A watercolor like painting, impressionist with Astrid Lindgren vibes
A watercolor like painting, impressionist with Astrid Lindgren vibes The work of one of the American artist-magazine editors, Arthur Okamura, is not about anything, so it can be expressed as an event. His recent show consisted of the artists prints and a series of drawings. In a sense, it is a retrospective, a simultaneous unveiling of Okamuras career, his work, and the artistic aspirations of his generation at large. It is a vision of the future, a vision of the present, a vision of the past, and an analysis of the present. Okamura is a person who lives in the present, who sees the world as it is and who is, in a sense, present. This is the human condition, and as such, his art is concerned with the human condition. In his recent work, Okamura makes us aware of the condition of art, of the work of art and of the artists relations to the world. He demonstrates the necessity of an evaluation that is not ideological, that is not reductive or capricious. There is an art that can bring about a sense of the past, of the present, as well as a search for the future. This is the task that Okamura has taken up in his first one-man show, a one-man show that is not about the past but about the future. The exhibition, titled, as well as executed by, Okamura, was a non-performative event, a reality performance that could be understood as the unveiling of a new artistic mode. The artist is more than merely a teacher, he is a real scholar, and his objective is to give a new meaning to the language of art.In the performance, Okamura presented a series of drawings that he had made in collaboration with a professor of Japanese literature. The artist used this opportunity to draw the audience into a discussion with the professor, who was the first Japanese artist to be seriously considered as an artist.
Anti-Art is defined by the destruction of the works of art, but can it be a sign of subversive intent? The ancient Greeks valued art as a teacher and believed that artists were responsible for producing new and useful things. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of his conversation with Pythagoras, Plato had given us a way to make our own knowledge; but in our minds, the knowledge remains beyond our grasp. In an era when the world is no longer young, the next artistic phenomenon will be in the portentous, as Barthes put it.In her exhibition Anti-Art, Casa Máquina presented new works and drawings with a message that was witty and dramatic, as if with the help of the example of Pythagoras. The artist placed a gold-leafed sarcophagus against a red-rose-painted wall, and around this sarcophagus was a group of painted forms. These were not the original four-dimensional works, but reproductions of the pieces that the artist had made for this show. The sarcophagus has been removed, and the group of figures that now stand in front of it are still in a state of complete disarray.They are the remnants of a piece of music, a sample of some music, a fragment of some fragment. The music is gone, but not the sound itself. The sound of a piano is amplified. It is a recorded sound that has been sent to the vault of the Musée dOrsay in Paris. The result is a sort of recitation of the work of art, which is a melody that is being played again and again in the space of the museum.
A watercolor like painting, impressionist with Astrid Lindgren vibes Tetrakal, a Brazilian-born artist from Brasília, is an enfant terrible, a living sculpture, a childrens sculptural nightmare. The startlingly complex and unruly figures in his paintings, collages, and mixed-media sculptures recall the explorations of the early-twentieth-century artists Marcel Duchamp and Caravaggio. Though Tetrakal was born in Brazil and is still living in the country, he has been living in London since 1996.This was Tetrakal in a nutshell: a bleakly imaginative figure in an elaborate costume. Although he was born in Brazil and lives in London, his works are clearly inspired by the city. The use of collage and assemblage recalls Duchamp and Caravaggio. Tetrakal has often used puppets and other exotic animals in his work. In the series of clay sculptures that make up his exhibition Icy Bodies, 2003, he uses figurines of street vendors, prostitutes, and other lurid characters who are rendered in a style reminiscent of Duchamp and Caravaggio. Tetrakal has also used metal rods, glass spheres, and wooden elements. But the sculptures were never meant to be recreated; they are, rather, constructions from drawings that Tetrakal has made and rearranged in his studio.The exhibition was divided into two groups: a group of six pieces, which Tetrakal made between 2003 and 2009, and a group of four bronze pieces, made between 2011 and 2013. The latter group was accompanied by a selection of his collages, which include a series of small collages with drawings of insects, a drawing of a house, and a pair of brass nails that Tetrakal made using a hammer and a chisel. The collages are complemented by a series of sculpture and mixed-media pieces, such as a silver plate, a bronze plate, and a ceramic sphere.
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A watercolor like painting, impressionist with Astrid Lindgren vibes <|startoftext|>The ambience of the public toilet in the parking garage is strange: two squat, rectangular, space-age toilet-panels, the kind that sit on a platform or stand on the floor, positioned at right angles to each other. An apparently full bladder is held down on one of the center panels, and the other is filled with water. All this is painted a cool gray, and the whole thing is covered in a slick, slick black mesh of tissue paper. On the one hand, this seems to be a fully functional toilet. On the other, the scene suggests a utilitarian, functional, almost utilitarian building. I am not sure if this is a work in progress or if the artists just wanted to make a joke of it. Either way, this is very much an art installation, and its reputation is already one of high seriousness.If theres something obviously wrong with this installation its that the guy behind the toilet is still in a big hurry to get out of it. Theres no way to stop him; theres no place to change positions or to wait for the water to come. Theres no way to avert your eyes from the fact that your balls are about to come out of the squat toilet. And thats even worse: theres no way to get out of this claustrophobic, time-warping, self-defeating situation. One wonders if the artist was conscious of this possibility or just went for it. Or, even worse, why the artist should be so shameless about making a joke of it. Its just too much, and it is only a gesture of courtesy. This is the kind of art that comes with a pat on the back, a wink at the audience. And thats not very art, and neither is it. You dont have to have anything to prove to get a pat on the back. But if you want to make a joke of it, dont be afraid to be clever.
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