Mariko Mori and Salvadour Dali

Hi I thought I would share this interview with you. Sonya suggested I have at look at Mariko Mori. In the interview she is reported as saying that "she was a child of Andy Warhold and a Grandchild of Duchamp"

The article is interesting as it looks at the connections between, Dali, Warhol and Mariko Mori.

Her work is surreal and brings a mix of western consumerisn and her Japanese culture.

She says "There always was a force that pushed me to create. I must create the world in order to breathe in the world. I don't exist unless I create."


http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1998/julaug/feat5.htm

Janet

Hey, thought i'd share with you an artist Sonya introduced me to. Very cool work!

Hannah ;)


http://www.parasolpress.com/lewitt_2.html

graphics and abstraction - 45 sleeves

(sonya)

Hey guys!

I've posted a website you all can check out from an artist named Gustav Klimt. He paints women which are done very beautifully. I love the way he portrays women and abstracts them. I dont really think that his work resembles andy warhol much but i love his work so i thought ild put it up to share.

www.gustavklimt.com

Monique

To reverse one's eyes

'To Reverse One's Eyes' Giuseppe Penone 1970

Mark Harvey exhibition

I'm OK, You're OK



Window Gallery presents Mark Harvey

25/08/08 - 31/08/08

Performance / Thur 28 / 6pm


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I'm just thinking. I've got this idea about making this performance where I'm in my back yard, on a hot sunny day with my hands in the air, walking around and around, while continuously saying thank-you to you. And I do this for about 3 and a half hours, or even longer, if I can do it. Oh, and I'm on my tippy-toes and don't stop to take a breath. Does this sound okay with you? Should I change it? I mean, it might sound like I'm trying to make some big grand performance gesture or something like that… I think it needs to appear really celebratory, you know, like it has unity of form and a sense of harmony between all of its material elements. ...Hmmm, you're right, it needs some fine-tuning. Yeah. It might be better activated if it has more sparkle.

I'm OK, You're OK involves a video installation and a live performance. In both sections Harvey will attempt to ponder over the chasms of what might or might not make acceptable performance. Through playing with performance art/live art and choreographic conventions, Harvey intends to mix physical tasks, earnestness, heroic gestures and shin-shiny scrutiny.


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Mark Harvey is a Performance Artist, choreographer and writer and has performed and shown work at a range of locations, such as the Govett Brewster Gallery (New Plymouth, 2006), The Blue Oyster (Dunedin, 2006), The Physics Room (Christchurch, 2006 and 2002), Trans (Wisconsin, 2006) and The Parnu International Film/Video Art Festival (Estonia, 2006). Harvey lectures in Dance Studies at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Hey Traze, you might be interested in this? It's one guy, who goes under the name 'Assume Vivid Astro Focus'... he often makes an installation that uses the whole room. Take a look at his website:  www.cheapcream.com – what do you think? (sonya)

Theresa Reihana

Theresa Reihana is a New zealand maori artist. i personally love the meanings of her art work. each piece tells a story. this piece explains upon conception we begin to receive our sustenance and individuality from both physical and spiritual. our physical is determined by our parentage and is earthly, our spiritual by our ancestors and consciousness beyond the physical veil. 

-Chelsea

MtRushmore

i thought id post this as it reminds me of andy warhols work.

these visions of johanna have now conquered my mind

The Ayahuasca Paintings of Pablo Amaringo

Pablo Amaringo is a peruvian artist born in Puerto Libertad, a child of the amazon. From the age of ten he has been exploring his spiritual and emotional landscape through the visions induced by an entheogenic plant, Ayahuasca. His work tends to be colorful, intricate and rich with meaning, even when he lacks materials; when Amaringo first started drawing he worked with soot and an industrial byproduct, permatex. 

His paintings reveal a private world, vibrant and beautiful, obviously laden with significance but inexplicable without the key of Amaringo's Ayahuasca. Still, even though we're looking from the outside in through a tiny window, the glimpses we recieve through Amaringo's paintings are wonderous. 

In particular I enjoy the strong colours visible in much of his later work, bold and bright like a dream, convincing the viewer that they too are experiencing an otherworldly vision. While the religious and spiritual elements of many of these paintings are a bit beyond my abilities to comprehend, I'm still awed by the beauty of the works they inspire. 

A gallery of Pablo Amaringo's art can be found here. Pablo now teaches art for free at his Usko-Ayar school, which survives by donations.

- traze

"untitled?"

Andy Warhol's art work captures the generation y. He presents art in a way were it is influenced by the peers and technology.
I quoted something from his book that caught my eye "Pg 152: When I’m walking around New York I’m always aware of the smells around me: the rubber mats in office buildings; upholstered seats in movie theaters; pizza..." It interests me how he notices even the smallest details in our everyday life and make it sound complex and with depth.

-michelle

Watties

If Andy Warhol were an active artist in New Zealand, he might have done something like this painting. This is reminisent of 200 campbell soup cans (though there are only 56 bottles in this painting). Ignore that this may not be very well executed, the bottles aren't packed tightly enough, I know.
My point is that Andy has many a time been accused of giving in to consummerism with his paintings of celebrities, newspaper clippings, dollar bills and mass-produced items. Who in their right mind would want to admire a painting of Watties tomato sauce (or Campbell soup)? You can see this in a supermarket isle any time you want. It really isn't something you ooh and ahh about.
I don't know about anyone else but the 200 soup cans catch my interest more than any landscape painting ever would. there is a rythm to it that makes me stop and follow the pattern, from can to can, are they really all the same? I stare, trying to catch the small differences, captivated by his powerful work. Has any other artist made you think more about his work?

-Tasha B

www.janetmcleod.co.nz

As many of you know I was away the week before workshop week in the South Island doing a photography workshop. These are a couple of my photos from the workshop. If you are interested you can view more of my images on my simple website http://www.janetmcleod.co.nz/.

Harvey Benge - Victory of the Trivial

I have added a link to Satelite Gallery. Next week Harvey Benge has a Photographic exhibition titled "Victory of the Trivial"

"Victory of the Trivial none-the-less continues Benge’s exploration into the nature of things and the signification to be found in the banal, the ordinary and the overlooked.
These disposable $2 objects seem to take on a life of their own and through his lens we find questions, narratives and meanings despite the apparent insignificance and banality of the subject matter.
Here Benge is commenting on systems of production, consumption and value and humankinds ceaseless quest for fulfilment through desire. The victory of the trivial."

Janet

Public and Private - Collage

Hi, This is the Collage I did for "Public and Private"

I visited Parnell and observed people going about their day. I followed a couple and photographed there progress down Parnell Road. They stopped from time to time to view shop windows until they reached their destination - an antique store. Having completed their mission they went back up Parnell Road without stopping.

I have tried to arrange the images to tell the story but leave it up to the viewer to interpret their own story from the collage.

Cheers Janet

a note:

Hi guys

To add links to the panel go up to customise or to layout and click on Links...

Sonya

TWO WORLDS

this is my first blog entry. WEEK 4

i was influenced by how we have two worlds in one. A part of the world relies on money, car transport, cigarettes, accessories and other wants. Where people find life hard. The world is time consuming, and enough is never enough. Yet there is another world we don't see which has a natural beauty and has no time limit. Where people are happy with what they have and live on only the things that they need. They value everything they have. 

CHELSEA HAPE

Credit Lady

This is a sketch i did of my impression of what somebody like Andy Warhol would be doing if he were making art today. I think the credit card is symbolic for todays age, and also could be a image of something kind of normal that is used in our everyday lives, turned into art. Kind of like what Andy Warhol did the the famous Campbell's Soup can. It was something ordinary in peoples pantries or kitchen shelves, that lots of people wouldn't think twice of how it looked or what other uses it could have, but Andy Warhol was able to turn it into art. Kat

C.A.N.D.I.D

Candid - characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unservedly straightforward

To bloggers, artists, photographers, and others this is my first post. This art work is about being natural and unrehearsed. I like the idea of being "caught-of-guard", its about being open and feeling secure in an uncertain world.

-michelle

I was influenced by how people in todays society can now rely on technology and the fast-paced nature of how we live. This often leads to people not leading such active, self motivated lives. I showed the contrast with the older images displaying hard work and physical activity compared to the modern images of poor body image. It also shows the casual, less structured way people live today compared to the older values of society where you worked hard for what you earned.

Here I have explored the relationship between people and technology. I have chosen images from magazines that I thought represented this. This piece of work is about how technology has influenced the way we live and think. 

-Monique

you are who you are who you are

1. Whose Opinion Is It Anyway?

A commentary on truth, lies and media hype. What are you swallowing when you read that magazine or watch that show? 

2. You Are Who You Are Who You Are

An exploration of the malleability of image, through looking at various media personalities who are famous for their chameleon styles. They want to change themselves, so I've changed them. Pictured here are Marc Bolan, Madonna, David Bowie and Avril Lavigne.

Find more of my work here.

x

Traze.

What will become of us?

Here is my example of Pop-culture for WEEK 4:

My concept is nature trapped inside power lines. So i cut out examples of nature and coloured them in and painted over in black the power lines incasing it. Outside of the powerlines are fake/man made objects. It's basically my way of representing how i feel about nature and how man kind by consuming without thought of the long term outcome, is in a way pushing and trapping nature.

-Bella 

My first work piece for week 4 visual research.

I chose the money idea because our society now days evolves around it and alot of it.

The images i used were from a magazine that had just images and no text what so ever.  

The colour gold caught my eye as i was flipping pages. It took me about 45min to put this beautiful piece together.

Here is my collage for Week 4.  

The background is made up of images relating to computers with reference to computer generated music.  Some of the images show tired frustrated users and tense fingers on keyboards. Overlaid on this is a cello and saxophone, the saxophone is cradle by relaxed hands.  These images are monochrome and gentle and for me depict mellow relaxing music in contrast to the computer images which  are brightly coloured and show a sense of frustration.  It also probably reflects my lack of understanding of computer generated music. 

Janet