More

Read more about the low-fi exhibition (my last post concerned a work exhibited there) in this excellent review at mazine.ws).

Picture the world

How important is your country? Does it even exist in an international perspective? Or has it disappeared in the midst of liberal media wars? Vanishing Point is an attempt at portraying the issueVanishing Point consists of a map of the world connected to a database fed by...

Landscape

What we need is a point of view.Somewhere to look from.And then, somewhere to look to. That might just be the landscape.Whatever frees itself from the arms of focus to go behind, outside, further, deeper.Focusing on landscape is an oxymoron.Try focusing on Andreas Gursky's...

Frog in a pond

Geof Huth, f r o g . p o n d (2002)

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3D=2D (Sheep)

Kyle Trowbridge, Cavlery (2005)

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Possibilities

I have been very busy recently, helping out the ArtLAB with an excellent initiative of theirs, a conference about New Approaches to Landscape (it took place yesterday here in Lisbon at the Superior Institute of Agronomy). It was very inspiring, I learned a lot and will...

Self-portrait with a view

(see previous post for sample reference)

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Terror

A simple, some will say trivial, twist.Suspension.- Of disbelief ("this is not right").- Of belief ("things make sense").What separates form from chaos?Is it the tension, the working muscles, as if dancing flying working? The hands, sticked out as if flapping, as if searching...

Lite Nature

Tree, by Simon Heijdens, is projected onto several facades in the city, including dark corners and alleys. The main location has a 3x8 meter drawing of a tree projected onto the facade of a building. The branches and leaves move slightly, with an intensity that depends...

Gutai

With our present-day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces, in the salons and the antique shops.They...

Death toy

Zbigniew Libera's series called Lego is a Lego version of a concentration camp. It raises many, many questions, some of which are presented here. The one that I have been discussing with some Polish friends recently is the Venice "scandal". As the article I've linked to...

Another break

I'll be spending the next week in Poland, quite busy with some non-artistic matters. Hopefuly will be back on track on the 7th of September.