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6 december 2013
4 december 2013
I Need This
The other day my friend Sylvan send this to me...
A hysterical big pillow shaped as a cat!
I NEED THIS
to comfort me in the cold winter days.
3 december 2013
Art I Heart - Oliver Breed / Oma's Kitchen Floor
Dit
kunstwerk spreekt tot mijn verbeelding omdat het gaat over vervlogen
herinneringen. Het stuk linoleum in combinatie met de titel roept automatisch
beelden van mijn eigen verleden in me op. Beelden van mijn oma die met een
schort voor de aardappelen schilt. De stijf gesteven witte lakens en servetten.
De stiptheid van: "Om 6 uur eten, eej" - zoals ze dat zo mooi zeggen
op Goeree-Overflakkee - het eiland waar mijn grootouders woonden.
Dit is
een werk wat je niet kunt reproduceren - juist het gegeven dat deze vloer er
decennia heeft gelegen, maakt dat het zo'n indrukwekkend stuk is. Omdat je weet
dat het echt is, omdat de oma van de kunstenaar daar al die jaren echt overheen
gelopen heeft - totdat er uiteindelijk alleen nog maar ingesleten patronen over
waren. Juist dat gegeven geeft het een diepere lading. Oliver Beer vangt voor
mij in één beeld een heel leven of dat wat er uiteindelijk van overblijft.*
*This piece is about faded memories. It reminds me of my own past - my grandmother with an apron, differing the potatoes. The starched white linens and napkins. Her punctuality: "We eat at six."
You can't reproduce this work: the fact that this floor laid in the kitchen of his grandmother for decades, makes this such an impressive piece. Because you know it is real. Because there are only ingrained patterns left.
That's what gives it meaning. A whole life - or that what ultimately remains - captured in one image.
Daria De Beauvais writes on Saatchi online:
"(...)
Oma’s Kitchen Floor (2008), is dedicated to his grandmother. Using the forty years
old lino floor of her kitchen, Oliver Beer transformed it into a wall piece, a
gigantic picture, showing where the old woman used to walk and stop in her
kitchen, “like a drawing made over forty years, these worn patches describe
half a lifetime of movement.” These examples of his recent production shows
that with quite simple means, Oliver Beer succeeds in creating pure
emotion."
29 november 2013
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18 november 2013
Art I Heart - Matthew Barney
Today I stumbled upon this image in a magazine and I was immediately intrigued. Who is the man in the photo?
The artist is Matthew Barney who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works are sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described in The Guardian as 'one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.'The image you see above is a still from The Cremaster Cylce 1 (1994).
"Is Barney's work a new beginning for a new century?", asks Richard Lacayo, writing in Time. "It feels more like a very energetic longing for a beginning, in which all kinds of imagery have been put to the service of one man's intricate fantasy of return to the womb. Something lovely and exasperating is forever in formation there. Will he ever give birth?"
So I searched for an online version of The Cremaster Cycle and it is downloading as we speak! 7 hours of performance art, I hope I am ready.
The artist is Matthew Barney who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works are sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described in The Guardian as 'one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.'The image you see above is a still from The Cremaster Cylce 1 (1994).
"Is Barney's work a new beginning for a new century?", asks Richard Lacayo, writing in Time. "It feels more like a very energetic longing for a beginning, in which all kinds of imagery have been put to the service of one man's intricate fantasy of return to the womb. Something lovely and exasperating is forever in formation there. Will he ever give birth?"
So I searched for an online version of The Cremaster Cycle and it is downloading as we speak! 7 hours of performance art, I hope I am ready.
15 november 2013
14 november 2013
Art I Heart - Edmund Dulac
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Enchanting illustrations by Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac - The Merman King
Edmund Dulac - She saved the prince
Edmund Dulac - The liquid sparkled
Edmund Dulac - The prince asked who she was
Edmund Dulac - Dissolving in foam
11 november 2013
Art I Heart - Fifi Lapin
So I stumbled upon this cute little rabbit, Fifi Lapin, always dressed in the latest fashion or some haute couture.
This is what people wrote about Fifi in the press:, it sounds quite promising!
'The world's most stylish bunny' Elle 'An unlikely - but powerful - fashion force' Vogue
There is also a book and I you can take a sneak peak inside here!
But I am particularly loving this print, of course:
Wishing I was this rabbit...
Fifi Lapin wearing Giles.
This is what people wrote about Fifi in the press:, it sounds quite promising!
'The world's most stylish bunny' Elle 'An unlikely - but powerful - fashion force' Vogue
Fifi and orange sunglasses.
There is also a book and I you can take a sneak peak inside here!
But I am particularly loving this print, of course:
Fifi Lapin as a little clown.
Detail of Fifi Lapin as a little clown.
Wishing I was this rabbit...
8 november 2013
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