Beautiful oily video computer graphic world. Love the shiny colour surface of the phone and the gold computer scene.
Pendulum Choir
I saw this sometime ago, but I decided to post it because I rather like the combination of man and machine. It seems Kafkaesque and reminds me of metropolis and the art of Europe around the beginning of the 20th Century.
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei has made an installation work that depicts his time in captivity under the Chinese authorities during 2011. There are six fiberglass dioramas within 2.5-ton iron boxes that are on display at a church-turned-art gallery for the Zuecca Project Space, during the 2013 Venice Biennale.
Ai Weiwei installation
Ai Weiwei installation
Ai Weiwei installation
Ai Weiwei installation
Took a look at some of the galleries outside of Art Basel. Takashi Murakami at the Galerie Perrotin, Jean-Michel Basquiat at Gagosian Gallery, and Jake&Dinos Chapman at the White Cube. I really enjoyed Basquiat’s work, but sadly was not allowed to take photos.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Respect to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami, detail
Takashi Murakami, detail
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
Art Basel Hong Kong
A selection of some of the works on display here at Art Basel in Hong Kong.
(details to be updated later).
Hong Kong
Kohei Nawa PixCell-Deer#32
Elias Crespin
Elias Crespin
Really enjoyed these beautiful kinetic works by Elias Crespin.
Super Mega Universe
Fantastic work, and what a title; “Super Mega Universe”!
A large number of works by Yayoi Kusama are on display. It was nice to see such variety, and nicely exhibited.
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama, detail
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama, detail
Pablo Picasso
Takashi Murakami, detail of skulls.
Takashi Murakami, detail of skulls
Tony Oursler, video projected onto an object
Anish Kapoor, photo taken up close to a concave fragmented mirror
Damien Hurst, detail. Real insects are embedded into the work.
Gilbert & George, detail
Mark Bradford
Mariko Mori
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Peter Zimmermann
Carsten Nicolai
Liu Xinyi
Gerhard Richter
When the Spirits Dance
Musings
I was messing about with Mrdoob’s Delaunay Painter that lets you upload an image and “triangulate” it. I tried it on some of my own works with mixed results. Seems to work best with images that have larger areas of colour and less detail. This is the cover of a hairstyle magazine that I picked up some time ago. I absolutely love the image of the cover as it is, but I quite like the triangulated look on the right.
request Qj triangualted
Sound Scapes
I rather like this work by Jonathan Gillie. The Kandinsky like composition just seems to work really nicely. It reminds me of a series of works by Brandon Blommaert of geometric shapes changing colour and form to sound.
Francis Bacon at The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
Study for Crouching Nude
Part of a Triptych – Three Studies of the Human Body
Head in Grey
Recently visited the Francis Bacon retrospective at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The paintings have a raw, visceral, appearance, we are faced with the skeleton, the flesh and blood the grotesqueness and the pain. I was interested to see how little paint Bacon used. In Andrew Durham’s essay “Note on Technique” he quotes Bacon’s own words that the image is realised through ‘the transforming effect of cultivated accidents of paint’. They are produced from ‘a kind of pool of consciousness’ that becomes manifest in a plastic image. Bacon must have thought hard and struggled to control or subvert the subconscious marks into an image that was in some way correlated to what he was trying to achieve, otherwise surely the colours and marks would have become more numerous and polluted. I was also interested in the lines that Francis Bacon made to map out space. It is unusual to find an artist using flat areas of colour and yet at the same time considering the forms as contained, existing within a space. It is almost as if that for Bacon the forms and the space are one, they cannot exist without each other. The body occupies a space and the space needs the body to bring it into existence.
Ryoichi Kurokawa
This is a stunning installation work called Oscillating Continuum, by Ryoichi Kurokawa, a Japanese sound and visual artist working in Berlin, Germany. The sound and the digital visuals combine beautifully and seamlessly with the sculpture. Really impressive work.
