Thinking of sand

This is the music to think about sand to

simple stuff

watch this

Summer in the city

someone sent me Roman picture

Always happy to see Roman Signer
Was footering about and was sent this too a picture of the greek riots

Centre,,,place or space?

American sculpture centre...New York

Martin Boyce is going to Venice

Martin Boyce is going to Venice

If anything can be art, then nothing is.

something or nothing......
Picasso once said, "Art is lies that tell the truth." Art requires the suspension of reality or rather the ability to transcend the expected.
more access to nothing
Tristan Tzara. One of the original Zurich Dadaists who helped establish the famed Cabaret Voltaire, Tzara is a father of the movement. He taught his children how
“To make a dadaist poem:”
Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is/
[C]harming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
Maybe this is the answer?

Will I ever get used to this phone?

What to do in your summer holidays?

If you have money......Venice
Where you can see lifetime achievement awards to Yoko Ono I saw in Warsaw last year for the first time and John Baldesseri.

Stewart Home

Link to this HERE

Put a bit of light on the subject

Dan Flavin

We were all looking at Richard Serra

RICHARD SERRA Fernando Pessoa, 2007-2008 Weatherproof steel354 1/2 x 118 1/8 x 8 inches (900.4 x 300 x 20.3 cm)

The sculpture Fernando Pessoa (2007-08) is on view at the Britannia street Gallery, following Gagosian Gallery's presentation of two concurrent exhibitions of new work by Richard Serra in the fall 2008, which were Serra's first exhibitions in London since Weight and Measure was presented in the Duveen Galleries at the Tate Gallery in 1992. Born in 1939, Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of his generation. His groundbreaking sculpture explores the exchange between artwork, site, and viewer. He has produced unparalleled large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings. In the summer of 2008, he conceived Promenade, a course of five steel sculptural elements towering seventeen metres, for MONUMENTA at the Grand Palais in Paris. Other recent projects include the eight-part permanent installation The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2005) and a survey exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (2007). Work comes out of work, an exhibition of works on paper 1989-2008, was presented last yeat at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

50th Venice

Link to amongst others where I first saw Ellen Gallagher

Links to John Armleder

Oldish stuff from the Tate...and there's more from Frieze

Lily van der Stokker

Oliver Mosset

What you can do with a new phone

......not a lot!

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita's large-scale, abstract wall paintings operate at the intersection of Western modernism and African culture. Borrowing strategies of destabilized perception from Op art—a tradition condemned by formalist criticism—and adding narrative and multicultural inflection, Odita both embraces and critiques the modernist tradition. His vast, animated expanses of fractured, rhythmic planes, equally informed by television test band patterns, African textiles, post-colonial discourse, sensory overload, and digital technology, speak to a contemporary experience of dislocation and decenteredness. Born in Nigeria and raised in Ohio, Odili Donald Odita (b. 1966, Enugu, Nigeria; lives Philadelphia and New York) has been developing this body of work for 10 years, at which time he was engaged, along with critic Olu Oguibe and curator Okwui Enwezor, in bringing African and diasporic art practices to critical attention through the publication NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art.

Gabriele Picco at Francesca Minini

Brilliant wee sculptures with stuff and eggs

Still tidying.....

Dan Graham...I saw him in Milan

Ellen Gallagher

I was begining to tidy up and found an old catelogue and I forgot just how much I like Ellen. The link is to her biography - above are a few images

Things that are there but not seen have value

I sent a letter..bla de bla..and on the way I dropped it.
I have been thinking about this
Therefore I have put a message in one of the bottles....but which one?
No reward if you find it just a chance to puff out your chest and feel proud.

Psychedelic or what!

Link to tuning in, on or off...man!
Or some more...am reconstructing my youth how sad is that...stopping now

In a corner or grappling with Jacques Derrida

In the corner of a wood
or maybe the studio is more in the mood
I've painted some bottles I blooming made plenty
Milk ones because they were cheap and were empty
Derrida suggests all marks ecriture
What does it mean I am therefore I am unsure
I thinkI 've created a psychedelic dell
...or is it just a representation of hell...
What is real what is fake
Deconstruct and then remake
You have to be blind to really see
Think two thoughts at once is not easy
A monument can be monumental
and a plastic flower can be elemental
What is a repeat and what a copy
Physically rigid or flacid and floppy
Paregon is more than a border
it frames the work by adding order
Structuralism and access to culture
Be individual and/or live like a vulture

Check this link to Derrida sign and play

Reaching a conclusion...I don't belive it!

I think under this cosh of introspection I realise some of my frustration grows from my inability. In particular I have been thinking about structures and how best to construct them how to anchor things in space, against a wall etc just how to do it...never mind how best to do it.
Ideas are ok but things growing from ideas are not easy- never mind deconstruction I am finding the construction an impediment.
So a way out?
Look for good art construction... who first thought Richard Wilson.

Seen his work in a few exhibitions most recently an exhibition in Grey Studio, Edinburgh last year.
So here are some pictures...interestingly a picture by his dad with a touch of the Sol Le Witt's about it-maybe we are all on the same wave length after all!