“each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”
“The clarity of a physical emotional response.”
-(KA)
AG2021_2060860ab or stepped into the consequence
Category: landscape
A landscape longed for: The garden as disturbance
We are thrilled to announce our forthcoming exhibition “A landscape longed for: The garden as disturbance” curated by Laura Novoa and Adler Guerrier. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Friday, March 1 at 5pm, features work by 15 artists, each of whom explores the motif of the garden in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge.
Each of the participating artists, including Laura Castro, Carolina Casusol, Sandi Haber Fifield, David Hartt, Jim Hodges, Mark Fleuridor, Candice Lin, Cathy Lu, Lee Mary Manning, Ana Mendieta, Reginald O’Neal, Ebony Patterson, Ema Ri, Onajide Shabaka and Kandis Williams, consider the intricacies of the garden as a metaphor for the larger world, using it as a framework to consider cultural, social, political, geographical, and historical issues.
“A landscape longed for: The garden as disturbance” builds on the exhibit’s first iteration, showcased at Locust Projects in Miami in 2021. There, works were displayed with dialogues addressing notions of fragility, remembrance, ornamentation, beauty, and affective traces in the landscape. At CEAM, the show’s themes extend to ecological interdependence, homage, reverence, refuge, renewal, and time emphatically spent on the creation and nourishment of our inner lives.
Laura Novoa is a curator and arts administrator based in Miami, FL, where she works as Assistant Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Bakehouse Art Complex. She has curated exhibitions for the Miami Design District, Locust Projects, Oolite Arts, and YoungArts, among others. Adler Guerrier is an artist based in Miami who has presented his works in exhibitions at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and CEAM.
AG2024_1088892a or Again, as always, when the shadows fall
Again, as always, when the shadows fall,
[…]I leave the present
And seek the dim past where
I dream a … far-off dream,
And think old thoughts and live old scenes anew,
Till suddenly I reach the heart of
[…]Memory thwarting Time and Space and Death!
after/for/with (J R Fauset, Douce Souvenance)
language + the material referred to
The belief at the core of Lawrence Weiner’s work is that art is a material reality between human beings and objects and between sets of objects in relation to human beings. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object.
PR, Lisson Gallery, 2005
The protagonist of the exhibition is the series Radical Writings (from the early 1980s to the 1990s) with which Irma Blank makes her sign even more abstract with respect to the previous cycles, clarifying its relationship with time. The long writing-like signs of color (first rose-violet, then blue), applied with a brush on canvas, are linear and uniform. She literally paints “in one breath,” with absolute concentration, without hesitation. Writing is breathing, painting is breathing, working is living. Every trace matches the length of one breath, from left to right, start to finish, emptiness to fullness. A sign in total tension. At the start of the sign the color is more emphatic, fading as the sign gradually extends, generating a shadow zone at the center of the painting that reminds us of the space of a book. Here writing and painting blend in the continuity of a sign-time.
p420.it
“the sign may have other functions in addition to the communicative function” Mukarovsky
“to live out a politics of disorientation might be to sustain wonder …” Sarah Ahmed
via Craig Dworkin, Radium of the Word
immerse yourself in the natural
The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku—literally translated as “forest bathing”—is based on a simple premise: immerse yourself in the forest, absorb its sights, sounds, and smells, and you will reap numerous psychological and physiological benefits. The Forest Agency of Japan launched a campaign to introduce the activity in 1982, and, since then, its popularization there has been matched by a stream of supporting research concerning the role that nature can play in human health. Studies have shown that regular exposure to forest environments can lower blood pressure and anxiety, reduce anger, and strengthen the immune system. The forest-bathing ethos has gained traction in the United States, too: you can now sign up to join the national Forest Bathing Club (whose registration form includes a field for “spirit animal”), or apply to become a certified forest-therapy guide. Or you can simply go to a local greenspace, disconnect, and listen to the trees.
José Ginarte, newyorker, 012518
Un décentrement
Julien Creuzet a déjà fait vivre à son public l’expérience sensorielle, la rêverie ouverte, la poésie qui animeront son œuvre à découvrir en avril. (Le Point)
Rendre irrégulier en déplaçant le centre – cnrtl.fr
Jean-Marc Hunt at 193 Gallery
Mary-Lou Ngwe-Secke, head of curation at the Paris-based 193 gallery, praised 1-54’s Marrakech fair for its small size, which “allows a certain proximity with artists and collectors,” she said. This year, in an attempt to reach them, Secke has organized a presentation called “The Moment After,” which features three Caribbean artists who explore creolization of the world, or the means by which various cultures blend. “Why the Caribbean art scene? Simply to draw more attention to it,” Secke said.
In addition to the Bahamian artist April Bey’s figurative tapestries and the Haitian artist Adler Guerrier’s landscape collages, there is work by French painter Jean-Marc Hunt, who showed in the 2019 Venice Biennale. He has been living in Guadeloupe for the past 15 years, and draws in black on colorful backgrounds that look as tormented as they are distorted. His canvases are where his memory of French streets and his current experience of Guadeloupean gardens meet. These are works that embody the zigs and zags of history, with drips of paint and letters that refer to his beginnings as a graffiti artist.
The Best Booths at Marrakech’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair,
Sarah Belmont for ARTnews, February 9, 2024 2:18pm
Flickr is 20 years old. “Feb 10, 2004: Flickr is launched
Founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr was released to the public at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego as a tool for sharing photos.”
AG2023_1078359a or a figure, a field guide
a figure must be invented who can be superimposed on the society as a whole, whose routine and life-pattern serve somehow to tie its separate and isolated parts together. The equivalent is the picaresque novel, where a single character moves from one background to another, linking “picturesque” but not intrinsically related episodes together. In doing this the detective in a sense once again fulfills the demands of the function of knowledge rather than that of lived experience: through him we are able to see, to know, the society as a whole
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
Sometimes stating the obvious has a beauty of its own
“Whoever brings a poet to a battle can’t know much about war!”
“Sometimes stating the obvious has a beauty of its own.”
“But we only get one life.”
(ZS)