Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Blue Flavin

Dan Flavin (rendered blue) at Pinakothek der Moderne, München 2009:


Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Three Perspectives And A Short Scenario

Because of the global pandemic, art galleries are closed everywhere.  Without any new shows to visit, I am going back to my archive of older materials.

Liam Gillick from his solo exhibition Three Perspectives And A Short Scenario at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago 2009:





Monday, 27 April 2020

Tillmans's Masculinities

Wolfgang Tillmans from the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography at the Barbican, London 2020:



Sunday, 26 April 2020

Love And Death / Love Will Tear Us Apart

The Stills's Love And Death, from their 2003 debut album Logic Will Break Your Heart:


From The Stills - Topic youtube channel


Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart, 1980:


Video from Joy Division's youtube channel

Saturday, 25 April 2020

Friday, 24 April 2020

Thursday, 23 April 2020

Against The Light

From Jan Svoboda's retrospective exhibition Against The Light at the Photographers' Gallery, London 2020:





Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Radical Figures

From the exhibition Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery, London 2020 ...

Cecily Brown:






Daniel Richter:



Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Armitage vs Cézanne

Michael Armitage from the exhibition Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery, London 2020:



Paul Cézanne's Interior Of A Forest at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto 2020:


Monday, 20 April 2020

Rose Gold

Sara Cwynar's 2017 film Rose Gold:


Video from Khaled ElTokhy's youtube channel

Sunday, 19 April 2020

Alone In Kyoto

Just like me, the members of the French duo Air also studied architecture and mathematics.  Maybe that explains my affinity to their music.

Air's Alone In Kyoto from Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost In Translation:


Video from Songs & Movies's youtube channel

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Welcome to Tokyo

The opening scenes of Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost In Translation featuring Death In Vegas's Girls:


Video from Twentin Quarantino's youtube channel

Friday, 17 April 2020

Asymmetries

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa from his solo exhibition Asymmetries at the Power Plant, Toronto 2020:










Thursday, 16 April 2020

Spazio Disponibile

Dawit L. Petros from his solo exhibition Spazio Disponibile at the Power Plant, Toronto 2020:



Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Assu vs Carr

Sonny Assu's Re-Invaders: Digital Intervention On An Emily Carr Painting (Indian Church, 1929) at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto 2019:



Emily Carr at the AGO, Toronto 2015:


Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Marilyn

Sara Cwynar from her solo exhibition Marilyn at the Approach, London 2020:



Monday, 13 April 2020

In her honey dripping beehive

Jesus and Mary Chain's Just Like Honey with the closing scenes from Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost In Translation:


Video from juanfegrana's youtube channel

Sunday, 12 April 2020

Lost in isolation, sometimes

On these days of self-isolation ...

My Bloody Valentine's Sometimes with scenes from the beautiful 2003 Sofia Coppola film Lost In Translation:



Video from Pete Hudson's youtube channel

Saturday, 11 April 2020

Soha Salem + Prinz Gholam

Soha Salem's video Zoorkhaneh (House Of Strength) from the group exhibition Working Progress at South London Gallery, London 2020:



Prinz Gholam's video Speaking Of Pictures (Kallimarmaro) from Documenta 14 at documenta-Halle, Kassel 2017:


Friday, 10 April 2020

Birra + Phillips

From the group exhibition Working Progress at South London Gallery, London 2020 ...

Gonçalo Birra's Or Else Merry Dissidents:




Joshua Phillips's Peacock And Dragon (Chair) and Time Held Me Green And Dying: