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Category: art

  • a stage for one

    I was really moved when I first saw Gean Moreno‘s Black Zodiac, currently at The Moore Space ,as part as, of Hanging by a Thread. I did not noticed the piece during the night of the opening. It must have been because the place was packed and many gallery-goers used the piece as an impromptu bench. I will talk more about hanging by Thread in my next post.

    Black Zodiac struck me as an stage/altar piece dedicated to punk. The installation could function as a stage for one to play a very dark, gritty, and underground–that is un-pop, brand of music. And simultaneously, it exists as a quiet (aurally) altar, installed in a basement or garage, inexhibiting the renmants and fetishes of an era.

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    I can’t resist to say that I want this installation to be a less clean and be lit diffirently and to smell of beer and sweat.

  • I never panic

    It might be because I am been introduced to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I borrowed from library the dvd of the 1981-2 television program. I am really hitching to listen the original BBC radio version. There is just too much on the internet about Douglas Adams and his works. I would like to offer some images.

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    Stage for Disaster Area

    host of Disaster Area concert

    stage

    I also would like to offer works by William Cordova, which might have been informed by “The Guide.” here. And especially his exhibition “William Cordova: No More Lonely Nights, organized by MOCA November 29, 2003 – February 8, 2004”. More images are pending.

  • treasure at the Getty

    William Eggleston

    Southhaven, Mississippi 1980

    Between Memphis and Nashville 1981

  • Castles in the sky

    Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

    A couple of weeks ago, Vicenta Casañ‘s exhibition of photographs “Castillos en el Aire” opened at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts.

    Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

    Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

    Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

    I enjoyed the premise of this exhibition, at least what I have deduced. I like the fact that Vicenta Casañ makes works about where she lives. In earlier works, she vested an interest in the study of her environment. There is a critique of Miami real estate development in these works, but I perceive a stronger poetic statement in her search for beauty in the image of Miami and her selective portrayal of this town.

  • some more photos from the nytimes

    Spectral photography is the subject of “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult,” an exhibition that will be opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27.

    The 120 pictures in the exhibition are by turns spooky, beautiful, disturbing and hilarious. They are also, by and large, the visual records of decades of fraud, cons, flimflams and gullibility – though there are also some pictures, like those produced by an eccentric Chicago bellhop, Ted Serios, said to be purely from his thoughts, in the 1960’s, that have never been adequately explained.

    This preview article is also a sketch of Pierre Apraxine, one of the curators, at the Met, in charge of this exhibition. He is profiled as “the eyes, ears and auction proxy for the philanthropist Howard Gilman, who built a collection – recently acquired by the Met – that is widely considered to be one of the most important in the world.”

    The article. The slideshow.

  • Photography

    The NYTimes.com has an article on an exhibition of color phtographs, from the Depression Era, at the Library of Congress. The Print and Photographs Division of the LoC published ‘Bound for Glory‘, a book of photographs from which this exhibition is extracted. Most, 164,000, of the photos from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are in black and white, but some, 1600, are in color. The color photographs’ artistic value seemed to have been in question. This issue is still present today in the criticism of photography. As far as color goes, I love the limited color palette of kodachrome. I would love shot some that film stock.
    There is a slideshow on the NYTimes.

    Marion Post Wolcott - Library of Congress
    I really like this image. It reminds me of rural Haiti. The photgrapher is Marion Post Wolcott. A biography can be found here.
    The library of the University of Miami has some pages, ‘for teachers and students’, about of the FSA-OWI photographs in Florida. Marion Post Wolcott consciously portrayed class difference in America. While in and around Miami, she photographed blacks, migrant workers, their living conditons and Miami Beach and its fancy offerings.

    Marion Post Wolcott - Library of Congress
    The rights of these images are administered by Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection.

  • iSAW hollers

    Gustavo Matamoros wrote in an email:

    The interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop is issuing a call for works
    in surround sound format to be exhibited at the Miami Beach Cinematheque.

    THE GALLERY:
    The interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop is launching a new project
    in collaboration with Miami Beach Cinematheque we call the “Surround
    Sound Gallery.” The project will feature audio pieces submitted to us
    in 5.1 surround audio format from composers and sound artists in response
    to specific themes in the Cinematheque’s programming. The selected works
    for each exhibit will be on display before and after every film for a month.

    UPCOMING THEMES:

    OCTOBER 2005 – DAVID LYNCH
    A month-long retrospective of the films of David Lynch culminating Halloween weekend with a site specific, Lynch-inspired SÉANCE project.

    DECEMBER 2005 – GUY MADDIN’s COWARDS BEND THE KNEE
    This ten-part silent-film inspired movie will exhibited as individual peepshows.

    MARCH 2006 – WOMEN IN SURROUND
    Celebrating “Women History Month” the surround sound gallery will display the work of women composers and sound artists. The surround exhibit will accompany a photographic collage exhibition by women about women.

    Interested artists should submit 5.1 DVD’s, bio and press materials to:

    iSAW’s Surround Sound Gallery Project
    PO Box 01-5298
    Miami, FL 33101-5298

    Materials not accepted for the exhibits, will be deposited in the iSAW experimental sound archive for later use. Artists will be contacted if and when the opportunity arises.

    Please spread the word! Thanks!

    —

    gustavo matamoros
    director interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop
    305 981 0600 ? isaw@earthlink.net

    [:: LOCATION ::]
    iSAW is located at 12355 NE 13 AVENUE #206 in NORTH MIAMI, FL 33161

    From: I-95 –> NW 125th street [EAST]–> NE 13th Avenue
    (one street before railroad tracks) [SOUTH]–>
    12355 NE 13 AVE (on your left hand side)

    From: Biscayne –> 123rd street [WEST]–> NE 13th AVE
    (one street pass railroad tracks) [SOUTH]–>
    12355 NE 13 AVE (on your left hand side)

    isaww

  • Art, Web, Miami

    Last night, we went out for the closing of Co Operate in the Design District. We also went to Diaspora Vibe Gallery, a venue which exhibits works by artists mostly from the Caribbean.
    It was an unusal crowd of people out. There was a lot of young folks and a lot of mohawks. Anyway, the best part of the night was the Athena pizza at Andiamo.
    Today, I haven’t done much.

    miami, sky, about 6:30pm