Archive for May, 2011
Miroslav Tichý has died, aged 84. Tichý was a reclusive Czech artist who was rescued from his self-imposed oblivion by a friend, Roman Buxbaum. Exhibitions, books and a website, tichy ocean, have put the artist forward in his last years. Tichý was a sort of artist maudit, a species of outsider represented by the Bohemian artists […]
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Tags: art maudit, entropy and photography, Garry Winogrand Women are Beautiful, hand made cameras, Miroslav Tichý, Roman Buxbaum, tichy ocean
White art
Greg Neville. Robert Hunter painting at the NGV, 2009 Minimalism in a minimalist interior, the contemporary rooms at the National Gallery of Victoria. .
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Tags: Greg Neville photography, National Gallery of Victoria, NGV, Robert Hunter painting
Installation art
Greg Neville. Art Installation or installation of art. MoMA 2009. If Installation Art mated with Minimalism. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Tags: art installation, Greg Neville photograph, installation art, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art
Reproduction
Claudia Angelmaier, Color and Gray, 2006 Like Hans-Christian Schink, the subject of my last post, Claudia Angelmaier is a German artist based in Leipzig. And like Schink, she trained at its famous Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, the Academy of Visual Arts. Angelmaier’s work is conceptual, examining “the museum without walls” – art reproductions in […]
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Tags: Claudia Angelmaier, Claudia Angelmaier Color and Gray, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
1h
Hans-Christian Schink, 1/05/2010, 5:46pm-6.46pm, S06 26.486′ E039 27.776′ Hans-Christian Schink photographs the sun, exposing the film in his 5×4 camera for exactly one hour. The sun arcs across the sky in a black streak that appears like a comet or missile. Schink is taking advantage of the phenomenon of solarization, where extreme amounts of light […]
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Tags: 1h, 1h Hatje Cantz Verlag, Hans-Christian Schink, photographs of the sun, true solarization
Faculty
Greg Neville, Virus 1,2 & 3. Lambda prints These prints are in an exhibition called Faculty at NMIT’s A Space gallery. It’s a staff show so I’m sharing the walls with some very good artists: Geoff Tolchard, John R. Neeson, Caz Guiney, Maurizio Salvati amongst others. The images were created digitally from photographic “portraits” of […]
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Tags: A Space gallery, Caz Guiney, Faculty exhibition, Geoff Tolchard, John R. Neeson, Maurizio Salvati, NMIT A Space gallery, NMIT gallery, Virus project
