the importancy of traveling for artists

if you enjoy marcel duchamp's art and want to know more details about his art and life, a book, the _exiles of marcel duchamp_, was just published, were the author t.j. demos try to study the relations and complexity of duchamp's works in connection to his time in exile. t.j. demos starts his investigations from the time that duchamp left paris to the south of france in preparation to go to america. here the author compares thoughtfully walter benjamin and duchamp's valises. he goes on looking at the time that duchamp went to argentina and why he decide to leave america for a while. reading this book we may understand more about marcel duchamp's oeuvre. the book is a detailed research about duchamp's art making and his ideas in this time of traveling. the author tries to states how crucial was this time in exile for duchamp's entire art practices.

another good publication on duchamp and his legacy is the octuber magazine titled the duchamp effect. it is even very informative and amusing, just read the conversation  between benjamin buchloh and andy warhol or the one with robert morris.

views on the tomorrow of fashion and art

give it up to so last season


daniel birnbaum writes, in texte zur kunst _The future of art is money. And the future has arrived:...(nothing new, acctually, in this statement)
some others critics from germany, after seen the documenta 12 and the venice biennale, became so depressed that are saying "the future of art has no future" maybe they are right. what we saw all over europe mega art summer is _so last season_.
perhaps fashion is the future of art, like it's past was, in the last half century. if we keep orientating ourselves through art centers like new york and london. just take the "white cube" as reference.

as we know, by the latest news, auction houses like sotheby's and christies are about to buy big and important galleries. that way will be easier to have control and influence in the production and marketing of art.

maybe will be more art and art statements made in fashion than in so called art places these days. just take a look at the _so last season_ creations.



remember? duchamp said _ try to make art without making an art piece.
understanding duchamp

air and site specific installations

an air tunnel or "Plastikluftdurchgang" was constructed to allow the air to go through a home without invade it. that is what
carl palm did at exhibition-space TSCHOPERL in frankfurt. we will have more on that, with carl himself, later on.

to realise this work carl had to remove the windows for the entire time of the installation. that mean britta and klaus, the residents of teh space and producers of the exhibition, must endure the elements. april in germany is know for be a very funny weather month.



carl is back from chine, and here is what here want to say about his site specific work "Plastik Luft Durch Gang"

"Plastik Luft Durch Gang" has its starting point in a sculpture, constructed out of plastic foil, metal strings and screws, forming and following the measures of the two connected window, sized down in three steps thru the possibilities and physio- practical restrictions of the apartment, the inhabitants living conditions and a special care for the air.

I thought of the construction as a possibility for the air to transport thru the building in both directions without mixing with the air from the inside. I like the thought of separating something un- separable, dreamlike, magical thought or feelings giving you the sense of something impossible and awkward. Constructed with partly raw material and in some cases in a brutal way. The installation takes over almost the hole space/ apartment and suggests the visitors to move around and under it if they want to experience its total size or function.

A note on the two doors leading out of the apartment told people to keep the doors closed to enhance the fact of separation of air which created a super warm, low oxygen- leveled space with torture like beautiful sights and sound of the fresh air flowing freely thru the passage, from one window to the other without helping anybody on the inside with the air they needed.

why surrealism and dadaism still alive

thanks to andrew hu



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gazira babeli solo exhibition at odyssey in sl

this is the first exhibition of gazira babeli in second life, she was borned in sl last year. all the information and details about the exhibition are at hand in sl.

to see the exhibition go to ( remember that to see or experience anything in second life you must be a resident).
odyssey

here a review in german at kunst-blog

jeremy millar - zugzwang (almost complete)

just back from a lecture by jeremy millar at the staedel art academy. jeremy just talk about his latest project _ zugzwang (almost complete). what a great persuit around the posssibilities of investigate the work of an artist like marcel duchamp and at the same time make a hommage to him. i would repeat what simon starling, who invited jeremy, said about the film and center piece of the whole project which bares the same title, it is simply a master piece.
the exhibition took place in the metropole galerie last september in folkestone in the english coast. where md did came to visit, as chess player, in 1933.

jeremy show in this cinematrographical peace a mastering in directing, editing the text material and had a great help in the narration done by the very good reader pierre huyghe. if you have the chance, in the future to see _zugzwang (almost complete)_ dontmiss it.