One of the Italian sculptor‘s many Sphere works, part of a series which began in the Sixties. This one is situated at Trinity College, Dublin.
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• Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi
• The art of Igor Mitoraj
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Sculpture
Saint Sebastian in NYC
The Archer & Saint Sebastian by Lubomir Tomaszewski.
Saint Sebastian is an exhibition of new interpretations of the image of the pierced saint currently running at the CFM Gallery, New York, in association with JKK Fine Arts, “the Gallery of Modern Symbolism”. The show runs from May 9th to June 8th, 2008, and among the artists there’s Michel Henricot who was featured here recently. You can see more of the works in the PDF brochure. Thanks to Jan for the tip!
Saint Sebastian by David Vance.
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• The gay artists archive
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• The art of Michel Henricot
• Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian
• The art of Takato Yamamoto
• Fred Holland Day
Mark Beard’s artistic circle
The Fencing Team by Bruce Sargeant.
Artists in the 20th century used to be multifarious in their activities, often taking their work through different stages or periods of evolution; Picasso and Max Ernst are two good examples of this. In today’s inflated art market this is no longer a wise move. As Brian Eno has noted in the case of the polymathic Tom Phillips, the pressure is there to establish yourself as a person who does one thing only, to turn yourself into a brand.
American artist Mark Beard isn’t happy with that situation. In order to satisfy a desire to create in whatever styles he chooses, he’s developed a number of distinct artist personalities, each with their own detailed biographies and even photographs (below). This isn’t entirely unprecedented, Marcel Duchamp famously had a female alter-ego named Rrose Sélavy, and was photographed by Man Ray in feminine attire, but offhand I can’t think of another artist going as far as creating six distinct personas. The painting above is one of a homoerotic sports-themed series by artist Bruce Sargeant who died, we’re told, in 1938 as a result of a wrestling accident. Examples of Beard’s other influences follow. For the complete artist biographies, see the Mark Beard pages at the Carrie Haddad gallery.
The artists
top left: Mark Beard (b. 1956); right: Bruce Sargeant and model (1898-1938)
middle left: Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930); right: Brechtolt Steeruwitz (1890-1973)
bottom left: Edith Thayer Cromwell (1993-1962); right: Peter Coulter (b. 1948)
Their works
Ideology: The Politically Correct Disdain the Frivolous by Mark Beard (1989).
Avant la Fuite by Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1894).
Swimmer Drying Himself, Berlin Olympics (1936), Young Athlete by Bruce Sargeant.
On the Strand by Edith Thayer Cromwell.
Das Krakenhaus by Brechtolt Steeruwitz (At the Hospital) (1923).
Cabinet by Peter Coulter.
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Glass engines and marble machines
Remarkable steam-powered engines by glass artist Bandhu Scott Dunham. The one above is based on 19th century designs. Others are Dunham’s own developments which include contraptions to move glass marbles up and down a series of corkscrew paths. Still pictures don’t do these things justice, best to look at two short QT movies here and here which show the machines in operation.
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• Wesley Fleming’s glass insects
• The art of Lucio Bubacco
• The glass menagerie
Max Eastley’s musical sculptures
left: Aeolian Harp; right: Wind Flute.
The Wire has a selection of Max Eastley-related materials among the web exclusives on its site. As well as a photo gallery showing many of his musical instrument/artworks there’s a couple of video clips including part of Simon Reynell’s 1989 film, Clocks of the Midnight Hours. (Title borrowed from a poem by Borges.)
And as you’d expect there’s Eastley work to be seen and heard at YouTube as well, including an extract from Derek Bailey’s excellent documentary series about improvised music, On the Edge. For Eastley on record I’d recommend his 1994 CD with David Toop, Buried Dreams, but that seems to be out of print for the time being.
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• The Avant Garde Project