Nice interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto about how he works and more importantly thinks about photography and especially time and memory.
Archives For Thomas
From his still unfinished 42 year old desert project named Star Axis to his work with light prisms and solar burns Charles Ross has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship of light and nature.
“Ross’s earthwork, Star Axis, is located in the New Mexico desert. It is both architectonic sculpture and naked eye observatory. The approach to building Star Axis involves gathering a variety of star alignments in different time scales and building them into sculptural form. Walking through its chambers you can see how star space relates to human scale and how the space of the stars reaches down into the earth. Ross conceived of Star Axis in 1971 and began building it in 1976 after a 4-year search through the southwest to find the perfect site—a mesa where one stands at the boundary between earth and sky. He’s now finishing Star Axis with a crew of local stonemasons. It’s made with granite, sandstone, bronze, stainless steel, and earth. When completed, Star Axis will be eleven stories high and a fifth of a mile across”.
via Charles Ross.
“Large-scale prisms are suspended in skylights and clear stories. Each is specifically aligned with the sun to project huge blocks of solar spectrum into the architectural space below. The spectrums continuously evolve throughout the day, expanding into bright washes or contracting into brilliant bands of solar color as they move through the space propelled by the turning of the Earth.
Each artwork is specific to the architecture and its location on the planet. The ultimate goal is to create a nexus of solar spectrum artworks around the globe so that as the spectrum sets in one location, it is always rising in another”.
via Charles Ross.
From way down under comes something we have not heard in quite a while. In Rock Music the last time anything this good (and female) came along was a girl name Chrissie Hynde and the year was 1979. There are high hopes for Ms. Barnett…
Music Break: Courtney Barnett sings Avant Gardener (Live)
Nice profile about the rise of the David Zwirner Gallery and a excellent fly on the wall view into the obtuse workings of the art world by the folks over at The New Yorker.
“One of the reasons there’s so much talk about money is that it’s so much easier to talk about than the art,” Zwirner told me one day. You meet a lot of people in the art world who are exhausted and dismayed by the focus on money, and by its dominance. It distracts from the work, they say. It distorts curatorial instincts, critical appraisals, and young artists’ careers. It scares away civilians, who begin to lump art in with other symptoms of excess and dismiss it as another garish plaything of the rich. Of course, many of those who complain—dealers, artists, curators—are complicit. The culture industry, which supports them in one way or another, and which hardly existed a generation ago, subsists on all that money—mostly on the largesse and folly of wealthy art lovers, whether their motivations are lofty or base”
via The New Yorker article:
Dealer’s Hand
by Nick Paumgarten
via: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/02/131202fa_fact_paumgarten
A very young D’Angelo singing a Bill Withers tune… (with Eric Clapton, Dean Brown, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, & Steve Gadd…) A cooler super group you will be hard pressed to find.
Music Break: D’Angelo Live