April 2012
27 posts
“The seventeen years I lived in New York were very fruitful ones for me. With my paintings, sculptures, installations, and Happenings, I had managed to firmly establish Yayoi Kusama as a major and ever-growing presence in the world of avant-garde art. But of course that road had not been smooth. Every day had ben a whirlwind of apprehension, excitement, anxiety, and struggle. I veered violently between two extremes: the sense of fulfilment an artist gets from creating, and the fierce inner tension that fuels the creativity.”
—INFINITY NET, The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
“WHY
CAN’T
WE
IMAGINE
A
GREY-
HOT?” —Ludwig Wittegstein, Remarks on Colour 1950
CAN’T
WE
IMAGINE
A
GREY-
HOT?” —Ludwig Wittegstein, Remarks on Colour 1950
“… we are presented with objects of an arresting novelty whose why and wherefore engrosses our minds, and fills us with delight and fear. All these objects of modern life create, in the long run, a modern state of mind. Bewilderment seizes us, then, if we bring our eyes to bear on the hold and rotting buildings that form our snail-shell, our habitation, which crush us in our daily contact with them - putrid and useless and unproductive.”
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Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture (1923)
‘RUINS’, Documents on Contemporary Art, edited by Brian Dillon (2011)
whitechapelgallery.com
APC, Colombia
StinkFish and AEON (aka Third World Pirate, Lorenzo Masnah) started APC some 6-7 years ago from a very simple idea: wouldn’t it be cool “make up a crew without rules or defined styles, which could grow and grow as a large family of animals of different races and backgrounds. There were only the two of us for a while; later, friends from different cities and countries join. Today we are about 30 animals in Colombia, Mexico, United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Spain, Holland and Argentina.”
“I am in love with the liminal, third-space, left-over parts which are often right in the middle of the most vital parts of the city, but sometimes tucked away a little more. I like areas where people are doing a lot of walking. Advertising is always trying to place itself a million miles above us, looming down with the shiniest flashiest most disconnected depictions of beauty, just out of reach like the rest of its promises. I find myself trying to get down below that, at eye level, where people are walking and to depict the life that exists here at the bottom edge, our ordinary reality as it remains connected to the ground.”
—SWOON in URBAN ILLUSTRATION BERLIN (street art cityguide)
“I walked around Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg taking photographs of the incredible art of AliCé. Who is AliCé, you ask?”
—a lovely article from andBerlin
