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2 Lousy Cell Phone Pictures Of The Exhibition & A Neat One Of A Dog
3 September 2010
Already September! With all the activity lately ether I haven’t had time or was simply too tired to blog. Last week’s opening went well, it’s always nice when all the galleries of a certain area open their respective shows on the same evening, gets folks out and walking. The gallerists of most cities have figured that out and Zürich is no exception, I think they’ve divided the city into four areas which have independent gallery nights. It was sunny and hot out, and a bit muggy too. I dropped my stuff off at the hotel downtown, walked to the gallery – about 15-20min away – and just started pouring sweat once indoors… for what seemed like hours, terrible. Fortunately there was a refreshingly fruity pinot blanc to sip on, it’s nice to be with gallery that still serves decent wine!…
Personas For Firefox
29 July 2010
Had some fun making a few Rattlebrained Firefox Personas.
These, if you don’t know, “let you personalize the look of your Firefox browser!” I think you need Firefox 3.6 for this as well as installing a little add on extension. It’s cool and there are more to come so check back soon.
New Scuplture Portfolio
14 June 2010
This machine actually booted up this morning! So far so good… :P
A good time perhaps to mention that I’ve accepted to show some of my sculptures, bronze and other, in Zurich at the Annamarie Andersen Gallery towards the end of August and so I've made a new sculpture portfolio to put some of them back on my artist site…
Les Mont de Baulmes
17 April 2010
Last week I took a walk above the village my folks live in, with Elstir – their Shetland sheep dog – and made a couple of quick sketches. The one here on the right is of the Baulmine, a stream that has its source about 3/4 of the way up the mountain.
It has been highly canalized over the years because of the amount of water that comes down with the spring thaw as well as during big storms. The size of the rocks the water can carry during those moments is quite impressive, but its a bit late in the season for that now. I’ve drawn it off and on now for nearly 30 years watching the stream bed and its environment changing with time, tamed by man; or at least it seems…
...Tell Me it's Raining
25 March 2010
Don’t miss the Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining show at Apexart in NYC!
Curated by Bad at Sports it’s up from April 7th to May 22nd 2010.
And BTW, I have a work on paper: Squares and Humanoid (Looking Out) in this show.
Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History
28 February 2010
Friend, artist and art historian Mark Staff Brandl has posted the video of a 55 minute speech he presented at the CAA (College Art Association, art historians organization) annual conference, as well as at the Kunstschule Lichtenstein, in 2010. It concerns description and criticism of the standard conceptions and models of fine art history and the history of comics, while offering a new one model for conceiving of and teaching these histories:
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History.
If you’re like me and art history always made you want to puke, it’s probably because you had one of those horrible teachers that unfortunately seem to pollute the trade; …and just look at how luscious the fruit bowl is in this painting… Ugh!…
Journey to the Moon by William Kentridge
13 February 2010
Enjoy!
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I was browsing through one of last month’s…
69e Biennale d'Art Contemporain
30 November 2009
Opening on December 5th, come one come all! What’s nice with the opening is wine & cheese, but you have to deserve it by listening through the speeches!
Top 100 most powerful people in the artworld...
10 November 2009
For many reasons I’ve been ignoring the art side of this blog for some time but am beginning to feel a heavy art presence at the door and will probably be forced to let it in one of these days. In the meantime here’s a link to an article by Andy McSmith of The Independant, that includes a pathetic list of the top 100 most powerful people in the artworld.
Don’t click on that link it’s not worth your time, there are so many more interesting things to read…
More Sketches From Paris
28 July 2009
Continuing from last Sunday’s post, we walked through the Montparnasse cemetery on our way to the catacombs, Place Denfert-Rochereau, which is obviously where this sketch is from. The root of a nearby tree had pushed the whole base of this relatively fancy tombstone up and out of alignment. Nature, the original rebel…
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