An 11th-century papier-mâché deity from China.
from the NY Times
March 29, 2008
March 23, 2008
March 21, 2008
P-art-icles.com Shut Down
I decided today to shut down p-art-icles.com a website I set up in 2005 to show the work by young Irish artists. If anyone wants to take over the website they can contact me about it here.
March 15, 2008
Patrick Dougherty at Sculpture in the Parklands
Patrick Dougherty will create a site-specific sculpture over a three-week residency period (May 25-June 15) at Sculpture in the Parklands at Lough Boora Parklands in Offaly. There’s an article about it in the Visual Artists Newsheet.
March 14, 2008
Dashanzi – Beijing’s Contemporary Art District
The Guardian have a video about changes at Dashanzi the centre for contemporary art in Beijing. Former factory buildings had been occupied by small galleries but the area is being redeveloped due to the commercial success of Chinese art. This commercial development may have a negative affect on the local scene that enabled the success of the work in the first place.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/video/2008/mar/14/dashanzi
March 12, 2008
Conrad Shawcross
There is what looks like an interesting exhibition of sculpture at Lismore castle arts. It includes work by Conrad Shawcross who’s work is pictured above.
A LIFE OF THEIR OWN
An exhibition curated by Richard Cork
Featuring the work of artists Roger Hiorns, Eva Rothschild, Matt Calderwood, Kate Atkin, Conrad Shawcross, Kate Terry, Daniel Silver, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer
Guillermo Kuitca
Guillermo Kuitca
Untitled (Opernhaus Zürich)
2001
mixed media, digital print on paper
27.8 x 21.7 cm / 11 x 8 1/2 inch
March 8, 2008
Michael Asher Installation
Here’s another post about something I’ve seen on the NY Times website. There’s a review of an installation by Michael Asher which reminds me of an idea I had for an exhibition which I discarded. I was thinking about mapping all of the artworks previously exhibited in a gallery. I was thinking of it as a drawing project with the outlines of the works being traced on the walls and floor. I decided the idea was a bit too self referential; a case of “art about art.”
”Mr. Asher has reconstituted all the temporary walls built for the 44 exhibitions that the museum has mounted since they moved there in 1998. Not the whole walls, just their skeletons the shimmery aluminum studs, paralleling and intersecting one another in so many crazy ways you can barely see through them.”
Asher’s installation suceeds in going beyond “art about art” because it is engaging on a number of levels. As well as its conceptual basis it works on an aesthetic and spatial level. For regular visitors to the museum the installation will stimulate memories of previous exhibitions, encouraging them to try and recall which wall was constructed for which exhibition and recall there own personal experiences of the exhibitions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/arts/design/08ashe.html?ref=design
http://www.smmoa.org/index.php/exhibitions/details/191
