Friday 28 February 2014

Tainted (maschine) Love + Last Manoeuvres

Soft Cell's 1981 classic Tainted Love played by disk drives:


Video from Gigawipf's youtube channel.  Thanks for sharing, A.


I remember seeing Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni's installation Last Manoeuvres In The Dark at Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2008:


Video from lastmanoeuvres's youtube channel

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Genuine Concrete

On time, endurance and beauty, Sheila Ayearst's realist paintings of concrete at 26, Toronto 2014:






Tuesday 25 February 2014

Monday 24 February 2014

A sequence of prime numbers

3, 5, 11, 17, 31, 41, 59, 67, 83, 109, 127, 157, 179, 191, 211, 241, 277, 283, 331, 353, 367, 401, 431, 461, 509, ...

Sunday 23 February 2014

3 Upright + a view

From the group exhibition Vom Eigensinn Der Dinge, Bettina Buck's 3 Upright at KAI 10, Düsseldorf 2013:







A view from KAI 10 out to the Hafen:

Saturday 22 February 2014

Embracing Ruin And Oblivion Is The Only Way To Live Now

My favourite from the show Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art And The BaroqueTricia Middleton's beautiful ruin at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto 2014:









Friday 21 February 2014

After Bruno Taut (Negative Capability)

From the exhibition Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art And The Baroque, Lee Bul's decadent crystalline city in the sky at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto 2014:








Thursday 20 February 2014

The Holes

Where the grotesque and the sublime are two sides of the same coin ...

From the exhibition Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art And The BaroqueDavid Altmejd's circle of life and decay at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto 2014:








Wednesday 19 February 2014