20.5.15

19.5.15

This is Claes Oldenburg ⍢ 'I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete'


Soft Calendar for the Month of August, 1962
(c) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection. Seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
scan from 'Claes Oldenburg, The Sixties', Prestel, 2012




"My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses." Claes Oldenburg

18.5.15

beaches & peaches





 'Kindergezichten grimeren', Patric Parmentier, Atrium, 1984 

16.5.15

Movsja Zacharovitsj Sjagal ⟰ Мовша Захарович Шагал


scans from 'CATALOGUE - Marc Chagall en Russie en provenance des musées et collection privées en U.R.S.S.'


Marc Chagall retrospective on display at the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Brussels, until June 28th

14.5.15

berlin is pink pools, blue eye shadow, yellow fields

Ida Ekblad, other works on display at Galerie Max Hetzler until May 30

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Max seducing Charlotte Rampling in 'Max Mon Amour', part of the APE show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Mario Pfeifer, KOW Galerie
http://www.artistweekend.com


12.5.15

Ad Reinhardt ┉ 'Lines seen about town lately'





"Artist Ad Reinhardt created cartoons for numerous publications throughout his career, most notably for the daily newspaper PM. It was in those pages, in 1946, that his well-known “How to Look At Art” series first appeared, featuring ironic and pithy descriptions of various interrelationships between societal strata—Culture and Commerce, for example—always articulated with a keenly critical eye and a wry sense of humor."

Until today, Reinhardt's comics set an example of political, cultural, and social commentary, of 'How to look'. So I can only applaud the fact that David Zwirner Books/Hatje Cantz collected and published Reinhardt's art comics in this book.

11.5.15

Bernd Lohaus ⏦ Aus der Blume das Holz









The show [Fremdkörper: works from the studio of Bernd Lohaus], on display at M HKA, Antwerp until May 31st. 
Image source: my own photographs and M HKA Ensembles.