Reminding us of Duane Hanson’s work of hyper-realistic sculpture injected with steroids Mueck learned his technique making props in the advertising industry. Now he shocks people in major art museums.
Archives For Thomas
A diverse and complicated body of work. Check out the gowns in boxes that feel like coffins…
via the artists web site
at Edwynn Houk Gallery via: http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/
Valérie Belin’s haunting photographs keep us guessing
Art Cologne, April 19 – April 22 and Art Brussels, April 18 – 21 April go head to head this month. Why? It’s yet another mystery of the wonderful world of Art. Have to choose? Art Cologne is the bigger of the two. (And has pretty good beer). Bicycles rule in the great city of Köln so beware of large Germans riding bikes.
VERSUS
Not so sure about the 3D mars photographs (NASA could of put these images up… and let’s not forget how bad 3D imagery looks without the glasses). Can one actually live with these huge out of focus/registration 3D images or does one carry around a spare set of 3D glasses ALL THE TIME??? Hmmm… I hope I am wrong but this begs a closer look. But I have to say the Man Ray inspired Photogram’s look incredible and no doubt save the show. Update to come…
Update: After seeing the show I walked away feeling a little confused. First of all I have a hard time with label “photograms” as I am pretty confident in saying that at no time was any object placed on a piece of photographic paper and exposed to light to make these big beautiful images. Especially not at the scale they are presented. I have no problem that they are abstractions built via a computer and then exposed as Lightjet images (as I presume they are). But to call them photograms is just incorrect and frankly a bit misleading. They need a new name – so why not call them Ruff-O-Grams?
The 3D ma.r.s images look just ok without the glasses and exactly what you expect with the glasses. So nothing really but a novelty image for me. The big surprise was the highly manipulated landscapes in the series. These are the best of the bunch and work as abstractions from afar and as highly detailed images of the martian surface. All in all a very beautiful show and worth the trip.
Thomas Ruff: Photograms & Ma.r.s March 28 – April 27, 2013 at David Zwirner
via the gallery web site
Exhibitions New York: Thomas Ruff @ David Zwirner
At only 18 Lidia Roberts is going to be one to watch if she keeps up this extremely raw yet masterful work that is way beyond her years. She is an old soul or possibly Helmut Newton & Man Ray jointly reincarnated.
Lydia ROBERTS @ Galerie BE Espace
