lliigghhttss @ 7 dunham place williamsburg brooklyn - sat 05/18/13 time: 9pm to 4am /// and \\\ ROLU 4 TOC - CLOTHING 4 BOOKS (OR SCULPTURE) at Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East 4th Street Fri May 17 Sat May 18, 12PM - 7PM; Sun May 19 Mon may 20 12pm - 5pm
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Friday, 17 May 13 - 01:00 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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super psyched / super sad.
(part one) super psyched to be showing new work in nyc this weekend. debuting a video work called "the sex of art is narrative / narrative is water / the light of design is space"
i found these amazing old lights in the basement of robert rauschenberg's studio. i learned that they were heat lamps he used to affect pigments and dyes he was working with a lot in the 70s and 80s. apparently he liked using them because the heat produced outcomes that were not predictable, thus removing his decision from part of the work. i sat under the lights until i was soaked in sweat partly as a way to ponder the act of removing decision from work... sweat being outside of my decision. i'm also interested in the fact that the heat/light that i'm baking under is the same heat/light that made many of his great pieces... and i'm always interested in the way influence works in art and design production. since i believe we are all becoming each other, i believe i became his work.
and oh man! in such amazing company at this show!
(part two) super psyched to be showing one of three new projects that have been commissioned by table of contents, the amazing portland based shop.
rolu 4 toc - clothing 4 books (or sculpture)
the other two projects involve books, happenings, and issey miyake. can't wait to tell you more about them soon.
more about noho design district exhibit here.
(part three) super sad to have cancelled "everything is always changing all the time" our collab with various projects and arp at the museum of arts and design due to some health issues that have prevented me from traveling.
 with ARP and VARIOUS PROJECTS 1.jpg)
we will hope to present this work late summer early fall under different circumstances.
if you're in nyc, stop by and say hi to the work!
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
I love time capsules. They always involve love. And as a blogger, I feel like I’m slowly making a sort of time capsule every day. Maybe they have something in common with photographs? A mysterious fragment of moments that has an unlimited amount of potent
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Wednesday, 15 May 13 - 04:39 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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i did a time capsule for slow and steady wins the race. total fave forever.
here's all 11 things i want to give to the future.
please enjoy the time (past, present, future) and space.
posted by matt olson
We enter in the presence of work, without ever inhabiting their own space, we pass through dark and narrow corridors wondering, perhaps even worried about where the path is taking us, we arrive at sunlit empty spaces, we ascend through sections of the...
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Wednesday, 15 May 13 - 07:32 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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more here
here's one of those exhibits that makes me wish i was an art tourist. so many faves!
congrats andreas!
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
this Friday, May 10, 6-8pm at the Glass House (199 Elm St., New Canaan, CT), Arp (aka Alexis Georgopoulos) will perform the site-specific piece, Erratics, alongside work by noted visual artist Tauba Auerbach as part of the Night Sounds performance series.
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Friday, 10 May 13 - 01:12 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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Erratics consists of a suite of compositions written for cello and French horn. For this performance, three double-sided vinyl acetates will be pressed with the singular musical elements from the compositions and will be arranged by Arp live on site using two turntables. Due to the fragile nature of vinyl acetate, the sound will degrade, distort, and dissolve during the performance. This quality will be exploited to emphasize ideas of material, relation to time, to sound and to degradation and obfuscation.
rvng intl will be releasing a deluxe and very limited version of this material Arp performs as part of the Night Sounds series. This will feature exclusive artwork by Tauba Auerbach and be on 3 LPs featuring the acetates with which Arp is performing, allowing the deluxe-buyer to mix their own version of the album. A standard version featuring two 20-minute sides of the Arp mix will also be available.
more at rvng intl
so excited about this. if i weren't in the hospital, i'd be there too :(
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
The Jante Law is the idea that there is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities that negatively portrays and criticises individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate. The Jante Law as a concept w
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Tuesday, 07 May 13 - 04:58 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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this made me smile.
via konst & teknik
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
If I function within a predictable programmed reality, can I rebel? And how can I do it? Only malfunctioning programs and apparatus allow for freedom. Only a malfunctioning functionary can hope for freedom. The essence of freedom is unpredictability. but-
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Monday, 06 May 13 - 09:59 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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5 minutes in this seems amazing. post-alphabet images that serve as maps...
via univocal books
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Art & Leisure + Art & Leisure presents work by graphic designer Dante Carlos, May 24 – July 11, 2013, London Centre for Book Arts. The exhibition will centre on an editioned book, displayed in the space, as well as available for purchase, and Dante Carlos
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Wednesday, 01 May 13 - 04:27 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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we've been lucky enough to work with dante carlos on a few projects in the last year. total awesomeness. and the rolu reader he designed, we will learn from these things in ways no one could've taught us was selected for the Festival international de l'affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont! (more on that later)
the london center for book arts presents art and leisure & art and leisure by dante carlos
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
“a curved shape in time” and plays like a non-objective examination of sound that is obviously just a part of a bigger item: it’s the soundtrack to an art experience. It isn’t without its merits on its own and, as you listen to stick by stick falling that
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Monday, 29 April 13 - 11:10 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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the collaborations we did with sarah rara and luke fischbeck aka lucky dragons and sumi ink club were massive highlights to our open field artists in residence project at the walker art center last summer. they contributed three pieces:
1) a sumi ink club session via skype with luke and sarah in los angeles, us in minneapolis. strategic projection allowed us to create a "place" where the completed drawing existed... 1/2 in one place, 1/2 in the other. some pics here and here.
2) the jenny holzer reading group (in memory of rosemary furtak)
3) the wow mix which was a sound piece for an ellsworth kelly sculpture. participants checked an ipod out from the walker and then listened to the piece while sitting with the sculpture.
super happy to see the wow mix released here. great hearing it again too!
please enjoy the time and space and whatever fills them.
posted by matt olson
The early Spachtelarbeiten (palette-knife works) and Rasterbilder (Grids), executed in oil or casein paint on fibreboard and paper, were created between 1956 and 1960. Some masterfully painted gestural drawings and palette-knife works followed, partly pai
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Friday, 26 April 13 - 11:44 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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love Charlotte Posenenske's sculpture. have never known a ton about her though. these paintings from very early on are great.
more here at contemporary art daily
via south willard
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
LIGHTSUP exhibit at Atelier de Troupe - new lamps by Jason Meadows / Matt Paweski / Michael Rey / Zachary Leener / A de T --- Opening reception, april 26, 2013 6 - 9 pm at 3418 glendale blvd. los angeles, california --- go go go go go go go go go go go go
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Tuesday, 23 April 13 - 08:56 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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sure wish i could go! some faves for sure.
please enjoy the light, time and space.
posted by matt olson
The exercise of formal analysis, at the expense of other properties of art, might be called formalistic positivism 14 needs the iconographical and experiential aspects, too, which can no longer be dismissed as "literary" except on the basis of an archaic
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Sunday, 21 April 13 - 10:54 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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installing Systemic Painting
lawrence alloway keeps coming up everywhere for me. you can download the catalogue for this show, systemic painting, here. the exhibit took plave at the guggenheim in 1966.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
The center piece of the exhibition is the sculptural installation, Hatbox, 1975. With the same gestural method of “doing and undoing” that can be found in many of her works, such as her string constructions, the process of systematization is both composed
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Tuesday, 16 April 13 - 01:02 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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hatbox (closed) 1975 - Kazuko Miyamoto
Kazuko Miyamoto: Container
Apr 19 - May 25, 2013
Exhibition opening and Catalog launch: Friday, April 19: 7-10pm
Concurrently the launch of Kazuko Miyamoto’s artist monograph will take place during the exhibition opening on April 19, 2013. As the first extensive catalog dedicated to her works, this limited edition publication features previously unpublished photographs and documentation as well as texts written by Marilena Bonomo, Luca Cerizza, Janet Passehl and Lawrence Alloway.
psyched.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson.
I am thinking about the temporality of a tree. And the tree as something present, as able to bear witness (fifty-five Honey Locusts bearing witness). The slowness of their pace is not subject to the world of the
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Monday, 15 April 13 - 02:06 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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five honey locust trees in paris - david horvitz
this is my favorite things in a while. really beautiful. i already know the part of this story that involves david's grandmother because he contributed a different version of it to one of our projects a couple years ago. so nice to see it here with these other ideas and contexts.
Fifty-Five Honey Locust Trees - david horvitz
There are a group of Chinese Elms in eastern Colorado that I think frequently of. They grow at the former site of the Amache Internment Camp. My grandmother told me that when they arrived at Amache, the land was barren and empty, and that those interned in the camp had planted the trees that now stood. Knowing this, when you look at the trees you see the history of the place and the people who were once there. But the trees have no plaques. And if you don't know this, they are just trees in a landscape.
The day after Sandy hit New York City I rode my bike with some friends through downtown Manhattan to look at the aftermath of the storm. After biking over the Brooklyn Bridge we made a brief stop at Zuccotti Park. During the previous months I had been collecting the fallen seed pods from the fifty-five Honey Locust Trees that decorate the park. The storm had brought down most of the pods that were still hanging on the trees.
To germinate a Honey Locust seed you have to mimic the digestive process of an animal. This can be done using hot water or sandpaper. The tree has co-evolved with animals for the dispersal of its seeds. An animal eats the pod (which is also edible to humans). The outer layer of the seed is broken down in the animal's stomach and intestines. The seed is defecated on the ground. A tree grows.
I am thinking about the temporality of a tree. And the tree as something present, as able to bear witness (fifty-five Honey Locusts bearing witness). The slowness of their pace is not subject to the world of the instantaneous and the immediate that we live in. Their rhythms are seasonal, following the sun. These trees can live up to 150 years, longer than any of our lives, but relatively short compared to other trees. When an #OWS hashtag is no longer trending, they will continue to grow slowly in time.
At the Clocktower Gallery I have begun to germinate the seeds, and to take care of the little trees. At the end of the residency the trees will be taken to Franklin Street Works in Stamford, Connecticut, by a Metro North train from Grand Central. Each tree will be carried by one person. They will first be carried to Zuccotti Park to see their parents, and then to Grand Central (contact the Clocktower Gallery if you would like to carry a tree). In Connecticut they will continue to grow during Franklin Street Works' summer exhibition. In the future, when they are ready to be put into the ground, they will be donated to various organizations and individuals.
I imagine 150 seasons for these trees. 150 times their leaves turning a golden hue. And those who will witness this.
Fifty-five Honey Locusts bearing witness. And their seeds. The trees will be planted without plaques. - david horvitz
more here.
here's interview with david in the new issue of mousse.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Hier und da finden sich Spuren von Schmutz, im Film der weißen Farbe klebt manchmal eine Borste vom Pinsel oder ein lockiges Haar des Künstlers. Immer wieder sind Stücke Papier oder Pappe eingeklebt, dann übermalt oder wieder herausgerissen. Die abstrakte
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Wednesday, 10 April 13 - 03:46 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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saw some of david ostrowki's work at the peres projects nada booth back in december and have been sort of haunted by it.
"that certain something that is nothing" (noel coward quote about what chic means)
psyched for this new book...
Auch die schönste Frau ist an den Füßen zu Ende
Even the most beautiful woman ends at her feet
there must be more info out there somewhere but... i can't find it.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
The exhibition consists of something that appears to be two chairs, a daybed, an assembly set, a sculpture and five paintings. Along the longest wall in the gallery a number of old mirrors have been arranged, which reflects the total installation. The -
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Saturday, 06 April 13 - 04:48 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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magnus pettersen @ Peter Amby Gallery, Copenhagen
more pics here.
via mousse
really like this work.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
A lesser known but important period in Chicago's career is the Minimalist work she created between '65-'73. Some of the optical patterns explored in these works, such as circles and octagons with central cores that appear to be expanding and contracting -
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Tuesday, 02 April 13 - 12:01 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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sunset squares (1965) - judy chicago
judy chicago via instamondo which touched off a little session...
ten part cylinders in progress (1966) - judy chicago
judy chicago in her pasadena studio 1965
if you're into it, this is worth a read.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
An individual is defined by a series of discrete moments. These moments leave an indelible and inflexible mark. They are fixed points of space-time that cannot be erased or unwritten – they defy our heroics. We begin in an empty sphere in which these...
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Tuesday, 02 April 13 - 11:54 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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The Spectre As It Resolves Its Own Gravity
A play in one act by Phillip Birch
April 4, 5 and 6, 2013
Doors open at 8:00pm each day, performance begins promptly at 8:15pm.
There will be no admittance once the performance has begun.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
jaques adnet was a French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer. He was known for his furniture designs in leather. Distinctly avant garde, Adnet and was among the first to expect metal and glass to integrate with the structure and
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Monday, 01 April 13 - 09:09 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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our friend mary sent this jaques adnet drawing from 1930... total awesomeness.
and this, also from 1930, looks like a jam between something from the unpainted memphis store and our seven stacked benches (after shelves)
don't really know jaques adnet beyond name so, digging in today. thx mary!
originally via aqqindex.com
i'm happily back home now after traveling 6 of the last 7 weeks. whew.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
We are all entering a new phase, a phase of a unity maintaining intelligent behaviors that emerge from online and virtual interactions while promoting the power of imagination as we progress from one sphere to another. The Eternal Internet Brotherhood...
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Tuesday, 26 March 13 - 07:11 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in art |
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angelo plessas
Manuel Fernandez
priscilla tea
manifesto
The Eternal Internet Brotherhood is an initiative by artist Angelo Plessas for an one-week residency/tour happening annually in different locations around the world. The first edition happened in the summer of 2012 as a cooperative camp and took place on a mystical beach on the island of Anafi in Greece. You can find full documentation here.
The Eternal Internet Brotherhood is a cultural "situation" featuring events and projects who expand notions of distribution and materiality while experimenting with new forms of image-making online all embraced with the soul's reunion and the perfection of nature. Read this year's statement
During the project we all meet, stay and work closely in a common mental and physical environment. We organically create new concepts swarmed by data, dreams, feelings and visions beyond perceptions of literal and limited use of technology.
As an artist-run initiative it happens only with the support of friends, peers and critics. In the spirit of the gift economy we setup an online fund-raising campaign to cover some of our needs such as production and accommodation. Please donate and get in exchange editioned works.
more here.
amazing.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Developed in collaboration with the artist, the volume features five essays examining autoconstrucción through the lens of art history, politics, architecture, and urban migration in Mexico in the 1960s. The catalogue also illustrates sculptures by Cruzvi
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Monday, 25 March 13 - 08:54 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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abraham cruzvillegas: the autoconstrucción suites
Published by the Walker on the occasion of the artist’s first major survey, this volume explores the rich terrain of Cruzvillegas’ work over the past 10 years, rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, Mexico.
designed by dante carlos.
highly recommended. available here.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
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