L’artiste anglaise Caroline Attan combine le paper art, l’origami, les collages et la poésie pour en faire des compositions circulaires très colorées. Entre les papiers collés et pliés, on peut lire la poésie de Pablo Neruda. Un travail qui rappelle les calligrammes d’Apollinaire réactualisés à la tendance du paper art.
L’américain Paul Riccio a réalisé ce superbe court-métrage appelé 8 336 615 : comme le nombre d’habitants à New York. Cette création souligne avec poésie et talent le paradoxe qu’est celui de se sentir seul dans une ville aussi peuplée. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
Joel Robison est un photographe canadien dont les mises en scènes et les retouches sont particulièrement travaillées. Il crée un environnement onirique qu’il investit souvent au travers de situations tour à tour absurdes ou poétiques. Un superbe travail à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Après Kinetic Rain, projet nominé dans la catégorie Design des Fubiz Awards, Art+Com proposoe « The Poetry of Motion ». Cette symphonie est une collaboration avec le compositeur Ólafur Arnalds, mélangeant avec talent images et musiques pour cette performance présentée à la plateforme créative berlinoise MADE.
Les auto-portraits d’Alicia Savage sont emprunts de poésie et de délicatesse. Entre poses lascives et envols vaporeux, elle se met en scène et laisse le spectateur entrer dans son monde aux frontières de la réalité. Des clichés superbes dont les couleurs et la lumière incitent à la fois au voyage et à l’introspection.
L’écrivain et artiste écossais Robert Montgomery a choisi de mettre ses pensées à la vue de tous en les installant à l’aide de panneaux solaires dans les rues. Pensées profondes et réconfortantes, elles sont un appel à lever les yeux du quotidien pour un moment. À découvrir en images dans la suite.
The illustrated poetry magazine adds fiction to the mix in the October issue
For a glimpse at the changing face of poetry, cast aside the dusty anthology and make room for the 21st century’s answer to an ancient art form—Popshot Magazine. Created in 2008, the British-based print magazine is now the flag-bearer for a new generation of creative writers and illustrators. The…
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Selected untitled works from skateboarding’s favorite eccentric artist
Wielding pen, paint brush and skateboard, Mark Gonzales has been creating art in many forms for more than 20 years. Gonzales has graced each of his various disciplines with one of the most unique personalities around, gaining recognition within the skateboard community for his endless influence, free-flowing style and unconventional drawings captured on Krooked Skateboards. A presence in the fine art world since the early ’90s, Gonzales has exhibited across Europe, Asia and the Americas. He returns to NYC with his latest collection of untitled paintings and poems, opening at Franklin Parrasch Gallery today, 22 November 2011.
This time around Gonzales has selected a group of work completed over the last year in New York and Paris, from poetry rendered in spray paint on mirrored acrylic surfaces to a series of small scale acrylic paintings on linen canvas. The collection explores notions of love, death and the spiritual occult, often shown through the free association between text and imagery that draws a direct parallel to Gonzales’ lifelong dedication to self published zines.
Although those unfamiliar with his work may be skeptical of the quirky aesthetic, those who dismiss their conventionally critical eye and keep an open mind will discover its depth—an approach that applies to understanding the Gonz in general. His untitled paintings and poems will be on display at Franklin Parrasch Gallery from 22 November 2011 to 7 January 2012. To learn more about the extensive work behind the singular character check his gallery bio online.
An online gallery streamlines the interaction between users and content
Hastening to bridge the gap between traditional media’s tendency to over-curate and the Internet’s overflow of content, Melissa Jones has relaunched Dream the End, an online space for art, music, poetry and film. With a homepage curated by guest editors, the site will update regularly as new virtual “editions” are released. The content comes from a mix of emerging artists and lesser-known figures from the past, with exclusive mixtapes available for streaming. It’s a great way to escape from quotidian demands and browse creative interests without the deluge of commentary and criticism.
Dream the End is unique in that it isn’t set up in a rational, linear browsing interface but rather resembles a cloud, with content scattered around a page lacking typical navigation features. Clicking on a piece of art will take you to a gallery of that artist’s work, and selecting a few lines from a poem will show you the piece in its entirety, accompanied by a blurb about the artist. The “random view” button at the bottom of every page redirects to a new homepage with different content, so the browsing possibilities are endless. All the while, because the site’s streaming music isn’t page-specific, visitors can enjoy listening to new music while they explore other mediums.
The widely appealing art selection includes an impressive range of works, from Sean Kerman’s “Female Lying,” a muted image Jones excerpted from a ’70s-era photography reference book on the human figure, and “Hand,” a recent piece by Chinese artist Hai Tien that harkens tranquil tropical flowers; to the more contemporary styles of Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser, whose minimalist black-and-white piece “Ad B4” juxtaposes with Rupprecht Geiger’s bold “Geist Und Materie 1,” an example of artist’s late geometric-inspired work, which he painted at the age of 96.
“As an antidote to the increasingly chatter-driven online environment, I wanted the design of the site to be a uniquely distilled sensory experience,” says Jones in a press release. “Dream the End is where people can see what’s good and hear what’s good, and not just read about it.” The success of Dream the End lies in its simplicity. The layout requires users to follow their interests around the site without worrying about what is current, relevant, or otherwise popular.
Refresh!, the first edition of Dream the End is now live and ready to browse.
A series of experimental audio guides asks listeners to discern the truth about art
For their fifth annual fall festival, the French Institute Alliance Française turned the average museum audio tour into a mysterious game of fact or fiction. Made in collaboration with the conceptual sound collective Soundwalk, “Crossing the Line” leads listeners on an hour and a half tour of NYC’s Museum Mile along 5th Avenue, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Neue Gallerie, the Guggenheim and Central Park. The five remarkable writers narrating the tour devised authentic or imagined stories that ask the question “What do we rely on to determine the truth from fiction?”—this year’s festival theme.
Available in French and English, each of the five audio segments can be downloaded from the Soundwalk website and played individually if you’re only interested in a particular museum or played together as the full tour.
The tour begins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with American writer and art historian Teju Cole and then the French novelist and poet Olivier Cadiot. With experimental sounds laying the backdrop to these intriguing stories, the listener becomes entranced with the tales, never knowing if they’re real or dreamed up. The tour continues at the the Neue Gallerie’s Cafe Sabarsky with writer and professor Phillippe Claudel, before moving on with writer Camille Laurens, who guides you through the Guggenheim. Finally, poet and performance artist John Giorno ends the tour with a collection of poems as you join him just inside Central Park at the reservoir.
Running through 16 October 2011, a full list of events for the fall festival is available from FIAF. The audio tour is available for download or to listen online at the Soundwalk site.
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