Legendary images of the 60s and 70s are brought together in the ‘Zeitgeist & Glamour’ exhibition at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf; the most spectacular photographs of an exciting era: the icons of an age, superstars and celebrities, and unmistakable milieux. There are both masterful photographs of the highest aesthetic order, ground-breaking in their finesse, and cheerful snapshots of a hidden world. Images of a culture celebrating itself in the midst of fame and glamour, wallowing in the pleasure of a beautiful moment. The pictures embody the spirit of the hour, the attitude of an entire generation. Public and private alike are captured, as are faces and atmospheres, the extravagant and the usual, glamour and its complement: melancholy and forlornness. The Zeitgeist & Glamour exhibition offers a kaleidoscope of life forms from the 60s and 70s that centres on the ‘stages’ of the major cities of the Western world.
The exhbition Zeitgeist & Glamour at the NRW forum in Düsseldorf will run until may 15, 2011.
See also an earlier posted article on the Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog about David Bailey.
Katharina Sieverding , a German artist, made with her Art installation: projected data images Test-cuts for the first time a comprehensive and fascinating review of her photographic archives. Basis of this work were not Photo negatives but Test-cuts which are actually fragmentary by-products of the analog photographic enlargement process. These random images from over 1,800 photos where assembled in digital montages and provide an anti-historical, personal memorial construction of people, exhibitions and happenings in the Düsseldorf and international art scene starting from the year 1966 and running to our current time.
Photos and video: Ralph Goertz and IKS | Katharina Sieverding | Curator: Renate Buschmann | NRW Forum
From 10 – 12 September 2010 the 11th edition of the three-day art festival De Wereld van Witte de With (The World of Witte de With) will be organised again in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The festival is showcasing European as well as Rotterdam based visual artists. The 11th edition of the Festival is inspired by the work of city activist and publicist Jane Jacobs, the festival envisions the perfect city – a finished city – by taking art into the streets of Rotterdam and by doing this the festival turns the street into a public laboratory for art.
The Festival De Wereld van Witte de With is organized in collaboration with all major art centres in Rotterdam and takes place in Witte de With Straat and the Museum Park in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Smile-room Peter de Cupere
Laurien Dumbar – Bob Smit Gallery
11th Festival De Wereld van Witte de With (The World of Witte de With) 10 – 12 September 2010 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Photos and source: The World of Witte de With | Festival website
New York based artist Joseph Moore wrote the software “Permutations” for the currently running exhibition Brion Gysin: Dream Machine on display at The New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York. The Exhibition is a retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today.
The “Permutations” software by Joseph Moore is a “version” of the program developed by Ian Sommerville and Gysin in 1960 to permute poems. Moore has attempted to create a realization of the work that is sensitive to the original and its process. At the same time, it is a new version, a collaboration done in the spirit of an artist whose work provides a critique of conventional notions of authorship. Moore believes that it is also in the spirit of the work to share copies of it and made his “Permutations” Software avilable to download from Github. The concept and artistic process of this project is fascinating.
Below you find a podcast of the original “I am that I am” poem.
Software by Joseph Moore | Brion Gysin: Dream Machine | Poem by: Brion Gysin | Ubuweb
Marcel Broodthaers, La robe de maria, mixed media on canvas
120 x 100 x 12 cm
Daled collection
Lawrence Weiner, a bit of matter and a little bit more
language + the materials referred to
original cardboard stencil, 43,5 x 57,5 cm
Daled collection
Belgian collector couple Herman and Nicole Daled refuse to perceive art as decoration. They are considering the concept behind a piece of art more important than its realization and approach art in a fundamentally different way: basis for their activities are their relationships and conversations with artists. in keeping with the aim of conceptual art that places the intellectual content of a work above its realisation, they consider themselves not collectors but communicators and producers: they provide artists with the opportunity to also realise works outside of established market mechanisms. their intense engagement with conceptual art, one of the most important movements in recent art history, goes far beyond usual collecting practices. this is not only apparent in the actual works, but also in the meticulously archived documents containing actions and works.
James Lee Byars, Robe pour cinq personnes
Textile fabrics
dimensions variable
Daled collection
One of the most important influences for Herman and Nicole Daled was Marcel Broodthaers; more than 80 of his works are in their collection. moreover, the collection holds several works by Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, On Kawara, Sol Lewitt, Niele Toroni, Lawrence Weiner, Cy Twombly and many more.
Less is more is a very inspiring exhibition from the amazing personal conceptual art collection and archives of Herman and Nicole Daled. It will feature pictures, objects, paintings and concepts.The exhibition concentrates on the period between 1966 and 1978, thereby providing a lively portrait of the progressive, international art scene at that time. It will run until the 25Th of July 2010 at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
On Kawara, Today Series: Oct. 31, 1971.
Oil on Canvas, 20,5 x 25,5 cm.
Daled Collection
On Kawara, I got up
Series of 108 postcards sent to Herman Daled daily between may 18 and september 3
14 x 9 cm
Daled collection
Niele Toroni, Empreintes de pinceau N° 50 répétées à intervalles réguliers de 30 cm
Paint on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
Daled Collection
Daniel Buren, untitled
12 paintings (acrylic on cloth)
installation view Haus der Kunst
Daled Collection
Photos: Herman and Nicole Daled collection | VG Bild-Kunst | Tenfinger | Photo bottom: Wilfried Petzi | Video: Jacques Charlier Youtube | Source: Haus der Kunst, München
