This is "A Pastoral Capriccio with the Arch of Kostantine and the Colloseum: Evening" 1651, Claude Gellée le Lorrain.
I got it , amongst other gems in a book on the Treasure Houses of Britain
(which might just prove to be a treasure trove for this blog, since there's just so much in there)
A grand orange garden,
a city with an interesting Mountain Grotto and what looks like a slightly military scene
an Ominous looking evening shore, where you can almost hear Liz Fraser singing a song to the Siren
It is not often that artists can have a museum to their disposal, to do as they please for 40 days. That is the case with Primer Proforma at MUSAC where Txomin Badiola, Jon Mikel Euba and Sergio Prego take over the museum and continuously work for 40 days
an inflatable structure snakes through the rooms
leaving behind it artefacts
and interestingly akward spaces for the visitors to negotiate
a black horse
visitors get the chance to see something completely in progress
tripods waiting for cameras
from room to room the inflatable
results in a giant pillow, that ate their studio
at another section Yorgos Sapountzis takes over the Laboratorio 987
with a mashed-up structure containing screens and sticks and black fabrics,
Last Saturday I visited Thomas Schutte's Hindsight exhibition at Reina Sofia in Madrid. I was never a huge fan of Schutte, because I had never seen such a comprehensive presentation. I could not stop taking photos.
bleeding monster?
Lonely watermelons?
shy watermelons?
tower
grave
grave with guard
blue temple
monument to a guy drowning in concrete
golden dragon with smug expression
bronze dragon with slightly pathetic pleading expression
sad bleeding dragon overlooked by obnoxious humans
Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Spoke at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Thursday April 7th 2011, as part of the series "Artist meets the audience" for the exhibition "Politics of Art"
Concrete Islands, curated by Elias Redstone and featuring works by Andreas Angelidakis, Iwan Baan, Frederic Chaubin, mounir fatmi and Niklas Goldbach at Analix-Forever Paris.
I spoke at PROqm bookstore as part of the book launching of
Cognitive Architecture from Biopolitics to Noo politics, edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich, 010 Publishers.
The book includes contributions from Andreas Angelidakis, Lisa Blackman, Ina Blom, Felicity Callard, Suparna Choudry, Jordan Crandall, Elie During, Keller Easterling, Lukas Ebensperger, Boris Groys, Janet Harbord, Deborah Hauptmann, Patrik Healy, Maurizio Lazzarato, Daniel Marguilles, Markus Miessen, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, John Protevi, Steven Quartz, Andreij Radman, Philippe Rahm, John Rajchman, Patricia Reed, Gabriel Rockhill, J.A. Scott Kelso, Terrence Sejnowski, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Jan Slaby, Paolo Virno, Frans Vogellar, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler, Charles T. Wolfe.
the Short Ideas workshop, organized by La Ville Rayee at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in paris
at the Architecture Emotionnelle Conference, organized by Barbara Polla, Paul Ardenne and the University of Geneva
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