Barney Kulok - Queen Amazones
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Spot fiat 131
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The Marseille Contract - Alfa Romeo vs Porsche
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James Dodd - Sunday Morning Sales →
Each seller pulls up to their pitch with their car rammed full of remnants of their lives: the books they’ve read, the gift’s they never wanted to receive, the clothes they feel no longer defines them and the hobbies and collections they no longer desire to peruse.
Each stall is almost portrait of the seller, a piece of themselves spread out right there on decorating tables and on the floor for all to see and buy.
What began as a photographic exercise and a way to keep me sharp in-between other projects and assignments eventually developed into more of a personal journey to understanding the value of goods and perception of quality.
It’s not only my thinking that’s changed, but also my buying habits. I buy whatever I can from car boots. From clothes to household goods and it comforts me to know that each item has their own back-stories in a way, which is incomparable to new goods.
This is what keeps drawing me back, week in week out… the voyeuristic experiences, the bargains and cheap bacon sarnie’s.
This work in progress
See the whole set at James Dodd’s website: http://jamesdodd.net/projects/sms-sunday-morning-sales
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Mostra in alta risoluzione
Sunday Morning Sales
All images © courtesy of James DoddCheck the whole set here: http://jamesdodd.net/projects/sms-sunday-morning-sales/
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Mostra in alta risoluzione
Sunday Morning Sales
All images © courtesy of James DoddCheck the whole set here: http://jamesdodd.net/projects/sms-sunday-morning-sales/
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Mostra in alta risoluzione
Sunday Morning Sales
All images © courtesy of James DoddCheck the whole set here: http://jamesdodd.net/projects/sms-sunday-morning-sales/
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John Chamberlain - at Pace, New York, 2008
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Damian Ortega on ICA →
Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. This exhibition, the first-ever survey of Ortega’s work, shows the arc of his artistic output with a range of sculpture, installation, video, and photography.
In Ortega’s work, objects are never allowed to rest—they are pulled apart, suspended, or rearranged, calling attention to the dynamism of the world around us and the hidden poetry in the everyday. A former political cartoonist, Ortega brings a subtle, incisive wit to his surprising manipulations of familiar, humble materials—bricks, old tools, Coca-Cola bottles, tortillas, and even a Volkswagen Beetle are assembled and reassembled in playful and imaginative ways.
Organized by Jessica Morgan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, London, and ICA Adjunct Curator.
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All images © courtesy of Damian Ortega
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Nicolai Hovalt - Car Crash Studies →
“After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years”
J.G.Ballard
Car Crash Studies, a thought provoking photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe and potentially fatal accidents. The series moves between documentation and abstraction. While the car crash studies are typographical in nature, seeming in some instances to be closer to sterile accident report photographs, the subject matter most obviously begs the viewer to confront the human fear of trauma and death.
Several of the images are vividly abstract and look more like landscapes than slashed up metal. Collided bodyworks, dents and cracks in varnish appear as highly enlarged details in the monumental works. These ‘color plains’ become the ultimate instance of beauty created from suffering, pain and destruction.
Although Car Crash Studies is specifically based on cars that have been involved in accidents, Howalt’s works rather attempt to portray an abstract, mental state, namely the duality we feel in relation to accidents or catastrophes when experienced from a distance – as spectators. The exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery thus approaches classical themes, but in contemporary interpretation.
All images © courtesy of Nicolai Hovalt
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All images © courtesy of Nicolai Hovalt
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
