Paper Sculpture by Robert Carr
Theme Time Post 4 - Eyes
in theme time
Louise Bourgeois, Eye Benches, Black Zimbabwe granite Dorothy Cross, Eyemaker, still from DVD Man Ray, Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed), 1964 (replica of 1923 original). Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum Barbara Kruger Jochem Hendricks, Eye Drawing Drawings done by using a machine to track the movements of the eyes. Link A still from the famous eye ball slicing scene from Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel Susan MacWilliam, After Image,2002, B+W and Colour, Stereo, 4 mins 30 secs. ‘After Image’ delves into the bizarre and the extraordinary, exploring the myth that the last image seen before death is retained on the retina of the eye. ‘After Image’ uses film footage from Dario Argento’s obscure 1971 film ‘Four Flies on Grey Velvet’ (Italy) and ‘Los Muertos Hablan’ (Gabriel Soria, 1935, Mexico) alongside footage shot by the artist. Link
Janine Antoni, Pestle and Mortar
Cris Bruch Sculpture
in sculpture
Cris Bruch, SKETCHBOOK, 2007 Wood, graphite, chalk 72 x 53 x 36 inches
Cris Bruch, PILGRIM, 2004 Paper, resin, ink 36 x 50 x 36 inches
Theme Time Post 3 - Water
in theme time
Hans Haacke, Condensation Cube, 1963
Mary McIntyre, The Lough V
Cliona Harmey, rain video installation 3 video loops and audio track,height 2(6ft x 8ft)
Cliona has various sound and video projects relating to water on her website
Francis Alys, Something Leads to Nothing
Richard Long, White Water Line, 1990 from the Guardian website Link
Henk Hofstra's Blue Road in Drachten (Holland) stretches 1000 meters long
Ceal Floyer, H2O Diptych, two monitors, two DVDs, Silent, 60 mins each Edition 4 of 5 2002
In this video diptych there is a glass of sparkling water losing its fizz and a pot of water boiling.
Jeppe Hein - Appearing Rooms - sculptural fountain
Greyworld have developed a system for writing with bubbles in water http://www.greyworld.org/#experiments_/i1
Gary Coyle, Lovely Water
From a series of photographs taken by the artist during daily swims in the sea.
Theme Time Post number 2 - Hair
in theme time
Kathy Prendergast, The End and the Beginning II, 1996, three generations of human hair & wooden spool, 5.5 x 4 cm
Lorna Simpson, Wigs, waterless lithograph on felt. Walker Art Center Collection, T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 1995.
Mona Hatoum, Exodus II, 2002, card board, leather, metal. human hair, wax
Ann Hamilton, Tropos An installation invloving the filling of a warehouse with horse hair.
An electron microscope image of Anne Bronté's hair by Cornelia Parker
Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), Ana Mendieta, March-April 1972/1997.
Andrew Folan -Link
Marina Abramovic and Ulay
Robert Gober, Untitled Candle, Beeswax, string and human hair
Jim Dine, Hair, c.1969; a pair of pencil drawings
Kiki Smith, Wolf Girl, 1999, Etching on paper, 20 x 16 inches
Theme Time Blog Posts - Food
in theme time
I've been listening to Various episodes of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour while working in my studio recently. For a bit of fun I have decided to do a series of posts featuring art work relating to one of Bob's themes. Up first: food.
This still life was sculpted from wet coloured toilet paper by Caroline McCarthy.
Caroline McCarthy, Still Life 2002, C-print, 24 13/16 x 35 7/16 inches (63 x 90 cm), edition 3 of 6, framed
Can't have a thread about food and art without Claes Oldenburg.
Claes Oldenburg, (installation at Green Gallery, New York, Fall 1962 including Floor Cake and Floor Cone) Canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, painted with synthetic polymer paint and latex
Tonico Lemos Auad
Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair
Antony Gormley, Bed, 1980-1981, bread and paraffin wax
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=21315&searchid=11530&tabview=text
Alice Maher, Bread Tree
There are a lot of artists working with bread. Here is Alice Maher's Bread Tree which was featured in an exhibition in west cork to do with bread. http://www.breadmatters.org
Tom Friedman, Loop, spaghetti
David Sherry pays for meals he hasn't eaten http://www.dave-sherry.com/performance_3.htm
Janine Antoni, gnaw
600 lbs. of chocolate, gnawed by the artist. 600 lbs. of lard, gnawed by the artist. Display case with 45 heart-shaped packages for chocolate made from chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube and 400 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax and chewed lard removed from the lard cube.
All of this food has one invetiable conclusion. Here is Wim Delvoye's famous (infamous?) machine which recreates the process of human digestion. It is fed, digests the food, and defecates.
Wim Delvoye, Cloaca
Here it is featured on Eurotrash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlLBWymnUA
Exhibition Round up - February
There's quite a lot of good art on view in Dublin this month. Mark Francis has an excellent exhibition of paintings at the Hugh Lane. Some of the works take diagramatic images of sound as their starting points. These are developed to take on a more organic quality.
Slavek Kwi has a sound installation at Broadcast the new gallery in DIT on Portland Row. The work uses recorded sounds of animals such as dolphins and cicadas but the artist is interested in the abstract possibilites of working with these sounds.
Denis Mc Nulty is another artist working with sound. His show Framework/Rupture at the Green on Red consists of sound, sculpture, animation and photographic images. the show deals with "relationship between constructed space and the experience of time". He uses archive material, has created a raised platform using scaffolding, has made sculptural objects with sound elements, and sited a work outside the gallery on the roof of a building opposite.
Dennis McNulty, Installation image of flow/loop, DVD 1.5 second loop
The Kevin Kavanagh has a group exhibition that is a bit out of character for the gallery but is a similar approach to 2005's "was du brauchst" which also included Ulrich Vogl. Most of the work is is not particularly sellable. It features work by Karin Brunnermeier, Graham Hudson, Gereon Krebber, Eamon O'Kane and Ulrich Vogl. Its not a great show but the piece by Graham Hudson is kind of interesting (pictured below). There are also interesting sculptures by Gereon Krebber illustrated in a catalogue though the work he has in this show isn't great.
Kerlin Gallery have a really good show on at the moment called PHOENIX PARK which is also a little of of character for them. Its an exhibition of work by six young artists from or living in Ireland. They are Aoife Collins, Vera Klute, Eoin McHugh, Clive Murphy, Seamus Nolan, and Sonia Shiel. I'm guessing the title in an illusion to the fact that the artists work all involve some element of the natural and the artificial. I was particularly impressed by Eoin McHugh's work which I've seen before but never liked it that much until now. For this show he has covered one end of the gallery with wallpaper printed with various drawings as well as showing a number of works on paper. Clive Murphy showed a piece of found audio tape which delineated a simple drawing of a landscape on the wall and passed through a modified tape player integrated into a plynth which played the music into the gallery. The show had a vibrant feel and it is good to see the Kerlin working with some young artists.
Eoin Mc Hugh, 2007, Romantic Science pt. 1, mixed media on paper, 35 x 56 cm
Seamus Nolan is also showing at the Lab. The show features a cardboard caravan as its centrepiece (he's got a police van made of bales of crushed boxes at the Kerlin). My work is on show at the same time in the exhibition space upstairs (more on that below).
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
in music
Corban Walker
in sculpture
Corban Walker, Grid Stack 6/6 (2007), Low iron glass and clear float glass 81.6 x 60 x 60cm
Here is an image from a Corban Walker show from December. I never posted anything about it at the time - not sure why.
Spirals Drawn by Walking with GPS
in conceptual art, drawing, walking
More Tony Smith Images
in sculpture
Exhibition Reminder
in exhibitions, my work
Solo Exhibition at the Lab
Preview: 15 Feb 6-8pm Exhibition continues until 22nd March
"An exhibition of new sculpture and drawing by Niall de Buitléar opens on the 15th February at the Lab.
Niall de Buitléar presents a body of work produced during and shortly after his year long residency at Flax Art Studios in Belfast. The sculptures are made from found materials largely collected from the streets of Belfast and Dublin. The works tend to be built up from an accumulation of smaller parts which come together to form a more complex whole in a similar way to how an organism is made up of cells. The drawings and sculptures are directly linked. Both employ similar processes of accumulation to achieve a sense of organic growth over time. The works are begun with a general sense of form but over the course of their production tend to deviate from what was initially expected. The work is essentially abstract but the forms are consciously suggestive of various structures such as cells, fungi, landscapes, and standing figures.
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition. It was awarded to him as a part of the Launch Awards Program in 2006."
Ann Weber - Cardboard Sculptures
Almost 16" & 15 and 1/2, 2002
cardboard, staples, polyurethane, steel bases
182 x 48 x 48" and 177 x 38 x 38"
© 2006 Ann Weber All rights reserved.
"Lords of the Logistic"
in photos
This website named "Lords of the Logistic" has pictures of people carrying incredibly large loads, mostly on bikes.
Maud Cotter Sculpture
in sculpture
Maud Cotter the cat's pyjamas ((details from series containing 13 pieces) various media (different per object) dimensions variable
This piece is made from cardboard and plastic cutlery trays.
http://www.rubicongallery.ie/artists/maudcotter/index.html
First Solo Show at the Lab
in craft, exhibitions, my work
Niall de Buitléar - Solo Exhibition at The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1
Preview: 15 Feb 6-8pm Exhibition continues until 22nd March
An exhibition of new sculpture and drawing opens on the 15th February at the Lab.
"Niall’s methodological approach, a forging of symbiotic relationships and resonance between the initial building blocks, the processes of manipulation and the resultant forms, appears to be shifting focus. With recent works such as White Cube (woven cable ties) and Untitled (burnt matchsticks), Niall appears to have prioritised a commitment to a primarily sculptural practice. The sculptural processes have in turn led him to a new approach to drawing involving the accumulation of simple building blocks...The shift in emphasis away from the rigidly conceptual practice, away from a strict set of rules in the earlier work to a more flexible, fluid approach, sign posts a new trajectory in his practice. What remains central is the use of found materials, which means in even the most abstract of his sculptural work there is some recognisable element. In this the work can be seen to embody a coexistence of the abstract and the figurative that enable his new articulations to remain tangibly rooted in the world of the everyday. "
- extract from an essay by Peter Richards which accompanies the exhibition.
Bill Woodrow - Rack 14
in sculpture
RACK 14 - 2007 Canvas, wax, resin, gold leaf, wire, glass 73 x 281 x 15 cm Unique
http://www.billwoodrow.com/dev/sculpture_by_year.php?i=0&sel_year=2007&page=2&num=1
Bansky Moans About Work Selling at Auction
in art market
""I don't agree with auction houses selling street art - it's undemocratic, it glorifies greed and I never see any of the money." - Banksy He's happy to make money selling his paintings to celebrities so how can he really take this position? His prices put his gallery out of the reach of the average person. He was happy to play the art market game and has done well out of it but now he's on the losing end and doesn't like it. The only thing that has really changed is that he doesn't get the money.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/05022008/140/bansky-hits-street-art-auctions.html
A Doris Salcedo Installation
Doris Salcedo via wooster collective
Tony Smith - Smoke
in sculpture
Tony Smith’s “Smoke,” at the Los Angeles County Museum from NY Times Link