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January 2010 entries
January 29, 2010
January 28, 2010
Dewar & Gicquel, glass via
January 25, 2010
January 24, 2010
January 23, 2010
Jeff Friesen, Beyond Here via
January 22, 2010
January 21, 2010
January 20, 2010
Chris Berens, Not an Island via
January 18, 2010
Naoko Ito, tree branches in jars via
January 15, 2010
January 14, 2010
Anna Yuchuk via
January 12, 2010
January 11, 2010
Richard Barnes, Unabomber Exhibit A
January 09, 2010
Kurt Kauper, Barack Obama link
an excerpt from the interviewYour images are lifelike but not photo-realistic. What else are you conveying besides the Obamas' form?
KK: While I love some artists associated with photo-realism, I’m not interested in it as a formal option in my work. I like the high artifice of Renaissance space, the kind of space you find in traditional paintings; and I especially like the crystalline clarity of space in artists like Bronzino, Caravaggio, Ingres, or Meredith Frampton. When it’s used in contemporary subject matter it’s exotic enough to make the viewer uncertain as to the level of realism in the work. When done right, I think that that uncertainty can be subtly destabilising; it can have the effect of surrealist displacement, without having to use obvious means to achieve that experience of displacement.
January 08, 2010
January 07, 2010
Katharina Fritsch, Company at the Table
Group of Figures, 2006-2008
St. Michael, Skeleton Feet, Santa Claus, Giant Vase, St. Catherine, Torso, Figure of Madonna, Snake
Katharina Fritsch's work is marked by a sarcastic humor in which she examines the world of
everyday life, tourism and consumption. her sculptures are usually cast in plaster, aluminum
or polyester and are finely revised copies of reality, a dreamlike exercise of emotions. boom
January 06, 2010
January 05, 2010
Kenneth Noland, nytimes
January 04, 2010
3,604 cups of coffee = Mona Lisa link