Volatile Beauty

A new exciting series of paintings by Maya Bloch, an Israeli Artist, who is presented by Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York. Bloch's personages seems from one hand as if they are about to vanish from our sight. On the other hand, there are certain qualities of strength and omnipotence that fixes our gaze at them, making us affirm their concrete presence, or should I say their gaze at us affirm ours? Is it those vivid live-like eyes of theirs, so wise, all-knowing? (all paintings were made in 2010, all Acrylic on large scale canvases )

The almost monochromatic palette of colors in most of the new canvases doesn't omit the feeling of austere elegance, and the sensation of an occult abundance, an unknown land. why is it I feel such strong vibrations coming out of Maya Bloch painting? As if she is connected to a divine source of knowledge, that guide her and manifest something utterly magnificent to us all.

Stare!

"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."

- Walker Evans {via whiskey rivers }

Tsibi Geva - Black Narcissus

"The gaze directed at Tsibi Geva's works is swallowed by a void. by absence. By the missing body. The various flowers that appear in Geva's works are all poisoned, black, dripping, hollowed-out flowers. these flowers are not withered, but rather imbued with strange, repellent, barren quality." Curator Hadas Maor, for Tsibi Geva's catalog "Mound of Things" works and projects 1982-2008, Tel Aviv Museum.

I L O V E Geva's Narcissus. I regard it also as a sort of contemplation over self love {narcissism} and self-portrait issues. A theme israeli artists fail sometime to manifest. And Geva's series of Flowers, Thorns and Birds offers a unique gaze, like a delicate Haiku poem, over this theme.

Tsibi Geva, Narcissus, 1989 , miexed media and collage on wood panel,120x90

Biografias

"Biografias" Oscar Munoz 9 chromogenic prints 19 3/4" x 19 3/4" each 2002

Sermon to the Fishes

Sermon to the Fishes by Noam Omer

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Tami katz freiman

Fall Music

Ólafur Arnalds - 3055 Official Music Video

Stairway

Monika Sosnowska creates an enchanting dialogue between art and architecture. Her works generate tension by suggesting the question: “Already architecture – or still sculpture?” – and vice versa. In terms of content, she draws upon motifs from Constructivism and Minimalism. Formally, Sosnowska is influenced by Socialist Realism, by the modernist functional architecture that shaped the environment in which she grew up in the Poland of the 1970s and 1980s. Sosnowska strives to “create atmospheres,” with the aim of discovering how spaces and emotions interact. {via}

Monika Sosnowska, Stairway 2010 Metal, PVC 550 cm height approx, other dimensions variable Herzliya Museum for contemporary art Photo : Yigal Pardo

GOLDEN SPHERE

James Lee Byars , GOLDEN SPHERE 1991/92. Gold pencil on thin black tissue paper. diameter: approx. 47,5 cm

still life with love

Blue Bottles

Rob Churm, Blue Bottles, graphite and pen on paper , 43 x 30 cm , 2009

Blue

Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960–66. Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 152.4 cm

computational origami

computational origami, eric demaine, martin demaine 2003-2007

Ballade De Johny-Jane Jane Birkin

sculptural ambiguity

Raphael Danke Untitled 2009, : 16,6 x 19 cm, collage

Drawings from the End of Time

DAN SLAVINSKY A Series of Drawings from the End of Time BARTLETT, LONDON 2010 via ethel-baraona

when land and sea merge in mind and longing...

"blank stillness would for hours reign unbroken on this prairie. 'it is the bed of a dried up sea,' said the companionless sailor - no geologist - to himself, musing at the twilight upon the fixed undulations of that immense alluvial expanse bounded only by the horizon, and missing there the stir that, to alert eyes and ears, animates at all times the apparent solitudes of the deep. but a scene quite at variance with one's antecedents may yet prove suggestive of them. hooped round by a level rim, the prairie was to john marr a reminder of ocean...

... john marr's shipmates could not all have departed life, yet as subjects of meditations they were like phantoms of the dead. as the growing sense of his environment threw him more and more upon retrospective musings, these phantoms... became spiritual companions, losing something of their first indistinctness and putting on at last a dim semblance of mute life; and they were lit by that aureola circling over any object of the affections in the past, for reunion with which an imaginative heart passionately yearns."

herman melville, from john marr

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airform archives: when land and sea merge in mind and longing...

Map Of The Future

John Maeda

"Map Of The Future" for HUO. What we can always count on is simply more of the same.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish, boaz aharonovitch, digital c print, 120x120 cm, 2010

Japanese calendar

Keisuke Serizawa produced kataezome calendar folios starting with calendar year 1946.

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The Vultures

Khen Shish, The Vultures, Acrilic on canvas, 220x350 cm, 2010

photography credit: Oded Lebel

God & Man

by GARETH MCCONNELL

The series of work is called God & Man (after Leopold Godowsky & Leopold Mannes who invented Kodachrome in 1935). The original source material is taken off the internet as extremely low resolution digital files, printed at a high street lab then re-photographed / double exposed onto Kodachrome and then printed again on Cibachrome.