"Big city calling, I hear the echo outside
There's something so frightening in the deep western sky
I wish it was simple saying goodbye

Will cracks in the pavement bring me some sort of truth
Will they find some way to remind me of you
Will the train running eastbound help me remember my part
Will the wish for release fill the holes in my heart
The sky filled with phantoms in their towers of light
And lovers so restless give themselves to the night
If you cut me wide open and you looked deep inside
Would you find something deeper than this worrying mind?"

photographs by Andrew Moore.
go here for more info.

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“I try not to think.
I try to just let it happen.”

Ruth Duckworth



























Ruth Duckworth (1919–2009)
10.22.09


"Modernist sculptor Ruth Duckworth has passed away, according to the Chicago Tribune. A Chicagoan since 1964 via Germany and England, Duckworth created work that resides in the collections of major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of her large-scale murals and sculptures grace lobbies, airport terminals, and other public spaces. Shortly after coming to the US to teach at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, she created a four-hundred-square-foot stoneware mural that forms the entryway of the school’s geophysical sciences building. In the 1970s, she received a commission for Clouds over Lake Michigan, which was first in a bank and later in the lobby of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, a sweeping piece of relief that incorporates meteorologic and geologic themes. Amid a 2005 career retrospective of her work that had showings in New York and at the Chicago Cultural Center, Duckworth told the Tribune that when she made something, “I try not to think. I try to just let it happen.”

c/o Artforum here

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the weekend:

mirror.
(my past:my future, mr. mirror?)

"Come to see victory
In a land called fantasy
Loving life, for you and me
To behold, to your soul it's ecstasy
You will find, other kind
That has been in search of you
Many lives has brought you to
Recognize it's your life, now in review"

- Fantasy by Earth, Wind, and Fire

"You never knew the teenage me
And you wouldn't believe
The things you didn't see
some pretty some ugly
And the lovely mirrorball reflected back them all
Every triumph
every fight
under disco light"

Everything But The Girl, "mirrorball"

mirrored past and future.

1. Eric Borja, mirror France, c. 1970
2. Ettore Sottsass, Diva mirror, Memphis, Italy, 1984
3. John Armleder.... see more here.
4. Kelley Walker, here at paula cooper.

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Chinese Box


Overduin
and
Kite

Vincent Fecteau

Amanda Ross-Ho

Overduin and Kite presents “Chinese Box,” a group exhibition featuring: Trisha Donnelly Vincent Fecteau Barry Johnston Seth Price Amanda Ross-Ho Paul Sietsema Kaari Upson The exhibition title refers to John Searle’s symbol processing machine model (1980): the Chinese box, or Chinese room. Searle’s argument addresses the distinction between processing information and understanding, emphasizing that highly intuitive or nuanced ideas cannot be communicated through a fixed system. Rather than functioning as a key or umbrella for the works in the show, the title sits alongside the artworks as another point of information to be considered with the works. It can also be read as relating to the gallery and the situation it sets up between the viewer/visitor and the object of contemplation. The title also refers to the ornamental boxes whose form supersedes any contents the box might hold.




thru Oct 31.
in LA...



(thanks to contemporary art daily
for posting this, and reminding me
about this show. )

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Debbie Wijskamp

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‘I am a virus’
Pieke Bergmans














































music by BOLA.

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