The Third & The Seventh is a fascinating short film by Alex Roman. In this movie he tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view. The main subjects in this film are already-built spaces. Sometimes they are portrayed in an abstract way and sometimes in surreal manner. We suggest that you switch the video to full screen view to fully enjoy this short film Gem.
Photos and Video by Alex Roman | Music by Alex Roman based on the original scores by Michael Laurence Edward Nyman and Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
Jeff Koons was born in York, PA in 1955. He obtained a B.F.A at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, and also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed “idea man,” Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: “Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.”
New paintings by Jeff Koons will be shown in the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, U.s.a. The vernissage of this exhibition will be on November the 14th 2009 and the exhibition will run until January 9 ,2010.
Koons’ new paintings are ambitious in their breadth. They engage in a dialogue with cultural history that is at once visual, intellectual, biological, and philosophical, as well as with art history, from the Venus of Willendorf to Gustave Courbet and Salvador Dali. At first glance the works may seem abstract and gestural, but at the same time they are embedded in the traditions of figurative painting. The brush strokes, which are photo realistic in their application, are actually fake brush strokes in the style of Roy Lichtenstein but at the same time they support the totality of gesture and action in life itself. The visual quality of Cy Twombly’swork is a reference as is its embodiment of the existential issues of what it means to be an artist. The depth in these paintings is figurative depth; the painted dots create holograms, giving an illusion of depth of field that is similar to that which exists between the viewer’s plane and the figure in Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde. The dot overlay represents past technologies, like color television, to remind the viewer of change and mortality. Through his ongoing exploration of cultural history and sexuality, Koons draws attention to time past, present, and future.
