The Road to Contemporary Art (Rome Art Fair @ Macro Future)
The new MACRO by Odile Decq
MAXXI Opening
in foto: Gino De Dominicis
No Soul For Sale. A Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, London, May 14-16th 2010
http://www.nosoulforsale.com
Jogging is an art collective that displays immaterial works of art and writing on the Internet:
“In an MIT lecture last year, Michael Mittleman stated that between 90 and 95% of an artist’s audience will see their work through documentation. Art cannot exist without an audience, as it relies on media for its existence as art. With today’s burgeoning potential for digital mass viewership, transmission becomes as important as creation. Contemporary online artists are aware of this fact and seek to actively make use of its potential. Dematerialization is not an oppressive suffocation of art but a possibility for art to flourish in disparate and progressive discourses. The web offers infinite room for expansion and participation unlimited by the more severe constraints of space and finance.” (Redefining Exhibition in the Digital Age)
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No one beats Marina Abramovic in creating extremely strong emotional responses through performance.
Here you can find an intense report of the performance “The Artist is Present” at MoMA (NY)…
And here are Marco Anelli’s photos of all the people who sat in front of the artist…
In the photo above:
Ulay, Marina Abramović’s partner from 1975-1988, sits with her during her performance. This was the first time they “performed” together since The Great Wall Walk (1988), when they each walked over 1,200 miles (2,000 km) along the Great Wall of China starting at opposite ends and meeting in the middle to say their goodbye. (The Museum of Modern Art, March 9, 2010 – Photo by Scott Rudd)
Constant Dullaart poses in front of found online group portraits…
Incredible GIFs by Jaime Martìnez..
Untitled from billy rennekamp on Vimeo…
Artists Looking at Camera, by Guthrie Lonergan…
The father of two kids participating in Tino Seghal’s work at the Guggenheim Museum wrote a great article for The Wall Street Journal SpeakEasy Blog:
I asked them, “Is it art?”
“Sure,” they said.
“But there are no pictures, no sculptures.” I pointed out.
My youngest responded “Yeah, but it’s like spiritual. Not like that stuff.”
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3g International, 2010, by Electroboutique (on view in Moscow)…
A photomontage of how Vladimir Tatlin envisioned the his Monument to the Third International, to be erected in St. Petersburg (1920 ca.)
Mirrored Box is an installation by Alan Ruiz:
“A mirrored environment doubled as an ephemeral printmaking machine. Over the course of several months viewers were given a camera and instructed to take a self-portrait, publicizing a private moment: intimate and infinite. “
Turn any tv screen in a work of art with the Abstractor…
Art History Poster. Brilliant!
Drift, a film by Theo Tagholm…
“In this work I want to bring the concept how a digital photograph can be duplicated endlessly to a more physical understanding. Therefor I used 3 of the same photographic prints on top of eachother in a frame. (similar to the way Layers function in Photoshop software ) It was a joy to know that the picture would still stay complete while taking parts out with a knife. While at the same time the prints got even more unique and gained more value as an art piece.”
(work by Anne de Vries)
For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Some of them look amazing…