<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the architect</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">vs</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the artist</span><br />vs<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the interior designer</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“If a painter could by a single transformation take a three dimensional still life and paint it on a canvas into a natura morta,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> could it be possible for the architect to take the natura morta of a painting and, by a single transformation, build it into a still life?</span>”<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/7113073043_9af808d0ca_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/7113073043_9af808d0ca_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 734px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/6966944754_e592a2e45d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/6966944754_e592a2e45d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 464px;" /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/6966944856_629cb71633_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/6966944856_629cb71633_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 495px;" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />sparse</span> (spärs) adj. spars·er, spars·est<br />"Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">not thick or dense</span></span>."<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">1. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wall House II, 1970's.</span> "I believe in the social contract therefore I teach. I believe that the University is one of the last places that protects and preserves freedom, therefore teaching is also a socio/political act, among other things. I believe in books and the written word, therefore I fabricate works with the hope that they will be recorded in books. I am pragmatic and believe in keeping records. I believe to record is to bear witness. The book I wrote, Victims is to bear witness and to remember. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I believe in the density of the sparse. I believe in place and the spirit of place.</span>"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hejduk">- John Hedjuk, </a></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hejduk">architect</a></span></span><br /></div></div><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />2. </span></span><span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></span>Davide Balula: The Buried Works: April 21st to June 16th 2012 <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Zarko%20Vijatovic">Galerie Frank Elbaz</a> "...<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the artist modifies the architecture of the gallery </span></span>and installs an incubator for the creation of new paintings, a vivarium where canvases are naturally picking up pigmentation underground. The installation is composed of several tons of dirt, water, custom wood flooring, and <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">blank canvases buried under the floor of the gallery.</span></span> At the end of the exhibition, the paintings will be unearthed via customized trap doors. They will then be stretched, framed and dispersed into the world. A version of the exhibition as a one-night dinner will be served within the installation, consisting of cooked and raw ingredients based on edible dirt, roots and other seasonal produce. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">photo by Zarko Vijatovic</span><br /><br /><br />3. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Unknown interior</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for an unknown family</span><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------</span>

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"Whether you comprehend it or not, you don’t understand it all. It’s infinite."</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Lynda Benglis</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Like a tower ready to fall, Spinning over the ground"</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> - Mark Eitzel</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">vs</span><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">anti form: the perpetuation of FORM is functioning idealism</span>" <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Robert Morri<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">s</span>, 1968</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5988260324_940d110363_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5988260324_940d110363_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 540px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><br />Lynda Benglis EAT MEAT, 1969/75 Bronze</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Like a tower ready to fall, Spinning over the ground</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Like the gorilla ride, <span style="font-weight: bold;">There's moments and minutes</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">There's seasons and there's dreams, Glued onto dreams,<br />And everything's beautiful"</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Mark Eitzel</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lynda Benglis' retrospective</span></span> finally makes it to the West Coast, after being at the<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/432"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> New Museum</span></a> </span>in New York for the first half of 2011! The opening at<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=449"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> MOCA</span> </a></span>is this weekend, and her work will slowly be slumping into our subconscious. Benglis' "fallen paintings" and post-minimal sculptures shaped my perceptions of space and interiors. I was introduced to her work about the same time I was reading <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Daybook-Journey-Artist-Anne-Truitt/dp/0140069631" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Anne Truitt's Davbook</a></span>. To this day, I still think of some of Benglis' works as "melted Anne Truitts." It's strange how the mind works.<br /><br />If <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"space is the place</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"</span>, then I'd like to be on my back, slumped on "EAT MEAT 1969/1975" staring at the stars, and thinking about collapsing post-modern forms and fallen civilizations. <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">------------<br /></div><br /><br /><br />"But actually it’s really <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">a marriage between the conscious and the unconscious that occupies the creative mind. </span></span>I find what the materials can do and within that context there is that decision-making. In the beginning I romanticized it; and you can say what you want, it is still confined by the format. I saw visions of clouds yesterday; you couldn’t imagine how complicated they were on all horizons. That’s one reason I love New Mexico! The kinds of images of the clouds are infinite. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I think we deal with an <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">INFINITE </span>imagination!</span></span></span> This is how the artists must get the God-complex! However, the artist is always dealing with the bounds of the material and the unbounded nature of the universe and of the imagination – and trying to mark the time. Whether you comprehend it or not, you don’t understand it all.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> It’s infinite</span></span>."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />( <strong>Lynda Benglis</strong> talks to <em>Marina Cashdan,<a href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_article/time-tide/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> via FRIEZE</span>. take time to read the entire article here.</a>)<br /><br />lyrics taken from Mark Eitzel's 60 Watt Silver Lining<br /><br />check out <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2011/01/when-formless-becomes-attitude-it-was.html" style="font-weight: bold;">FORMLESS Furniture</a>.... the MAK exhibtion catalog.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /></em>

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