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Thursday 9th September 2010
An absolutely amazing project, Raw Color is a collaboration between designers Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar in Holland. They dismantle and purify vegetables to their visual essence ‘raw color’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards. Categorized by shades and families a new map is created which shows their beautiful diversity. This projects reinterprets the vegetable and puts it into new context.
Link: http://www.rawcolor.nl/
We don’t know much about Jan Maarten Voskuil, other than he is Dutch, and we love this series of work “There is no point”.
In 1970, Andy Warhol purchased a Polaroid Big Shot camera, a clunky piece of machinery that had a fixed focal length of just three feet. With his characteristic voracity, he turned his new toy on everyone, from the famous – Muhammad Ali, Georgia O’Keeffe, Blondie, and seen here Grace Jones and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – to the completely anonymous. Most of Warhol’s Polaroids were used as studies for eventual silk-screen portraits. The artist would cover his subjects’ faces in white kabuki-like makeup to conceal wrinkles and blemishes. He intended his Polaroids to serve as time-capsule glimpses of a specific era—namely, the ‘70s and early ‘80s when he was at the height of his fame.
We are sad to hear that Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer. Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and–our favourite–Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon. He was also a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor. His photography is known for portraits from the 1960s. His painting style ranged from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often included references to his cinematic work and to other artists. He began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s, particularly Pop Art. One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans bought for $75.
We were lucky enough to go to a talk last night by artist Corin Hewitt who has been working in Dorsch Gallery over a period of two weeks to make a series of still life photographs of flower arrangements using microwave ovens to dry flowers. The arrangements combine seasonal flowers from Vermont and Florida, as well as other objects. The performance is sadly over but the prints will be up in the gallery for a while and are well worth a visit. This print was our particular favourite; incredible lighting, colour, and composition.
This reminded us of an exploded version of the Michael Johansson work we featured in January. These photos are by fellow Swede Helga Steppan. In her series ‘See Through’ Steppan audited all of her belongings and divided them into a full spectrum of different colour groupings to photograph: White, Black, Yellow, Red, Miscellaneous, Blue, Orange, Green, Pink, Grey, Purple, and Brown. We like this idea of having things chromatically arranged.
We have just been sent this video from friend of the studio Maik Teriete in Berlin. The installation is entitled “am eigenen leib” (at your own body), and is done with acrylic thread. Check out more of his amazing work at his website.