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Got Art?

Expresso Cafe near St Andrews Hall is looking for art to hang on their walls.

I’m going to give a couple paintings, you should too.

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I have things to post here but I’ve been busy gradating from university and editing a zine. You can follow my zine blog if you search for junkiejuice.tumblr.com c: its stupid and fun and if you take life too seriously then you’ll probably hate it. HA!

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wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Kurt Cobain (via saythatyouremember)

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Bruce Nauman - Early performance videos 1968-9. Simplistic approach, almost like test reels made for the artists reference; shows the development of ideas and practice, the importance of experiments. The works are interactions between the artists body and the space surrounding, raising questions around the physical body as a material and  signifier. In ‘pinch-cheek’, Nauman takes the familiar  the ordinary, and distorts it using the framing of the camera, to give a grotesque appearance, something alien to us, but completely of us. 

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Alvin Lucifer - I Am Sitting In A Room

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Giuseppe Penone - Spazio de Luce (Space of Light), (2012) bronze cast and goldleaf.

Exploring human relation with nature, this piece is a reflection on an act by Penone 40 years previous.  'All the years of a tree plus one' (Penone, G: 1969) was a wax study in which wax was pressed against a tree trunk. This resulted in imprints not only of the tree bark, but of the artists finger prints, showing the relationship of the action. The material has a memory, a memory of an instance.

A simple technique that raises questions about our own relationships to nature; it draws mention to the similarities and the concern that we are all as one. We rely on the tree to breathe, in the same way that the tree depends on us. I think this is a very delicate work, a kind which requires a much quieter consideration. 

Hopefully I'll get to see the piece in the flesh, as I believe it is currently being exhibited until August 2013 at the Whitechapel Gallery.

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My most recent work and exhibition 'Always' as featured at Nunn's Yard. Nunn's Yard is a local gallery space in Norwich for hire. Tony is a dude, recommended. 

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Bal develops an understanding of matter as being in itself temporal and of time as living duration, both being essentially continuous and open-ended. She uses these understandings to look specifically at a language of porous and changing matter at work in Christensen’s art, and at the ways the works visualize or mobilize experiences of time that challenge the monumental time of history. Building her argument in this way on a Bergsonian understanding of matter and time, Bal develops an innovative vocabulary for art. If we understand matter as being temporal and open-ended in its existence-in-time-and-change, it becomes possible to move away from understanding sculpture in terms of its thingness and see matter as something that is an ‘event’.

Anke Bangma, Bergen National Academy of Arts  (via saythatyouremember)

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Jeanette Christensen - The Birth of Liquid Desire (1997) Installation with plywood and glass

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Detail of Jeanette Christensen - I-is a variable size/ I-is a figure of variable scale (2008) Installation of 7 benches covered in concrete, mirrors and neon tubing.

Such a lovely concept.

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Jeanette Christensen - I-is a variable size/ I-is a figure of variable scale (2008) Installation of 7 benches covered in concrete, mirrors and neon tubing.

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Eva Hesse - Untitled (Ice Piece) (1969) Fiberglass and polyester resin over cloth-covered wire

Initial thoughts about length being representational of time; how long do you expect to live for? How can you estimate, plan or predict - life is as long as a piece of string, except you don't hold the scissors. 

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American artist who works with paper printing and pulping and has an interest in mathematics. Link is too her Locus series in which she folds and then prints onto the paper - each fold dictated by the fold previous.

I think these works are really beautiful, due to the impermanence of the material and the seemingly simplistic approach. Has a quietness about it.

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Peter Fischli, David Weiss: Questions (2002-3) slide projection, 1215 slides, 15 slide-projectors, 15 lenses, 8 dissolve units.

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Fischli + Weiss: Untitled (Tate) (1993-2006) Acrylic paint on polyurethane foam and mixed media.

At a first glance this piece could be overlooked or mistaken as a work in progress or even a construction site. I went to actually see this piece some 4 or 5 years ago now and on discovery that everything installed in the piece was handmade and painted by the artists, I was simply blown away. 

A kinetic piece in opposition to this static work, but from the same artists is 'The Way Things Go', which I would recommend everyone views. It has influenced so much in the world of advertising and for art as experiment and play, and the piece itself is entirely enthralling and complicated. Honestly, it's worth a look.

My practice is gearing towards a more process based methodology, which is why I've uploaded this image and this extract about the duo. I also like the notion that these items are, in essence, entirely useless - they do not serve function other than representation.

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Douglass Howell Paper sample from a Letter (1977)

Douglass Howell is an American paper maker. I have recently ordered a book containing a variety of his paper samples which I can not wait to touch. Mmm!

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Jason Hackenwerth - Orgasmoebic (2006), latex balloons, helium. Solo exhibition, LA

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