rama
lama
ding
dong

























rama
lama
ding
dong


1 Dan Colen
2 Richard Jackson


"Dan Colen’s text paintings, such as Rama Lama Ding Dong, are a practical response to his time consuming realist work. Quickly scrawled in spray paint over plywood boards which are built up with sanded layers of moulding base and acrylic, they retain a tension between immediacy of expression and perfection of surface. Spelling out song lyrics, random thoughts, or absurd slogans Colen’s texts create a form of urban poetry, conjuring effete images through word association and bereft aesthetics. Often times Colen hand-renders these works, creating the effect of aerosol through painstaking brush technique."






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Henri Michaux

Emergences/Resurgences
via The Drawing Center.








The Drawing Center, $5.00, via here....



The first English translation by Richard Sieburth of Henri Michaux's poem Emergences/Resurgences. Introduction by Catherine de Zegher.



"In recent years, Michaux has devoted most of his talents to painting. That, for him, is another form of exorcism. He has said that he can better express himself through this medium. Many of his books include original drawings and paintings.



Michaux is a poet of unique style, one that is particularly difficult to pinpoint. He most closely resembles the surrealists, but cannot even accurately be grouped with them. Frederic Sepher pointed out that much of his poetry reads like short stories, although most of it does rhyme. He stated that while Michaux is probably the "least lyric of all contemporary French poets," and employs few metaphors, "he is brilliantly imaginative, inventive and rythmic. He even verges on the musical in his haunting, desperate litanies with their repetitions and developments."

Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux

"Henri Michaux (24 May 1899 - 18 October 1984) was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in the French language. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones."

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Writings by Henri Michaux, essays by John Ashbury, Raymond Bellour,
Laurent Jenny, Florian Rodari and Richard Sieburth.
Edited by Catherine de Zegher.


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more here...,
via the poetry foundation

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A Selection of
Snapshots
Taken by
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"a visual report on Felix's outlook at particular moments
in time, small gestures of hope, pleasure, and desire. "








Felix Gonzalez-Torres;
Alejandro Cesarco, editor

A Selection of Snapshots Taken by Felix Gonzalez-Torres
New York, NY: A.R.T. Press. 2010

"This book presents a selection of snapshots, and accompanying inscriptions, sent by Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Bill Bartman, Susan Cahan, Amada Cruz, David Deitcher, Suzanne Ghez, Ann Goldstein, Claudio González, Jim Hodges, Susan Morgan, Robert Nickas, Mario Nuñez, and Christopher Williams between the years 1991–1995. The snapshots are quick poetic communiqués, a visual report on Felix's outlook at particular moments in time, small gestures of hope, pleasure, and desire.

They give evidence to some of his multiple fascinations: pets, furniture, collectible dolls, politics, art, friendship, beauty, love and optimism."

buy the book at
Printed Matter here.

image take from here.

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"Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art. "

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Futility, LTD.

Matthias
Merkel
Hess
here....

Advertisements for the Futility, Ltd. line of pottery.
Futility, Ltd. is an effort to figure out what kind of pottery
the community of people I know might want and need.

Matthias
Merkel
Hess
here....
2009



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when
buildings
and walls
become
words.

Ron Terada,
"Stay away from lonely places"

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inspired by OUNO Design..
thanks Lindsey!
her design blog is truly one of
the best..

stay
away
from
lonely
places


love looking and seeing
this piece installed three
different ways... each
bringing something
unique to the piece.



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go see more of
Ron's work here..





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some
writing
on
the
wall.

a portrait
on the wall.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Portrait of the Stillpasses, 1991"

"A year's worth of exchanges with Felix Gonzalez-Torres, beginning in 1990, resulted in a family chronology painted in silver on the edge of the roof that frames the swimming pool. Personal events like the birth of their daughter, Zoe ("A+K=Z 1984"), are mixed with cultural markers like "Watergate 1972" and "CNN 1980." The chain ends with "Barbie's Dream House 1989."

taken from article here...

Robert Venturi and Denis Scott Brown,
via here...





"One of the most pronounced characteristics of postwar Modernism was its apathetic approach to interiors. ...unthinkable to earlier architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh who believed that the design of the building, inside and out, is an indivisible unity"

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Blue Boy.
















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