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Selected photos and materials from the studio of Francis Bacon.
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Le Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
I headed south to le Cimetière Montparnasse. After the Paris churchyards closed in the 18th century, a full three quarters of a century before the English closed their urban churchyards, four great cemeteries were laid out to the north, east, south and west of the city. Pere Lachaise is the most famous, Montmartre the most aesthetically pleasing, but Montparnasse probably the most interesting. I spent about three hours and three hundred photographs pottering about. Some of the famous graves are easy to find because they are well documented, and visitors have placed tributes on them. For example, the first grave I went in search of, Samuel Beckett's, has metro tickets placed on it by visitors as a mark of having waited for something.
I already knew where Beckett's grave was, but two others in the same section were more difficult, as I did not have exact locations. I eventually found the grave of Phillipe Noiret, an actor I very much admired particularly for his role in my favourite film, Cinema Paradiso, but also for his role in Le Cop, which has criminally never had a DVD release with English subtitles. There were no public tributes on it, merely a plaque from his wife saying 'pour mon Cher Philippe' and a picture of a horse. While I was photographing it, four gendarmes, two men and two women, passed behind me and came across to see why I was photographing it. "Noiret!" exclaimed one of the men, and then "mais pourquoi le cheval?" wondered one of the women. But they didn't stop for me to explain, for I had read an article about Noiret about fifteen years previously in a copy of La Nouvelle Observateur while staying in a hotel in Boulogne, and I knew that he had bred horses in his spare time.
The other grave I had hoped to find in this section was that of Susan Sontag, but I couldn't track it down.
The joint headstone of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir is easily found by the main entrance, and I thought it rather sweet that they were remembered together. Despite all their efforts for existentialism and feminism, it was like a headstone in a quiet English churchyard which might have 'reunited' or 'together in eternity' inscribed on it. I think he wasn't pleasant company, and while she was certainly more intelligent than he was she made intellectual arrogance respectable. I photographed their headstone more out of interest than admiration.
Admiration was at the heart of my search for a gravestone lost in sections 6 and 7 which I think is not found often. It is for the surrealist photographer Man Ray. I was delighted to find it after barely 20 minutes searching. He designed it himself, and in his own handwriting into the cement it says 'unconcerned, but not indifferent', which could be taken as rebuff to Satre and his circle I suppose. Charmingly, beside it like the other half of a book is a photograph of him with his wife and the inscription 'Juliet Man Ray 1911-1991, together again'. Enough to leave De Beauvoir spluttering into her Pernod.
You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.
2018-02-10 IFLY - LXXX You III Kibbee Gallery Atlanta
IFLY - LXXX You III.
One night art performance. Music and dancing. Fun for all.
In this mix of musical mayhem and merriment is the ongoing performance by Erin Vaiskauckas, "Embrace which requires group participation.
Saturday, Feb 10, 6-10pm
Here is the serious:
- LXXX YOU is a rotating group of artists and friends founded by Mike Stasny and George Long. Prompted by party motifs and the parody of human life, LXXX YOU's performance and installation work lampoons social experiences by inviting viewers into a surreal world. Primarily working as hyper-real costumed DJ’s, LXXX YOU has provided entertainment for the Hambidge Auction, the opening of Ponce City Market, Burnaway Auction, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Eide Magazine Anniversary Party, MOCA GA, Marcia Wood Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery, WonderFarm, and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center’s ART PARTY.
Here is the fun:
Who likes potato chips? EVERYONE! You wanna hide your apple jack in a stack of grilled cheese sandwiches? You wanna read a book on the history of existentialism while YouTube-ing vintage Energizer battery commercials? Yeah! I know! Life is NEAT! We have all been there...
Listen... Let's get serious... Eating Cookie Crisp is a REAL thing and nothing beats what's REAL.
If you want FREE DUMB.
If you want INDIE PEN DANCE.
If you want to continue the life you are living but without the self hate and need to put your "no no" in the "downstairs" of a manatee... Join us? No questions asked. We've all been there. Put a battery in this...Please, can I charge my cell phone in that... Fu*#... I just broke a guitar string and my dad don't know nuthin' about rocking hard dead center. We ALL want to take a fun time special shower with hot people. We all want to know, "Where did my pants go?" Shoot man, just last week I put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it up. WAIT A SEC... Didn't I meet you at that party? See you soon... lets do this again... No problem.
WE, LXXX YOU
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Bathed in soft light, she gazes through the window, yearning for freedom and the world beyond—tempting yet frightening.
My sister Davi's Existential Angst
Mendocino County, California
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The Diva is here! Tonight legendary Juliette Greco concerts in Amsterdam. A small tribute for our friend G.
French postcard by Editions du Globe (EDUG), no. 223. Photo: Studio Harcourt, Paris.
French actress and chanson singer Juliette Gréco (1927) was the muse of the existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Later she became the protégée of film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her in his films.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy), 1946, cast 1964, bronze, 175.6 x 41 x 41.9 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) © estate of the artist
from the permanent display of the Batliner Collection at Albertina, Vienna
for educational purpose only
please do not use without permission
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
Skipping through Dystopia on way to Utopia
A lone figure moves with an unsettling grace in the dim twilight of a decaying city, where the remnants of civilisation stand as silent witnesses to their demise. Each step taken amidst the desolation seems to mock the essence of existence as if moving forward is a futile rebellion against the oppressive weight of being. The air is thick with the stench of rust and decay, a tangible reminder of the absurdity that permeates this forsaken world.
As the figure advances, the surrounding gloom intensifies, the shadows growing longer and more oppressive. The skeletal remains of the old world loom ominously, their presence a stark reminder of the inescapable reality of existence. Yet, amidst this suffocating despair, there is a fleeting, almost imperceptible shift where the oppressive darkness gives way to a horizon bathed in a cold, indifferent light. The figure pauses, gazing back at the path traversed, a journey marked by the relentless confrontation with the absurdity of being. In this moment, there is no utopia, no redemption, only the stark, unyielding reality of existence and the solitary figure's acknowledgment of it.
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Robert Indiana
One through Zero
Stainless steel
ART BASEL 2009
Robert Indiana is born in New Castle, Indiana and later relocated to Indianapolis where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School. He moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems".
In 1962, Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery hosted Robert Indiana's first New York solo exhibition.
He has since enjoyed solo exhibitions at over 30 museums and galleries worldwide. Indiana's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including sweetMOMA jesus, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Brandeis Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Los Angeles County Museum, California, among many many others. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, and, his best known example, LOVE
Gopa was recommending Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar….
| Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read-and finally, it all makes sense!
I loved the Kindle sample. A line in it: "It's questions all the way down" reminds me of a sex seminar, where the speaker asks: "Are there any more questions?" A voice pipes up from the back (where else): "Are there any more answers?"!
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Felt that the Old Mother was giving me a hint that i should buy it with that platypus in milk on the counter :-)
As the Kindle edition was costing USD 11.99 (~INR 545 or more, based on the exchange rate) and the one on Flipkart was going for INR 511 along with a wait of 30 days, i went for the Kindle edition w/o further ado.
Update on 25.FEB.2011 (FRI)
This is one hel-luv-a book. Though some of the jokes / takes are కుళ్ళు (PJs) and i have read others after being on the Net since 1995, i really enjoyed the rest. A sample:
* When folks started believing in reason (advocated by Descartes) instead of the divine source, they were putting Descartes before the source.
* A Jew is having a lunch-break on a park bench, when a blind guy joins him. The Jew gives him a matzo, the blind guy feels it, and says: "Who writes this crap?"
* Nurse: There's an invisible man in the waiting room.
Doctor: Tell him I can't see him.
From the front cover of my album "Carnal" (same name of the picture, 2013). Check out the album here: asepticvoid.bandcamp.com/album/carnal
While paying tremendous amounts of attention today in "The History of Existentialism" I doodled out this non-lining, mostly sans-serif set of numerals on some Kierkegaard. I am quite fond of the little guys. Does anyone know of a font with a numeral set that lines like this?
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
Le Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
I headed south to le Cimetière Montparnasse. After the Paris churchyards closed in the 18th century, a full three quarters of a century before the English closed their urban churchyards, four great cemeteries were laid out to the north, east, south and west of the city. Pere Lachaise is the most famous, Montmartre the most aesthetically pleasing, but Montparnasse probably the most interesting. I spent about three hours and three hundred photographs pottering about. Some of the famous graves are easy to find because they are well documented, and visitors have placed tributes on them. For example, the first grave I went in search of, Samuel Beckett's, has metro tickets placed on it by visitors as a mark of having waited for something.
I already knew where Beckett's grave was, but two others in the same section were more difficult, as I did not have exact locations. I eventually found the grave of Phillipe Noiret, an actor I very much admired particularly for his role in my favourite film, Cinema Paradiso, but also for his role in Le Cop, which has criminally never had a DVD release with English subtitles. There were no public tributes on it, merely a plaque from his wife saying 'pour mon Cher Philippe' and a picture of a horse. While I was photographing it, four gendarmes, two men and two women, passed behind me and came across to see why I was photographing it. "Noiret!" exclaimed one of the men, and then "mais pourquoi le cheval?" wondered one of the women. But they didn't stop for me to explain, for I had read an article about Noiret about fifteen years previously in a copy of La Nouvelle Observateur while staying in a hotel in Boulogne, and I knew that he had bred horses in his spare time.
The other grave I had hoped to find in this section was that of Susan Sontag, but I couldn't track it down.
The joint headstone of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir is easily found by the main entrance, and I thought it rather sweet that they were remembered together. Despite all their efforts for existentialism and feminism, it was like a headstone in a quiet English churchyard which might have 'reunited' or 'together in eternity' inscribed on it. I think he wasn't pleasant company, and while she was certainly more intelligent than he was she made intellectual arrogance respectable. I photographed their headstone more out of interest than admiration.
Admiration was at the heart of my search for a gravestone lost in sections 6 and 7 which I think is not found often. It is for the surrealist photographer Man Ray. I was delighted to find it after barely 20 minutes searching. He designed it himself, and in his own handwriting into the cement it says 'unconcerned, but not indifferent', which could be taken as rebuff to Satre and his circle I suppose. Charmingly, beside it like the other half of a book is a photograph of him with his wife and the inscription 'Juliet Man Ray 1911-1991, together again'. Enough to leave De Beauvoir spluttering into her Pernod.
You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.
PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías
Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004
"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.
Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.
"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.
Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004
"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.
These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.
"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
Kunstindustrimuseet. The Danish Museum of Art and Design. (Used to be Frederiks Hospital where Kierkegaard died at.)
Café de Flore
Another existentialist haunt (Camus and Sartre) but yet even more intimidating and expensive than its competition and neighbour, Café Les Deux Magots. Next time I'll attempt it if I have company.
St.Germain-des-Pres, Paris
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The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 886.
French actress and chanson singer Juliette Gréco (1927) was the muse of the existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Later she became the protégée of film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her in his films.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Holy_Ghost,_Copenhagen
Helligaandskirken: The city's oldest church is where Kierkegaard was baptized, and he frequented the building for mass throughout his life. It was destroyed in 1728, rebuilt in the 1880s, and is now one of the best-maintained Renaissance-style buildings in the area.
Helligaandskirken; www.helligaandskirken.dk. The Helligaandshuset, the monastery that adjoins this church, is the oldest church building in Copenhagen, dating back to the beginning of the 15th century, and the best-preserved medieval building in the city. Part of the church was destroyed by fire in 1728, and it was reconstructed in 1880 in a Renaissance style. Here Kierkegaard was baptized, and he continued to frequent the church throughout his life, where he could steal glances at the married Regine.
Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy), 1946, cast 1964, bronze, 175.6 x 41 x 41.9 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) © estate of the artist
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller
Some have said it's the ultimate image to represent existentialism, some have argued it would be a great advert to highlight the effects of child abuse, some have even suggested it represents how adults are expected to repress how they really feel and some have said its just plain weird. To me, a beautiful way to show your child you will always hold them dearly in your heart.
A strangely philosophical find in the middle of the road toward the end of the brutal Josephine/Arlington Street climb at the start of Pittsburgh's Pedal PGH ride.
via Instagram ift.tt/2bJCJSh
The Imago Theatre perform and fittingly open Silhouettes, The Art Institute of Portland's fashion show with their unique dance style. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape.
Learn more about Imago Theatre: www.imagotheater.com
Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland: www.artinstitutes.edu/portland
Photo: Lulu Hoeller