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Post by guymo on Mar 3, 2015 23:30:03 GMT -8
Arghh, that is driving me mad: there's at least one other artist who has produced work of exactly that type, and I can't remember or track down where I saw it. I recall a New Order sleeve re-painted with the text removed, presumably as some kind of comment on the way Peter Saville appropriated the design of the sleeves from other designers. There were many other works of the same kind by this artist, whoever it was... I guess this was 1990s. Can anyone remember? It might not be your answer, but Frances Baudevin is an artist these works bring to mind. Yes!! That's it. Thank you. I think if I had recalled the other packaging-abstractions I would have tracked that down more easily; but I didn't. I have a very hard time knowing what to make of the Darmstaedter pieces in light of that previous work.
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Post by guymo on Mar 3, 2015 14:02:56 GMT -8
Arghh, that is driving me mad: there's at least one other artist who has produced work of exactly that type, and I can't remember or track down where I saw it. I recall a New Order sleeve re-painted with the text removed, presumably as some kind of comment on the way Peter Saville appropriated the design of the sleeves from other designers. There were many other works of the same kind by this artist, whoever it was... I guess this was 1990s. Can anyone remember?
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Post by guymo on Sept 9, 2014 1:58:45 GMT -8
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Post by guymo on Sept 5, 2014 1:30:53 GMT -8
Thanks to hellosir and mose for the suggestions. I'll get to work!
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Post by guymo on Sept 2, 2014 1:54:30 GMT -8
Can anyone recommend some resources (books, probably) to learn about Stella's work and its context? I can stare at the geometric pieces and enjoy them on a simple level but I find the later work quite tricky. From people who know better, I get the feeling that those later works form important context for some of the younger artists today (Parker Ito?) so I'd like to get a better grip...
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Post by guymo on Dec 19, 2013 14:51:19 GMT -8
In case you didn't know (I didn't) there's a Fold painting on show at the Pompidou centre in Paris, marked up as a recent acquisition.
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Post by guymo on Dec 19, 2013 14:44:28 GMT -8
..hUgh..!! That's terrible! worst than fashion design from the 80's..... I think we're all hoping they fade in the sun.
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Post by guymo on Oct 22, 2013 11:45:15 GMT -8
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Post by guymo on Oct 22, 2013 11:28:10 GMT -8
Thanks for pointing this stuff out. Some of the work on his web page is pretty interesting to look at, though I'm not sure what I make of it yet. Is this idea that the sculpture is what has been taken away really a big deal? Isn't it just a dualization of the famous Michelangelo line about every block of stone containing a statue? Or somehow a nod to things like Nauman's "A Cast of the Space Under My Chair" (cf. also Rachel Whiteread).
From a lazy "just look at it" point of view, I like the box on the blog post you linked quite a bit more than the geometric routings on the panels.
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Post by guymo on Oct 22, 2013 11:04:11 GMT -8
Can anyone shed any light on what happened at the Murillo "prize draw" this weekend?
Here's what I know and have heard. As part of the SLG show, he was selling screen prints daubed with a bit of paint (by his family, apparently), which served as lottery tickets. On Frieze weekend (when else?) the sales closed and a prize draw was to be made. I have heard rumours that the draw was done very shabbily, with some numbers called out that belonged to people who were not there and who were then passed over, and finally the top prize won by Murillo's gallerist... but I don't know for sure.
Sounds shady, or perhaps a deliberate comment on the use of lotteries to generate revenue from the naive and foolish, which I think was part of the idea of the show in the first place. Does anyone know more, and what do you think?
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Post by guymo on Sept 27, 2013 11:42:22 GMT -8
Thanks for that -- interesting to see what people who might know something about art (i.e. not me) think about this show. This amused me though:
"...qualitative judgments are harder to ascertain; it becomes not so much a question of how good an artist Murillo is, because here, Murillo’s art just is."
Right on. Nobody knows if it's any good.
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Post by guymo on Sept 26, 2013 0:58:26 GMT -8
If anyone has been to (or knows about) the Murillo show at South London Gallery and can explain what is good or interesting about the work, I'd be glad to hear it. I was there yesterday and found myself left completely cold and feeling that I see more interesting work at just about every degree show. But I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about...
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Post by guymo on Sept 9, 2013 10:45:28 GMT -8
It's baffling.
To my mind, for these things to qualify as works of art, the creative act needs to have been deliberate in some sense. I don't mind deliberately harnessing chance or natural processes, but simply taking some discarded prints that got unintentionally damaged and rebranding them as novel works seems a step into the ridiculous.
Unless, maybe, his work (the rest of it) tends to have a subtext of commentary on what is and is not of value; but if it does, I haven't noticed.
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Post by guymo on Sept 9, 2013 10:26:29 GMT -8
Looks like it's actually two separate collections of work, one by Judith Supine and one by Alia Shawkat.
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Post by guymo on Aug 31, 2013 6:00:45 GMT -8
Nice to see the word "gnomon" in use.
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Post by guymo on Aug 31, 2013 5:58:42 GMT -8
Can you tell us anything more about that image? Looks like my kind of Falls...
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Post by guymo on Aug 8, 2013 3:09:24 GMT -8
Hmm, I am sure that page on the JLG website used to have the prices.
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Post by guymo on Jul 11, 2013 1:51:16 GMT -8
The last post by khoi above pretty much tells you what the contents are, doesn't it?
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Post by guymo on Jun 27, 2013 1:37:38 GMT -8
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Post by guymo on Jun 19, 2013 13:05:51 GMT -8
Between $2,000-$5,500 roughly... The larger ones being around 5.5" tallish. Even the smaller ones feel pretty substantial. Would love a big guy though. 5.5 inches tall??? Whoa. (Sorry couldn't resist) Spinal Tap moment. Awesome.
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Post by guymo on Jun 2, 2013 13:15:03 GMT -8
If you go to the front page (artchival.proboards.com) and scroll to the bottom, there is a "recent threads" link in the "Forum information and statistics" box. Alternatively just go to artchival.proboards.com/threads/recent directly. Also, in the threads view, if you click on the "new" button next to the thread title, you should get taken to the first post you haven't yet read. It doesn't always work for me but often enough to be worth a try.
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Post by guymo on May 24, 2013 11:59:03 GMT -8
Whoaaa that looks good. Thank you! I'd better get myself up to London.
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Post by guymo on May 21, 2013 11:30:41 GMT -8
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Post by guymo on May 17, 2013 12:04:09 GMT -8
The exploratorium's text is excellent: "Auerbach created a large-scale, multi-geared, human-powered drawing machine."
Definitely not a GIANT SPIROGRAPH (TM). No, definitely not that.
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Post by guymo on May 17, 2013 1:03:04 GMT -8
I can't thank you enough for posting these photographs. Wow. Urs Fischer leaves me lost for words. Wow.
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