blogartists
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Janet Echelman
Description Water Sky Garden transforms the plaza surrounding the Richmond Olympic Oval, official venue for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games speed-skating events, into a permanent art environment for the community. Echelman’s design engages the space all around the viewer – water, sky, and pedestrian pathways – to create an immersive whole using rock, wood, water, air bubble fountains, steel, netting, and light. Red-stained cedar boardwalks lead visitors through the artwork.
Dominique Bailly, Anne-Flore Cabanis, Vanessa Fanuele, Jean-Marc Forax, Juliette Jouannais, Vincent Mauger, Gabriela Morawetz, Sandrine Pincemaille, Maryline Pomian, Marie-Hélène Richard, Dimitri Tsykalov, Dimitri Xenakis, Wela
Wela - art visuel
Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Artist
Following his earthworks (1967-69) and body-works came the installations (from 1972 onwards), using puppets as their main theme (the harrowing piece " Attempt to Raise Hell " at the Pompidou Center ). Later on, at the end of the seventies, Oppenheim produced what he calls his " machine pieces " which, by denying the object its sculptural status, are presented as complex constructions, systems open to both an aleatory and an enigmatic mode of functioning... There is an interesting progression from the early machine pieces which seemed infused with a confidence in rationality and in the possibility of grasping the structure of the mind to the late works which were designed to literally blow up and which seem to celebrate the triumph of irrationality and chaos.
Je ne peux pas dire que je porte le grand bazar dans mon cœur. Du « chien » qui l’ouvrit sur le plateau Beaubourg à aujourd’hui, il n’y a guère que Dominique Bozzo avec qui j’entretins des relations d’estime réciproque. Certes j’ai été critique envers l’institution et je me désespère encore de la voir trop souvent se faire avec lourdeur l’alliée du commerce ou de la politique. J’ai regretté, je regrette encore, que les artistes courbent l’échine devant ceux qui y coulent de longs jours tranquilles au lieu d’exiger qu’ils fassent, intelligemment ce pourquoi on les paye, qu’ils nous étonnent par leur audace au lieu de nous ennuyer et de gaspiller notre argent.
Paul-Armand Gette
Average Shoveler is an online game challenging the boundaries between painting, video game, photo and short movie (1). Watch it by playing the role of that guy in a pixel-style world: he’s the one who looks just like that old brothels habitué called Larry Laffer, main character of a famous Sierra adventure (2) whose traces go back to the 80s. But don’t be fooled by the resemblance: this one wears Indigo People outfits instead, and he’s not a lazy Latin lover in a hot summer night, but an average shoveler in a cold winter day, struggling to clean all the snow covering the streets around his apartment in the East Village, NYC. Follow him walking around, but don’t count on passers-by: they won’t help.
Carlo Zanni - Pau Waelder Laso
This & There , Ricard Foundation. Curatorial project to celebrate the Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo Laboratory for Creation, tenth anniversary, Paris. 10 April - 19 May 2012. Invitation: Colette Barbier, Ange Leccia, Christian Merlhiot.
info Claude Closky
