Then, when we look at the way they visualized 'things', we find that, unlike a Donald Judd, for instance, who, as the final outcome of reducing the pictorial illusion by sheer force of logic, yielded an artificial product that he called...
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Wednesday, 01 July 09 - 10:53 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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Noboru Takayama, 'Yuusatsu' (1973)
really interested in the work and ideas of the artists asscoiated with the "mono ha" movement of the late 60s and 70s. here's more...
MINEMURA Toshiaki "What was 'MONO-HA' ?" (from 1986 catalogue of MONO-HA exhibition at Kamakura Gallery)
found these photos of the main "mono ha" members... totally in love with the images. i wish they had trading cards... like baseball cards: arte povera, mono ha etc...
they make me think of this: inner laugh by money mark
please, enjoy the passing time.
posted by matt olson
In the framework of the second edition of the Contemporary Art Exposition Saint-Germain-des-Près, Périphériques Architectes were invited to participate with an installation on Place Furstemberg. The Pink Ghost was a 'sculptural transformation'...
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Tuesday, 30 June 09 - 11:18 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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this has really stuck in my head.
this has really stuck in my head too.
more here.
please enjoy the time as it passes.
posted by matt olson
Minneapolis is a city in the Midwestern United States, known for its high rate of literacy and racially tolerant atmosphere. In many respects it is the ideal American city, where coexisting cultures thrive, and in turn breed successive generations of ...
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Monday, 29 June 09 - 12:07 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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untitled (single white negative) 2008 - paul lee
group show called "minneapolis" in los angeles at peres projects. looks pretty great.
Group Exhibition
Minneapolis
July 2 – August 29, 2009
Opening Reception: July 2, 2009
peres projects
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034 USA
Javier Peres is very pleased to present "Minneapolis," a group exhibition featuring works by the following artists:
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Dan Attoe
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Joe Bradley
Dan Colen
Amie Dicke
Kaye Donachie
Mark Flood
John Kleckner
Terence Koh
Bruce LaBruce
Paul Lee
Kirstine Roepstorff
Dean Sameshima
Agathe Snow
Dash Snow
Mark Titchner
via precious stuff
posted by matt olson
“For Graham, enjoyment is central but it's never a commodity; rather it's a channel for amused skepticism.” writes Philippe Vergne. Graham disagrees vehemently, for complexly interrelated reasons, calling mr. vergne a paris educated elitest himself...
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Monday, 29 June 09 - 09:17 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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i love dan graham and i'm so excited that the retrospective that just opened at the whitney in nyc is coming to the walker art center here in minneapolis next. here's something to read from yesterdays sunday times.
and here's something to watch from this piece by wnyc.
please enjoy the time as it passes by.
posted by matt olson
"why do architects continue to insist on the autonomous character of not only houses but architecture in general? my answer is that the creation of architecture is not about plans or elevations - it is not about physical shapes...
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Thursday, 25 June 09 - 10:08 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in white out |
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...the subject of architecture is invisible space - something like a hologram generated by the relationship between what is being observed and the observer. i am always preoccupied by the question of borders delimiting space or of territory. when i think about architecture, i do not perceive it in terms of its exterior form, as i might with sculpture. my concern continues to be with not shapes but borders and territories. that is what architecture is to me."
unlike ken yokogawa, i still don't know what architecture is to me. but i do like the concept of a subconscious response to space. there is an elegant balance to this space; it reads almost like music.
there is something to be said about a nice clean image. yet, there is something equally enticing about a hazy image as well. i wouldn't want to see s. nagai house any other way. i know very little about this home in yokohama, but given yesterday's bender of de stijl and suprematism, this house seemed like a pretty good follow up.
i recommend exploring the work and writings (if you don't take it too seriously) of ken yokogawa.
posted by nicolas allinder
"it is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." -john berger
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Wednesday, 24 June 09 - 04:12 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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whether it's influenced by suprematism or de stijl, kees goudzwaard's work has lead me on quite the virtual journey. his paintings fill me with the same tranquility i've experienced when engulfed by a rothko or a newman at the walker. however, unlike these abstract expressionists, goudzwaard reinterpreted physical realities into well proportioned rectangles; panoramas and stairs edited down to their essence.
goudzwaards' work has been compared strongly with the de stijl founder, theo van doesburg. van doesburg and his colleagues dabbled in many arts: typography, painting, architecture (rietveld) and literature (van ostajian). so far goudzwaard has kept solely to painting. i wonder what form his architecture would take. maybe something like this? what do you think?
posted by nicolas allinder
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Wednesday, 24 June 09 - 12:01 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in junk drawer |
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this seems perfect to me.
via mount olympus and directed by mount olympus
posted by matt olson
...find yourself in a vegetable garden, boring a fencepost hole with a 1.6-horsepower auger, and should that six-inch bit suddenly stop spinning and the handles buck fiercely in a counterclockwise direction, here’s a nugget of personal advice - let go.
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Monday, 22 June 09 - 11:32 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in junk drawer |
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pic by jon ferguson
a while back, i wrote here about our pal michael tortorello's ongoing series of articles in the new york times about the vegetable garden he's growing in the lot next to his house in urban northeast minneapolis. it's his first attempt at something like this so it's appropriately called, "the starter garden".
we are kinda the stars of last week's column and since michael is a way better writer than i am, i encourage you to go there and read his version of the story.
pic by jon ferguson
except for the one below, which is my obligatory, admittedly terrible self-portait... michaels neighbor, actor/performance artist jon ferguson took these pics with various vintage cameras from his impressive collection.
here's my side of the story...
fences by phoenix
please enjoy the time while it passes.
posted by matt olson
"an ephemeral structure built to house a poetic impulse... devoid of ornamentation except what may be placed in it to satisfy some aesthetic need of the moment... purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination to complete"
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Thursday, 18 June 09 - 10:46 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in white out |
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over the course of his career, gunnar asplund designed very peculiar structures - which were at first neoclassical in style, then uniquely modern. villa snellman, a perfect example of his quirky modernism, manipulated traditional swedish architectural motifs. in villa snellman, asplund disrupted the rhythm of the fenestration. his reasoning seemed largely derived from the internal conditions of the house, rather than the exterior, resulting in circumstances like a main entrance and secondary entrance adjacent to one another. tomaoki uno's "the good fortune root (it comes and the [tsu] is dense) thousand year house" (thanks babelfish!) explores the same concepts - playfully updating tradition.
uno's thousand year house reflects its namesake well: it's a relic. this silent, monastic home tucked in to a hillside seems like the perfect rustic escape - and yet, it has all the qualities of modern home. it could almost be a modern monastery to nature.
i recommend checking out asplund, tomaoki uno and le corbusier's monastery of sainte-marie de la tourette (just because!)
posted by nicolas allinder
aesthetic experience (reflective aesthetic judgement) intensifies our feeling of life. that which is received by the senses, in contrast, remains the mere metaphorically "dead" occasion or prompt for the for the experience. the power of the thing is...
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Thursday, 18 June 09 - 12:13 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in architecture |
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the last couple posts feature the work of andreas angelidakis (and there will be more) and i love his renderings. they feel very punk rock to me (like this by the punks).
i love them.
there's a chance that steven holl's renderings are almost the opposite. i love them.
i came across a folder on my desktop last night that contained these images. they were scanned by "nic the intern" last winter from this book. he'd planned to use them in part three of his "radical art/chitecture of the 60s & 70s" presentations but didn't. he'd forgotten them.
please remember that within the word surrender, you find the word render.
and also, enjoy the time as it passes.
posted by matt olson
when one places an object within a space which is too great in relation to it, the space does not stop being empty and dead, but when the object finds its space, then the space which surrounds it is full - lygia clark
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Wednesday, 17 June 09 - 02:21 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in architecture |
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more brilliant work by andreas angelidakis. cloud house.
... "The shape of the cloud was found on the internet, in Rafael Rozendaal’s www.whywashesad.com but the idea comes from growing up in the Greek summer landscape of semi abandoned and unfinished haphazardly constructed concrete domino frames. Based on Le Corbusier’s idea for fast and flexible housing, the Domino frame on pilotis populated the south Mediterranean landscape as the perfect post war solution."
and the cool thing is... it's probably going to get built at the stockholm exhibition.
if it doesn't, maybe i'll build one.
posted by matt olson
if you and your internet girlfriend are looking to build your summer house, if you need an invisible hide-out, or if you want your chat room to look a little more like a forest...
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Tuesday, 16 June 09 - 11:36 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in architecture |
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i've been really obsessed with the work and ideas of architect andreas angelidakis.
"almost everyone smiles on cell phones or in instant-messenger windows, so there's no need to seperate the space of an electronic text or conversation from the space of a coffee shop chat, because my reality is always virtual to you anyway. i'm just as inspired by the internet as i am by forests, beaches, summer skies, strange buildings in weird, edgy condition and web sites that are art pieces. i try to mix these ththe experience of being lost in forest with getting lost in a chat room."
andreas angelidakis interviewed by miltos manetas...
from an interview in the spring summer 2006 issue of purple magazine.
please enjoy the time while it passes.
posted by matt olson
是日本女性建築師中最具名聲的。 Hasegawa 深受 Kazuo Shinohara 的影響，源於 1969 年時她在東京技術學院 的研究團隊下進修及工作。1979 年她成立了個人工作室，此後陸續完成了許多為人稱讚的作品。經常把人造的自然形式用於她的設計作品中，在她許多完成的案子裡都可以看見這類的美學，這是來自於她模仿宇宙萬物自然運行的靈感及女性特有的纖細特質。
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Tuesday, 16 June 09 - 12:39 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in architecture |
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today's been all about the work of ITSUKO HASEGAWA &
and this song, lisztomania (classixxx remix) - phoenix (thanks mylinh!)
posted by matt olson
"but the most interesting thing is," mityok continued dolefully and a little despondently, "there was no door there. the hatch is painted on the outside, but on the inside it's solid wall, with gauges and stuff."
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Thursday, 11 June 09 - 11:01 PM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in white out |
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raw persimmon's owner just might be a russian constructivist expat living out his final days atop a developed hillside in japan. i'll call him omon. omon must have chosen this home, what appears to be an old conservatory now turned condo, for its strong defining lines. raw persimmon has a very striking exterior indeed; it exudes an odd sort of triumphance, projecting itself out to the towns people below. yet, like the soviet space program this house's exterior, puffing it's chest out, is filled with nothing.
i was at first dissapointed with the interior. it seemed too plain. the view was stunning, but it had the commonalities associated with most homes. raw persimmon's interior should have been, well, more raw. there are of course occasional spaces and conditions befitting of that cosmic exterior, however, it feels overall like any other dwelling. not necessarily a bad thing, yet not the sort of space omon the constructivist would be toiling away in inventing the next rusakov club. i've since grown to enjoy raw persimmon, inside and out.
i could almost imagine this home sitting at the edge of town. those passing by look up and wonder - who lives in there? the owner, not omon but rather a regular japanese man, would be sitting on his tattered brown plaid couch wondering, "what should i eat for dessert tonight? raw persimmon?"
i recommend looking into on designs work. inspiring to say the least.
posted by nicolas allinder
but then you kind of start looking at... looking at it sideways... "how's it going?" and then uh... i was the last one to jump off the house. i can understand why you don't see a lot more houses like this floating though... i think that..ha..hahaha!
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Thursday, 11 June 09 - 11:09 AM (GMT -06:00) By rolu dsgn in art |
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when gordon matta-clark sawed a house in half critics understood it as a commentary on the decay of the american inner city. what does a sinking replica of an american suburban home in venice say?
mike bouchet claims the sinking of his replica suburban home wasn't intentional, which almost makes the artwork more powerful and evocative. i'm not quite sure what it all means yet, but surely critics will have their say. maybe we could take it as it is. i love bouchet's response in this you tube video. just tilt your head to the side and laugh.
for more on floating architecture and house as art and commentary go here.
(via nicola twilley's post on bldgblog).
posted by nicolas allinder
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