Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sampling
LIVING







Louisiana Museum
of
Modern Art
LIVING

"In any age, the discussion of architecture, of how our houses and cities and landscapes are to be formed, is closely bound up with reflections on how we want to live, how we imagine it is best to engage with one another privately, socially, and in the bigger picture, as a society.  In short, one's view of architecture is one's view of society.  Perhaps we cannot always directly translate the building into ideology or politics; but in the very way we approach the subject of architecture, we can surely read certain tendencies."
from the Forward to the Living Exhibition by Kjeld Kjeldsen and Poul Erik Tojner




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Saturday, September 24, 2011

NO NAME GROUP :
Underground Chinese Artists

New York is a dangerous place.  On any given day,  strolling home someone might stick a flyer in your hand and distract you from your route.   Sunday was such a day.  I was waylaided. 

BLOOMING
IN THE SHADOWS
China Institute Gallery
125 East 65 Street
September 15 - December 11, 2011

All nine artists from the the Wuming Group - the No Name Group had just finished their paintings by the time I arrived.  They were in the park to celebrate.  Since 1972, they had been painting in the parks and streets of Beijing.








"The artists working in Central Park today are part of an exhibition currently at the China Institute.  By working and painting in the Park, they are going back to their roots as renegade artists during CHina's Cultural Revolution.  Beginning in 1972, in an era when making unofficial art was a crime, these artists were members of a group making unofficial works, painting everyday life in the parks and streets of Beijing.  They called themselves the Wuming group - the No Name group."
THE ARTISTS:
'Du Xia
Li Shan
Liu Shi
Ma Kelu
Tian Shuying
Wang Aihe
Yan Li
Zhang Wei
Zheng Ziyan


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Monday, September 19, 2011

Sum of Days:
Carlito Carvalhosa




CARLITO
CARVALHOSA

MOMA
Through November 14, 2011
"Sum of Days, an environmental and participatory installation by the Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa is a complex, elliptical network of pathways through a structure of translucent white fabric. . .

The maze of material incorporates a system of microphones that hang at various eights and record ambient noise; each day's sound is combined with the previous days' recordings and played back through several speakers inside the structure.  As each new layer of audio is added, the oldest noises gradually diminish into whispers, part of an auditory condensation that builds up throughout the duration of the exhibition..." from the signage at the exhibition.






"Sum of Days brings a new level
of meaning to this legacy
by realizing it on
an architectural scale, thus radically transforming
the experience of art 
as a participatory event".


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Saturday, September 17, 2011

COLOR PALETTE
for DENMARK





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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Doors of Denmark


















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