pretty poor gallery I know! Things I found interesting in Berlin were: 1- The ability to take photos of art in art galleries. This continues on from my ideas from the value project, its just like disneyland and tourist locations. 2- Artist commune, artist’s living together, still a presence of making money even in somewhere [...]
Posts Tagged ‘contextual’
Contextual tangs from Berlin
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, The Other Stoof, tagged art, berlin, bicycle wheel, brave new world, commune, concrete, contextual, disneyland, franz marc, gravel, marcel duchamp, mercedes, mound, s-bahn, sand, tourism, value on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Contextual Site-specific XTREME
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged agassiz, art, baldessari, block of ice, california, complaints, contextual, dave sherry, Dennis Oppenheim, devils hole, dragging rock, drawings, environmental art, erosion, finding, francis alys, gordon matta clark, house divided in two, interruption, intervention, land art, map, markers, messy, mexico city, orienteering, performance, richard long, site-specific art, value, walking on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Alys In this piece Alys dragged a blog of ice through Mexico City until it melted. It is very similar to my dragging rock piece in the respects of practicalities and in concept. Alys’s efforts can be seen as completely ludicrous and futile just as my work can be seen as it. In a [...]
Alighiero e Boetti
Posted in Artsy, journey, Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged Alghiero e Boetti, contextual, maps as art, world map on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Boetti’s work is very similar to the painting outcome I made, I talk mostly of MAp of the World 1989, which details the boundaries of the countries of the world at that particular time, its also shows the current flags. I believe this to be very similar to my work and helped me choose to [...]
its a painting contextual affair – Raqib Shaw
Posted in Artsy, journey, Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged contemporary art, contextual, enamel paint, Raqib Shaw, sex on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There were two main artists whose work influenced my final outcomes in the journey project: Raqib Shaw, a very elaborate man who works with very intricate paintings involving different media and influences from different cultures. It was his use of enamel paint to create detail which inspired me to do something similar. In his work, [...]
Plaster cast inspirations
Posted in Artsy, tagged cast, contextual, plaster, pompeii, terricota army on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking about plaster sculptures and what they mean to people. For me they symbolise death and memorials. This is partly due to the fact that I have seen the plaster casts of people at pompeii. I want to get across this darkness/memorial fact in my work. Here are some pictures of the casts [...]
