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Back2School Reloaded: ExhibitionWork by »Orm«, spotted in former School-Building at night. – Late October 2013. Special thanks to ›Mr. Orm‹ for support.

 

For further information about this exceptional Exhibition, check this: vimeo.com/84318093

Music Link: "The Grid" - Philip Glass, from his score for the Godfrey Reggio film "Koyaanisqatsi". This is a very well done edit of the much longer piece which lasts almost 24 minutes. Here it is a mere 6:40, but more than enough to get the point across with hair-raising and mind blowing immediacy.

 

The word "koyaanisqatsi" is a Hopi word for "life out of balance". Reggio's 1983 film was the first of it's kind and a quantum leap in film making. The director started out with the very original idea to craft a film around real life footage from around the world, focusing first on the quiet solemnity and unhurried elegance of nature and then contrasting it very sharply indeed with the mad rush of human activity, perception and behaviour. The concept was to show just how literally insane the materialistic, consuming and destroying culture of the West is and that it is dangerously out of balance with the natural world.

 

Reggio believed modernized "First" world culture to be sick, as in not well, deep into its core for it's lost connection to the natural rhythms of nature. As its ever demanding maw grows and grows, it eats away at the planet like a cancer. He used the Hopi prophecies about this time as a way to guide the footage, which has no actors, no narration, no plots or story. Real life footage was carefully shot over years and assembled and synched to the music of Philip Glass, whose work Reggio chose for it's enormous power to reflect the themes he wanted to so viscerally display. The finished film footage and the music now are inseparable halves of a complete whole.

 

While a few other directors have taken on Reggio's very original and groundbreaking style and commercial TV has naturally copped his technique, the original "Koyaanisqatsi" still stands as the greatest film of its kind. Not so shocking and breathtaking now as it was back in 1983, the film still hits hard with dizzying accuracy. Yet at the heart of it all, Reggio's is not the voice of condemnation. He looks upon human beings as being caught in the snares of their own creation and feels compassion for them. A lesser mind would have moralized. Reggio does not.

 

I chose this piece as a natural accompaniment to Times Square imagery and because a lot of this segment IS shot in New York and indeed in Times Square. I think it musically reflects the unbelievable rush and chaos of the location, and the wider modern world, beautifully. This very hard to find video is the actual footage of the film to the accompaniment of its intended soundtrack.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPDFeXEMs4

 

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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.

 

A few loose ends but declared done.

Visualization of my permutation series. Title is permutation 033 based on my YIN YANG Permutation some weaks ago. Next stepp, building the real object. Made 2018 by @monochromeandminimal by project:pietern.

The Factory Kitchen (фабрика-кухня), by Ekaterina Maximova (1931). This structure was built in the shape of an hammer and sickle, the kitchen itself was located in the hammer and was connected to the canteen in the sickle through three hallways. Abandoned for several years, renovation works started after my visit (August 2016).

 

Samara, Russia.

 

© Roberto Conte (2016)

 

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Digital, vector. Reused an element for previous illustration.

Namibia, Namib Wüste, Namib-Naukluft-Park

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Die Namib ist mit einem Alter von rund 80 Millionen Jahren die älteste Wüste der Welt und zugleich einer der unwirtlichsten Orte des Planeten. Bei Tagestemperaturen deutlich über 50 °C, Nachttemperaturen von unter 0 °C, jahrzehntelang andauernden Trockenperioden sowie häufigen Sandstürmen sind Pflanzen und Tiere extremen Lebensbedingungen ausgesetzt.

 

Paris, France, le Palais royal. Backdrop of a window display, shot through glass

youtu.be/3m5ohobcKb8

tring Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich

 

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"Gold" Building

www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Go...

Category: Blocks

Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934

Importance: B

LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209

Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3

Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI

District: Bucuresti

Region: Muntenia

 

Imobilul Solly Gold

Blocul "Gold"

www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Bl...

viabucuresti.ro/pe-urmele-lui-marcel-iancu-prin-cartierul...

Categorie: Blocuri/imobile

Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934

Importanta: B

Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209

Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3

Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI

Judet: Bucuresti

Regiune: Muntenia

 

architect Marcel Janco

arhitect Marcel Iancu

 

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Marcel Janco

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco

Marcel Iancu

ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu

 

Marcel Hermann Iancu

Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania

Died: April 21, 1984; Israel

Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli

Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism

 

youtu.be/eB3sU6667t8

Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania

Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest

 

Sourcing or "touch stoning" various 20th Century art movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism without subscribing entirely to any of them specifically. The common thread, perhaps, is a shared sensibility that 'reality' is not wholly approachable from any SINGLE point of view, that what we perceive is cobbled together by an "interpreting" brain working to make a sense-able world for us to navigate.

 

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Music Link: "Sex Goddess" - Jon Hassell and Bluescreen, from their album "Dressing For Pleasure". Speaking of multi-dimensionality and simultaneity of apparently disparate elements, trumpeter / avant garde artist Jon Hassell has made an incredible career out of taking several world music traditions and blending them with the technology of our industrialized world. "Fourth World" he calls it. What you end up with is something constructed from various elements that combine in Hassell's unique sonic alchemy to produce something quite beyond the sum of all his elements.

 

The choice of "Sex Goddess" as the musical link to this piece is a deliberate and ironic choice. I see mannequins as dubious approximations of human beings. They're especially regrettable for their role in literally and figuratively objectifying women with their physical being but also in being "decoys" for the drawing in of consumer "prey", most of whom in the fashion sense, of course, are women. So "Sex Goddess" is used here with tongue pushed firmly into cheek.

 

Here Hassell teams with Techno-Jazz-Funksters "Bluescreen" to blend his Fourth world creations with cutting edge digital jazz/funk. A heady mix.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hymu0veAt4U

 

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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.

 

Visualization of permutation 035 by monochromeandminimal | project:pietern.

Yekaterinburg, Russia.

I tidied it up and stopped short.

rippled cardboard paper lit by LED spot

 

Starting a new series for an exhibition at a museum in my home town taking place from the end of January to March 2016.

 

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Photographic memories of a trip to Berlin.

 

In camera double exposure.

 

Ilford fp4

Ilfosol 3

 

I am glad that this came out because the 1938 was shot through the train window during a platform stop with maybe a minute to get the camera out and take all the readings.

 

I remember the triangle pointing at the ball of the tv tower being on my left so I thought maybe I scanned the negative the wrong way round but the the 1938 would be flipped and it isn’t. Wierd.

Photo of the permutation series. Title is "permutation 049" from monochromeandminimal by project:pietern. Size of the sculpture is 21 x 21 x 3 cm

Abstract. Digital. Vector. Fun

Abstract composition.

Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art which rejected decorative stylization in favor of the industrial assemblage of materials. Founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space.[1]

"Michael Mendez" text abstract "life magazine" dada 1940s 1950s "asemic writing"

 

Buildings of the Russian Defense Sports-Technical Organization (ДОСААФ).

1934.

 

Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Koljadka vom Mädchen und vom Pfau (1916)

Petro Kholodnyi | Petro Cholodnyj (1876 -1930)

Tempera on wood

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

im Gegensatz zum Bild splish splash (I was taking a bath) [www.flickr.com/photos/fiatluchs/17274046991/in/photostream/]

mit kurzer Belichtungszeit aufgenommen, so dass auf dem Bild eindeutig die taxonomische Zuordnung zum gefrorenen Eisenlöwenzahn erkennbar ist

 

comments and constructive criticism always welcome.

That takes care of the monos for a while.

Photo of the permutation series. Title is "permutation 045 big" from monochromeandminimal by project:pietern. Size of the sculpture is 29 x 29 x 2,7 cm

Part of the larger "Manhattan" series, this image starts an inner sequence of Times Square imagery. There are 10 of them.

 

Times Square is unequivocal humanity. It is full on, excessive, dramatic, dangerous at times, fascinating, brash, abrasive, beautiful, mind-boggling, outrageously overcrowded and if anything could be said to represent America, it just might be this almost unbelievable intersection of New York streets and peoples from every corner of the world.

 

I went for full-out colour on this one, to kick off the "Times Square Sequence". The riot of colour seems to reflect the virtual cacophony of visual, psychological, ethnic, situational and physical elements all jostling like excited electrons in this cauldron of humanity.

 

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Music Link: "Karn Evil 9 - First Impression Part 2", Emerson, Lake & Palmer - from their album, "Brain Salad Surgery". The power, future-tech machinery of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1973 monsterpiece and it's shocking, huckster come-on seems to be just the ticket to launch the Times Square Sequence.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSTe9uit48

 

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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.

 

A crane can be a beautiful thing in its own right. Here I highlight the crane structure against a deep blue sky.

 

In this artistic context I am working within the tradition of the Futurists and Constructivism, early 20th century movements that lauded the machine age and saw a deep link between the aesthetic and social functions.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents Edward Krasiński (1925-2004), a leading figure in the Polish avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. A really surprising and great exhibition.

 

More Edward Krasiński at

johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2017/07/edward-krasinski.html

Finishing up and or calling it quits on some old work including tis one.

a black and white photo of a wooden structure with a roof made of planks and a bird on top of the structure, Alexander Rodchenko, constructivism, angular, a black and white photo

Visualization of the permutation series: Permutation 041 - hyperbolic paraboloid cube 2. Sculpture @monochromeandminimal by project:pietern

Abstract composition. Digital vector.

Nikolai Suetin constructivist design cupboard in nowadays Petersburg kitchen. The original glass is preserved.

youtu.be/3m5ohobcKb8

tring Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich

 

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"Gold" Building

www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Go...

Category: Blocks

Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934

Importance: B

LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209

Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3

Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI

District: Bucuresti

Region: Muntenia

 

Imobilul Solly Gold

Blocul "Gold"

www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Bl...

viabucuresti.ro/pe-urmele-lui-marcel-iancu-prin-cartierul...

Categorie: Blocuri/imobile

Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934

Importanta: B

Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209

Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3

Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI

Judet: Bucuresti

Regiune: Muntenia

 

architect Marcel Janco

arhitect Marcel Iancu

 

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Marcel Janco

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco

Marcel Iancu

ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu

 

Marcel Hermann Iancu

Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania

Died: April 21, 1984; Israel

Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli

Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism

 

youtu.be/eB3sU6667t8

Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania

Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest

 

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