Alexander Calder, ‘From Le Memoire Elementaire (composition with Pyramid and Spheres)’ (1976)
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Tagged Alexander Calder, color, light, litograph, primary, pyramid, red yellow and blue, romance, space is the place, sphere, what's in a name
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Egg, Half Moon, Birchwood, Opening Blossom, and Flint Pebble by Kurt Schwitters (1937-47)
Posted in Abstraction, Composition
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Tagged abstract, collection, german, hand held, Kurt Schwitters, merzbau, miniature, painting, plaster, romance, sculptures, shapes, the wild, unknown, what are you
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David Maljkovic, ‘Retired compositions’ (2008)
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Tagged black and white, characters, collage, Composition, david maljkovic, forest, fun, landscape, nature, object, overdue, retired, shape, standing, unidentified, what is art all about
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‘Television Fan’ by Thomson & Craighead.
The fan blows onto VHS rustling leaves and every minute or so, a rhythmic cycle of flash frame images appear, taken from an old catalogue selling film washers. The fleeting glimpses of a woman presenting a wardrobe’s worth of machinery are reminiscent of a spangled magician’s assistant.
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Tagged aggressive, connection, DIY, fan, fuckem, influence, installation, montage, nature, obsolete, passive, plinths, relationship, technology, television, thomson & craighead, tv set, video
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Klaus Weber, ‘Public Fountain LSD Hall’ (2003), a proposal
Installation at Frieze Art Fair 2003
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Tagged action, architecture, design, fountain, frieze art fair, german, glass, guard, klaus weber, lsd, monument, public, public space, relational aesthetics, romance, the wild, trash, utopia
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Ed Ruscha, ‘Suspended Sheet Stained with Ivy’ (1973)
gunpowder and ivy on paper
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Tagged capitalism, conceptual, drawing, Ed Ruscha, green, gunpowder, ivy, levitate, minimalism, paper, sheet, suspend, USA, white
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Jacques Derrida interviewed by Pascale Ogier about the ‘Science of Ghosts’ in Ken McMullen‘s film ‘Ghost Dance’ (1983)
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Tagged 80s, dance, deconstruction, film, ghost, I want to believe, jacques derrida, ken mcmullen, memory, pascale ogier, philosophy, science of ghosts, spectre, telephone
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Yto Barrada, from the series ‘Sleepers’, Tangier (2006)
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Tagged c print, city, collection, DIY, grass, light, nature, park, presence, private public, public space, relational aesthetics, sky, sleep, tangier, unknown, yto barrada
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Nicolas Provost, ‘Stardust’, 20′ (2010)
An excerpt can be seen here
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes from the Hollywood film language. Starring real Hollywood stars like Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in Las Vegas.
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Tagged cctv, dennis hopper, everyday, fiction, film, hidden camera, hollywood, jack nicholson, jon voight, language, las vegas, nicolas provost, real life, star, structure
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