James Wines/SITE, Melting Candlestick, Variation of Melting Silver Column, 1986
cool building - ‘shelter at fichtelberg’
Piss Flowers - Helen Chadwick
These iconic works were made by the artist and her partner David Notarius in 1991. They were created by urinating into the snow in Iceland and taking casts from the cavities left behind. Made in bronze, painted white, they resemble flowers or mushrooms in a field.
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"« Tout notre raisonnement se réduit à céder au sentiment.
Mais la fantaisie est semblable et contraire au sentiment ; de sorte qu’on ne peut distinguer entre ces contraires. L’un dit que mon sentiment est fantaisie, l’autre que sa fantaisie est sentiment. Il faudrait avoir une règle. La raison s’offre mais elle est ployable à tous sens.»"
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Blaise Pascal.
L’Esprit de géométrie.
ArtStars*: New Berlin Painters Manifesto
1. We are exiles. We share a feeling of disillusionment, isolation, and exile in our contemporary era—not only as citizens, but as painters working amongst the hegemonic onslaught of esoteric, multimedia, and “subversive” art.
2. We are angry. We seek not to be clever. Ideas are cheap….
Monsieur Zevaco…
Jean-François Zevaco et Emile-Jean Duhon : Pavillon de la ville de Casablanca à la foire internationale de Casablanca.
“don’t panic” by ruth sacks
On 21 March 2004, Human Right’s Day in South Africa, Ruth Sacks hired a plane to write the words ‘Don’t Panic’ in the sky over the Cape Town City Bowl. Each letter was ±2km in length. The ‘Don’t’ blew away long before the ‘Panic’.
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New Dehli-based Anagram Architects have designed this impressive facade as part of their office building for the ‘South Asian Human Right Documentation Centre’,
or SAHRDC, a non-governmental rights organization in New Dehli, India. It’s based on a modular systems of 6 bricks - we like that the wall hasn’t been painted or plastered over, the rawness of the material gives the illusion of movement, balance and transformation… a bit like Transformers’ Jenga, but we won’t be trying to remove any bricks any time soon…
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Nicky Assmann’s ‘Solace’ Art Installation Explores the Iridescent Qualities of Soap
If you’ve ever been completely mesmerized by the amazing colors that appear on soap bubbles, then you will love Nicky Assmann’s award-winning Solace art installation. Comprised of a mechanical device that gradually slides a long swath of soapy film (made up of glycerol and water, mostly) upwards from a flat platform along with a sophisticated array of lights, the demonstration reveals how the film refracts light as gravity pulls the heavier water down
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De façon répétitive, pendant 2 ans, Carrie Schneider a construit une petite maison, l’a transporté sur une petite île au milieu d’un lac et lui a mis le feu avant de prendre une photo de la scène. Vous pouvez voir le résultat des 15 fois ou elle a menée cette expérience sur son site.
DIAGRAMS OF FIELD CONDITIONS, 1996
“All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids. One of the potentials of the field is to redefine the relation between figure and ground. If we think of the figure not as a demarcated object read against a stable field, but as an effect emerging from the field itself - as moments of intensity, as peaks or valley within a continuous field - than it might be possible to imagine figure and field as more closely allied. (…)”
Claude Levêque, enfant du punk, enfant du rock, enfant de Duchamp, enfant né à Nevers qui publie aux Editions Dilecta « Nevers let love in ». Il est là avec quatre enfants de l’école Pierre Budin de la Goutte d’Or à Paris. Cela fait 4 mois qu’il est à l’école avec eux …l’inauguration de leur exposition commune Seasons in the abyss, c’est vendredi le 4 mai.
