Only the New (art)

[kishnevi]

Mikiko Kumazawa (b. 1983) - Unstable Life (2011)

nice.  An Escher effect, only it us actually radically different.

[torut]

nice.  An Escher effect, only it us actually radically different.

I tend to be fascinated by such kind of drawings, probably because I am acrophobic.

Laurent Chéhère's Flying Houses

[torut]

Christian Marclay - The Clock (2010)



https://www.youtube.com/v/xp4EUryS6ac

The Clock is a major cinematic work by New York–based artist Christian Marclay. Winner of the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, The Clock samples thousands of excerpts from the history of film that indicate the passage of time—from clock towers to wristwatches to buzzing alarm clocks—that the artist has edited together to unfold on the screen in real time as a 24-hour montage.

[torut]

Jim Kazanjian - untitled (outpost) (2008)

[torut]

Daniel Buren - Photo-souvenir: Cerchi nell'aqua (2004)



His works are really nice. The images on Lisson Gallery website are clearer.

[torut]

Keret House (2012)
Architect Jakub Szczęsny

The Keret House is an ­art installation in the form of an insert between two existing buildings, representing different historical periods in Warsaw's history.
Keret House is planned to be located on a plot ­measuring 92 centimeters in its narrowest point ­and 152 centimeters in its ­widest point.

The house is located here, because it is here that two architectural layers from two historical epochs tangene. The first is a brick building on Żelazna Street – a fragment of the pre-World War II city, almost no longer existing. The second – a cooperative concrete apartment building, an element of an "imposed structure", which was aimed at negating the previous city landscape. Their adjacency is coincidental – like many architectural structures in Warsaw. Keret House is a perfect example of the so-called "non-matching" in the city's urban fabric. It is a structure, which by way of contrast separates itself from its surrounding area and at the same time tries to act as its binding element.
Another reason is the city's war history – the house's location is where two ghettos - the large ghetto and the small ghetto met. Only a few steps from the house stood a footbridge that connected both sealed off areas.

http://www.archdaily.com/289630/inside-the-keret-house-the-worlds-skinniest-house-by-jakub-szczesny/

[torut]

Leon Chew - Post Industrial Colour - with Andrew Curtis (2012/13)

[torut]

Johannes Vogl - O.T. (Schaukel) / Untitled (Swing) (2010)

[torut]

ENO HENZE - TSCHERENKOWS TRAUM (2009)

[torut]

Gary Hume - Black Leg, Black Face (2008)



http://whitecube.com/artists/gary_hume/

I often saw this Back of a Snowman in the downtown Mountain View, California.

[torut]

Maurizio Cattelan - Untitled (2007)

[torut]

Tomoo Gokita - ESCAPE INTO FANTASY (2008)

[torut]

Aesthetics Habitat - Object: JAG Zoeppritz, Photography: severafrahm (2013)



http://aestheticshabitat.com/
http://severafrahm.com/

[torut]

Martin Creed - Installation view, Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street (2013)

[torut]

Installation Art Now (2014)

[asin]1584235144[/asin]



I received this book yesterday and took a quick look. This is a very nice book of new installation art. Each work is presented beautifully, with multiple views so that you can have better idea about the physical aspect.

[torut]

Christine Muraton - Unknown Traveller IV

[kishnevi]

Visited the new building of the Perez Art Miami Museum,  which opened this weekend in downtown Miami's Museum Park.   (Those familiar with Miami will know the park under its former name of Bicentennial Park;  the art museum will be joined in due course by a new Science Museum building.)  The core collection is 20th/21st abstract and non-representational art,  resulting in a plethora of 3dimensional pieces and videos that don't necessarily fall into traditional categories.  There was also a room devoted to what was called concrete and visual poetry.  I am about as enthused about "modern" art as I am about "modern" music (meaning not that much), and the collection did not increase that enthusiasm; nor did it help that the curator staff seem to think that explicit ideological content will compensate for a lack of aesthetic appeal--and naturally that ideological content was always of the Extreme Left (the sort of politics/philosophy that insists on viewing everything through the prism of some Ism), which did not improve matters for me.  The bias was especially evident in the books offered for sale at the museum store.    There were some installations that I found interesting, one by Hew Locke and another by Simon Starling;  I'll try to post some pictures of them in the next couple of days here.   The non permanent exhibit,  devoted to a panorama of Caribbean art, interested me far more, and not just because it contained works spread in time from the 18th century to the present.   The chief interest was the high proportion of primitive/folk/naive art, especially from Haiti.  Unfortunately,  visitors are not allowed to take pictures in the Caribbean exhibit, only in the permanent collection,  so the works I responed to best are the ones I couldn't take pictures of.

The website is http://www.pamm.org/ 

Anyone who finds themself in the Miami area, and has an interest in modern/contemporary art,  will probably find this museum a very worthwhile place to visit.

The museum building, btw,  is very well done:  modern in style,  but low key,  with a number of terraces that allow views of the park on one side,  and Biscayne Bay, the Port of Miami, and the bay side of South Beach (and not so wonderfully,  the causeway to Miami Beach on another side),  it could usefully serve as a model for any public building.  The building is in fact a higher quality piece of art than much of the art inside.

I also took the opportunity to visit the US Coast Guard Eagle, a tall ship used for training purposes, docked for this weekend across from the American Airlines Arena (the place where LeBron was not doing so well this past week),  but that's outside the ambit of this thread.

[kishnevi]

Links to the three works that most impressed me at the Perez
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/project-gallery-simon-starling
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/project-gallery-hew-locke
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/edouard-duval-carri%C3%A9-imagined-landscapes

And in lieu of posting pictures directly hear,  here's the Flickr set containing all the pictures of the Museum and its terraces from yesterday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34574498@N06/sets/72157644791914699/

[torut]

Links to the three works that most impressed me at the Perez
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/project-gallery-simon-starling
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/project-gallery-hew-locke
http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/edouard-duval-carri%C3%A9-imagined-landscapes

And in lieu of posting pictures directly hear,  here's the Flickr set containing all the pictures of the Museum and its terraces from yesterday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34574498@N06/sets/72157644791914699/

Edouard Duval Carrié's works are very good. Mystic, magical and also sophisticated. Beautiful.
The museum looks nice. Thank you for sharing the photos.

[torut]

Catrin Welzstein - The Untold Story (2014)