Histories Matter

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Exhibitions at the Wexford Arts Centre:

Histories Matter Debra Bowden & Niall de Buitlear

Paintings

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh

16th February – 14th March 2009

Exhibitions open on Wednesday 18th February at 6.00pm Opened by Patrick T. Murphy, Director – Royal Hibernian Academy

All are welcome to attend.

Gallery Talk

Tuesday 17th February, 1-2pm

Art historian Karla Sanchez in conversation with artists Debra Bowden and Niall de Buitléar

http://www.wexfordartscentre.ie/historiesmatter/

Fabiola - Francis Alys

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I read about Francis Alys' Fabiola project quite a while ago but never posted it at the time. Here is some info:

Commissioned by Dia and installed at the Hispanic Society’s Beaux-Arts facility in Manhattan, Fabiola comprises almost three hundred portraits of the Christian Saint Fabiola, all of them copies of a lost original. The paintings will be installed in the Society’s mahogany-paneled North Building Galleries from September 20, 2007, through April 6, 2008. Alÿs’s collection will be seen within the context of the Hispanic Society’s unique collection of Iberian and Latin American art, engaging a dialogue between these historical and contemporary collections.

more info here

I have decided I'm going to try and do at least one blog post per day for all long as I can manage - today would be day 2.

 

Michael Rakowitz - paraSITE

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The paraSITE project by Michael Rakowitz involves "Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure. Built and distributed to over 30 homeless people in Boston and Cambridge, MA and New York City."

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Bird Imprints on Flickr

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Here is a photo of the imprint left by a bird flying into a window. Its from a flickr group called Bird Imprints on Glass which features 122 photos.

I think its really interesting the way various flickr users around the world make observations of simple phenomena like this independently and that they are then compiled through the site. This group and the previously posted chewing gum trees group remind me of some of the work I did as a student. I'm glad I don't work like that now because I don't think i could compete with the combined resources of the Flickr community.

Chewing Gum Trees

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Today I saw this photo taken in Mexico City by the artist Gabriel Kuri which shows a tree by a bus stop which is completely covered with chewing gum. I also recalled having read about a photograph by David Byrne of a tree covered in gum in Mexico City (possibly the same one).

I googled "chewing gum tree" and found this flickr group of 92 photos of various trees covered with chewing gum (including the one photographed by Kuri and possibly Byrne). 

Gormley in Dublin - Will They? Won't They?

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Arts managment Ireland has a post about the Antony Gormley sculpture which is planned for the Dublin Docklands:

On the 16th of January the Irish Times ran a story announcing the approval of planning permission for the work by Dublin City Council, only to be followed the next day with news of the project being scrapped due to budget reasons.

Yesterday’s Sunday Times has refuted the refutation, quoting the sculptor and DDDA arts manager Mary McCarthy as stating the project is still ‘full steam ahead’.

 http://artsmanagement.ie/2009/01/26/as-clear-as-the-waters-of-the-liffey/

A Blogger's Response to Bookish at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery

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Today I checked the internet for coverage of recent exhibitions and found a post by a blogger named Tiffany about the exhibition Bookish: When Books Become Art. Here is an excerpt:

"A curious artist plucks love notes and illegible post-it’s from the pages of borrowed material. Tags from brand new shirts, receipts, and ticket stubs litter the library, but are hidden within the two covers of so many books. Sit down in your area library and flip through the pages, see what sort of archeological discoveries are dug up. What can one book carry to the next reader? A book is a vessel of knowledge and ideas. It carries germs and footnotes, garbage and timeless treasures. "

The full post can be found here: http://t-strutz.blogspot.com/2008/09/bookish.html

Free Documentaries on Art

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Here is a link to a website called factualTV where you can view various documentaries for free. In the art section there are videos on Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Martin Creed, Michael Landy, Mona Hatoum, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, Helen Chadwich, Richard Deacon, Vong Phaophanit, and others.