'First came the landscape' c/o Eden project & Resurgence & Ecologist

Ingela Ihrman - First Came the Landscape

Beech wood

'First Came the Landscape is a giant stick skeleton made from the trunk, limbs and branches of a single beech tree that was blown down during Storm Eunice in 2022. . . .'

https://www.edenproject.com/visit/things-to-do/first-came-the-landscape

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My source: Anna Souter & Ingela Ihrman. 'First came the landscape'. Resurgence & Ecologist, May/June 2023. 338: pp.44-46. 

See also: https://www.edenproject.com/visit/things-to-do/first-came-the-landscape

Previously: 'landscape' : 'ecology'

Space, Leadership, Choice, Politics II - Do Ho Soh

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	Who do we put on a pedestal?
	Do Ho Suh's Public Figures features an empty pedestal held up by many small figures. Donny Bajohr

Do Ho Suh - Lehmann Maupin

Image: Smithsonian - Take a Closer Look at a Surprising New Sculpture That Rethinks Who We Put on a Pedestal

My source: Andy St. Louis, Sculptural approach to far-fetched ideas, Arts, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 31 August/1 September 2024, p.12.

Previously on W2tQ: Space, Memory, Home, Organisation I - Do Ho Soh

'Hubris Syndrome'

"There is another!" Karma (2003) by Do Ho Suh

Collective loneliness

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loneliness	depopulation demographics Japan
A family of puppets collects wood in   the Japanese village of Ichinono.  Philip Fong / AFP - Getty Images	'Stop the boats' 'global trends'

My source: Sam Freedman. The truth about migrant workers: demonised but in demand, and few of us can live without them. The Observer, 03.08.25. pp.12-13.

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/sam-freedman-demonising-migrants-wont-fill-jobs-or-boost-falling-populations

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'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/outnumbered-puppets-depopulated-village-japan-crafts-dolls-sense-life-rcna177216

Objectify me by Nicola L.

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'You can touch my breasts, caress my stomach, my sex. But, I repeat it, it is the last time,' - read a note L. left in a drawer.	Nicola L.  'La Femme Commode' (1969)

Nicola L.

My source: Stoppard, L. Objectify me, House&Home, FTWeekend, 5-6 October 2024, pp.1-2.

Honouring 'Wheatfield: a Confrontation' by Agnes Denes

"In the summer of 1982, two acres of wheat were planted and harvested by artist Agnes Denes, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center and facing the Statue of Liberty.

Planting and harvesting a field of wheat on land worth $4.5 billion created a powerful paradox. Wheatfield was a symbol, a universal concept; it represented food, energy, commerce, world trade, and economics. It referred to mismanagement, waste, world hunger and ecological concerns. It called attention to our misplaced priorities.

The harvested grain traveled to twenty-eight cities around the world in an exhibition called “The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger”, organized by the Minnesota Museum of Art (1987-90). The seeds were carried away by people who planted them in many parts of the globe." twistedsifter

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	'Wheatfield: a Confrontation' (1982) by Agnes Denes

http://agnesdenesstudio.com/

'Honouring Wheatfield: a Confrontation' - ArtBasel from June 10:

https://www.artbasel.com/stories/ecology-pioneer-american-artist-agnes-denes-basel-messeplatz-wheat-field-climate-change-awareness

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In 1982, An Artist Harvested Two Acres of Wheat on Land Worth $4.5 Billion by TwistedSifter

https://twistedsifter.com/2018/03/new-york-city-wheat-field-by-agnes-denes/

Roux, C. Reaping what you sow, Collecting, FTWeekend, 8-9 June 2024, p.4.

https://www.ft.com/content/346ad7e8-9ddf-4802-9658-053d1c5758a8

"Jason and the adventure of 254" c/o Wellcome Collection

"A work by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills is displayed at the Wellcome Collection ahead of the opening of a solo exhibition at the London museum. "Jason and the adventure of 254" reimagines the gallery space as a hospital ward and features huge sculptures, illustrations and interactive dioramas that draw on the artist's experience of becoming disabled at the age of 11.

The exhibition's title alludes to 2.54pm at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, on August 1 1980, when Wilsher-Mills watched from his hospital bed as his parents were told he was suffering from an autoimmune condition brought on by a bout of chicken pox.

The free exhibition opens tomorrow (21st March) and runs until January." p.2.

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	'Figure in the bed', 2024, part of Jason and the Adventure of 254, an exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills at Wellcome Collection. Gallery Photo: Benjamin Gilbert. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Body of work, Artist relives diagnosis, Financial Times, 20 March 2024, p.2. 

Previously - 'beds'

'Pharma©opia’ (1992) by General Idea outside Museo Jumex © Moritz Bernoully c/o FTWeekend

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	Pharma©opia’ (1992) by General Idea outside Museo Jumex © Moritz Bernoully

Cepeda, G., Mexican art's early champion. Collecting,  FTWeekend, 25-26 November 2023, p.5. 

Image source:
https://www.ft.com/content/96f76039-0703-455f-acbb-d1a74827ee73

With my inversion of the original image.

"Conceptual: only worth the paper it's written on"

Financial Times. June 9, 2012, p.11.  

"How do you prove you own a work of conceptual art? This is an interesting issue in today's art market, with the trend towards the dematerialisation of art, and the primacy of the idea over its physical presence.

For example, the late US artist Félix González-Torres's works include "Candy Spills", in which wrapped sweets are piled on the floor or in a corner, to be taken and eaten by viewers. When the pile has gone, the owner of the work replenishes it.
So what stops anyone making and selling their own "Candy Spill"? The answer is the certificate of authenticity issued by the artist or their estate. This scrap of paper is, in fact, the only proof that the work of art genuinely belongs to you, and this is actually what you buy and sell."

 

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cognition, reasoning imagination, creativity concepts, ideas personal aesthetics subjective - personal meaning "This is mine!"	materials physical objects dimensions, form, properties entropy: time, decay - disorder change
art and arts culture - 'what is art?' Art criticism Collective aesthetic	'the Market' Economic Worth / Value Values Proof of ownership law, intellectual property / ©

For further context - please see:
https://artquest.org.uk/artlaw-article/authenticity-certificates-value/

Adam, G. "Conceptual: only worth the paper it's written on". Financial Times, The Art Market. Collecting, June 9, 2012, p.11.

Sorting / clearing books and papers ongoing. Break next week - inc. reading.

Mary Mattingly - "Life of Objects" 2013

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	Mary Mattingly - "Life  of Objects" 2013

"Mary Mattingly's work Life of Objects (2013) is part sculpture, part performance piece. It forces the viewer to feel the weight of an irregular sphere of the artist's collected and nearly discarded possessions. The visceral experience of seeing this trash boulder pinning the artist to the floor communicates the harms of overconsumption perhaps more strongly than familiar reminders to reduce, reuse,and recycle." p.278. 

With thanks to: Mary Mattingly - Artist

My source:
Chianese, R.L. Sculpting Science, American Scientist, Sept-Oct 2022: 110;5. pp. 276-281.

The Listener ... and remarkable hearing

The Listener
Giuseppe Penone

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	Giuseppe Penone, The Listener, 2008, installation view, Gaggiandre, Arsenale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, courtesy Vuslat Foundation
We used to till the land, cast our nets, now all we hear are the tills ...	Listeners Hearers - needed here.

My source:
Heathcote, E. 'Space - but not as we knew it', Venice Biennale, Life&Arts FT Weekend, 22-23 May 2021. p.1.

I see and hear you too Talio Havini, 'Deep listening across time', p.3.

Raisonnement circulaire ...?

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"Essential oils: Meditation 626, a sculpture by Seo Young-Deok made from bicycle chains, is part of an exhibition of Korean art at London's Opera Gallery until April 18", The Times, March 11, 2022, p.12.

Image source: Seo Young-Deok

The mechanics of Empire (or Not) c/o Yinka Shonibare

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	Yinka Shonibare MBE – End of Empire, 2016, Turner Contemporary

 

"The Salzberg show, at the Museum der Moderne in Monchsberg, will show works going back to the mid-1990s, and though still in development, its title - End of Empire - is secured. This refers to a work Shonibare created for the 14-18 Now project, which commemorated the 100 years since the end of the first world war: two figures with globes for heads sit either end of a moving see-saw, their precarious balance representing the fragile conditions of conflict. 'It's this idea that the arguments are shifting constantly; I didn't want it to be didactic or simplistic,' he says."

Yinka Shonibare

Image: https://publicdelivery.org/yinka-shonibare-end-of-empire/

My source: Roux, C. All a question of power, Life&Arts, FTWeekend. 20-21 February, 2021. p.13.

 

Bleeding Hearts: From one domain to the others ...?

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	Bleeding Hearts (59)  by Andrew Folan

 

Artist: Andrew Folan 

My source: Printmaking Today, Summer 2020, Vol 2, Issue 114, p.4.

See also: Artisan Media USA

 

Reflecting in the Garden: c/o Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor, Installation view, 2020 Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK

 

See also: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=kapoor

 My sources:

Campbell-Johnston, R. (2020) As maddening as it is mesmerising, The Times, Visual Art, Friday, July 10, p.10. 

Revely-Calder, C. (2020) The pomposity's still there, but so are the moments of magic, The Daily Telegraph, Friday, July 10, p.25.

c/o Boccioni - "Empty and Full Abstract of a Head"

"The destruction, in 1927, of a number of plaster and mixed-media sculptures by the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a tragic loss for avant-garde art. Of the many ground-breaking sculptures he created between c.1913 and 1915, only a handful remain in existence today. Now, using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccioni’s destroyed works: a volumetric study of a human face titled Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head, and three of the artist’s iconic striding figures. This ground-breaking display enables modern audiences to ‘see’ these lost masterpieces for the very first time."

https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/boccioni-recreating-the-lost-sculptures

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Umberto Boccioni Study for ‘Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head’, 1912	Matt Smith and Anders Rådén Digital rendering (contour) of Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head

See also:

https://www.ardi.se/ 

https://www.uniqueforms.net/


Art Images:
https://www.widewalls.ch/boccioni-recreated-sculptures-estorick-collection/

Coin:
https://twitter.com/CorriereQ/status/1252646124898398209?s=20

Cuttings, Back to the Futurism, Printmaking Today, 2019, 28: 112, p.6.

Forgotten Streams ...

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Forget the Golden Ratio ...	Cristina Iglesias, Forgotten Streams, Bloomberg London
...	it's time to get real ...

Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History,

 "The Renaissance friar Fra Luca Pacioli singled out one of Euclid's irrational ratios - the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio - and proclaimed that it was a metaphor for the Almighty because divine nature is irrational in the sense of being beyond the understanding of rational mortals. Thus Pacioli associated Euclid's ratio with theology. But neither Pacioli nor the ancients associated the ratio with art or beauty.

That association was not made until the early 1800s, when German mathematicians first referred to Euclid's division (sectioning) of the line as "golden"; adopted from them and popularized by Adolf Zeising's New System of Human Proportions (1854), the term became central to the (false) historical claim that ancient, medieval, and Renaissance artists and architects had used the ratio to determine ideal proportions." p.73.

Gamwell (2016).

Lynn Gamwell (2016) Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691165288.

(Thank you to PUP for the review copy - more to follow.)

I often think of Millingford Brook local to me as forgotten. It runs through and under (A58) in Ashton, Wigan, Lancashire, UK.

My source:
Heathcote, E. (2020) Constructions for the city, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 14-15 March, p.16.

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand - c/o Tate St Ives

"From where you stand, what is your own position?

How do you look at something?

What is the story that comes out of what you've seen?"

Otobong Nkanga.

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	Otobong Nkanga, Infinite Yield, 2015. Tapestry; 133 2/5 × 68 9/10 in. (288 × 175 cm);  © Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp.

I've a post still to follow from my trip to Dundee in the summer which included the V&A. On my four day visit last month to Cornwall I visited St Ives and the Tate. I really enjoyed this exhibition with its ecological, colonialism, consumerism, topological and science references. The exhibition ends on 5 January but there's another post for the new year.

Image source https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/03/Talk-Otobong-Nkanga-With-Omar-Kholeif

Merry Christmas to All: Peace.

Psyche: Amid the Mind and Stars

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"The Greek origin of the word psyche (breath) is well known but psyche also referred to life as action or as soul, some special force or spirit which entered living creatures. ... It was natural that when psychology and and medical psychology became established with institutions, they would wish for armorial bearings and it was logical that some representation of psyche should be incorporated. ... Some psychiatrists would consider mind to be an epiphenomenon of brain function, many of whose mysteries will eventually yield to scientific and clinical investigation and most would consider the emergent subjective experiences as important in determining behaviour. The current motto "Let Wisdom Guide" is certainly suitable whatever interpretation or meaning is given to Psyche and whatever direction psychiatry may take in the future." p.429,431. James, F.E. (July 1991). "Psyche". Psychiatric Bulletin. 15 (7): 429–31. doi:10.1192/pb.15.7.429

Artist's concept of the asteroid 16 Psyche which is thought to be a stripped planetary core. Image credit: Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss  Antonio CANOVA (1757 – 1822) Marble - H. 1.55 m; L. 1.68 m; D. 1.01 mMR 1777 Paris, Musée du Louvre © 2010 Musée du Louvre / Raphaël Chipault

Political mythology: Government pronouncements on psyche?

"Sea Things" (and Care Concepts) c/o V&A

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	Sam Jacob creates Sea Things

Happy to say that 'Sea Things', our project with @Sap for @L_D_F has been extended till Oct 19th. Installation in the V&A's entrance and experimental post plastic objects in the Ceramics gallery. @SamJacobStudio pic.twitter.com/2WBXbA5ax0

— Sam Jacob (@_SamJacob) September 25, 2019

Photo:
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/16/sam-jacob-sea-things-installation-london-design-festival/

My source:
The Times, Saturday, 14 September, 2019. p.10.

Orientation - in The World of Care

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?	Antony Gormley, Lost Horizon I, 2008
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Royal Academy of Arts, Antony Gormley

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Edges, Walls, Boundaries, Faces, Corners, Frames... c/o Antony Gormley