Helga Aichinger down by the sea
Jonah and the Great Fish or Noah and the Rainbow
Archive for the 'turn and face the strange' Category
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WHO is Walter Schnackenberg?
Karl Lagerfeld with pieces by Walter Schnackenberg behind him.
PURE BRILLIANCE
David Byrne interviews himself
“I like Symmetry and geometric shapes.”
“The better the singer’s voice, the harder it is to believe what they’re saying.”
“Music is very physical, and often the body understands it before the head.”
The falling wave
Engravings by Albín Brunovský (1935 – 1997),
designer of the last series of Czechoslovak banknotes.
Mother and Son
1
Now sleeps the land of houses
My man is away for awhile
2
but safe and alone we lie
we two were alone in the world
3
We knew the secret of earth
and the tale of its labour and pain.
1 July Bride, 2008, oil on linen mounted on panel, 20″ x 30″
2 Late October, 2009, oil on linen mounted on panel, 12″ x 15″
3 R.T.s Paper Crown, 2007, oil on linen mounted on panel, 16″ x 20″
all works by David Graeme Baker
Some were born to change the world
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2
1 Sculpture by Juul Kraijer(1970)
2 Sculpture by Gerard Mas(1976)
the ghostly complexities of a present
Gerry Judah’s remarkable series of paintings ‘Frontiers’, concerns the rupture of places, and architecture, by violence.
Ruins hide things. Not just the memory of what they were, but the memories they still contain.
Searching I
Nicholas Charles Williams, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm, 1999.
Nicolas Williams
and his Studio, a former lifeboat station on the coast of Cornwall, England.
the forcing character a metropolis can have
Jasper van Putten (1944-2009) received his education at the Amsterdam Graphic School and the GerritRietveld Academy. His work mostly shows tall buildings in a dynamic perspective.
character head
Part from “die Charakterköpfe”, a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783
Form of Consequence
flap flap flap
butterfly effect
more than you can detect
Die Klecksographie. from grotesk Justinius Kerner, Stuttgart 1890
Jump down turn around
pick a bale of cotton
… AND
A Bear of wonderful folk artist Dilmus Hall
Watch him talk:
“In 1900, Dilmus Hall was born in Oconee Country Georgia, into a tenant farming family. At age thirteen he moved to Athens, Georgia, and he developed an interest in art, despite his family’s objection to this impractical profession. He served in the army in Belgium during World War II and was influenced by the art he saw in Europe. He returned to Athens and held a variety of jobs including hotel work, work for the highway department, as a waiter and a sorority house busboy on the University of Georgia campus, and as a fabricator of concrete blocks.
Before being stopped by arthritis, Hall created concrete, metal and wood sculptures, some of the devil in various activities, and some of fanciful human and animal figures. After his arthritis became too painful for him to continue making sculptures, he began to make drawings. Dilmus passed away in 1987, and many of his pieces are in museum collections.”
COMBINATION 2
taken from Flickr Fotostream by Bert Huyghe
taken from Flickr Fotostream by Patrick Qvinn
Bands won’t play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor
All the clubs have been closed down
This town, is coming like a ghost town
My mind is open wide
And now I’m ready to start
To step out into the dark
Now I’m ready
sentimental authenticity
Jon Pylypchuk’s sculptures are evocative of soft toys that have come to grief, but are creations put together out of an array of scrap material. These pathetic animals reflect the hopelessness of the human condition and the emotions we would prefer to avoid. Emotional frailty is worn as physical weakness, as a bird and a sort of cat sit together wondering how one leg each will serve them. Some other creatures are caught in a situation only made worse by the presence of too many snakes, while a couple of sock-wearing misfits stand around without even a title. –> Interview with the artist
