Check out this online gallery with beautiful images of trees, some of which will appear in a gallery show in London at the end of this month entitled, ‘Forest’. The project “to collect and curate woodland photography from around the world,” is a collaboration between submit photos with a forest theme to be considered for inclusion in the exhibition. The chosen images will also be published as a photo essay in Cereal Volume 4. Prints of the final photography will be sold on the night of the event, with all proceeds being donated to the International Tree Foundation.
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The Forest for the Trees
STATION TO STATION: A COLLABORATIVE ARTS PROJECT BY DOUG AITKEN
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a train full of artists and installations traveling across the country: Organized by artist Doug Aitken, Station to Station connects leading figures and underground creators from the worlds of art, music, food, literature, and film for a series of cultural interventions and site-specific happenings. The train, designed as a moving, kinetic light sculpture, will broadcast unique content and experiences to a global audience.
A public art project made possible by the Levi’s® brand, Station to Station will raise funds through ticket sales and donations to support non-traditional programming at nine partner museums around the country.
For a brief moment, the most interesting place in the country will be a moving target.
The next stops are Santa Fe, Winslow, Barstow, Los Angeles and Oakland. Reports from the New York event were glowing. Read more about the project here. Also, take a moment and read this gorgeous essay by James Turrell (one of the participants) about the experience here.
Martin Klimas’ Flower Explosions and Daft Punk Paintings
German photographer Martin Klimas loves to play. I came across his remarkable photos of high speed flower explosions after reading about a former work of his featuring photographs of shattered ceramic figures. For the flower series, Klimas first soaked them in liquid nitrogen before blasting them with an airgun. The result is a burst of color and texture unique to his own style.
Next week, Klimas’ newest show, SONIC, will open at the Foley Gallery in New York City. Using beloved work from Charlie Parker, John Cage, Daft Punk and Kraftwerk among others, Klimas’ procedure is to pour paint directly onto speakers while a chosen piece launches the paint into the air. It is at this precise moment Klimas is ready and taking the photograph. Read more from the Foley press release below:
Guided by the science of wave phenomenon, Klimas brings together a mix of psychedelic paint, high-speed camera technology and a jukebox full of music. He uses paint as an abstract expressionist might, making a photographic recording that captures the feel and gesture of music’s sound . His procedure is to pour paint over a protected speaker diaphragm while a selected section of music is broadcast (more like blared) through it, launching the paint -projectile style- in mid air. The sounds of Charlie Parker, Daft Punk and Bach et al. can be seen in comparison, measured by the paint’s reaction to vibration and Klimas’ choice of colors. In making music visible, Klimas explores the expression of sound, adding one more visceral element to its total experience.
SONIC
September 18-through November 3.
FOLEY is open Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6PM
97 ALLEN STREET NEW YORK NY 10002
212 244 9081
Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin
Ashley Bickerton, White Head I, 2012 acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood 93 x 80 x 7".
The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickteron has a show opening this week in New York at lived in New York in the 1980s, and made work that was then classified (perhaps unjustly) as “Neo-Geo.” By 1993, he left the US and traveled around the world, mostly surfing and finally landing in Bali. For more on Bickerton check out this recent piece in the Huffington Post and his Artforum Top Ten.
ARTIST SPREADS GOOD WILL IN FUKUSHIMA
Artist Ty Williams in stands next to one of his boat paintings in Fukushima. Photo: Ty Williams
Last month, artist, surfer and all-around great guy Ty Williams was asked to travel to Fukushima to paint fish on the boats of fishermen who lost everything in the devastating tsunami. The project was both a gesture of good will (fish are symbol of good luck) and a way of hearing and acknowledging the fishermen’s painful stories. Read Williams’s thoughts on his experience in Japan here—and see his beautiful photos from the trip.
Edward Hopper Diorama at Flatiron Building
Last weekend the Whitney unveiled a 3D installation diorama of Edward Hopper’s iconic “Nighthawk’s” painting outside New York’s Flatiron building. Though Gothamist was quick to point out that the actual diner never existed, Hopper himself said that the locale “was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet.”
Check out Whitney curator Carter Foster’s attempted search for Hopper’s NYC inspiration in a graph published previously by New York Magazine:
The piece will be on view free to the public to promote the Hopper Drawing exhibit at the Whitney, closing October 6th.
Through October 6th,
Flatiron Building
175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010
The Gramsci Monument
The Gramsci Monument is closing on September 15. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called it “this year’s most captivating new art work.” To that I’d add that it’s also this year’s most debated art work. Be sure to see it before it closes to make your own decisions. Details here and here.
Plantastic Hotel
Never thought too much about Singapore until I recently read about this beautiful hotel that has combined futuristic architectural design with organic details and yes, a four-story tall sky-garden with cascading vertical greenery. WOHA architectural firm executed the “hotel-in-a-garden” concept within a city that is striving to be “a city in a garden.” Who knew?
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