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| Tony Albert Sorry 2008 |
Monday, 12 February 2018
Tony Albert
Janet Laurence
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| Janet Laurence Matter of the Masters |
Janet Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. Her work occupies the liminal zones or meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory. Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underllying themes in her exhibition work. Read more
Christian Boltanski
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Christian Boltanski Personnes 2010
Christian Boltanski Reserve-Detective III 1987
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DORIS SALCEDO
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Doris Salcedo Atrabiliarios 1992-1997 |
Tom Nicholson
On 30 August 1999 East Timorese voted overwhelmingly to become an independent nation in a ballot sponsored by the UN. Following the announcement of the result, occupying Indonesian troops carried out systematic destruction throughout East Timor. Within two weeks several thousand civilians were murdered (a precise number is unknown), 200,000 were forcibly transported to concentration camps in West Timor and other parts of Indonesia, and most significant infrastructure was destroyed.
Books were targeted for destruction. Libraries were systematically burned, amongst them the widely-used university library and the English library in Dili. Private collections of books were targeted, and in notable cases book collections of prominent intellectuals and independence activists were collected on the street where they were publicly set alight. In villages, schools were systematically destroyed.
Action for another library was established in Melbourne in response to these circumstances. Thousands of books were donated by bookstores, libraries, and individuals. They were shipped to Dili in containers where they now form part of the nascent National University Library of East Timor. Read more
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| Tom Nicholson After action for another library 2010 |
TONY CRAGG
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| Tony Cragg New Stones – Newtone’s Tones, 1978, plastic. |
“I use everything but, preferably, after it has been used by man… what interests me is the special critical appraisal that we apply to manmade objects and man’s activities.It’s a real problem; the world is full of manmade objects. It’s about time we stopped producing and started clarifying and reevaluating the objects we have put into the world. The situation now has a political dimension. It no longer has anything to do with political structures but is related to the very nature of this critical search”.
Tony Cragg interviewed by Demosthenes Davvetas, 1985
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| Tony Cragg |
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Saturday, 10 February 2018
Friday, 9 February 2018
Hanne Darboven
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| From Hanne Darboven's collection, displayed as found in one room in her family home in Hamburg |
see more of: Magnificent Obsessions - The Artist as Collector at the Barbican Art Gallery 12 February – 25 May 2015
more images at: Creative Review
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Chris Burden
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| Chris Burden [1946-2015] All the Submarines of the United States of America 1987 |
Friday, 5 January 2018
WORSAAE
Worsaae Drawing 1
Worsaae, under the commission of Christian VIII of Denmark, spent nine months travelling around Britain and Ireland during 1846 and 1847. One of the most famous Scandinavian antiquarians of the nineteenth century, he had spent time visiting Sweden, Austria, Germany and Switzerland during the preceding years. The terms of his royal commission, as they related to his tour of Britain and Ireland, primarily focused on an investigation of the Viking-age antiquities and monuments of Scandinavian character. He published the results of his work as Minder om de Danske og Nordmændene i England, Skotland og Irland in 1851 with an English translation, entitled An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland, appearing in 1852. In this work Worsaae virtually created the concept of the "Viking Age". This work contains 12 drawings in which his found objects are grouped and identified, and known as the Worsaae Drawings.
key to Worsaae Drawing 1
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Monday, 11 May 2015
Rachel Whiteread
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| Rachel Whiteread and her collection |
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
KATHRYN RYAN
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Collecting: promise and loss
– constant objects and ephemeral narratives.
'The
sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of
distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria mean that I never
finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague,
and hardly any more effective than the original anarchy. The outcome of all
this leads to truly strange categories. A folder of miscellaneous papers, for
example, on which is written 'To be Classified...'
Georges Perec 'Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'
Georges Perec 'Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'
Kathryn
Ryan is an object and installation artist who uses found objects, casts and
texts, and is interested in the processes surrounding documentation, collection
and arrangement. She is drawn to the transformative potential of disused
objects and their connections to poetry, promise and loss, and the natural
world. Her forum talk on 6 May 2015 will focus on her collecting practices, the
shifting spaces a practice inhabits, and how we are all, in some way,
collectors.
Studio blog: http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com.au/
GIORGIO MORANDI
Giorgio Morandi
Grande natura morta con la caffettiera (Large Still Life with Coffeepot)
1933, etching, 38.3 x 51.1cm
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| Morandi with part of his collection |
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| Morandi's collection and studio |
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| Dong Yuan Giorgio Morandi’s Bottles (composed of 80 pieces), 2009; oil on canvas, 160X178.5cm SOURCE |
FIONA HALL
Fiona Hall - Cell Culture and Leaf Litter 2002
installation view
Fiona Hall Leaf Litter 2002
detail: Brassica cumpestris - turnip
gouache on bank notes
gouache on bank notes
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015
EDMUND DE WAAL
I have spent the last few years writing a very personal book. It is the biography of a collection and the biography of my family. It is the story of the ascent and decline of a Jewish dynasty, about loss and diaspora and about the survival of objects.
The collection is of 264 Japanese netsuke. It is the common thread for the story of its three Jewish owners and the three rooms in which it was kept over a period of a hundred and forty years.
FLUXUS
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "flow, flux" (noun); "flowing, fluid" (adj.) (Wiktionary)—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. read more
Daniel Spoerri, detail of Anecdoted Topography of Chance, 1962
In connection with a one man show of his snare-pictures at the Galerie Lawrence in Paris in 1962, Spoerri wrote his Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard (Anecdoted Topography of Chance). Spoerri was then living at the Hotel Carcassone in Paris, in room number 13 on the fifth floor. To the right of the entrance door was a table which his wife Vera had painted blue. Spoerri drew on a ‘map" the overlapping outlines of all the 80 objects that were lying on the table on 17 October 1961 at exactly 3:47 p.m. Each object was assigned a number and Spoerri wrote a brief description of each object and the memories or associations it evoked. The descriptions cross referenced other objects on the table which were related. The Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard was printed as a small pamphlet of 53 pages plus a fold out map and index and was distributed as an advertisement for the exhibit. The Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard is more than just a catalog of random objects, however; read in its entirety, it provides a coherent and compelling picture of Spoerri's travels, friends and artistic endeavors. read more
see more fluxus
see Flux Shop Blog
JOSEPH CORNELL
Joseph Cornell: artist/collector/archivist
Joseph Cornell Taglioni's Jewel Casket 1940 MOMA
The first of dozens Cornell made in honor of famous ballerinas, this box pays homage to Marie Taglioni, an acclaimed nineteenth-century Italian dancer who, according to legend, kept an imitation ice cube in her jewelry box to commemorate dancing in the snow at the behest of a Russian highwayman. The box is infused with erotic undertones—both in the tactile nature of the glass cubes, velvet, and rhinestone necklace (purchased at a Woolworth's dime store in New York) and in the incident itself, in which Taglioni reportedly performed on an animal skin placed across the snowy road. read more
Untitled drawing / collage by Joseph Cornell 1030-40
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