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)