astridhermes: 12-5-2012
I love the many levels/ stripes/ shades of white.
Tangentially related to the Ryman post earlier methinks.
tphd:
WILD DOGS STOLE MY MOM
BUT LATER SHE SENT ME A LETTER
FROM THE WILD DOG KINGDOM
IT SAID “DEAR SON, IM A WILD DOG NOW.
I USED TO LOVE YOU, BUT NOW
IM TOO BUSY WITH WILD DOG THINGS FOR LOVE.
SEE YA, MOM.”
TS Eliot once said: “Of course dogs don’t seem to lend themselves to verse quite so well, collectively, as cats” … I dunnow what TPHD titles this one, but I think TPHD RIPS TS ELIOT OPEN WITH WILD DOGS works.
I am so into poetry lately
Robert Ryman, Archive, 1980
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Regarding this…I don’t like the “I could have done that” argument, I find it has very little merit in regard to the worth of a piece, besides this, here is what I have to say about Robert Ryman and in turn, a lot of minimalist artists out there, it’s not for everyone. And on that point, nothing is for everyone, not one piece of clothing, one game, one TV show, one movie, one type of flower, one color, one city, one haircut etc, etc. You don’t have to like everything, no one is twisting your arm about it.
I worked at a gallery that had a (IMO) brilliant Carl Andre opening and the crowd was split in thirds: 1/3 hated it and left immediately (very vocal), 1/3 hated the people who hated it (also vocal), and 1/3 enjoyed it without hating on anyone.
To me Robert Ryman was looking for ways to convey meanings using a different method of painting and used materials in a way that is often viewed as nontraditional. I find this piece to be meditative and his methods to be one of a purposeful and controlled chaos. It’s really beautiful to me.
I also find it interesting that people can get so violently angry against minimalist art in a way they don’t against even abstract expressionism, pop or whatever contemporary thing is happening at Peres Projects. I feel like it must be some resentment that builds to the piece not engaging or reflecting one’s disgusted or dissatisfied mental state when being confronted with it.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I was looking for a reason to reblog this here, because I think the headline is hilarious, and so I submit this as a title to this exhibition which changes its title daily. Seems pretty appropriate to me. If you haven’t check it out!
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“I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, “My God, did I do that?”.” — Is Philip Guston saying here that he always paints drunk?
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More of the Boardman art fantasy land otherwise known as HOME. Oh Samantha you are a genius. And that Twombly warms my heart!
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astridhermes: 10-5-2012
“I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one’s arms again.” — Mark Rothko (via roseum)
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“A final note: tickets for admission to New York Frieze are available only online. This effectively denies entry to anyone without computer access, which means a not-small number of New Yorkers. Outside, after I saw the fair, I thought of the poor, the crazy and the criminal who once, whether they wanted to or not, called Randalls Island home. Their ghosts must be looking at that big white worm of a tent, at the Wall Street suits, and at this stuff called art that you can do nothing with but buy and sell, with wondering distrust.” — Frieze New York Contemporary Art Fair - NYTimes.com (via philleif)
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A gallery with no sculptures, only a cloud floating within the space. ‘Nimbus’ is a new installation of Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde, who refuses to explain how he managed to create a real cloud.
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