Intermedia I Spring 2010: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Other Side, Break

When I was in Geneva, I saw this piece by Clea Coudsi and Eric Herbin. Pretty Nice.

When I was in Geneva, I saw a great retrospective of the artist Franz Erhard Walther. The exhibition, at MAMCO, was in French, so I was stuck looking at the exhibition without any contextual information, which was an interesting exercise.

His work reminds me of color field paintings meshed with Oiticicia's Parangoles

meshed with Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures.

Though incredibly formal, contained, and constructed, these objects are full of potential energy, experience, and movement. The exhibition was structured so that the two first floors were full of his sculptural blanket sets without any contextual information, while the last floor had images of the blanket sets in use. It was interesting, since they look like modernist paintings, to think of painting as full of potential energy, experience, and movement.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Can't get rid of your memories? Call Death Bear.

A shadowy, masked New Yorker relieves people of painful remnants of their pasts: love letters, photos, even underwear. To the man under the giant bear head, it's performance art.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Mug Shot

I was checking out some random art exhibitions online and came across another variation of the Mona Lisa. Relatively unimpressed, I clicked into it to see what was so special about this one. I saw it was really pixelated and was still...unimpressed.