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Newer posts ». I wish I were…in Liechtenstein. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, photo via Wikipedia. Liechtenstein’s capital Vaduz has a population of 5.000. Other than the castle (upper left of the image), the main tourist attraction of this village is the Kunstmuseum. In the neighboring countries of Switzerland and Austria or even Germany, almost every larger town has a Kunsthalle or two. Most of them are modernist kasbahs like the one in the photo above. Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. Continue reading &lsqu...
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Criticality or truth? | Moscow Diary
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Garden by the Sea. A False Memory of Peter Doig. Previously published in Chto delat 18: Critique or Truth, March 2008. 8211; So how can criticality tell the truth, how can it set the vague optics of embeddedness into focus? 8211; Only through a materialist analysis of the world that exists both without us and for us. 8211; But what is this materialism, actually? And will they share the fate of the Itinerants, if there is the sort of political transition we are all working towards? Feed for this Entry.
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Home is where the art is… | Moscow Diary
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Radek Retrospective (Part II). Home is where the art is…. Graffitti on the walls of 475 Kent Ave. Williamsburg, sprayed on during evacuation. Photo via BruceLabounty802. On flickr (see here. For the entire set.). This is what happened to the inhabitants of 475 Kent Ave., an apartment building in one of the world’s longest-standing artsy neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On January 20th, “over 200 men, women, children and their pets [were evicted] from their homes in the darknes...8220;Home is wher...
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Boris Mikhailov and Disposable Time | Moscow Diary
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Viktor Alimpiev at Ekaterina Foundation. Boris Mikhailov and Disposable Time. So where do we start? As I sat in RIGroup, at Boris Mikhailov’s current solo exhibition. Syuzi i drugie), the earliest series in the show. Personally, I think this is a bad idea. To understand what this show is all about, to grasp its central question, you have to start by looking at. Then again, the space Mikhailov creates here is immersive rather than allegorical. Sometimes in the water, and sometimes out, the camera circ...
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A False Memory of Peter Doig | Moscow Diary
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Used Goods. A Series by Dmitry Gutov. A False Memory of Peter Doig. Peter Doig. Photo from. Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin. He is one of the most expensive painters in Europe, and lives on Trinidad. Open the Tate Britain’s extensive documentation of this show here. And you will immediately see what I mean. What’s the first thing that catches your eye? Two rooms of maddeningly textured landscapes. Don’t you feel a little dizzy? Or some faint shimmer of reality under the magical veneer? 1990-1, Oil on Canvas.
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Viktor Alimpiev at Ekaterina Foundation | Moscow Diary
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Boris Mikhailov and Disposable Time. Viktor Alimpiev at Ekaterina Foundation. Viktor Alimpiev. Thrown banners look like an arable land 1, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 175 x 150. Exhibition view (c) Pyotr Zhukov / Openspace.ru. Exhibition view (c) Pyotr Zhukov / Openspace.ru. What does it mean? The edge of field 2, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150. The Russian version of this text is online at http:/ www.openspace.ru/art/events/details/1224/. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. | Moscow Diary
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I wish I were…in Liechtenstein. Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. Spiral Jetty. Photo via mbuitron. Is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970. Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a 450 m long and 4 m wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake. ( Wikipedia. On Spiral Jetty, Utah.). It is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson,. Dialectics have noth...
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Garden by the Sea | Moscow Diary
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I wish I were…in Liechtenstein. Garden by the Sea. Roman Korovin. From the series “Garden by the Sea,” 2005-2007. Vilnis Vitolin. From the series “100 Rooms”. 2007. But what is this public insistance on privacy? What do we see when we look at Vilnis Vitolins’ photos of individual interiors? Shelters or a world theater of the private man? Reconstructions of personal paradise lost? Alnis Stakle. From the series “Home Sweet Home,” 2006-2007. No Responses Yet to “Garden by the Sea”. Feed for this Entry.
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Spiral Jetty Threatened | Moscow Diary
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Home is where the art is…. Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. This just in via MAN. A new drilling contract in Utah threatens Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, an emergency email from the artist’s widow, Nancy Holt, informs journalists. A number of pipes and pumps will be laid beneath the water and shore, as well as roads built for oil tank trucks, and cranes for other development needs, all of which promise to severely alter the surrounding environment including Spiral Jetty. Feed for this Entry.
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