Untitled, 1970
May 26, 2009
Michael Asher and Willem Besselink
About a year ago I wrote a post about a Michael Asher installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art. For the installation Asher reconstructed, as open frameworks, all of the temporary walls that had been constructed for the museum 44 previous exhibitions (picutred above).
I noted at the time that it reminded me of an old idea I had discarded invloving mapping all of the artworks that had been exhibited in an exhbition space. A Dutch artist named Willem Besselink has just seen the post and lef t a comment to say that in 2007 at a gallery called Moire in Utrecht he had done something very similar. His project involved constructing framewoks outlining the space occupied by all of the artworks exhibited in a gallery during the previous year. The video below documents the construction and dismantling of the piece. The different colours relate to the different exhibitions.
May 25, 2009
Sculptures Made By Bees
Hilary Berseth makes sculptures with bees by placing armatures in their hives. I blogged about his work before ages ago but it has just been featured on Makezine where they’ve linked to this article on nymag.com which features a slideshow of images showing the process.
Someone in the comments section of the nymag article posted this link to the work Aganetha Dick who encourages bees to build honeycombs on figurines and other objects:
Jorge Machi
Jorge Macchi is an Argentinean artist who makes work in a range of different media. The piece below is a disco ball in an empty room with holes crudely punched in the walls, floor, and ceiling to allow the reflected light to escape. It was featured in The experience of art, curated by Maria de Corral for the 2005 Venice Biennale.
More at http://www.jorgemacchi.com
May 19, 2009
Arte Povera
I’ve read a few articles about (and looking at images of) Arte Povera recently which has been getting some press due to a rehang of a wing of Tate Modern. Here are a couple of nice sculptures by Guissepe Penone (top) and Michelangelo Pistoletto (bottom). I can’t find caption info online.
May 3, 2009
You see I am here after all
The title of this post was taken from a postcard found by the American artist Zoe Leonard. It is also the title of Leonard’s exhibition at Dia Beacon which comprises approximately 4000 postcards of Niagara Falls, dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s that the artist collected in flea markets and online auctions.
En masse, they reflect decades of changing technologies during which the motif of the Falls, shot from a few standard vantage points, was revisioned: hand-colored, over-painted, cropped, or otherwise manipulated in accordance with changing notions of truth and taste.
More info here
