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“The Georgia Negro” by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Jack Pierson

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by Botanical Brothers

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Untitled (2020), Santiago Ydañez

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Richard Artschwager (1923–2013)

Untitled (Quotation Marks) (Alexander 5), 1980

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Bruce Nauman, Pay Attention, 1973.

© 2021 Bruce Nauman / Pictoright Amsterdam / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Day 207 — Skyspace (II)

Commissioned for the de Young Museum’s 2005 reopening is an installation by California artist James Turrell (b. 1943), best known for his visionary work with light. This “skyspace,” entitled Three Gems, is a subterranean work of art that features a view of the sky which highlights changing light and weather conditions outside.

Although Turrell has created other skyspaces, his project for the de Young Museum is his first skyspace to adopt the stupa form. Visitors walk through a short tunnel cut into the hill, and then enter a cylindrical space. At the center of this space is a rough-hewn black-basalt stupa, where, upon entering, viewers sit on a stone bench that runs around the circumference of the skyspace as they view the sky through an oculus in the chamber roof. The varying light and weather conditions outside, subtly alter the perception of the sky’s color and consequently the viewer experience of the artwork.

Photo: Three Gems, James Turrell, de Young Museum, San Francisco

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black-hole  by Alexander Kent

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Julien Opie, Boston Statuettes (female set x 4), 2019

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Mattia Parodi & Piergiorgio Sorgetti, THE MISSING EYE

For sale at Photo Book Store

Witty 2021, Softcover, 1st edition

"Recent studies published by the Cognitive Brain Research have demonstrated, using instruments that measure dream activity, that people blind since birth dream in images. Several hypotheses suggest that these representations are a result of the collaboration between the activity of the visual cortex and the activity of other sensory organs, however it isn’t excluded that the human being has an innate visual memory, parallel and pre-existing to that which develops through the retinal system. Some images seem to be independent from the visual apparatus and even though they appear in dreams, it is still possible to see them.

With which eye do we perceive them?

The Missing Eye is a research that turns the photographic device to visual projections that aren’t deduced from our immediate experience of reality but are the result of the combination of different cognitive paths in which all senses participate in sight. The gaze dissolves itself and the eye becomes a changing object of our perceptions, an abstract organ capable of processing images beyond retinal impulses. The photographic gesture captures the visual mechanism and transcends it, bringing attention to the typical transfigurative mental visions of the dream, sunk in memory and relegated to the unconscious."

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Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art by Suzanne Anker for the Parrish Art Museum

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Daniel Arsham, Fictional Nonfiction: Archaeology, 2019

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Dan Perjovschi

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Jesse Howard, Untitled (000.000 Nothing)

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