Awesome. Drawings by Marco Fusinato. Via But Does it Float.
This spring’s major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art centres on colour: colour in art, in the world and in the eye. In words, pictures and through interactive programmes the exhibition will present the ways in which artists throughout the twentieth century either made use of colour as a medium of expression or researched it to find new colours and colour systems. On exhibition through 13 June, 2010.
From Art Knowledge News:
Sprüth Magers London announced an exhibition of work by the legendary filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger, in his first solo show in London in over five years. Making films continuously since the late 1940s and considered a countercultural icon, Kenneth Anger is widely acclaimed as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema. His groundbreaking body of work has inspired cineastes, filmmakers and artists alike. Many channels of contemporary visual culture, from queer iconography to MTV, similarly owe a debt to his art. On view 19 February though 27 March, 2010.
I wish.
(This image is from Zachary Gibson’s project, Jacksonian Utopia.)
Right in my neck of the woods at the Nasher:
The Nasher Sculpture Center opened an exhibition of the works of contemporary Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. Jaume Plensa: Genus and Species represents the Nasher’s first major exhibition of the work of a living artist. The exhibition was installed throughout the Nasher, engaging a variety of spaces: the entrance, the galleries, the terrace, the garden, and, for the first time at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the city street. The artist has carefully considered the selection and placement of each sculpture, determining an inter-related progression that heightens the viewer’s experience of the work. On view through 2 May, 2010.
via Paul Isakson - a cool new take on the flip book.
detail from “Sun vs shadow II, - if every day was a sunny day.”
“A Series of Incidents Leading up to an Event of Great Historical Significance”
The photograph features sixteen boxes loaded with cause-and-effect machines. The boxes are connected by openings which lead the narrative of the piece through a linear motion through - and finally out of - the photograph. The work seeks to explore ideas about history and how it shapes our societies and how certain interpretations come to be regarded as facts. In the piece, the overture to a historical event has been deconstructed and represented in a less-than-explicit manner, forcing the viewer to pure guess-work as to what event is being described. However, there should be enough ambiguous hints to lead the viewer to believe he has found the correct one
These Temari works were done by an 88 year old woman.
Beautiful linear work by Victoria Haven
A circular light drawing is created through single controlled LEDs on a rotor. On the program discs there are etched drawings which are powered with electricity. For each light source exists a sliding contact. With the contact onto copper, the electricity runs through and a particular light shines. As the program disc rotates further the sliding contact meets an etched part of the disc without copper and the light will fade. It is the drawing on the disc which is programming the light.
Textile cephalopod!
From Art Knowledge News:
The legend of Leonardo da Vinci is shrouded in mystery: How did he die? Are the remains buried in a French chateau really those of the Renaissance master? Was the “Mona Lisa” a self-portrait in disguise? A group of Italian scientists believes the key to solving those puzzles lies with the remains — and they say they are seeking permission from French authorities to dig up the body to conduct carbon and DNA testing. “We don’t know what we’ll find if the tomb is opened, we could even just find grains and dust,” says Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist who is participating in the project. “But if the remains are well kept, they are a biological archive that registers events in a person’s life, and sometimes in their death.”
If the skull is intact, the scientists can go to the heart of a question that has fascinated scholars and the public for centuries: the identity of the “Mona Lisa.” Recreating a virtual and then physical reconstruction of Leonardo’s face, they can compare it with the smiling face in the painting, experts involved in the project told The Associated Press.
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