Agi GUTKOWSKA
Lucy & Bart posted on March 23rd, 2010
Lucyandbart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess. In it they imagine human bodies and faces physically altered with a shocking but artistic realism. Globules of foam, asymmetric spines fascinating and repugnant simultaneously, the pictures become even more disturbing because they don’t hint at the emotional state of the subject. Each transformed human looks blankly back at you, neither horrified or surprised or excited about their change of form, but merely present and allowing it to be shown to you. It’s that sort of lucid acceptance, clearly not hiding the kind of imperfections and oddities that society mostly trains us to be ashamed of, that make staring at these ‘mutants’ even more unnerving.
La Frontier de l’aube posted on March 10th, 2010
[You who never arrived] posted on February 14th, 2010
You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment. All the immense
images in me-- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,
cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected
turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods-
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house--, and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon,--
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled,
gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows?
perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, seperate, in the evening...
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Life in the Pond posted on February 3rd, 2010
Lately I have been into some Japanese stuff so this is a continuation on that theme.
Life in the Pond
Mitsuo Kimura
From February 3rd to February 28th
Opening February 5th, 2010 from 7-10pm
LE gallery at 1183 Dundas St W. in Toronto.
Orgesticulanismus & Ophthalmology posted on February 2nd, 2010
Mathieu Labaye created the short film ‘Orgesticulanismus‘ as a tribute to his father, a man who’d been confined to a wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life.
This is one of my favourite sequences from Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007); also about a man confined by the malfunction of his body.
Suminagashi posted on January 19th, 2010
Galcier by Shary Boyle is Part of Code exhibition #19.
Suminagashi is the ancient Japanese technique of decorating paper with inks.
Yonder posted on January 11th, 2010
Emilia Forstreuter created this piece for her degree project in her course in Communication Design at the Braunschweig University of Art, Germany.
Screen : Books and Records posted on January 11th, 2010
Code Screen 2010 is part of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics’ cultural component and features curated online exhibitions. This is the 9th exhibition in the series and features the work of Michael Snow’s The Last LP and other. Launch the exhibition to find out more about the works.