Moon River: ART

New York City's Parks (Map)

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:26:21 GMT

Alan Sonfist. New York City's Parks 3 (Map)

Alan Sonfist. New York City's Parks 2 (Map)

the Floating World

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:52:07 GMT

HOKUSAI (1760-1849), From the series "Eight famous views from Edo" (Edo hakkei):
Evening rain in Yoshiwara - early 1800s

pictures of the floating world

Eye in the Sky

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:39:47 GMT

New York video artist Tony Oursler is best known for projecting video images of faces on dolls, mannequins, and disembodied heads, thereby bringing to life these otherwise inanimate objects.

Tony Oursler Eyes, détail, 1996

Eye in the Sky features a fiberglass sphere onto which is projected a single eye watching television. Although the rest of the body is not visible, we can hear the sounds of compulsive channel surfing. Without the emotive clues of facial expressions or gestures, we focus on the eye as an orifice, twitching as it gulps weather forecasts, commercials, sitcoms and game shows. For Oursler, the fragmentary nature of the piece -- the disembodied eye, the reflected television screen and the rapidly changing channels -- parallels features of mental illnesses that signal the disintegration of the personality and the inability of the individual to identify with and function in the real world.

Oursler breaks down the traditional boundaries between media by creating a freestanding video sculpture. Eye in the Sky was facilitated by the recent development of miniature LCD projectors that free the image from the cumbersome boundaries of the video monitor, the conventional film screen or the picture frame. Like some strange creature from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence, Oursler's eye is a metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age.

Tony Oursler Eyes, 1996

Tony Oursler
The Sum of Its Parts, 1997
Fiberglass sphere, Sony CPJ200,
VCR, videotape, and tripod
18 inches diameter (sphere) plus equipment (45.7 cm)

TONY OURSLER, American, born 1957
Eye in the Sky 1997, Mixed media video installation

Without a body or face to convey expression, Eye in the Sky is reduced to a single eye compulsively watching the rapidly changing channels on a television screen that is reflected in its iris. As the eye consumes endless fragments of weather broadcasts, game shows, and commercials, we imagine what effects popular culture's obsession with television has on our psyches. Like some strange creature from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence, Oursler's disembodied eye is a metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age.

''Atomix - Full of Love, Full of Wonder'

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:19:47 GMT

A room full of 50,000 floating, coloured balls arouses some odd responses in people. The spray-painted balls, attached to strings of fishing line, vibrate when wall-mounted fans are switched on, and took 10 days to install.

via thingsmagazine

M O O N

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:30:52 GMT

KIKI SMITH

MOON 1997
lead paint on 83 Opal Remi glass panes, 16' x 13' x 3.5" overall

Moon with Stars I, Bronze. : 97.2 x w: 97.2 x d: 5.1 cm / h: 38.3 x w: 38.3 x d: 2 in

Tidal, 1998
Photogravure, phtolithography, and silkscreen
10 1/4 x 9 11/16” boxed, 19 1/2” x 126 1/4” open

ASCII architecture

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:10:40 GMT

St George Hall, Liverpool, Designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes at the age of 23 is one of the finest neo-classical building in Europe:

The project consists in fully covering the St. Georges Hall with the projection of ascii rendering of the same surface that it's being projected on.

Adam and Eve

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:41:54 GMT

Ivan Pinkava. Adam and Eve, 1994

Blattschnitte

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:06:53 GMT

Natalie Czech, uses vertical aerial photographs that are freely available on the Internet and combines them by multiple superimposition. she concentrates on industrial and railway facilities whose linearity lends itself to suchlike montage.

From the serie: Blattschnitte

Blattschnitte 28, 2005
80 x 60 cm

Blattschnitte 30, 2005
146 x 108 cm

via http://www.kunsthalle-darmstadt.de/Ausstellung/halle.htm

Spacetime

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:15:09 GMT

Spacetime - Created by nicolai_g. No digital horseplay other than basic curve corrections and resizing.

via bldgblog

Traces

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:48:48 GMT

visiting again an artist i love. Berni Searle has been trained as a sculptor, the Cape Town artist now utilises large-scale digital photographic prints and combines them with found materials to make her compelling installations. Using her own body as subject and point of departure, Searle experiments with the surface of her skin, allowing it to be clad in layers of coloured and aromatic spices, leaving her bodily imprint on drifts of spices on the floor, or staining certain areas of her body with various substances, suggesting trauma, or damage.

Traces (details) 1999, from the 'Colour Me' series, Three digital prints
Photo credit: Jean Brundrit

Voluntaries

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:07:16 GMT

Part of a series of 23 installations. Each piece contains 1,000 blocks. of Artist John Powers

via http://tropolism.com/

Weight of God

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:31:40 GMT

Weight of God began as a conversation between Nita Sturiale and Jane D. Marsching via an exchange of URLs over the course of three months in 2005.

The conversation began with the intention of answering the questions what is the relationship betwen the brain and God? The conversation's URLs were mapped in a basic UML program and then translated into a physical installation in which viewers could press large fuzzy buttons connected to the computer via a pic chip that would prompt the computer to load the website on the screen. The chalk and wire drawing attempts to visualize the conversation in nodes organized in 3 levels, with the top level containing the primary nodes: brain/god, lives, natural phenomena, and mapping.

Corset forms

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:10:02 GMT

Diane Grace Goodman - Garment Forms 2002

Corset form #4. Front view.
Oil on canvas with photomontage, silk organza,
Swarovski crystals, #14 Japanese seed beads,
tulle, thread, muslin, gauze, metal hooks. 2003

Corset form #1. Front view.

Cotton cheesecloth, hide glue, oil glazes, wax.
Embroidery: tulle, thread, muslin. 2002

Corset form #3. Front view.

Oil on canvas with photomontage, silk organza,
Swarovski crystals, #14 Japanese seed beads,
tulle, thread, muslin. 2003

Corset form #3. Back view.

Oil on canvas with photomontage, silk organza,
Swarovski crystals, #14 Japanese seed beads,
tulle, thread, muslin.
2003

touching gaze

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:44:40 GMT

Franziskus Wendels

Ten to twelve, 150 x 150 cm, 1994
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand

Milesstone. 155 x 200 cm, 1991

Potsdamer Platz. Verkehr (2/93), 150 x 180 cm, 1993/94
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand

Knowledg

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:34:18 GMT

Joyce Kozloff Watercolor, acrylic, plaster & rope on cardboard, ceramic base

where flamingos flies

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:26:05 GMT

Elisheva Levy HIBIS, markers on paper, 50cm X 70cm, 2003

What if I Go...

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:14:51 GMT

Sean Landers, "What if I Go...". 2004
Oil on linen, 133 x 163 cm

Free Territorry

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:44:49 GMT

I was touched very much by the work of artist Igor Tosevski, (living in Republic of Macedonia) and i'm honored that he let me post some of his work in here, and had explained about his concepts:

The Free Territories are conceived as traps for free spontaneous performative expression. They are in fact templums in whose borders any act, gesture, action/no-action or even shadow becomes a pure conceptual artistic action, echoing in space as a haiku whisper. This was based on an arrangement between the passerby and myself and achieved by means of various flyers and ads in the local newspapers and in the form of a Declaration of Free Territory.

The locations I saw suitable for creating the Free Territories were parts of the public spaces that maintain an undefined status, a kind of “no-man’s land” or neutral zones within the city scape. They were created consecutively. Outlined in yellow paint, their numbers grow by the day. Some were renewed while the others were left to fade away quietly under the footsteps of the crowd or the rain. None of them were made to last. They are all around us in the urban landscape existing also as an attempt to fill in the gap in the harmony of the specified site or perhaps - to create a new one.

Every single object or action caught within the borders of the Territory becomes an art-object, ready-made or social sculpture. Respectfully, every passerby is a potential performance artist, a poet of gesture or a creative activist.

Free Territories are pockets of creative freedom where the choice of the individual sways over the dominant vulgarity of politics. They represent junctions along the road to the essential state of Art. They are enclaves of social expression. Therefore, in the Free Territory there are no limitations or restrictions of any kind.

I see the Free Territory as an opportunity for each individual to act as an artist. Stepping over the Territory becomes an act of the subtlest nature; within the yellow line, each uttered word, whisper or even thought becomes an autonomous conceptual action equal to Ives Klein’s leap into empty void.

In here

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:25:32 GMT

Visiting again an Artist i'm deeply touched by, his video works has a dream-like quality that offer a magical transformation of an ordinary domestic space and all of them introduce elements that are surreal but characteristically serene. Here are some stills from various works by HIRAKI SAWA. The artist say that his works are about travelling without leaving a place and also about his own feelings of alienation and on arriving to Britain from Japan and a period of living in London flats. watch the Video project 'Going Places Sitting Down'

HIRAKI SAWA Going Places Sitting Down, 2004. 3 channel video projection,
Commissioned by the Hayward/Bloomberg Artists' Commission

IRAKI SAWA 8 Minutes, 2005. single channel video, Edition of 8

HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003. Digital video on DVD, 7 minute 10 second loop

HIRAKI SAWA Going Places Sitting Down, 2004. 3 channel video projection, Commissioned by the
Hayward/Bloomberg Artists' Commission

Hiraki Sawa. Still from Dwelling, at the Barbican

Map for Finding Yesterday

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:09:13 GMT

Map for Finding Yesterday. Illustrations: Mia Leijonstedt

This concertina book draws its inspiration from antique maps. The light-weight drift wood covers continue the imagery in material form. Imaginary, symbolic writing is burnt through the pages - the effect of which adds to the concept of time when the book is viewed against a light source.

Spin Out

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:51:27 GMT

Aviel Goodman

New World 3. Archival inkjet print on canvas or heavy fine art paper . 2006

Spin Out 1 Archival inkjet print on canvas or heavy fine art paper. 2006

Dream Soldier

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:52:40 GMT

Moti Sagron - Born in Tunis in 1954, immigrated to Israel at the age of 14. After his army service, He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem under leading Israeli artists.

Moti's Art is for sale and you can see his gallery

Moti Sagron, Dream Soldier

Mary and Pablo Flying a Kite

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:58:39 GMT

ROBERT FRANK, Mary and Pablo Flying a Kite, circa 1956, Gelatin silver print, 17.6 x 27.7 cm

My Ghost

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:50:32 GMT

ADAM FUSS, From the series My Ghost, Hand-pulled photogravure, signed L/R
22.2 x 17.7 cm

Disko Bay

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:45:57 GMT

LYNN DAVIS, Disko Bay #9, 1988, Gelatin silver print, printed 1989

Borderers

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:24:09 GMT

Of all the hundreds maps I've been exploring for the past year, This map-on seashell shell by Brazilian artist Anna bella geiger
has become my most beloved one.

Anna Bella Geiger
"On Nacar", 2003
Perlmuschel, Metallblech mit
Weltkarte eingeprägt
12 x 6 x 3 cm

here are some of the artist's works

O Pao Nosso (Our Daily Bread), 1978
Original photographic postcards, silkscreen, paper bag, Edition of 5
36 x 60 cm

Anna Bella Geiger
"Y'vus, Y'vus, she sobs with nostalgia", 2004
Objekt, Radierung auf Metall, grüner
Samtstoff, Holz

Orbis description n?7 da série "Fronteiriços" [from the series "Borderers"] 1998 (gaveta de ferro, folha de cobre, fio de cobre, encáustica, pigmento e folha de ouro)

Self-Portrait

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:19:30 GMT

“Self-Portrait”, Rembrandt

Self-Portrait with Wide-Open Eyes, Rembrandt van Rijn , 1630

Sorrow

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:10:01 GMT

martin taylor

Sorrow

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:47:42 GMT

Photography by Dale Collis.

The Battle of Britain Monument in London, is a monument to The Few - commemorating those people who took part in this vital battle of the Second World War. It is now open to the public since September 2005.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:03:18 GMT

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of William Blake's prophetic books, written between 1790-1793, it is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books it was published as printed sheets from plates etched with both texts and illustrations. The plates were then coloured by Blake and his wife Catherine. At least nine remaining copies of the work exist today.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy F, plate 21. Relief etching, 15.3 x 10.8 cm., 1790, color printed and finished in watercolors and pen and ink c. 1794. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Birds Studies

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:59:56 GMT

Photographs by Camille Solyagua(via wood s lot)

Flying Bird, Study 9, Rome 1995

Michal Rovner 2000

How History Became Geography

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:08:00 GMT

Joshua Neustein

How History Became Geography
Installation: table, handpainted map, cut glass, and crystal chandelier

Painter. b. 1940, Danzig. As a child wandered in Siberia, Uzbekistan, returned to Poland, then to Austria; 1951 reached New York, where he studied in a Yeshiva as well as art studies. Participated in many exhibitions in U.S.A., England and Israel. Since 1979 has lived in New York.

Walking the London Circle Line

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:21:14 GMT

"London Underground’s Circle Line is a 100 year old 14-mile circuit running just a few meters below ground. Millions of passengers a year hurtle along this course largely unaware of the sights and sites overhead. Walking above the Circle Line with a 4x5” pinhole camera, I am photographing those sites and sights."

Regent’s Park

Walking the Circle Line: Baker Street to Kings Cross Nov 24, 2005

via kottke

TOSHIO SHIBATA-Landscape

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:01:16 GMT

Grand Coulee Dam, Douglas County, WA, 1996
Gelatin silver print, Edition of 25

Untitled (Turkey), 1987, Gelatin silver print

Untitled (Morocco), 1988, Gelatin silver print

The Only Art on the Moon

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:03:48 GMT

The only piece of art on the moon (depending, we suppose, on one’s definition of art) is a 3″-tall aluminum sculpture titled “Fallen Astronaut.” It was created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and installed by Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott, along with a plaque bearing the names of the 14 astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the service of space exploration. via kirchersociety

Fallen Astronaut on the Moon.

the sacrificed Earth

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:49:37 GMT

From this project:

Life versus Death - Silvio De Gracia, artist, Buenos Aires ARGENTINA

via http://www.ashleyb.org/

Forest

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:38:22 GMT

The World from Above

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:50:36 GMT

Every now and then I stumble upon an an art piece by artist, whom i never knew before, and little by little by exploring all i can see about him, makes me fall in love with his work, with his vision of the world. Aleksandra Mir is certainly of of those wonderful surprises.

"I started working on this series of 48" x 48" black marker map drawings after hiking in Iceland in the summer of 2003. There are now 100 views of The World from Above suburban street junctions, swamps, archipelagos, cities, countries and whole continents. Sometimes the content is inspired by a trip I have just made, sometimes by a location in a movie and other times just from an interesting graphical reference.

I draw from existing mass produced maps so my freehand translations inevitably become naive renderings of modern cartographic technologies. These drawings resemble more the maps made by the early explorers of our world, as the process of having to navigate with only a few known coordinates, throwing yourself into the landscape and making up the rest the best you can, is very much part of drawing itself. I also like the idea that a viewer who has a close relationship to a particular site and knows where the roads actually lead to and from, or how the borders became the way they are, can complete the drawing according to his own historical and geographical references. This way, the maps are never finished and appear different to everyone."

Aleksandra Mir, The World from Above, South Polar Plateau

Black Sea/Odesa

Western Sahara/Cabo Mojador

Garden of Rockets

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:44:18 GMT

Aleksandra Mir, 'Garden of Rockets (1-4)', mixed media, 2005

After the work above, The artist was inspired to make a new piece: A 20m high rocket to be built out of junk ( one of it's technical drawings can be seen here below, but better you check her project page)

The rocket will be erected for only 5 days before it gets dismantled and all parts returned to where they originally came from or sold off as scrap. The project will be shown at the Show Space at Camden Roundhouse, London, 9-13, Sep 2006.

getting wet

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:07:16 GMT

I Like the aquatics series of benjamin anderson

benjamin anderson. "66 chevy" oil on linen 2005

via mocoloco

The Miniature Long March

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:10:19 GMT

“The Miniature Long March” by Qin Ga. Long March Space: “Mao’s ‘Long March’ symbolized the deliverance of the Communist ideal to the Chinese proletariat. It is with this symbolism in mind that we now choose to march contemporary art out to China’s peripheral population.”

ffwsptffwsptffwspt

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:42:36 GMT

Ingrid Calame first became interested in stains when she noticed the random, unpredictable shapes created by spots and splatters of paint on her studio floor. While she accurately records the stains she finds, she also transforms them; her bright, glossy paintings are very different from the marks she traces.

Ingrid Calame, ffwsptffwsptffwspt, 2000, Enamel paint on aluminum
72 x 72 x 1 in. Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
© Ingrid Calame, photo © 2002 Museum Associates / LACMA

River Art - Hidden Art

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:19:53 GMT

Naked dreaming one night solar.
I have lain days animals.
The wind and rain erased to me
like a a fire, a poem
writing in a wall.

DAWN by Alejandra Pizarnik

According to a tradition in the north of Iran images of fish can be a sign of treasure. By carving simple fish shapes and other forms onto small stones and river rocks, artist Ahmad Nadalian seeks to repopulate the spirit of neglected streams and rivers in his native Iran and around the world and share these treasures with future generations.

To him, fish is the symbol of man's struggle for survival and his wandering soul in search of happiness. The fish has now turned into a fossil seeking to become eternal.

Hidden Treasures, Nadalian has buryed many of his carved stones across the world. These mostly show images of fish and human hand and foot traces and animals.

Works in Germany The Rhein Again Has Fish

Soul Map

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:52:32 GMT

REBIRTH OF THE SOUL by Deepak Chopra

Quantum physics, the greatest intellectual triumph of the 20th century, has made the spiritual worldview completely believable.

"The human soul could be the first item on anyone's endangered species list; for what is more soul-killing than our century's invention of concentration camps, world wars, mass refugees, genocide, and totalitarianism? What all these soul-killers have in common is that they deny the sacredness of human life. The soul, whatever it may be, is our speck of the sacred. Therefore the current fascination with the soul marks a swing away from horror and dehumanisation. People want to believe that the soul is real..." read all

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"Quantum theory is not a place to turn to for love. But it tells us that there is an unknown realm that is our source, and it hints that this unknown place is infinite, intelligent, capable of organising the entire universe, full of possibilities without end. The unknown is God in one inescapable regard: it is the only place where you can truly know the fate of your soul. In the 21st century, everyday events will take care of themselves, and human nature will roll along a course that is well charted by philosophy and psychology. Only the unknown can change this course, and the unknown is inside ourselves. Revere this place, and when you can embrace it fully, the supreme miracle - a world that can finally live in peace and love - must occur. " Read all

Deepak Chopra is author of Grow Younger, Live Longer.

Exotic saucers

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:07:46 GMT

works of Charles AA Dellschau

LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:00:28 GMT

ANDREAS HORVATH - DISASTERS OF WAR. see more

Time map

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:55:48 GMT

Andreas Horvath

Little World

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:56:51 GMT

Dan Webb. "Little Motor World" 2003 mixed media 17” x 17” x 17”

Dan Webb "Little World II (HELP)" 2003 mixed media 17” x 17” x 17”

People on Fire

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:28:40 GMT

Marienplatz 1991 acílica sobre tela [acrylic on canvas] 203,2x284,48cm private collection, Paris

City Metaphors

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:32:33 GMT

Plates from architect O.M. Ungers’ City Metaphors which were included in a larger exhibit on view in 1976 at the Cooper-Hewitt called MAN transFORMS. reported and scaned by thenonist

an organism: bone structure.
a city: street structure.
a mechanism: frame structure.

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Hu Yang's photodocumentary on Shanghai living via Pruned:

Hu Yang's Jin Chizhe (Shanghainese, Technical Assistant)

I’m busy with my work in a company and I also work as a part-timer for my artistic friends. I likie collecting artificial guns and enjoy designing and making mechanical products of the 1960s and the 1970s. I want to have my own studio and work for myself one day. My pain is that I don’t have enough time to be with my parents and family.

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Are cities the new countries? - Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city? read the BBC News Magazine article. via kottke