Posts tagged with art
‘Sensing Nature‘, an exhibition which rethinks the Japanese perception of nature, has just opened at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Want to go back to Japan
Seven on Seven paired seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenged them to develop something new —be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagined— over the course of a single day.
“ An art gallery is like a single-cell organism: it is the crudest but also the most essential life form in the art-world food chain. It is among the easiest of public forums to start up, and therefore the most efficient means of introducing new blood into the system. All it takes is one person with the single-minded determination to get the work of an artist or two seen and a reasonably clean, well-lighted space of almost any size”
Marcel Duchamp, ‘Étant donnés’ 1966 (via Dangerous Minds)
Wiki: “Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art. His wife, Alexina (Teeny), was his sole confidante during most of its construction.
It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a “Manual of Instructions” in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.”
I love when art has a manual
“ I hate the term “outsider art,” as some touch of mental illness is a necessity for creative genius, and stigmatizing those who fall to far on the spectrum is done so, at the perpetuation of the literary careers of well-groomed perfect i-dotters and t-crossers, whose banal fiction is the real reason (not the Internet, not the Kindle, not the recession) publishing is in such desperation.”
Self-Portrait Machine - we make money not art
Jen Hui Liao’s Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model’s help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait.
Encastrable is a series of guerrilla art residencies held inside gardening and DIY megastores in the Paris area. The project was initiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet. (via Encastrable, guerrilla art residencies inside DIY megastores)
