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IDDU, A 360° INSTALLATION BY ARTISTS JAMES P GRAHAM – [Issue 8]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | Posted by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

‘Iddu’, a 360° installation by artist James P Graham, depicting a volcano
in the isle of Stromboli, lead me to an inmediate association and natural
response to Francesca Anfossi video ‘Hanmade Machines’ when I bumped into
it by chance a few weeks ago in the a r t w a r s project space
(Red Church St, London).
Graham takes in the volcano inside the gallery with a work that combines
the naturalistic sublime with the mediated contemporary art space context.

Read about the work

Watch video – James P Graham, Searching for Empedocles (Iddu)

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“UNTITLED (PERFECT LOVERS)” BY FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1987-1991) – [Issue 7]

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 | Posted by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

Two identical battery-operated clocks are placed in the gallery, side
by side and initially set to the same time. With time, though, they
inevitably fall out of sync: batteries running out and the ever-present
drive towards entropy of things.

Gonzalez-Torres made this piece shortly after the death of his partner, Ross
Laycock, was diagnosed with AIDS.

Today is Valentine’s day, so I kept thinking about this particular artwork
that says so many things and achieves so much with so little.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. (American, born Cuba. 1957-1996). Untitled (Perfect Lovers). 1991. Clocks, paint on wall. overall 14 x 28 x 2 3/4" (35.6 x 71.2 x 7 cm).

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BRIAN ENO TALKS …. [Issue 6]

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | Posted by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

Brian Eno talks music, art, systems and simplicity in his unique way of
linking topics and preaching about the wonders of technology.

View the BBC programme “Brian Eno – Another Green World -” on BBC iPlayer

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“HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR” – [Issue 5]

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Posted by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

“Hiroshima Mon Amour”, the first full-lenght feature of Alain Resnais,
completed in 1959. A seminal masterpiece about the horrors of the
Second World War and a love story doomed by the impossibility of forgetting.
Memory and history as a painful but paramount part of the self,
both politically and emotionally.

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“COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE” BY ROBERT VENTURI – [Issue 4]

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | Posted by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso

In 1966 Robert Venturi put the first big nail in the Modernist coffin and
opened the Pandora’s box that was Postmodernism. He did that with an essay
called “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (a gentle manifesto for
a nonstraightforward architecture)”, where he criticised the functionalist
school with the now famous pun “Less is a bore”.
Venturi advocates for complexity, richness and ambiguity and deems the purity
and clean lines of Modernists as puritanical, impersonal and, yes, boring.
Another classic well worth reading.

Read an extract here

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