


Rirkrit Tiravanija, ‘Dom-ino’ (1998)
In Rirkrit Tiravanija’s replica of the Dom-ino concept (1915) by le Corbusier, the spectator becomes the inventer and the actor of his own environment, in the interaction with his fellow visitor. The lower platform is equipped with a CD and cassette player, a TV, a kitchen corner with table and butagaz-cooker, a low table with poufs. The visitors are invited to use the house as they wish, and to share what they bring or find with the others.
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged berlin, chiang mai, concept, dom-ino, found, hangout, kitchen, Le Corbusier, levels, New York, participation, performance, platform, replica, rirkrit tiravanija, romance, TV, wood
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Simon Starling, ‘Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Song bird)’ (2002)
This installation references a housing project in Puerto Rico which was designed by Austrian architect Simon Schmiderer (1911-2001) in the 1960s. Schmiderer developed a series of houses made of building blocks without doors or windows to further integrate the outside and inside spaces, but the rise of crime in the 1970s forced locals to add elaborate barriers onto Schmiderer’s designs. In Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA, Simon Starling recreates two of the existing homes on a smaller scale and inverts them like birdcages; these models sit atop tree trunks that extend from the gallery’s floor.
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged animals, birdcages, birds, history, homes, house, installation, iverted retrograde theme, models, modernism, nature, puerto rico, sculpture, simon schmiderer, Simon Starling, song bird, tree house, urbanism, USA
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Works from the exhibition ‘Social … Quasi Social … Solitary …Spiders … On Hybrid Cosmic Webs’ by Tomás Saraceno at Esther Schipper, Berlin.
A display of hybrid spiderwebs made by various species of spiders. The result: webs on top and inside of other webs, webs woven by rare species of social spiders with webs of solitary, asocial spiders.
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, alone, architecture, asocial, berlin, collection, esther schipper, found, hybrid, installation, light, mix, nature, romance, sculpture, social, spiders, together, Tomás Saraceno, weave, webs, woven
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Bela Kolárová, ‘Signs’ (1964) and ‘Untitled’ (1968-1972)
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged abstract, Bela Kolárová, black and white, collection, DIY, experimental, hair, light, movement, photogram, photograph, prague, raven row, romance, trace
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Yael Davids, ‘Web of own hair’
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, artist, catch, corner, DIY, found, fuckem, hair, imitate, installation, romance, sculpture, self, space, spiderweb, spun, tie, trash, weave, yael davids
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Annette Kelm, ‘Iron Filings, Smile’ (2013)
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged annette kelm, black, face, found, fuckem, fun, germany, iron filings, photograph, smile, yellow
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Michael Dean, ‘Analogue series (tongue)’ (2013)
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged analogue series, book, bookmark, concrete, fuckem, language, michael dean, open, pages, sculpture, text, tongue
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Michael Riedel, ‘Frieze CMYK’ (2002)
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged action, cmyk, colours, DIY, frieze, fuckem, fun, layers, magazine, Michael Riedel, physical, print, romance, separation, split, text, the wild
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Jason Coburn, ‘Inverted apparition – Multiplied (Orange, Green, Pink, Yellow)’ (2014)
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged colors, design, fades, field, frames, gradients, graphic, green, inverted apparition, invisibility, jason coburn, orange, pink, prints, romance, series, surface, yellow
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