Boomtown: Convention

Luke Siemens from his solo exhibition Boomtown: Convention currently at Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto:

Yoshikawa + Lam

From the group exhibition The Paper Show currently at United Contemporary, Toronto ...

Akira Yoshikawa's Signals #5 and Signals #6:

Huy Lam's Shrouded In Mystery, Land On The Extraordinary I and Seasonal Parental Guidance:

Details of Lam's Feast For The Eyes:

Resurgence

Akira Yoshikawa from his solo exhibition Resurgence currently at United Contemporary, Toronto:

2025

The number 2025 is a very interesting number, which makes the year 2025 a very interesting year ...

The number 2025 = 45² is a perfect square.  The last time we had a perfect square year was the year 1936 = 44², which was 89 years ago.  And the next time we'll have a perfect square year will be the year 2116 = 46², which is 91 years into the future.  So for most of us, the year 2025 is the only perfect square year we experience in our whole life.

Also, perfect squares have this property:

k² = 1 + 3 + 5 +  ...  + (2k − 1)

So, we can also write 2025 as a sum of the first 89 odd integers:

2025 = 45² = 1 + 3 + 5 +  ...  + 89.

The number 45 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 is a triangular number.  So we have 

2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)².

The last time we had a squared triangular number year was the year 1296 = ((1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8)², and the next time we'll have a squared triangular number year will be the year 3025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10)².  So we are really lucky to experience that in our short life.

The square of a triangular number has this very special property:

(1 + 2 + 3 +  ...  + n)² = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ +  ...  + n³  

So we have:

2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 +  ...  + 9)² = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ +  ...  + 9³,

which is the sum of the first nine cubes!

Andrews vs Nakamura

From the exhibition Moments In Modernism currently at the Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto ...

Stephen Andrews's Untitled:

Kazuo Nakamura's Central I:

Davis + Molinari

From the exhibition Moments In Modernism currently at the Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto ...

Gene Davis's Black Panther:

Guido Molinari's Multinoir:

Welcome to Germany ... Endless days of forever grey*

As life‘s getting slower in the winter, I’m going to post less frequently in the next little while.  But for now, here are two brilliant songs from my new favourite band at the moment, Lebanon Hanover.  I’ve been listening to them everyday.

Favorite Black Cat from their 2018 album Let Them Be Alien:

Video from Wasted Therapy's youtube channel

Stahlwerk from their 2013 album Tomb For Two:

Video from my own private dream's youtube channel

Does anyone remember John Foxx?

* From the lyrics of Stahlwerk

White-Blue vs Orange

From the exhibition Moments In Modernism currently at the Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto ...

Ellsworth Kelly's White Blue:

Robert Motherwell's Open No.37A: In Orange:

The Guard

Malcolm McCormick from his solo exhibition The Guard currently at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto:

Not As It Was But As It Might Be

Kristine Moran from her solo exhibition Not As It Was But As It Might Be currently at Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto:

Strip-Tower

Gerhard Richter's sculpture Strip-Tower just outside Serpentine South Gallery, London:

100 Werke Für Berlin

One of the greatest living artist, Gerhard Richter from his retrospective exhibition 100 Werke Für Berlin currently at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin:

Keep Walking

Mark Bradford from his survey exhibition Keep Walking currently at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin: