Kazan cats were originally appointed by Catherine the Great to guard the Winter Palace and the Hermitage in St Petersburg
Friday, 13 September 2013
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Carpets of Destruction / Matthew Day Jackson
"The power to create and the equal compulsion to destroy"
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Body Highways / Matthew Day Jackson
Celestial beings beneath the night sky on the Moon's surface
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Les Bourgeois de la Lune / Matthew Day Jackson
This reference to Rodin's Les Bourgeois de Calais is modelled from a smartphone photo and printed into a mesh model and covered with compressed, chemically identical lunar dust.
"a series of clicks remake the world"
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Recycled Pieta / Matthew Day Jackson
A modern day fossil, this reference to Michelangelo's Pieta is modelled from a smartphone photo and printed from cement aggregate containing the refuse of New York City.
"a series of clicks remake the world"
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Breathing Paintings - Voids of Simon Hantai
Pliages
of
When Hantai unfettered the plied canvases from bondage and freed them to breathe, they revealed unexpected images of patterns and surprising arbitrary shapes...
Sculptural Paintings of Simon Hantai
Panses
sculptural paintings
of
"Carving into colour, it might itself be understood as a quasi-sculptural process... the carefully modelled central figure stands out powerfully from the painting giving
the illusion of three-dimensionality... the painted areas' surprisingly sculptural masses are forms as if cut out against the nonpainted far more than internally cut or interrupted by the nonpainted"
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
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