A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Sculpture
Fury (2010).
Two new pieces of work by American artist Laurie Hassold which could be abstractions or could be…something else. There’s more at Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles, and for now all the pieces are for sale.
Reading the Bones: Post Extinction Fossil Grotto (2010).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Laurie Hassold
Blue Sky Noise (2010) by Esao Andrews.
• Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to the 18th-century sculptor. Related: an earlier post about the artist’s work.
• How are the team behind War Horse planning to follow up their smash hit? With a gay love story performed by puppets. Related: Achilles (1995) by Barry JC Purves.
• More great posts at A Journey Round My Skull: Czechoslovakian Expose VI and Black Cradle of Bright Life, fifteen works by the Macedonian artist Vangel Naumovski (1924–2006).
• Top 10 Anti-Gay Activists Caught Being Gay. Related: “Fuck your feelings,” in which columnist Dan Savage gets righteously impatient when a correspondent complains. As Savage says, people who use their faith as a stick to beat gay people contribute to an atmosphere of intolerance in which kids are bullied for being gay (or appearing to be), or transgender, or merely different, and kill themselves as a result. Over the past couple of weeks there’s been an upsurge of US media attention to the most recent suicides; Savage inaugurated the It Gets Better project in order to help. Also related: God Loves Poetry.
Meigh (2010) by Esao Andrews.
• Antony Hegarty enthuses about Shoot Yer Load, one of the scurrilous 12″ singles released by my Savoy colleagues in the 1980s. Antony and the Johnsons have a new album out, Swanlights, on Secretly Canadian.
• When the future of music was a rainbow hued parabola: book designer John Gall collects old synthesizer manuals.
• Fantastic Memories (1944) by Maurice Sandoz, illustrated by Salvador Dalí.
• Urban optometry: life as a London crane operator at BLDGBLOG.
• Today is 10/10/10 which means it’s Powers of Ten Day.
• These New Puritans: a band like no other.
• Art Nouveau: a virtual exhibition.
• Diaghilev: Lord of the dance.
• Flaming Telepaths (1974) by Blue Öyster Cult; Flaming Telepaths (2005) by Espers.
A Folies Bergère dancer, c. 1909.
• Six Novels in Woodcuts: The Library of America publishes a boxed set of Lynd Ward’s works: Gods’ Man, Madman’s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage, Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words and Vertigo.
• RIP ace graphic designer Raymond Hawkey. Related: Raymond Hawkey: An eye for detail, and Hawkey’s James Bond cover designs from the mid-60s.
• The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, an exhibition at Duke University, North Carolina, features work by 41 artists from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, using vinyl records as subject or medium.
The Île de la Cité, a steel engraving by Albert Decaris (1950).
• Fred Tomaselli will have a new exhibition of his work at the Brooklyn Museum next month.
• Socialist Monuments in Bulgaria photographed by Linda Ferrari.
• What would Howard think of the Mythos Art Dildo?
• Space is Process, a film about Olafur Eliasson.
• Thurston Moore’s Indie Books.
• Chris Colfer in a leather bar.
• Chrome! Helios Creed’s YouTube channel.
Pictures by Daniel Barkley (left) and John Dugdale (right).
Two exhibitions worthy of note for those in the New York area. Jan Kapera of JKK Fine Arts notified me about a new show he’s curated, Naked Bodies, Naked Souls, currently running at the Loft Gallery in the Delaware Arts Center,
Narrowsburg, NY.
The realm of ‘Naked Bodies, Naked Souls’ is a very private, personal world; a world of artists’ secrets, dreams, feelings, and deepest emotions,” says curator Kapera. “They have expressed the unexpressed—they have found the way to show spiritual and mystical states of soul in dream-like, symbolic images.
This exhibit features the work of 16 international artists: Daniel Barkley (Canadian), Luigi Casalino (Italian), Joanna Chrobak (Polish), John Dugdale (American, NYC), Barbara Falender (Polish), Michel Henricot (French), Michael Kuch (American, MA), Tom Misztal (American, OR), Aleksandra Nowak (American, NJ), Darek Nowakowski (American, NYC), Egidijus Rudinskas (Lithuanian), Krzysztof Skorczewski (Polish), Lubomir Tomaszewski (American, CT), David Vance (American, FL), Damian Wojtowicz (Polish), and Piotr Woroniec (Polish). (More.)
Naked Bodies, Naked Souls runs to September 4, 2010. Thanks to Jan for the photos!
Water Spike (2003) by Daina Krumins.
And by chance this weekend I happened to see news of a forthcoming exhibition of work by artist and filmmaker Daina Krumins, Mind Pixels, at the Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ.
The Barron Arts Center is located at 582 Rahway Avenue in Woodbridge. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. The “Mind Pixels” exhibition features photomontages, sculpture and films by surrealistic artist Daina Krumins. The exhibit opens on Aug. 21 and runs until Sept. 15. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 2-4 p.m. The public is also invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday, Aug. 22 from 2-4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served and reservations are suggested. (More.)
As part of the exhibition three of Krumins’ very strange animated films will be given a rare screening this Thursday, August 26. One of the three is Babobilicons, her epic filming of the activity of slime moulds and stinkhorn mushrooms. I’ve been intrigued by the sound of this for several years (see an earlier post about the film) but have yet to see it so anyone in Woodbridge is in a fortunate position this week.
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• Babobilicons by Daina Krumins
• Saint Sebastian in NYC
Frontispiece for Goethe’s Faust (c. 1843) by Eugène Delacroix.
Or a couple of pages from Les monstres dans l’art; êtres humains et animaux bas-reliefs, rinceaux, fleurons, etc., a study of aesthetic teratogenesis by Edmond Valton from 1905. The Delacroix frontispiece gives a better view than the one at the Davison Art Center but they have more of the Faust lithographs. Emmanuel Frémiet’s animals were created to adorn the restored medieval Château de Pierrefonds for Napoleon III. The artist had smaller ceramic copies of the statues made later, of which the lizard is an improvement on the stone version.
Fantastic animals (c. 1870) by Emmanuel Frémiet.
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• The House with Chimaeras
• Frémiet’s Lizard