Tuesday 20 February 2024

Cheng Feng Kevin Yu,

 

Cheng Feng Kevin Yu, France 2022  (cutout card and found ground fixture)
 untitled Facebook post on https://www.facebook.com/chengfeng.k.yu




Cheng Feng Kevin Yu (wood, found place, light) 
untitled Facebook post 22 Feb 2024

Sunday 18 February 2024

GABRIEL OROZCO






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                        GABRIEL OROZCO, ISLA EN LA ISLA (ISLAND WITHIN AN ISLAND) 1993 
                    cibachrome print Walker Art Center

Found material arranged to make a likeness of the city in the distance. The artwork exists as the cibachrome image, not as the actual assemblage/installation.

CHARLES SIMONDS

Charles Simons Dwelling 1980-9

 Charles Simonds, Dwelling,  unfired clay and found building, in Rooms (P.S.1) 1976 (see details in PATRICK IRELAND post) This work resembles drawing in its temporary, sketch-like quality and scale.






















http://www.charles-simonds.com/

Isaac Nixon


 Isaac Nixon, untitled floor drawing, NAS 2016, masking tape and found floor

Margaret Roberts

 


Margaret Roberts, Cloud, 2015, plasticine and found brick wall

Sue Callanan

Sue Callanan Shifting Sands 2008
found worker's sand, stencil
 

Saturday 17 February 2024

Cheng Feng Kevin Yu



Cheng Feng Kevin Yu, France, Feb/Mar 2022  - cutout coloured card and found road fixture: untitled Facebook post on https://www.facebook.com/chengfeng.k.yu 



Friday 16 February 2024

EMMA WISE



Emma Wise Cut to Fit 2006 (paper, found territory, found government policy) Sculpture by the Sea 2006 
This work snipped off three sections of the Bondi to Bronte cliffs at a time when the Howard government had recently excised northern Australia from our migration zone. Here, the paper dashes are as ephemeral as the federal government’s line may prove to be. Recent changes have extended the legislation to cover the whole of Australia. The work won a prize at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (thanks judge Geoffrey Edwards). see more

PATRICK IRELAND


Patrick Ireland, Rope drawing No 19, PS1, 1976.

Image from ROOMS P.S.1, catalogue of 1976 exhibition of works by 78 artists, curated by Alanna Heiss, founder of P.S.1. When Heiss founded it, P.S.1 was the ex-Public School #1, located in 46th Road, Long Island City, Queens.

PS1 is now part of the Museum of Modern Art.

Ireland's rope drawing is made from varied lengths of white rope hanging to just above floor level, and attached to the ceiling by lighter rope. It is located in an ex-classroom of PS1, and thus suggests the chalk lines that would have once been made on the blackboards, as well as the children who once occupied the classroom. Patrick Ireland was the artist name of the art writer Brian O'Doherty.

Alanna Heiss introduced the catalogue by explaining the exhibition as: 'Rooms (P.S.1) represents an attempt to deal with a problem. Most museums and galleries are designed to show masterpieces; objects made and planned elsewhere for exhibition in relatively neutral spaces. But many artists today do not make self-contained masterpieces; they do not want to and they do not try to. Nor are they for the most part interested in neutral spaces. Rather their work includes the space it's in; embraces it, uses it. Viewing space becomes not frame but material. And that makes it hard to exhibit.
This show, ROOMS (P.S.1) is an attempt to face that problem. . . .'

Bianca Hester


 Bianca Hester, Hoops, 2014, 
blue metal hoops, human energy, time and found hard ground

see more: Sarah Scout Presents

2014 Sydney Biennale


Robin Rhode

From a very early age Robin Rhode was influenced by wall paintings in Johannesburg. These were for him an important poetical counterpoint to the city's urban violence. Today he creates performances during which he or an actor draws on walls or on the floor. Using white chalk, charcoal crayon, water and industrial paint, he depicts objects around which he develops a pantomime inspired by street culture. When drawing a candle, he attempts to extinguish it by blowing; when drawing a bicycle he tries to clean it with a bucket of water. In Microphone (2005) shown above, the absence of sound and the movement of the protagonist spark the spectator's imagination as to the content of the speech or rap song. The work evokes the engagement and revolt of a speaker who harangues his audience. (Wall notes accompanying Micophone in the Pompidou Centre).  Read more about Robin Rhode.

Chelsea Coon

Chelsea Coon 9:50:45 2017 Photo: Sue Callanan

9:50:45 is a new site-specific performance by Chelsea Coon especially created for Articulate project space in Leichhardt, Sydney.

9:50:45 will be of 6 hours duration each day: 11am - 5pm daily, Tues 21- Sun 26 March 2017,

9:50:45 is the time that two black holes collided in space on September 14, 2015. In her six day durational performance, Coon will create an installation of traces of the body's response to the space and will emphasize past, present and future time as well as focus on the body's interconnected relationship on an elemental level to manifestations in the universe

www.chelseacoon.info

Scott Sinclair

 


Scott Sinclair Body line (chest) Single channel video, 1:36min, NAS, 2016

link to video

Wednesday 14 February 2024

Sunday 18 November 2018

ROSE NOLAN


ROSE NOLAN A Big Word – HOPEFUL 2014 Acrylic paint directly on wall at Anna Schwartz gallery









As with many of Nolan’s text-based works, A Big Word – HOPEFUL quickly suggests more than its face-value proposition. The bigness of hope is accompanied by its antonyms and its dangers: disappointment and cynicism are present by association, lurking in the camouflage of negative space around a single positive word. But if Nolan’s language games have always led more to questions than to answers, their seriality insists that perhaps keeping going, all things considered, is the best strategy. read more here

Tuesday 13 November 2018