Urs Fischer - You (2007) - Gallery excavation
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The Armory’s Consulting Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds responded to the event of a thread with a question: “How to be within a poem and the recipient of its gift in one swing?”
Do you have an answer? Or is the beauty in the asking?
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Yayoi Kusama - Obliteration Room (2012)
Shooting into the Corner by Anish Kapoor
A really amazing show by Mike and Doug Starn
In Gravity of Light, the Starns’ lamp, like the sun, provides a gravitational center to their universe. They choose the language of photography, writing in light. Their cameras are tools to mediate between sense and sensed, to introduce light into darkness. Light, therefore, is the medium and the message.The lamp casts light on seven of their elemental photographs, all of which have harnessed the power of light in ways both literal and poetic. These monumentally scaled photographs become chapels in an industrial cathedral. Their subjects are both emblems of and witnesses to the dualistic character of light, with its power to give life and to destroy it, to illuminate and to blind. The ill-fated moths of the Attracted to Light series are caught moments before self-immolation, drawn to the light that kills them, their images pinned, momentarily, on photographic paper. Across the gallery, abstracted growths that could be trees—or a neural cell’s dendrites—take root in the Structure of Thought series. The gnarled branches are, in effect, the sun’s signature. The leaf, the fruit of the branch, falls away in Black Pulse and Black Pulse Lambda. These desiccated leaves, recorded in filigreed detail, signal both decay and renewal; ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Lastly, there is the towering image of a Bodhisattva, the eighth-century Buddhist monk Ganjin, who, though blind, found illumination within.
Japan’s Spectacular Tunnels of Light.
If you happen to be in Japan from now until March 31st, 2013, be sure to check out one of Japan’s most stunning displays of light called Winter Illuminations at Nabana no Sato, a botanical garden turned light theme park on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana. Opened just yesterday, it’s already been called one of the best winter light shows in all of Japan. The park really outdoes itself by using millions of sparkling LED’s all over the vast grounds including on the water and in the gardens. This years theme is ‘nature’ and it promises gorgeous scenes including a beautiful sunrise inspired by Mt. Fuji at dawn, a rainbow across the sky, and even an aurora. The stars of the show are the famous walk-through tunnels of light that completely envelop the viewer, making it seem as if they’re walking through bright, magical portals.
Via My Modern Met.
Cool Art Opening: KAWS - Imaginary Friends | Galerie Perrotin
Galerie Perrotin in Paris unveiled all new works from the NY-based KAWS in his highly anticipated solo Imaginary Friends. The show will be open through December 22, 2012 in downtown Paris.
Cool Art Opening: KAWS - Imaginary Friends | November 3 – December 22, 2012
Galerie Perrotin Paris
76 rue de Turenne
Massive Change - exhibition by Bruce Mau and the Institute Without Boundaries
NOVEMBER 3rd. “IMAGINARY FRIENDS” BY KAWS. GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN. PARIS.
Contemporary Japanese Photobooks - The Photographers’ Gallery.
Pok Chi Lau
Photographs 1967-2012
The University of Kansas
Art & Design Gallery
October 28-November 9
Design: Tim Hossler
