If you love art, architecture, magazines and a really good idea to link all of these together the video below will be up your alley. For me, it’s up my alley, coming into my kitchen, and making me eggs. The cover of the November issue of Novum was inspired by Buckminster Fuller and created by the German design agency Paperlux. Make sure you watch to the end to see how the cover is folds. It looks magical.
via MagCulture.org
BlackFlash friend Kiana Hayeri posted this video on rocket hub to help fund her project Your Veil is a Battleground. The project will be showing at I.M.A. gallery in toronto in March. To donate go to visit her project page.
The Gagosian Gallery has decided to offer punch cards under the name “Spot Challenge” for their newest exhibit. The cards will allow high-art connoisseurs to a stamp every time they visit the “Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011” exhibition at one of the 11 world-wide Gagosian Galleries. Once your card is punched 11 times — “voila” — you are now the proud owner of a print created, signed and personalized by Damien Hirst himself. Looking online I found a signed print by Hirst, which sold in 2011 for $1,184.71 CDN. I did a bit of research and found that if I left today, from Saskatoon, on a trip to all 11 galleries it would only cost me around $6,461.42 CDN (flights only). Tack on another $3,000 for hotel rooms, taxi cabs, and champagne baths and $9,461.42 seems pretty reasonable. The only anticipated dissapointment lingering in the back of my mind is that the card that I will guard with my life in an effort to get stamped will turn out the be the print that upon my arrival in Hong Kong will get signed by none other than Damien himself. And he will hand it back to me with a personal message written on the back saying “Sucka.” At the time of this post 11 people had completed the challenge.
Hirst explains his painting in this interview with Nowness.com
With only two weeks left to get your submission in to our Optic Nerve image contest it seems like a good time to visit last year’s winner’s website. Kiana Hayeri won last year’s contest with the photo seen on her website as the image representing the series “Your Veil is a Battleground.” While Kayeri has taken the series offline her new series “May god be with you, my daughter…”, (2010-present) of photographs taken in Tehran and Toronto is equally interesting.
BlackFlash Friend Alex McLeod continues to expand his digital universe. In Ghost Forrest McLeod creates a winter scene with an Aurora Borealis-like event hovering and fluxing over half-constructed cabins. The video feels old and new at the same time. While his style is very distinct the video combined with the audio by Emily Power (Thanh Phu +Greg Greber) reminds me of playing The Legend of Zelda on Nintendo 64. Perhaps it is because this video is less post-apocalyptic than his previous work and more whimsical. Whatever the case I like the nostalgic feeling of the video and am excited to see his work is evolving. To see more of Alex McLeod’s videos visit his vimeo page http://vimeo.com/alexmcleod Read more
I am a sucker for Art:21 so I was excited to see the trailer for the new season (the trailer was posted to youtube yesterday). Season 6 looks good with portions of episodes focusing on Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovic, Catherine Opie and many other artist. I was most surprised and excited to see that Canadian artist David Altmejd will be part of season 6. The sixth season of Art:21 premiers April 13, 2012 on PBS. Read more
I am a sucker for Art:21 so I was excited to see the trailer for the new season (the trailer was posted to youtube yesterday). Season 6 looks good with portions of episodes focusing on Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovic, Catherine Opie and many other artist. I was most surprised and excited to see that Canadian artist David Altmejd will be part of season 6. The sixth season of Art:21 premiers April 13, 2012 on PBS.
Laurel Nakadate seems to be popping up everywhere. I recently read an interview with her in New York Magazine and she was also featured on the Guardian website as one of their artists of the week. In this video created by Fader magazine she talks about her show at MOMA P.S.1 and her project Catalogue of Tears where she took a photograph of herself each day for a year crying.
This is the time year where lists and opinions circulate. In the spirit of year end lists here is our list of highlights from other best of lists. We hope you enjoy it. Happy New Year. Click on the link to each publication to view their entire list.
• Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine: Christian Marclay ”The Clock”
This video of Kitty Scott’s talk On Curatorial Intelligence was posted to Vimeo by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. The talk took place in Toronto October 30, 2011 as part of Art Toronto. The video come in at around one hour but if you would like a little highlight here is Scott’s list that defines curatorial intelligence:
- Work closely with artists and provide the best conditions posible for them and their work listen to them and protect their vision.
- Be international in your outlook but always keep the local and national in view.
- If you are building a national collection make sure to buy works, if you can, by international peers. Research: read books, magazines, journals and the internet. See as many exhibitions as possible.
- Value the object. Look at it again and again and again and again.
- Remain open and curious, but at the same time maintain a critical attitude.
- Write.
- Do not fear large institutions and do not be afraid to ask questions of them.
- Take risks, experiment, support and buy new work by emerging artists.
- Know the market.
- Be transparent when teaching other about curating and be prepared to reveal doubt and complexity. So much of curatorial work is hard to see and difficult to understand.
- Be passionate and love what you do in the field of contemporary art.
Kitty Scott is the Director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, a post she has held since 2007. Read more
