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Different configurations of collected steel sculptural forms. Two being magnetic allowing for reconfiguration at the whim of the owner/curator. The diameter of the round base is about 200mm.
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Assemblage/ sculptural low relief.
485mm by 485mm.
In this piece I was looking at balancing vertical lines with gentle curved elements at 90 degrees to set up a visual oscillation and playing with painting some elements and leaving others to achieve the same effect.
«Mascarón de Proa», Néstor Baterretxea (1986), Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, España.
Creada en 1986 es de hierro, tiene unas dimensiones de 450x100x300 centímetros y pesa aproximadamente 3.500 kilos.
Esta obra evoca a un mascarón de proa en movimiento o una grúa. Está constituida por diversas planchas metálicas, responde a los planteamientos del arte vasco de vanguardia y se caracteriza por su severidad plástica, la abstracción, el constructivismo y el análisis sistemático y constante de las formas.
Created in 1986, it is made of iron, has dimensions of 450x100x300 centimeters and weighs approximately 3,500 kilos.
This work evokes a moving figurehead or a crane. It is made up of various metal plates, responds to the approaches of avant-garde Basque art and is characterized by its plastic severity, abstraction, constructivism and systematic and constant analysis of forms.
Old man combing his hair in the reflection of "Krasniye Vorota" metro station vestibule. This vestibule was desidned by Russian Constructivist architect Nikolai Ladovsky in 1935.
Moscow.
In preparation for an exhibition at Museum Voswinckelshof in Dinslaken, Germany. Proud to be able to participate.
No 14 Krāsotāju Street is a perfect example of the constructive style. The house was built according to a design by the engineer-architect Arturs Braunfelds, which was approved on 16 October 1934. It was commissioned by the owners of the "Kalna Veģeri" of the Veselauska parish, Jānis and Berta Zilveri. The building was completed on 3 August 1935. The architect A. Braunfelds was one of the founders of the pure Constructivism/Functionalism style in Riga. This is a four-storey building with small two-room apartments and a bathroom. The building has a two-level pediment, which is flanked and emphasised by eaves, forming horizontal lines on the façade, together with eaves between the floors and recesses in the plasterwork at window level. The sunken buttress in the centre of the house, with a vertical three-storey window to light the staircase, divides the building into equal parts.
Oil on canvas
Fedir Krychevskyi (Krychevsky) | Fedir Krytschewskyj | Федір Кричевський (1879 - 1947)
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Currently in the exhibition "In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine" in the Lower Belvedere in Vienna
"This comprehensive exhibition is the first presentation outside Ukraine to explore the development of modern art in the cultural centers of Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv during the first half of the 20th century. Modernism in Ukraine is revealed to be both international and avant-garde. From Jugendstil to Constructivism, the exhibition tells the tempestuous and fascinating history of cultural identity in Ukraine." www.belvedere.at/en/eye-storm
Naturally any staircase is a sort of machine to climb up or to descend, but in the best Beaux Arts interpretation it is a display, it is a dance; and it certainly enriches the conception of human surroundings and the body if architecture can bring in everyday experience a sort of ballet-like quality—semi-poetic choice—in what otherwise is a purely utilitarian conception… the purpose is not only to climb up and down—it is also to enjoy it in a sort of organic way. Lubetkin
Grade II* listed. Block of 130 flats and maisonettes. First scheme designed 1946, present design from 1949 onwards, built 1951-4, by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin.
Bevin Court was the last of three schemes by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin for Finsbury Metropolitan Borough, where they had first been commissioned to design new housing in 1937. It replaced bombed housing in Holford Square, and Lubetkin was particularly interested in the fact that it had been home in 1902-3 to Lenin with whose ideals he had strong sympathies.The final irony came with a demand to re-christen the block after Britain's first foreign secretary of the Cold War; Francis Skinner commented that they only had to redesign two letters of the sign.
The staircase is his most idiosyncratic post-war achievement. Of all his work it best demonstrates his belief that, 'a staircase is a dance'. It betrays Lubetkin's background in Russian Constructivism, in the work of Melnikov and Leonidov, but can be seen too as a piece of Baroque geometry given the added power of concrete construction. Lubetkin was fascinated by the geometry of what he called the 'baroque' squares of the area, and this was a personal response to what was in fact Georgian town planning.
The stairs were painted this marvellous shade of red in 2014, which was the original colour, prior to that it was white.
Used as a location in Esio Trot & The Little Drummer Girl.
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Times Square is an amazing place to watch the human animal in one of its favourite habitats - with lots more of them around. The variety of nationalities and cultures is rich indeed, creating a wildly varying weave of colours, codes of dress, body language, accent, idiom and nuance. Here is the 21st Century village square, the market at the core of the traditional city or town, the world over.
Forms, styles and details may change but this is the social human animal still gathering in groups while both loving it and hating it all the same.
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Music Link: "Voiceprint" ( edit ) - Jon Hassell, from his album "City: Works of Fiction". The re-release of the classic 90's album comes with a previously unreleased live set done in New York City and a collection of edits and remixes of the original tracks by various artists. This is a mash-up if one of those. Hassell is no stranger to digital culture and in fact, he's one of its most eloquent proponents.
Here the Latin rhythms and Hip Hop vocals combine with digital film footage and effects to produce a boldly contemporary "folk art" of an urban 21st Century.
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A "tumbled" image of a statue of Perseus holding up the head of Medusa at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After a visit to the wonderful rooftop terrace we spent some time viewing a few of the wings of the museum in the last hour before it closed. We came upon this large, long, very tall room with these wonderful Classical statues in them. It was fortuitous that it was evening and the West window to this particular gallery let in the most beautiful evening light. The way if fell on this statue made it too hard to resist photographing.
The bright Perseus, holding up the dark head of Medusa, an embodiment of evil, against the dark background seemed a beautiful metaphor to me of the very Greek triumph of Light over Dark.
The 'multiplication' of Perseus and his presence in several frames of time and space suggests a certain 'persistence' of the metaphor of Light over Dark, of Plato's "Beauty" as proportioned out in the geometries of Classical Greek sculpture.
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From the south garden of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, near Harlem. In this garden is one of the strangest sculptures I think I've ever seen. There's very little information posted at the site and one has to go to a cafe across the street from the Cathedral to buy a book on the Cathedral to find anything out about it. It's such an OLD thing, the book, that it looks like it was printed in the early 60's and has never been updated. And then there's always Wikipedia ....
The fountain was installed in 1985 and was created by Sculptor in Residence, Greg Wyatt. It's a religious depiction of the struggle between St. Michael and Satan, which in broader terms simply means the battle of good and evil or ... light and dark.
Although the Cathedral is clearly Christian, Episcopalian to be exact, the circle around the Fountain is fascinating for it's depiction of figures such as Socrates, Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and John Lennon. The lyrics to Lennon's "Imagine" are also posted there.
That statue itself is a VERY Surrealistic mix of various sea and forest creatures with Archangel Michael doing battle with churning mass below him. Consciousness versus the Subconscious?
I chose to call these images taken at the Cathedral "Postcards from the Divine" as a pun on it's location, the spiritual content of the imagery and because this initial image, when it was completed, reminded me of old, colourized post cards.
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Music Link: "Jane Seymour" - Rick Wakeman, from his album, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".
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