Category: art

I just love performance documentation. Though often it is nowhere close to experiencing the real thing. In fact, in my mind, the document is the performance’s antithesis. Still, I think this video gives you good wtf sense of the original but perhaps that’s because this document is the performance. According to artforum, “it is the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera.”

(via neue-neue)

Wow. One of my favorite artists, Cai Guo-Qiang, sure knows his way around controlled explosions. Would love to see this in person. Last time I was anywhere near one of his cloud projects, was when he did clear sky black cloud at the Met in NYC. I love what he is doing with these outdoor “installations” so visceral. But really all of his projects are amazing whether they are inside or out.

Black Ceremony was part of the opening of an exhibit in Qatar

Check out more info here. This is his first exhibition in the middle east, it goes on until may, 2012, its a great excuse to make a trip to Qatar.

Please visit the original Genealogies (2009)

I’m usually averse to digitally manipulated photographs. I’m more into photography’s ability to reproduce verité, and capture the unexpected in our reality. But on occasion digital manipulation is well used. As in the work of say Gursky or Chris Jordan.

The same is true here, Claudia Rogge’s work captures something extra. When all of the individuals are composed into one image. Somehow multiplying the body, becomes like a study of the body and all of its variations. An intricate tapestry of human form. Quite stunning.

View the rest of her portfolio at www.claudia-rogge.de. There are many more stunning images to see.

So Amazing. Just look at it. Adam Frelin has an amazing way with light. Staging it and capturing it. Check out the rest of his portfolio. He has some more conceptual pieces too, all of which he explains thusly:

“I find myself drawn to particular objects, images or scenes I find significant on their own. In my mind I extract these moments, focusing on them as finished works”

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Awesome minimalism. But that’s no drawing. It’s not pen and paper, it’s thread, an added and welcome texture. Check out more of Peter Crawley’s work.