Christine Elfman‘s website can be seen here.
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Alex Kisilevich – third time’s a charm (Nihilsentimentalgia’s Early Years)
While updating some info on Nihil’s early posts I came across a post featuring an image by Alex Kisilevich. It seemed weird to have a post with a single image and as I went looking for more, I found not only that I made a second post a year after that but, and that’s the…
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≡ Sculpture & Photography: a love affair (part II) ≡
Roughly one year ago I made a post highlighting the love affair between photography and sculpture in contemporary art. The post featured artists that were part of the 2014 selection of Hyères Festival. In this second part what follows is a selection of work based on an exhibited curated on the theme Under Construction –…
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٠ ‘one becomes what one is by overcoming the wish to be that which one is not’ ٠
© Coke Wisdom O’Neal, Jessica Sue Layton, from the series The Box (Manhattan), 2005 © Coke Wisdom O’Neal, Chris and Mike O’Neal, from the series The Box (Manhattan), 2005 SARTRE’S MAP OF AUTHENTICITY BAD FAITH GOOD FAITH OPPRESSION CITY OF ENDS HARMONIOUS GROUP SELF-AWARENESS REFLECTIVE LIFE SPONTANEOUS LIFE TRANSCENDENT EGO INTENTIONALITY SELF-ORIGINATING SELF-DETERMINING INTROSPECTION ONE’S…
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٠ Susan Hiller & the transformative potential of investigation ٠
caption (above): Susan Hiller, Sisters of Menon, 1972 -79. 4 L-shaped panels of automatic writing, blue pencil on A4 paper with typed labels Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown Artists, 1972-76. Installation view, Tate Britain, London. «In fact, Hiller herself has commented that what her archive includes are moments missed, fleeting encounters with a movement…
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┐ Stuart Sherman, performance after writing └
caption (above): © Babette Mangolte’s portrait of Stuart Sherman, from the Spectacle Performance Stuart’s Thirteenth Spectacle (time), 1980, can be seen here “Stuart Sherman, a member of the important generation of American avant-garde performance artists who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, developed his own unique style across various media, the…
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┐ Peter Puklus, Handbook to the Stars └
© Peter Puklus, Handbook to the Stars “There is a reason why Peter Puklus’ first publication is called Handbook to the Stars, a subtle manifesto of his Ars Poetica. With this handbook he attempts to portray his own universe and provide insight into how his photographic works relate to each other: like galaxies in relative…
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┐ Yanai Toister – Toward a Brief Manifesto on Photography └
© Yanai Toister, Bouy (From Register of Facts), 2004, C-print, 156/120 cm © Yanai Toister, Untitled (from Straits), 2002, C-print, 80/100 cm © Yanai Toister, Untitled (from Straits), 2002, C-print, 65/80 cm “In order to formulate a binding stand with regard to the photographs in the exhibition, one must first acknowledge that the word “photography”…
Read More┐ Donald Goddard and Hannah Wilke – Love made possible └
All reproductions of Hannah Wilke’s work were removed due to copyrights issues. Here’s the link to her virtual home. © Hannah Wilke, My Country tis of thee, 1975 “Lil Picard: I see you are a collector of Art Deco objects. Why? Hannah Wilke: I’ve always collected things. Objects have always been important for me. But…
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┐ The blind man and his visual clarity └
caption (above): © João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva Terence Koh, God, 2007. View of the performance at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin. Installation view of Terence Koh (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 19–May 27, 2007). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Self-portrait, 2003 © Hiroshi…
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┐ Micael Nussbaumer & The Weaving Factory – chaos as creative force └
© Micael Nussbaumer, from “Tempo Imprime no Espaço” (lit. translation: Time prints in Space), installation © Micael Nussbaumer, “Desfiar”, installation, several different documents from the abandoned Fábrica da Fiação de Tomar (The Weaving Factory), 2010 © Micael Nussbaumer, video stills, from “O Registador”, 2010 “Each video depicts an intervention in the abandoned space of Fábrica…
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┐ The “hau” of dead birds └
© Eric Slayton, Nude wtih Hawk, from the series Fauna and Flora, 2000 © Eric Slayton, Colaptes Auratus, from the series Ornithological Study, 2003 More of Eric Slayton’s work here “But Hertz had also found—I discovered it amongst his papers—a text whose significance we had both missed, for I had been unaware of it myself.…
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┐ Ian van Coller └
© Ian van Coller, Daisy Angy Kekae (left), from the series Collage Portraits, 2009 “This series combines several influences that have personally been relevant to my art-making process. The work grew out of my experimentation with the use of quilting techniques based on traditions from Africa and Gees Bend, Alabama as a way to tell…
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┐ Ugo Rondinone – I don’t live here anymore └
© Ugo Rondinone, all Untitled, from the series I don’t live here anymore, 1996 “My discovery of Rondinone dates back to a sexy picture I noticed in Flash Art in the mid-1990s, of what I took to be a seductive model revealing a glimpse of appealing cleavage. I hadn’t actually meant to stop at the…
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┐ Deborah Bohnert └
© Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series The Little People, 2009 “…Dada had long operated according to the principle of instability, blurring distinctions between art and mass media (in photomontage), art and mass…
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┐ Rachel de Joode └
© Rachel de Joode, Untitled Portraits, 2011 © Rachel de Joode, Altars, 2009 More of Rachel’s here
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┐ Edmund Clark └
© Edmund Clark, Inmate’s table, from the project Still Life Killing Time © Edmund Clark, Stairwell, from the project Still Life Killing Time © Edmund Clark, Shared Room, from the project Still Life Killing Time © Edmund Clark, from the project Still Life Killing Time “Edmund Clark’s Still Life: Killing Time is a quiet meditation…
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┐ Patty Carroll – Anonymous Women └
© Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women © Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women © Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women “Anonymous Women” is a series of “Un-portraits” as Carroll calls them, of women draped – entirely covered – in various fabrics, with minimum props. Lush fabrics, an unlimited…
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┐ Todd McLellan └
© Todd McLellan, Old Camera, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Apart Camera, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Old Typewriter, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Apart Typewriter, from his recent work Disassembly ‘disassembly’ by canadian photographer todd mclellan is a series of images capturing old relics of…
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┐ Seo-Yeoung Won └
© Seo-Yeoung Won, Chair, from the series Compressed Reality, 2010 © © Seo-Yeoung Won, Wheel, from the series Compressed Reality, 2010 “My work starts with sublimating from a mere common object in dairy life to an entity having a particular denotative meaning. For this, I have paid attention to existing expression methods of painting and…
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