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Aurel Schmidt
Ai Wei Wei’s multifaceted installation”@Large” is currently on view at Alcatraz island in the San Francisco bay. One component is this porcelain piece entitled “Blossoms”
From the artist: “The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.”
Ai Weiwei’s exhibition on Alcatraz will be open through April 26, 2015
via thisiscolossal
(Source: exhibition-ism.com)
“Coexistense”
Dimensions: 100x32x44 cm
Technique : Paper Construction (Based on notesheets of the work)
© ibrahim Demir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXpaopeaoQ
The present work is a construction ibrahim Demir from universal concepts such as music and literature , materialization of the human figure. Each musical composition or work of literature is represented essentially in creating figures. The paper represents the fragility of knowledge , temporality of matter and retention of ideas. With the use of musical scores or the pages of a book , the artist constructs his sculpture representing their own point of view on the work. The sculptures remain fragile and transparent medium , appearance that allows the viewer to embark on a visual journey into and out of the sculpture. In the construction of the concept the author mixed experiences of modern art and contemporary with classic figurative aesthetics .
Sarah Awad
Open Air, 2013
Oil on canvas, 38 x 42 inches
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Matt Larrson
Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of a Woman with Roses (detail)
1635-39
(via An Ecology of Affect and Desire: AA Bronson’s ‘House of Shame’)
GWANGJU, South Korea — I visited AA Bronson’s House of Shame with a feeling of intense excitement and curiosity. I am intrigued by the nature of the project, which seems to be an extraordinary field of forces that correspond to the place and time of its presentation but also to wider notions of collectivity and history. It is difficult to approach all its different layers, and what I propose to do here is to explore it from the angle of personal history, the production of collectivities and the representation of desires, all of which I see as key concepts in its inception and actualization.
Art off the Wall —our Thursday evening series presenting, ahem, “off the wall” performance work— continues this week (11/13) featuring artists from #CrossingBrooklyn.
A highlight of the night will be Shaun Leonardo’s Taxi Dance, a performance-dance-party hybrid, which harkens back to the dance halls of the 1920s and their resurgence among Latin American communities since the 1980s. In both of those examples, men are able to pay women to be their dance partner for the duration of one song. However, for his performance, Leonardo takes this “ticket-a-dance” system, and inverts the gender roles, giving the audience the opportunity to pay menfor a dance, at $2 a song. It is the artist’s hope that this “romantic transaction” will challenge our ideas of companionship and perspectives on gender dynamics. I’m not at liberty to say who the men will be, but suffice to say that are all quite charming and dapper, and you can also expect to see a few special art world guest dancers in the mix.
If you need more convincing, there will also be a cash bar, and I hear the DJ will be playing a great mix of salsa and 90s R&B. Yes, you’re right, that is awesome. So bring your dancing shoes. But even if you don’t dance, there will still be plenty more to see and do that night.
Posted by Elisabeth Callihan
Wool candy by Sasha Colic on Flickr.
Thomas Brummett - The Infinities (of Earth and Heaven)