All Things Art & Photography
Most of the big advancements in Fine Art Photography have not come from photographers but from artists using the camera (with the exception of Thomas Ruff). David Hockney used cameras constantly in his painting and did a large number of pure photographic works as his photographic composites and collages attest. His Poloroid Portraits, melding collage, Cubist multiple view points and time, are some of my favorites images in the history of photography.
One of the few sculptors to have been Knighted by the Queen of England, Sir Anthony Caro at 89 shows he still has the goods…
“One of the most important things about sculpture is the way in which the viewer is invited to look at it. Whether she/he looks up, walks around it, whether it corkscrews like a Michelangelo or moves around like a Brâncuşi—the way in which it would be seen was governing how I approached the sculpture for Park Avenue”.
—Anthony Carovia Anthony Caro – June 6 – August 23, 2013 – Gagosian Gallery.
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Robert Therrien thinks big. He is a very famous artist who happens to show at Gaggoisian, yet no one really knows much of him. He is quiet, does not play the art game and lets his work speak for itself. He actually got his ideas crawling under furniture and taking photographs. This summer he gets a solo museum show….
Wednesday, July 3–Sunday, October 27, 2013
Mr. Therrien’s breakthrough came in 1992, when he returned to photography and began shooting the spaces under an old wooden table. He was fascinated by the object’s underside and by the hidden engineering made visible in the photos. “It would be perfect just to have that as a sculpture,” he recalls thinking. He set out to make a table that was so big that viewers could get a good look at its details, as they would in one of his photographs. The Brobdingnag object he ended up fabricating, which was 10 feet tall, became the first in a series of household goods that he has scaled up to three and a half times their normal size.
Only James Turrell would have a museum in the middle nowhere high on a plateau in Argentina (and built by the wine billionaire Donald Hess). Here is a short tour.
‘I’ve used a lot of different photographic techniques in the past thirty years. I realize there isn’t just one way to take a photograph, there are a thousand different ways—and that’s what I’ve taught the students. They should not insist on their beautiful Leica, or their Hasselblad, or whatever they use. The technique must result from the idea that you have—and you may have to develop your own technology to bring out the images. I’m not much interested in “straight” photography anymore. It has been practiced for more than 150 years, and most of it is too conventional. I’ve always wanted to go beyond the limits”.
via Thomas Ruff – Interview with Aperture – Summer 2013 – “Curiosity” – Aperture Foundation NY.
