All press releases are a mixture of writing, criticism and marketing. And all of them, this included, need an external point of reference to exist. That’s why Darren Bader, in addition to writing the text, will curate an online show related to this press release (at www.neromagazine.it/gmo.html). The show will be presented on the 23rd of June 2010 and, as usual, the opening will be at 7 p.m.
Press Release
All artifact is genetically modified, as it has (had) innumerable geneses(/loci) that precede it, and its modification [its most present genesis] is selfsame as its fabrication. All art is artifact until it is art. And when art stops being art, it is artifact. To ... more
Michele Manfellotto, autore della rubrica Heaven Is Knowing Who You Are, ha cominciato una raccolta di materiale video e fotografico relativo a tutti gli eventi di Maxximalism. Il progetto, provvisoriamente intitolato Eye Of The Beholder, mira alla composizione di un'opera collettiva. Se sei interessato a collaborare clicca qui.
Tomorrow, Friday 3 September 2010, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Rome will open the third edition of “Street View” in the gallery’s secondary space, with the project History by the English artist Eddie Peake.
On display are fourteen of the artist’s photographs, printed on A5 paper in high-octane colours, which are arranged in the form and spectrum of a rainbow. The photographs’ candid physical imagery is sugarcoated by these bright hues – the ambiguous psychology behind them inhabiting a saccharine world of luminous, acidic colours that only truly exists within the artificial confines of Peake’s painterly language.
Peake’s interest in the surface is mirrored in a set of small, perfectly crafted oil paintings, also exhibited here. These paintings on board are full of bright candy colours, with delicately graded horizon effects and unexpected details that play with what is real and what is not; what is in the world and what is fantasy. Their surfaces are glossy to the point of flawlessness, becoming themselves a subject of Peake’s work.
In 1995, during an interview, Mike Kelley claimed to be contrary to public art saying “I’ve always had an aversion to public art, which I feel is too often imposed upon the viewer.” Maybe, after 15 years, Kelley has changed his opinion. If he did, there might be a good reason why.
Mobile Homestead is the first installment of a major new work by Mike Kelley – both a public sculpture and a private, personal architecture – based on the artist’s childhood home on Palmer Road in Westland, a neighborhood of Detroit. On Saturday 25 September 2010, Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead makes its maiden voyage from its new home in Midtown Detroit (on the grounds of MOCAD) to return to the original Kelley home in the suburbs.
The motion picture Academy has spent almost 24 frantic hours trying to reach the iconoclastic filmmaker (”Breathless”) to inform him he’s getting an honorary Oscar — and by late Wednesday they still hadn’t been able to find him.
Godard, a Swiss citizen born in Paris, is notoriously anti-Hollywood. He’s also anti-flying and has avoided long plane flights, one insider said, because he’s not allowed to smoke.
This means Godard, 79, could be one of the rare no-shows for an honorary award. Audrey Hepburn died in 1993 before her prize could be presented.
“We’ve been attempting to reach him since 7 o’clock Tuesday evening and we have as yet had no confirmation,” Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director, said late Wednesday afternoon. “We have tried by telephone, by fax, by emails to various friends and associates. We have sent a formal letter by FedEx. But we have certainly not been told he will show up at this point.”
For I Will Be With You Shortly Garcia Torres conceived a project rooted in themes of time, silent, the unsaid and the forgotten, all concerns that have been central to his practice. The artist exposes the various actions that lie behind the production of each work and sets out a space for waiting, for reading, for creating and for writing.
The starting point of the exhibition is Unspoken Dailies (2003-2009), a feature film that will be screened only once during the run of the exhibition June 26 at Cinema Spazio Oberdan. The film is based on an essay by Garcia Torres about the work of Bas Jan Ader. The main character – actor Diego Luna (Milk, 2008; Mister Lonely, 2006; Y tu mama también, 2001) – silently reads Garcia Torres’s text to himself. Only the actor has read the essay, which was destroyed right after the shooting. The memory of the artist’s words is in the care of the actor only. Composed of a 66 minutes tracking shot, the film becomes an “essay” on the concept of real time and cinematic time. Read more »
Visiting artists websites can be mind blasting. By looking at Cory Archangel’s web pages one can pass from a short extract from a Robbie Williams live to intense reflections on art. We strongly recommend you the brilliant conversation with Mary Helimann published on Cory’s new blog, dedicated to interviews with interesting people and their day 2 day grind of making stuff.
Despite the intelligent critics of the detractors, 2009 was undeniably the year of Animal Collective. Plexifilm today releases the dvd ODDSAC, a new visual album by AC. Those who watched the movie speak about horror subgenres like Italian giallo, Cronenbergian suggestions and low budget visuals in a Herzog and Lynch style. The Guardian wrote “A mind-frazzling piece full of vampire monks, demonic fakirs, and lengthy episodes of trance-inducing pattern loops. A confrontational and immersive experience.” Maybe checking is due.
