Self Portrait

artist review

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born Buenos Aires in 1961, living in New York City this artist/curator creates installation rooms that forum both living and socializing spaces on a minimal bases. These spaces question themselves while being inhabited. By encouraging audience engagement the space is used to generate a real time experience with the work. This helps to convey a sense of undermining consumerism. He creates new work based on  past work, as Rirkrit puts it he thinks in “layers” this lets him see a progression from the past to the future.

Another type of work he created in1999 at the Venice Biennale, was to plant a tree in the Giardini to represent the lack of a Thailand pavilion. This act of subversion was meant to show that even in events as large and prestige’s as the Venice Biennale that money talks and the poor get to plant a tree instead getting there own pavilion. And after the tree gets (in the operators opinion) to big, as a final insult it is cut down. The next adventure was in Vietnam attempting to work thought the ins and outs of a politically complex state to create a Biennial. There was a lot of adversity and a lack of funding. Combined with censorship of the works this proved to much and the event was canceled.

Not to be discouraged, in 1998 Rickrit takes on another role as artist/curator in Thailand the homeland of his parents. This is more of an experiment where the artist try’s to develop and maintain a self-sustainable social environment. The idea being that you come to learn, you stay for awhile, you teach the next shift and you move on. The whole thing based on the idea that working and living together free of outside influences develops a more pure culture.

Education:

1986:Whitney Independent Studies Program, New York.

1985: School of Art Institute of Chicago.

1984: Banff Center School of Fine Art, Banff, Canada.

1981; Ontario Collage of Art, Toronto, Canada.

Solo Exhibition:

1995: 303 Gallery, N.Y.

1994: “Untitled,1994” Koln, Germany.

1993: “Untitled,1993” Randolph St Gallery Chicago, IL

1992; “Untitled,1992” 303 Gallery, N.Y.

1990: “Pad Thai” Paula Allan Gallery, N.Y.

Group Exhibitions:

1995: Whitney Biennal Whitney, N.Y.

1994: “Drawing on Sculpture”, Cohen Gallery, N.Y.

1993: “Sleepless Nights”, curetted by Zdenka Gabalova, PS1 Museum, Queens, N.Y.

1992: “Insignificant”, cureter Gavin Brown, 10 E39th St, Suite 525, New York, N.Y.

1991: “Brooklyn”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1990: “Work on Paper” Paula Allen Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1989: “Caught In A Revolving Door”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.

                

Artist Reveiw

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born Buenos Aires in 1961, living in New York City this artist/curator creates installation rooms that forum both living and socializing spaces on a minimal bases. These spaces question themselves while being inhabited. By encouraging audience engagement the space is used to generate a real time experience with the work. This helps to convey a sense of undermining consumerism. He creates his work based on the past, as Rirkrit puts it he thinks in “layers” this lets him see a progression from the past to the future.

Another work he created in1999 at the Venice Biennale, was to plant a tree in the Giardini to represent the lack of a Thailand pavilion. This act of subversion was meant to show that even in events as large and prestige’s as the Venice Biennale that money talks and the poor get to plant a tree instead getting there own pavilion. And after the tree gets (in the operators opinion) to big, as a final insult it is cut down. The next adventure was in Vietnam attempting to work thought the ins and outs of a politically complex state to create a Biennial. There was a lot of adversity and a lack of funding. Combined with censorship of the works this proved to much and the event was canceled.

Not to be discouraged, in 1998 Rickrit takes on another role as artist/curator in Thailand the homeland of his parents. This is more of an experiment where the artist try’s to develop and maintain a self-sustainable social environment. The idea being that you come to learn, you stay for awhile, you teach the next shift and you move on. The whole thing based on the idea that working and living together free of outside influences develops a more pure culture.  

free sckech

sissy

Self Portrait

artist reveiw

This is a response to the work of Vlatko Ceric. Born in Zagreb, Croatin, he now resides there as well. He has a background in physics and years of experience in computer molding. He was also Professor of computing at the Zagreb University. He started to exhibit his work in 2005 in Europe, America and Australia. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artist and the ARTROM Gallery Guild in Rome, Italy. He has done a number of solo and group shows all over the world. The work that Vlatko makes is computer generated. The idea that the artist comes up with is then worked thought programs that use mathematics to generate the images. These images are abstract and mostly geometrical. They have a powerful presents and a captivating look to them. I like the patterns and the way they set. The patterns are not at all random. There seems to be a very free yet organized way about them. I guess that has to do with the mathematics the artist uses in the development of his work. The works also have a great visual power and are crafted with great precision.

Class Project 1

Image retouch.

Just some playing around with the adjustments. Hear are the before and after picks.

reinvestagation

I cannot remember how in our gr op made a mention that some of the images that where on exhibit in the HIDE/SEEK show where created by Robert Maypplethorpe. I had missed this the first time walking though the show (forgetting my eye glasses may have had something to do with this). So after eating lunch I just had to go back up and find the images. As it turns out one was a self-portrait and the other was a female nude. I had to go back up and look because I had never seen his work live.I only new of his work,and that was a long time ago. Back when his image Piss Christ really pissed a lot of people off. So I had to look him up when I got home. And I had forgotten how beautiful his work is. Robert is gone but his inspiration lives on...                                          Robert Mapplethorpe

hobbs

Just a little story about this cat by the name of Walter Hobbs. After reading the interview with him done by  Hanis Ulrich Obrist, and seeing the movie The Cool School I have gained a great deal of respect for not only Mr. Hobbs but for the role of the curator in general. It was helpful that I was able to add the insight of the interview with the story of the movie. Setting the stage for what became the Cool School was just as interesting as “The Scene “. As with most great things there is always a lot of hard work done by a lot of people. It takes years of this hard work and persistence to see the fruit. I am certain that Mr. Hobbs spent a lot of long nights bringing his visions to fruition. Another key ingredient that was present to make “the scene “ happen was the collectors having them was just as important as the artist. I guess it all comes back to the five things it takes to make it work. But I think The Cool School was a lot more than just something that worked. It must have been a really exciting time. With all the different players and no lack of strong and interesting personalities. And the one that was able to bring all these special people together at that special time was Walter Hobbs. I hope to learn more about him in the future.  

artist review

I just wanted to look at a few images and found some really cool stuff. The falling water is my favorite. You have to check this one out.Aron Sommer

spotted clock

shop scans

Highjack

So I came a crossed this artist Paul McLean in the RHIZOME site. I was interested in the way he went about generating his art, or at least in this case. Not unlike or own class the first thing he did was do a search on the web and steal a image to start his process of making his art. I an not sure if this is the norm, it just struck me as to how normal it seams to be that people just take someone else’s image as a starting place for there own work. I guess I have to get with the times on that one. Maybe in the old days it was just as easy to start with a new image as it was copy. But with this digital age and the ability to cut, copy and paste at the stroke of a key, combined with the availability of so many images on the web. I guess it is not hard to understand how we became so balsa about stealing others work. Or is it like so many other things on the web it’s more about sharing. And I think that may not be      

a bad thing.