Monday, January 31, 2011

Roberta Construction Chart

Lynn Hershman Leeson

lynn hershman leeson. Roberta Construction Chart #2, 1975 from the "Roberta Breitmore" series
c-print 61 x 81 cm

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Saturday, January 29, 2011

the road

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains.
You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of
their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand.
Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patters that
were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes.
Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens
where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

Friday, January 28, 2011

Gothic Duet, A Scream, Darkness and Light, Wax & Blood

Iwajla Klinke

Iwajla Klinke via P8 gallery Curator: Sagi Refael

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

BLACKMETALCYTWÖMBLY / Volumes I, II & III | Andrew McLeod

BLACKMETALCYTWÖMBLY / Volumes I, II & III  Andrew McLeod via

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Map of What Is Effortless

 Clemente, Francesco

Francesco Clemente, Map of What Is Effortless 1978 Gouache on paper 60 x 57 in (152.4 x 144.8 cm) Private collection

Clemente, Francesco Clemente, Francesco The Four Corners 1985 Gouache on twelve sheets of handmade Pondicherry paper, joined by cotton strips 94 x 94 in (238.8 x 238.8 cm)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Peacock

RYAN MCGINLEY

RYAN MCGINLEY, Peacock, 2010

"Colossus" by Miri Chais

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, Untitled [White, Blacks, Grays on Maroon], 1963

via iconicimage

Serge Reggiani - le pont Mirabeau

Turing

John Jerome O'Connor

John Jerome O'Connor

Turing colored pencil and graphite on paper, 2010 78" x 50"

Friday, January 21, 2011

Patrick Watson - The Great Escape

via murmurevisible

Ecrire

"Écrire. Je ne peux pas.

Personne ne peut.

Il faut le dire, on ne peut pas.

Et on écrit.

C’est l’inconnu qu’on porte en soi écrire, c’est ça qui est atteint. C’est ça ou

rien.

On peut parler d’une maladie de l’écrit.

Ce n’est pas simple ce que j’essaie de dire là, mais je crois qu’on peut s’y

retrouver,

camarades de tous les pays.

Il y a une folie d’écrire qui est en soi-même, une folie d’écrire furieuse mais ce n’est pas

pour cela qu’on est dans la folie. Au contraire.

L’écriture c’est l’inconnu. Avant d’écrire, on ne sait rien de ce qu’on va écrire. Et en toute lucidité.

C’est l’inconnu de soi, de sa tête, de son corps. Ce n’est même pas une réflexion, écrire,

c’est une sorte de faculté qu’on a à côté de sa personne, parallèlement à elle-même, d’une autre personne qui apparaît et qui avance, invisible,douée de pensée, de colère, et

qui quelquefois, de son propre fait, est en danger d’en perdre la vie.

Si on savait quelque chose de ce qu’on va écrire, avant de le faire, avant d’écrire,

on n’écrirait jamais. Ce ne serait pas la peine.

Écrire, c’est tenter de savoir ce qu’on écrirait si on écrivait — on ne le sait

qu’après — avant, c’est la question la plus dangereuse que l’on puisse se poser. Mais c’est la plus courante aussi.

L’écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c’est nu, c’est de l’encre, c’est l’écrit et ça passe comme rien d’autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie." M.D. Neauphle-le-Château, 1993.

Texte de Marguerite Duras Collection folio, Editions Gallimard, 1993.

"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."

- Mark Rothko

Monday, January 17, 2011

Kahlo, Frida

Kahlo, Frida Self-Portrait 1926 Oil on canvas 31 x 23 in Private collection, Mexico City

Marianne Faithfull - Ne Me Quitte Pas

Sunday, January 16, 2011

This is the Colour of My Dreams

Joan Miró - This is the Colour of My Dreams

Joan Miró - This is the Colour of My Dreams (1925) via

Sunday, January 09, 2011

The Art Of Dying Alone

Steve Reich - Different Trains (Part I)

Tunnel

francesca dimattio

Francesca DiMattio Tunnel (detail) 2007 Oil and acrylic on canvas (5 panels)

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Burnt Norton

.....Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after
In a dim light: neither daylight
Investing form with lucid stillness
Turning shadow into transient beauty
Wtih slow rotation suggesting permanence
Nor darkness to purify the soul
Emptying the sensual with deprivation
Cleansing affection from the temporal.
Neither plentitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind
That blows before and after time,
Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs
Time before and time after.
Eructation of unhealthy souls
Into the faded air, the torpid
Driven on the wind that sweeps the gloomy hills of London,
Hampstead and Clerkenwell, Campden and Putney,
Highgate, Primrose and Ludgate. Not here
Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.

From T. S. Eliot Poems The Four Quartets

Blood Flower

עט כדורי על עץ

Masha Zusman, ball point pen on plywood

Friday, January 07, 2011

Bird Catcher

William Kentridge

William Kentridge "Bird Catcher", 2006 Charcoal, pastel and ink on paper 6 drawings 40 x 40 cm each

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Borges Dream

הנרי שלזניאק Henry Shlezniak, untitled, 1969 , oil on canvas, 100x73 cm

Sunday, January 02, 2011

THE WANDERING

Bill Rankin

THE WANDERING 48 Bill Rankin, 2010

Saturday, January 01, 2011