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Archive | January, 2012

Scott Treleaven On the Edge of Drawing lecture at the MoMA

The MoMA’s Contemporary Drawing department hosted their annual lecture with guest speaker artist Scott Treleaven. ArtJetSet first saw works by this talented Canadian artist at NADA Miami 2008, http://artjetset.com/2008/12/24/nada-fair-miami-2/

The lecture explored the direction of how the definition of drawing is evolving. As a young artist Treleaven created zines – most notably Salivation Army, cut and pasted Xeroxes of photos and stories. This greatly shaped his maturer works, as he evolved his practice towards collage, and most recently abstracted collaged paintings.

Another concept discussed was how drawings that was once considered preliminary works for performance art pieces are now being absorbed into the drawing realm as unique works on paper.

Myself, as a teenager growing up in Toronto I attended many zine fairs, and find it compelling to think how the zine has evolved into the new media blog.

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Categories New York, Panel + Symposiums

Carsten Höller: Experience at the New Museum

9 Jan

Carsten Höller, scientist-come-artist, hilariously delightful exhibition at the New Museum presents the familiar in a way that challenges our preconceived notions of experience.

The Mirror Carousel is strikingly beautiful but spins at an impossibly slow speed. Not only changing the expected velocity of fun but allowing the viewer to experience riding a carousel not as a joyful carnival ride by rather at a pace to savour every elongated second of the ride. Höller’s work centres around the reinterpretations of sensory experiences, specially enjoyed the Rabbit on the Skin and the Aquarium.

Conversely, the slide propels you down through 3 floors at an ecstatic speed then violently catapults you into a room filled with strobbing fluorescent lights and neon alligators. I experienced Carten Holler’s Untitled (slide) in 2007 at the Tate Modern in London. The Tate’s version of the installation was more of an intricate short series of slides that connected through the turbine hall a various levels.

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Categories New York

Maurizio Catellan: ALL at The Guggenheim

9 Jan

Life, death, humour, irony, distortion of scale, pigeons… what can you say about Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at the Guggenheim titled All.

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Categories New York

Michael Snow at Jack Shainman

8 Jan

It was an absolute pleasure to have met Michael Snow at the opening of his new show In the Way at Jack Shainman Gallery.

Snow is one of Canada’s greatest contemporary artist, whose ground breaking experimental films revolutionized new media and recontextualized experiencing and ways of seeing and looking.

His new video installation remphasizes what Snow does best, creating an environment where the viewer is physically engaged in active looking.

The other video work, In the Way, was shot while filming a fleeting road below while driving. The simultaneous conflicting sensation of standing while on the floor is projected and extraordinatry speed of movement is vertigo inducing and yet amazing.

I will never forget the first time I saw Michael Snow’s So Is This in a theatre setting. So Is This will stand forever as one art piece that changed and influenced my life parcourse. Here is a little youtube preview but this work really needs to be seen in a theatre setting.