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Riverbed

Riverbed -- Olafur Eliasson at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
images: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Your embodied garden

Olafur Eliasson, Your embodied garden, 2013.

"It’s tempting to read these formidable tensions and turbulences into the paintings: to convert the grid into a closet or cell, a system of traps or an endless maze. But Martin was adamant that personal experience had nothing to do with her works. In her copious writing she was formidably insistent about what meanings they did and didn’t contain: they did not embrace ideas, and certainly not personal emotions or biographical elements. She was passionately opposed to critical readings, going so far as to cancel a prestigious retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1980 because they insisted on a catalogue. The paintings were the thing: the paintings and the sublime responses they engendered in the viewer."

"Over the years, a surprising number of Martin’s paintings have been vandalised. One viewer used as their weapon an ice cream cone. Another attacked with green crayon, while at a show in Germany, nationalists hurled rubbish. The grids in particular seem to attract embellishment. Martin herself thought it was narcissistic, a kind of horror vacui. “You know,” she said ruefully, “people just can’t stand that those are all empty squares.” "

link: Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert
images: Zwirner & Wirth

"The exhibition begins where Meessen’s research for this project first began: an investigation of experiments carried out by the French psychologist André Ombredane in the Belgian Congo. Meessen came across films from the 1950s documenting Ombredane’s experiments carried out in the Congo, including some intended to test “the mental level of black folk.” Taking these films and the questions they raise as his starting point, he developed a larger inquiry into the role of abstraction in the development of both Modernism and colonial history. The title Patterns for (Re)cognition obliquely references the tests that measure the brain’s capacity to identify and memorize abstract shapes, hinting that the operation of recognition (by whom, for whom, and according to whose criteria?) needs to be questioned."

Patterns for (Re)cognition -- Vincent Meessen / Thela Tendu // via Contemporary Art Daily

Reconstruction // Luis Urculo

Farm

"The plant, which handles billions of emails, data searches and social media messages, appears on a screen several metres wide, set in a flat, rural landscape under a cloudless sky. The viewpoint inches slowly around the building, while the position of the sun (and, at night, the stars) moves in real time over the course of a year, according to the program’s algorithm."

link: Internet artist bring the cloud to earth//Financial Times
image: Thomas Dane Gallery

The world has given us three beautiful things

John Henry Twachtman

"The world has given us three beautiful things--a beautiful child, a beautiful woman, and a beautiful landscape; but on second thought, I would reverse that--a beautiful landscape comes first." (Twachtman)

"It is not the loneliness of great expanse, nor the rugged dramatic power of nature that Twachtman expresses, but rather tranquility and repose and the interest of nearby landscape, made significant by the way in which it is seen and composed. Thus the neighboring pool, the little waterfall, the undulating stone fence, the outcropping rocks and varicoloured fields assume an importance which elevates the commonplace to the realm of profound beauty."

link: The International Studio, vol. 72
images: source