Black Medicine, 2012
Breaking and Entering, 2011
Untitled, 2010
The evenings are getting longer, the nights shorter.
As the light begins to fade I'm enjoying these dark works by Brookyln-based Nick van Woert.
See more here.
"Such is our way of thinking—we find beauty not in the in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, the one thing against another creates." - Tanizaki
Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
11.2.12
Rubbish Art; Tim Noble & Sue Webster.
Real Life Is Rubbish, 2002
White Trash (With Gulls), 1998
I'm both disgusted and fascinated by the work of UK-based pair Tim Noble & Sue Webster, who position piles of junk to create their "shadow art." By recycling rubbish in this manner, they press me to think about the amount we as individuals throw away - and what we discard.
Dark Stuff, 2008
It's the piece above that actually makes me feel scared - the artist's now familiar profiles shown decapitated, and created from various mummified animals. It's at once so skillful, and so saddening and repulsive.
See more of their shadow sculptures here.
3.11.11
The Lure of Light; Felix Gonzales-Torres (Venice Biennale 2007).
Darkness is arriving earlier every evening.
Racing the dusk to my door, I was thinking about the lure of light on damp, dreary evenings and was prompted to share some photos I took four years ago now, at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Felix Gonzales-Torres represented the United States - these photos show his "Untitled" (America) installation.
This pavilion was one of the last ones I visited during that day, and evening was falling then, too. I remember being deeply drawn to the liquorice-like tangle of black cables, and the dulled glow of the bulbs - and how a household appliance that we so often take for granted, had been elevated by the artist into a thing of intriguing beauty.
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