“Order and Progress is the first Italian solo show by the Dutch artist Rosa Menkman (Arnhem, The Netherlands 1983), curated by Domenico Quaranta at Fabio Paris Art Gallery (Brescia). The title of the show, inspired by the Brazilian flag (Menkman developed one of the works on show in Brazil, during a residency at the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound), is an ironic and cynical reference to the ideology behind all technological developments: an ideology ...
Every website is a monument is the first solo Italian exhibition of Greek artist Angelo Plessas at Gloriamaria Gallery (Milan). In his work Plessas combines animated drawings with domain names to create websites. He treats websites as places where we can imagine and experience objects, the same way we can admire a sculpture in a public space.
More infos here.
This is probably the best videoart piece I’ve seen in a very very long time.
Paul Destieu, My Favourite Landscape, 2007:
“My Favourite Landscape is made of 500 70 x 50 cm offset prints. It is a reappropriation of the well known Windows XP desktop : Green Hill. Taking advantage of the weakness of the computer, it sets the common bug out of its context, on a wall, expending it to a much bigger scale. The famous picture finds a new landscape shape out of its usual frame.”
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Ryan Trecartin made these images for an article on him which appeared in W Magazine.
DIS Magazine did an excellent job on listing all the inspirations for each of the images.
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This is a first draft, I’ll be working more on this list, then publish it as a complete guide to contemporary art new cliches. Maybe.
In the meantime, feel free to add yours!
1. people covered up in paint
2. minimal concrete sculptures
3. upside down stuff
4. miniaturized stuff
5. sliced stuff
6. neon light written stuff (especially literary quotes)
7. works unveiling art system’s contradictions
8. underwater stuff
9. invisible works of art
10. all kinds of pranks (you’re not funny)
update: here are some ...
ABC, Contact (satellite object suspended on fishrope), at XLGallery, Moscow…
[thanks alfredo!]
