Plastic Waste Polychrome
Ellen Ringstad. Detail of Plastic Waste Polychrome (2011), still in the making, consisting of layer upon layer of the artist's own plastic waste. Have you been following my blog? If so, you may have...
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My friend Russell recommended me to watch “The Mona Lisa Curse“, a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes, examining how the world’s most famous painting came to...
View ArticledOCUMENTA (13), Part I – A sickening breeze is blowing
Sick, but still working overtime. I’ve been planning a study trip to dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, for such a long time that it was only natural for Murphy’s Law to apply: an angry Pneumonia...
View ArticleBelov’d in vain
Narcissus by Caravaggio “Narcissism” a) Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance. b) Psychology: extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one’s own talents and...
View ArticleRobert Rauschenberg: Solstice (1968)
Mechanized construction with silkscreen ink on Plexiglas panels, 10x16x16′. Collection The National Museum of Art, Osaka, japan. The viewer steps into the environmental construction: Plexiglas doors,...
View Article‘Go on mortals, fill yourselves with dreams’
Encolpio: Ascilto… what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be your last, so fill it up until you vomit… or something such? – Fellini – Satyricon (1969) “I’m a poet. You might ask, “Why are...
View Article‘How can I make this image more immediately real to myself?’
Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Self-Portrait. FB: (…) chance – or what I call accident – takes over. And if anything ever does work in my case, it works from that moment when consciously I don’t...
View ArticleWe Petty Bourgeois!
“(…) he preferred to go to bars by night and listen to all the nonsense people were constantly spouting – that was his studio.” – Michael Krebber on Sigmar Polke. Artforum, Oct. 2012 XLIX, NO. 2, p.46....
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