July 9, 2015, Leiden. Photo by Aschwin de Wolf
Category: Art
approaching orange
approaching orange (through time). A collaborative work by Aschwin de Wolf and Avantika Bawa.
This series of multiples is an exploration of the possibilities of orange paint on canvas. By retaining a fixed scale, surface, and color, the work explores the visual and tactile qualities of different artist materials. These materials were carefully chosen to reveal the history of artist pigments and mediums.
Top to bottom: Blood, fat, and turmeric; watercolor; tempera (pigment and yolk), oil paint; encaustic (pigment and bees wax); acrylic paint, and spray paint
After the Noise
“I do not think about development and progress in music, art or anything else. They seem to be phantoms, somewhat like those visions beloved of our religious fanatics, professional politicians and other deluded people, all of whom bother our world severely. How can I put it? There is nothing which this music has to do and there is nowhere that it has to go.”
(Interview with David Jackman (Organum), April/May of 2007)
Vernacular Aesthetics
“To look through a Becher book is to take a lesson in vernacular aesthetics ; it is to learn to read differences in composition, rhythm and formal solutions where an ordinarily eye would see only indifference and standardisation; it is to derive intense pleasure from your own capacity of discrimination; it is to suffer from your inability to back it up by a technical vocabulary that would make it possible for you to detail a gasometer’s architecture as if it were a cathedral.”
Thierry de Duve, ‘Bernd et Hilla Becher ou la photographie monumentaire’ in Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, no. 39, pp. 118-29.
Abandoned stations in Antarctica
Abandoned sites are found in (former) industrial areas, as highlighted in the post on the Monteponi mine in Sardinia and as photographed by Bernd and Hilla Becher, who are famous for their photographs of industrial buildings, or in cities, as highlighted in a previous post about Abandoned London Underground Stations.
And even Antarctica, although sparsely populated, turns out to have its own abandoned stations, including the camp built by Robert Scott and his party on Ross Island in 1911, an actual ghost town at Whaler’s Bay on Deception Island , and abandoned whaling outposts on South Georgia, another Antarctic Island. These abandoned South Pole sites, the lonely landscapes, the grim sub-zero temperatures, and its Mountains of Madness, can evoke truly fascinating and haunting experiences.
HT Grim Reviews