passages
circular passages
1. michael smith
2. michael amato for urban electric
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Showing posts with label circle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circle. Show all posts
"I often change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning."
opposites
and
stacks
eventually
will repeat.
"I embrace contradictions, and dilemmas. I like gray areas, oxymorons and the feeling of falling backwards. My favorite colour is the purple found in a soap bubble. I prefer to swap and exchange things rather than use money. I seek alignments, paradoxes, chance circumstance, loops, impossibilities and wit encountered in everyday life. I often change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning." -Daniel Eatock
The idea of trading, and a society based on bartering thrills me. I love the idea of swapping something, agreeing on an equal value for two random objects or services. The dictionary defines agree as "to achieve or be in harmony." A harmonious trading post in space, where we come together to exchange.
Perhaps, someone would like to trade something? It's a start. And if it all fails, well then, I guess it's back to the beginning of the circle. At least we tried. And at least we still have our circle.
These two images by Martin Creed and Daniel Eatock remind me to tap Mr. Absurd's shoulder every know and then. Tap. Tap. Tap. Stack. tap. stack.
opposites
and
stacks
eventually
will repeat.
images :
1. martin creed
2. daniel eatock
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and
stacks
eventually
will repeat.
"I embrace contradictions, and dilemmas. I like gray areas, oxymorons and the feeling of falling backwards. My favorite colour is the purple found in a soap bubble. I prefer to swap and exchange things rather than use money. I seek alignments, paradoxes, chance circumstance, loops, impossibilities and wit encountered in everyday life. I often change my mind, go full circle, and arrive at the beginning." -Daniel Eatock
The idea of trading, and a society based on bartering thrills me. I love the idea of swapping something, agreeing on an equal value for two random objects or services. The dictionary defines agree as "to achieve or be in harmony." A harmonious trading post in space, where we come together to exchange.
Perhaps, someone would like to trade something? It's a start. And if it all fails, well then, I guess it's back to the beginning of the circle. At least we tried. And at least we still have our circle.
These two images by Martin Creed and Daniel Eatock remind me to tap Mr. Absurd's shoulder every know and then. Tap. Tap. Tap. Stack. tap. stack.
opposites
and
stacks
eventually
will repeat.
images :
1. martin creed
2. daniel eatock
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Brion-Vega Cemetery
Carlo
Scarpa
1970-1972
Tomba Brion-Vega
(all images taken
from here..)
"Scarpa himself, also having worked as interior and industrial designer, was born 100 years ago, on June 2, 1906. Never officially recognized as an architect, he died in Japan and is buried on the grounds of the Tomba Brion-Vega. In the words of Carlo Scarpa himself: "I consider this work, if permit me, to be rather good and which will get better over time. I have tried to put some poyou etic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry...."
taken from here..
"The place for the dead is a garden....
I wanted to show some ways in which you could approach
death in a social and civic way; and further what meaning there was in death,
in the ephemerality of life—other than these shoe-boxes."
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa is buried
in a hidden spot somewhere here...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go"
The Smiths...
Scarpa
1970-1972
Tomba Brion-Vega
(all images taken
from here..)
"Scarpa himself, also having worked as interior and industrial designer, was born 100 years ago, on June 2, 1906. Never officially recognized as an architect, he died in Japan and is buried on the grounds of the Tomba Brion-Vega. In the words of Carlo Scarpa himself: "I consider this work, if permit me, to be rather good and which will get better over time. I have tried to put some poyou etic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry...."
taken from here..
"The place for the dead is a garden....
I wanted to show some ways in which you could approach
death in a social and civic way; and further what meaning there was in death,
in the ephemerality of life—other than these shoe-boxes."
Carlo Scarpa
"An architectural environment built by Caro Scarpa in the years 1970 to 1972 for the Brion Family, in the high times of Italian design (the "Italian miracle") producers of electronics designed by the likes of Mario Bellini, Marco Zanuso, Achille Castiglioni and Richard Sapper. The environment conveys a sense of Zen, offering different viewpoints with every centimeter your standpoint as an observer is changing, while itself changing all the time by effects of light and shadow, surface and material. The attention to architectural detail is uncompromising, even the positioning of rivets is perfectly balanced. Water and plants are used as architectural material. The environment is mystical and full of subtle historical references to Japanese shrines and Egyptian monuments.
This space is transcending the division between built and natural environment, between fluid and fixed, and between space and time."
This space is transcending the division between built and natural environment, between fluid and fixed, and between space and time."
Carlo Scarpa is buried
in a hidden spot somewhere here...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go"
The Smiths...
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The Brion-Vega Cemetery is in San Vito d'Altivole near Treviso, Italy. Carlo Scarpa (1909-1978) designed the addition to a previous cemetery.
He is buried in this cemetery in a well hidden spot, within the interstitial space created by the walls of the old and new cemeteries. The site also includes a small chapel with a special entrance for caskets.....
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The Brion-Vega Cemetery is in San Vito d'Altivole near Treviso, Italy. Carlo Scarpa (1909-1978) designed the addition to a previous cemetery.
He is buried in this cemetery in a well hidden spot, within the interstitial space created by the walls of the old and new cemeteries. The site also includes a small chapel with a special entrance for caskets.....
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Catherine Willis
The
continents
of scent
and of color
Last week, Catherine Willis from Paris
sent me these incredible images of her
new work. I've been staring at them ever since...
I hope in the future, I'll be able to see them in person,
and perhaps have a conversation with Catherine.
We met via Ivan, who has become a dear friend, even though
we are a sea apart.
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Is it the circles I'm so transfixed by?
The yellows? the materials?
she told me her friends call this work shamanic,
and I can certainly understand why...
a very strong but silent energy....
continents
of scent
and of color
Last week, Catherine Willis from Paris
sent me these incredible images of her
new work. I've been staring at them ever since...
I hope in the future, I'll be able to see them in person,
and perhaps have a conversation with Catherine.
We met via Ivan, who has become a dear friend, even though
we are a sea apart.
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Is it the circles I'm so transfixed by?
The yellows? the materials?
she told me her friends call this work shamanic,
and I can certainly understand why...
a very strong but silent energy....
materials:
3 yellows from plants for this recent expo:
the one from berberis roots,
the one from pomegranate bark,
and the paler one from filipendula.
The scents inside the PERFUME RINGS
and THE BATONS DE PAROLE were gum resins,
cinnamon , laurel leaves, Tonka beans, cedar of Lebanon shavings.
more works in progress!
the one from berberis roots,
the one from pomegranate bark,
and the paler one from filipendula.
The scents inside the PERFUME RINGS
and THE BATONS DE PAROLE were gum resins,
cinnamon , laurel leaves, Tonka beans, cedar of Lebanon shavings.
more works in progress!
John Stephan, 1974
"I am intrigued by the primacy that
this austere image demonstrates within the space of the canvas"
-John Stephan.
John Stephan
Spheres of Light
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
here.
9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(a favorite gallery in Los Angeles.)
"DURING THESE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS, I have been involved in the painting of colored discs that singly occupy the major central area of almost squared, vertical, and other wise colored canvases and which, more often than not, have one or more colored rings separating the one from the other. I draw these discs and their rings with a compass as I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of apparent perfect circularity, whether as seen in nature or through metaphysical contemplation, and in this sense, I see the circle-disc as being the simplest yet most subtle, inherently perfect form (as compared to other forms that an artist or nature might create), and accept its inviolate constancy with the same faith with which artists have accepted the figure, subjects in nature, or any other imaginable image for its formal validity.
For my purposes, I have avoided the use of further devices, either geometric, asymmetric, or expressionistic, as being irrelevant to the basic contentions implied between these two spatial forms, rectangular and circular.
I am, moreover, intrigued by the primacy that this austere image demonstrates within the space of the canvas; it appears to float and hover naturally with sublime disregard for the necessary rationale supporting the straight sides and right angles of the rectangular form with its presumed base.
However, within this adopted duality of space forms, I seek to create, through the use of color, a kind of pictorial metastasis, more contemplative than symbolic and more related to nature than to the formalities of mysticism.
I choose subtle colors above those that are purely chromatic so as to convey the impression of fused color substances, somewhat like the translucency of jade, the colored rings to act as an apposition between these two shapes."
John Stephan, 1970
.
a circle
done
2 ways.
2 sculptors.
2 decades.
done
2 ways.
2 sculptors.
2 decades.
Turning the Place Over - Richard Wilson, 2007 from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.
circle.
images.........
1. gordon matta clark, antwerp.
An empty five-story office building in Antwerp was used for the project. Matta-Clark made two circular cuts which started inside the building, and went out through the roof. The two cuts took the shape of intertwining circles, inspired by the accidental rings left by teacups on paper. In an interview, Matta-Clark described the work: "Where these circles crossed, a peculiar, almost row-boat shaped hole resulted and was mutated from floor to floor as structural beams and available floor space dictated."
2. richard wilson, liverpool. (via today and tomorrow blog,) and lou.
"Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours. "
images.........
1. gordon matta clark, antwerp.
An empty five-story office building in Antwerp was used for the project. Matta-Clark made two circular cuts which started inside the building, and went out through the roof. The two cuts took the shape of intertwining circles, inspired by the accidental rings left by teacups on paper. In an interview, Matta-Clark described the work: "Where these circles crossed, a peculiar, almost row-boat shaped hole resulted and was mutated from floor to floor as structural beams and available floor space dictated."
2. richard wilson, liverpool. (via today and tomorrow blog,) and lou.
"Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours. "
Rich, Brilliant, Willing.
Richardson (RICH), Brill (BRILLIANT), Williams (WILLING)
"a Manhattan-based, collaborative design studio and consultancy. RBW creates environments, furniture and product design where the work draws primarily from the reinvention of materials. Riffing on industrial finishes and readymade components, Why do they work together? Simply put, 1+1+1 equals a lot more than 3. Each member has a different point of view; one explicitly loves materiality and interior spaces, another with an unconventional color palette and eye for sculptural form, the third is an inventor bringing spontaneity and theatrical energy to the work."
more on their site here.
Richardson (RICH), Brill (BRILLIANT), Williams (WILLING)
"a Manhattan-based, collaborative design studio and consultancy. RBW creates environments, furniture and product design where the work draws primarily from the reinvention of materials. Riffing on industrial finishes and readymade components, Why do they work together? Simply put, 1+1+1 equals a lot more than 3. Each member has a different point of view; one explicitly loves materiality and interior spaces, another with an unconventional color palette and eye for sculptural form, the third is an inventor bringing spontaneity and theatrical energy to the work."
more on their site here.
strong form.
circular.
a statue.
insect ready to feed.
quiet strength.
awkward stance.
excellence.
continuing with screens and sculptures.
transition to circle.
1. donald lipski, the best love the best sex, 2003, books
2. fernando and huberto campana, zig zag screen, 2001
(still thinking of Horsemeat Disco on friday...)
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"full circle: through a series of developments that lead back to the original source, position, or situation or to a complete reversal of the original position."
Circle Path. Pt 2.
(images)
1. Steve Messam... images here.
2. Evan Holloway...
3. Eva Rothschild, now at Modern Art.. see more here... opened July 4th.
4. Roger Ackling .... see here
always coming back to the circle.
point of constant return.
(last two images, and first by nigel hall... here.)
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