Tag Archives: Exhibition

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Over three decades Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unravelling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal [...]

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Lynne Hull, Creating Tran-species Art and Sculpture for Wildlife

Environmental Artist and Sculpture:
I discovered Lynne’s work while doing some searching on Nature and Art recently. Her work is very in tune with working with the natural environment. Her work truly integrats with nature and the biological and animal interaction with it is intended.  A link to her website is at the bottom of this [...]

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Robert Smithson

 Robert Smithson
Essay:
Cultural Confinement by Robert Smithson

 

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they’ve got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold [...]

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Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

Speed of Life
Studio notes from the contemporary painter Gregg Chadwick

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

In this exchange between Shahzia Sikander and Art:21 on the nature of art practice, the conversation touches on the place of spirituality in contemporary art. Art:21 defines spirituality as follows:
Spirituality
A [...]

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Terence Koh

Terence Koh on Art Talk

Terence Koh is provocative artist that I keep running across in my research.  I found this interview of him on Art Talk VBS.TV that is worth watching.   Anyway, it is only six minutes.

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Shadi Ghadirian

With all the scary headlines coming out of Iran these days, I got a little curious about what kind of art might be coming out.  I found some great stuff!  Check out this artist–Shadi Ghadirian.
http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ghadirian/

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Carsten Holler is dope

I adore this work…I rate it as one the top 100 sculptures of all time (in my mind) because it transformed (for me) what it means to “look” at art.   For years I have followed Mr. Holler’s work and have made every attempt to view it in person when his works have appeared in galleries [...]

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