lrjp: I am attracted to things that are capable of transcending their own banality and materiality to become something else, something more. I like the way that videotape is simultaneously delicate and durable, since it’s meant to last. I can rip it easily with my hands because it’s so thin, but I can also stretch it. Videotape is made to present the world in color, but it appears purely black. It’s supposed to be this safe container of the past, but it is destined to vanish like a dinosaur, to become obsolete, pushed away by new technologies. It’s a familiar mass-produced commodity, but it can be surprisingly sensual and can look almost alive if set in motion. It can be seen as a solid, thick, black line, but it can also disappear right in front of your eyes if it’s turned on its side. So, to me, it’s not just VHS tape but a rich sculptural material. It allows me to achieve subtle perceptual effects, which I simply would not be able to achieve with steel, stone, or any other material. I also like the play of the artificial and the natural. Even though my work is made of industrial materials, displayed under artificial light, and sometimes uses artificial wind and electricity, I am going for something fundamentally natural. Looking at one of my works can, I hope, be like watching a flame or a running river. I want people to forget for a second what they are looking at and inhabit a parallel world, where abstract things make perfect sense as long as you are willing to take the time to look […]
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inthenoosphere: Mass (Colder Darker Matter), 1997 Cornelia Parker Parker conceived of and created Mass during a residency at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, in 1997. Inspired by science and news events, Parker considered visiting NASA in Houston as a starting point for her project. However, shortly after arriving in San Antonio, she read about a Baptist Church in nearby Lytle that was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. She obtained permission from the church to gather the charred remains, which she then suspended from the ceiling with thread and wire to create Mass. Parker’s arrangement of larger pieces in the center of the composition with the smaller elements radiating out creates at once the illusion of a cube and an explosion suspended in time and space. The large installation has a flat, pictorial quality when viewed from the front, like an abstract black and white painting. Viewed from an angle, the square architectural form becomes apparent, giving the work the paradoxical and haunting aspect of both a solid and a void. Parker has used the word Mass in the first part of the work’s title to allude to the mystery of faith, destruction and resurrection, while Colder Darker Matter refers to a scientific term, cold dark matter, used to describe the “unquantifiable” in the universe.
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lexaplex: roland flexner’s ink bubble drawings are made by blowing ink and soapy water through a tube onto paper…beautiful accidents made by a rigid formula.
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Vincent Ganivet - Lumière noire (2011) Gaëtan Köhler, Architecte (Oz Collezctive, HDA).
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rerylikes: Bradford Washburn. Sastrugi in Silverthorne Pass, Alaska, 1945 (via mpdrolet)
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François Morellet. 8 trames 0° - 22°55 - 45° - 67°5 - 90° - 112°5 - 135° - 157°5 (detail), 1958. Oil on canvas (Pompidou, Paris, photo by rery)
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anewwoman: Richard Serra, Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere, 2001
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L’acier de Richard Serra
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Kendall Buster Double Chalice, 1996,Baumgartner, Washington, DC
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Gerry Judah
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Zao Wou Ki
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VAV Architects What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror.
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Shea Hembrey Whirl
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