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| Ralf Ziervogel "Every adidas got its story" 2010 |
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
1.20.2014
12.03.2013
The artist, the thief, his wife & her lover
Let's talk ART THEFT.
And by talk really I mean lets read, watch and look at different approaches to it, because... maybe it isn't all bad?
Click the links to find out the how, why and what.
READ!
FBI Art Crime Team Founder Talks Art Theft
WATCH!
LOOK!
And by talk really I mean lets read, watch and look at different approaches to it, because... maybe it isn't all bad?
Click the links to find out the how, why and what.
READ!
FBI Art Crime Team Founder Talks Art Theft
WATCH!
LOOK!
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| Anahita Razmi... appropriator extraordinaire |
12.02.2013
Michael Squared
Just a little shout out to Danna of the arts and culture blog Danna Writes! Thank you for covering Michael's exhibition.
Michael Sailstorfer is Against Simple Art!
- An interview with the artist about his solo show at Carbon 12 Dubai, “Try to reach the goal without touching the walls”
11.17.2013
That time of year....
Meet the artists! Hear them talk. See new exhibitions. Have personalized tours. Shop at the pop-up shops. Visit the craft market. Let children build their own moulids (workshops). Get a book signed. Feel the music, see the dance, watch a film.
QUOZhappens. Anything could.
Alserkal Avenue. Find us too.
11.16.2013
11.13.2013
10.30.2013
Pseudo-Synesthesia
So turns out finding yourself plagued all day by a song stuck in your head that you haven't heard in a while may actually be from something we saw.
"According to a study headed by scientist Stephen Palmer, we are hardwired to associate anything from Mozart to Mumford & Sons with a particular hue from the color spectrum. Whether it's a classical composition or an indie pop ballad, we automatically make music-color connections based on how the various melodies make us feel [...] insinuating that humans might share a "common emotional palette" that can cross cultural barriers." (read the full article here)
Ohhh, art.
Wonder what this one sounds like?
"According to a study headed by scientist Stephen Palmer, we are hardwired to associate anything from Mozart to Mumford & Sons with a particular hue from the color spectrum. Whether it's a classical composition or an indie pop ballad, we automatically make music-color connections based on how the various melodies make us feel [...] insinuating that humans might share a "common emotional palette" that can cross cultural barriers." (read the full article here)
Ohhh, art.
Wonder what this one sounds like?
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| Philip Mueller |
10.28.2013
Kafka Ate My Lobster
Rui Chafes makes anthropomorphic forms, half familiar, half confusing, in contoured heavy steel, simultaneously gentle and menacing, an ominousness that lingers on the edge of manifesting.
“Art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the [artist] is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.” ― Franz Kafka
So the lobster is not a lobster, because eyes remain trapped between half awake and half asleep. Kafka lives in the mind and comes out through the hands, disorienting, surreal and nightmare-ish. What has happened, you might think. It is no dream.
All we do is see.
So come see Rui.
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| Rui Chafes |
Coming to CARBON 12 DUBAI this January
10.21.2013
10.13.2013
Macho Men
As Vienna Fair comes to an end, we will have to deal with the inevitable take-down of the booth. A little peek into what visitors never get to see... our artists Philip Mueller and Bernhard Buhmann hard at work a few days ago, putting on a whole different kind of show:
Just part of the process. We do it, so that you can do this:
Just part of the process. We do it, so that you can do this:
Last day! VIENNA FAIR!
Catch us next in London at Moving Image Oct 17-20.
10.12.2013
Happy Faced
So, art really does make you happy: "scientists have discovered that looking at art induces the same feelings of pleasure as being in love."
Just look at that face:
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| Proof is in the pudding - visitor at our booth at Vienna Fair |
10.10.2013
Follow the signs...
We are currently at Vienna Fair (Oct 10-13).
Serious business, this art-fair stuff is.
Don't worry about not being able to find us.
Just follow the signs.
Serious business, this art-fair stuff is.
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| Visitors checking out Anahita Razmi, our cheeky Iranian-German artist |
Don't worry about not being able to find us.
Just follow the signs.
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| Prime location |
10.07.2013
Dream-states as Real-states
James Clar works with light. We can say he comes from Dan Flavin or Olafur Eliasson, but that is beside the point. Today, it is all about what we see when there is no light... at night (or day, if you prefer) when we dream.
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| James Clar One Minute Dreamstate (1.40am) 2012 |
This particular work involved a brainwave sensor which recorded Clar's brain activity while asleep. At 1.40am, REM occurred and he entered a dreamstate. One minute of this recording was then mapped out and translated into light filters, arranged in a circle to emulate the face of a clock (or an iris?). Merging technology, science, art, and mundanity (fluorescent lights)... Clar made his dreams literally real and happening in front of him once he was awake.
This is not a new concept though. In the last couple years scientists (in Japan and the US) have been making major strides in doing exactly what James was doing, but taking it a step further. Not only are they taking our dreams and making them physical, they are replaying them for us.
Above is a video of the visual reconstruction of activity in the human brain. It is blurry, a little fragmented, but definitely recognizable. This is an art post after-all, think of the pixels as a colour palette. Or Pointillism.
They did this by showing test subjects a series of movie trailers while an fMRI system (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging System) recorded the blood flow in the brain to the visual cortex. The readings were fed into a computer, divided into pixel units (voxels) and put back together to make images that are pretty uncanny. As the experiments continued, the technology utilized was able to better read, and thus connect, specific brain information to their corresponding motions/colours/etc.
That is all very technical though, thank god for Google; still beside the point though.
So! A chance to rewatch/relive what the deepest-nether-regions of our brains come up with when we aren't paying attention!? Who's in?
One Minute Dreamstate (1.40) was exhibited at Carbon 12 in 2012 as part of James Clar's solo exhibition Iris was a Pupil.
9.30.2013
New York Times: Olaf Breuning
One of our artists, Olaf Breuning (b. 1970, Switzerland), made it onto the front page of the New York Times Arts section this past Saturday September 28th, with his work Smoke Bombs (2011). See the article here.
Part Indian festival of colour Holi, part building-on-fire, part Olaf being Olaf. With all the components for an aggravating event (smoke-induced confusion), the color, the playfulness, the purity... it becomes almost a welcome deviation. Mixed feelings be as they may, really this is better seen than described:
STS - SANTA FE - Olaf Breuning's Smoke Performance from Station to Station on Vimeo.
And remember, this comes from an artist who asked people to be a Camelops Femina (extinct camel species)... resulting in the following:
STS - SANTA FE - Olaf Breuning's Smoke Performance from Station to Station on Vimeo.
And remember, this comes from an artist who asked people to be a Camelops Femina (extinct camel species)... resulting in the following:
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| Olaf Breuning Camelops Brian 2013 (part of a series) |
More Olaf!
Top 500
Carbon 12 Dubai may have been around for 5 years (this November!) but it is still making waves not only in the UAE contemporary art scene.
Modern Painters magazine published its annual "Top 500 Galleries Worldwide" and guess who is in it. Check out the article: Modern Painters
Carbon 12 represents a slew of international institution-grade artists, many of whom work large, and readers won't be disappointed by Gil Heitor Cortesao's triptych, representing Carbon 12 this year in Modern Painters. Cortesao (b. 1967) is a Portugese painter who paints big, heavy, and light all at once (light because he paints on plexiglass framed by actual window frames) to create realistic but barren architectural spaces. A little 70's, a little futuristic, it is sort of like waking up to find that you are the only person left. At least you're in a cool space though.
You also might notice that Cortesao's work has the similar "house-after-the-party's-over" feeling as influential 70's photographer Jeff Wall's work below (exhibited as a lightbox, creating the same eerily luminiscent effect as Cortesao).
Just saying.
Want more Gil? Gil Heitor Cortesao
Modern Painters magazine published its annual "Top 500 Galleries Worldwide" and guess who is in it. Check out the article: Modern Painters
Carbon 12 represents a slew of international institution-grade artists, many of whom work large, and readers won't be disappointed by Gil Heitor Cortesao's triptych, representing Carbon 12 this year in Modern Painters. Cortesao (b. 1967) is a Portugese painter who paints big, heavy, and light all at once (light because he paints on plexiglass framed by actual window frames) to create realistic but barren architectural spaces. A little 70's, a little futuristic, it is sort of like waking up to find that you are the only person left. At least you're in a cool space though.
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| Gil Heitor Cortesao Large Interior 2012 |
You also might notice that Cortesao's work has the similar "house-after-the-party's-over" feeling as influential 70's photographer Jeff Wall's work below (exhibited as a lightbox, creating the same eerily luminiscent effect as Cortesao).
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| Jeff Wall Morning Cleaning 1999 |
Just saying.
Want more Gil? Gil Heitor Cortesao
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