Arcangel vs Hantaï

Cory Arcangel at Whitney Museum, New York 2011:

Simon Hantaï at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2011:

Pro Tools

Cory Arcangel from his solo exhibition Pro Tools at Whitney Museum, New York 2011:

Here Comes Everybody

Cory Arcangel's pen-plotter drawing series Hello World from his solo exhibition Here Comes Everybody at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2011:

Super Mario Clouds

Cory Arcangel's Super Mario Clouds:

Video from coryarcangel's youtube channel


Cloudless blue summer sky, Toronto 2016:

Arcangel's Colors

To continue with the theme of experimental films, I must mention Cory Arcangel's Colors I saw at Tate Modern last night.  He took a film by Dennis Hopper of the same name, scrambled its cinematic images and transformed them into a dynamic abstraction of shifting colours.  Absolutely brilliant!

Arcangel at Tate Modern, London 2012:

Hello World*

Thursday nights are free nights at New Museum.  I went there on Thursday but it was too crowded.  So I decided to visit again on Friday.  They were showing Ostalgia, a survey of the art produced in and about the former communist European states.  Sharing a similar but slightly different theme of new art from central and eastern Europe is the Power Plant's current exhibition Rearview Mirror in Toronto.  I visited PP just before coming to New York.  So inevitably I have to compare the two shows.  I must say that I have enjoyed the NM show much better than PP's.  There are a few artists showing at Ostalgia that I intrinsically like.  Too bad photography was not allowed.  So I cannot show you.

Friday nights are free nights at Whitney Museum.  I went to see one of their featured shows - Cory Arcangel's Pro Tools.  When I was in Berlin last month, I saw another Arcangel exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof.  In fact, the two shows carry Arcangel's works from the same series.  So it's just like seeing the same show again - this time at a larger scale.  Arcangel has been exploring the interplay of digital technologies, internet culture and art in various media.  All his exhibited works here have incorporated the use of technological tools - either newly innovated or obsolete.

Arcangel at Whitney, New York 2011:

*Hello World is the title of a series of Arcangel's pen-plotter drawings shown at both exhibitions.