Maki Na Kamura - Geometrie in LD. @ Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Maki Na Kamura, GiL XVII, 2011

Reception Thursday 13 September, 6-8 PM

Maki Na Kamura installation @ Dittrich & Schlechtriem

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Here Comes Hurracaine 'Sandy' !!!

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Raoul De Keyser - In Memoriam

Raoul De Kyser, Front, 1992, H. 65" x W. 48.5"

I know your paintings, and that is how I know your soul.  I feel some sense of loss in my possessed knowledge of your life, and I sense it through the made objects of yours, and through your art I know you.  I feel like I just found out I lost a friend.  I love your paintings.

Raoul De Kyser, Front, 1992 (detail)

Passing transparencies, slow melodic builds, quiet crescendos, the paint breaths across the surface, blobs squirt and announce muted moments.

Raoul De Kyser, Front, 1992 (detail)

Loney doplet, lovely moment, echoed by shadows of previous marks in the pinkish beige paint.  I love your paintings.  RIP.


August 29, 1930 - October 5, 2012
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All I wanna do is Stay in that State

What happened between 1962 and 1969?

What you're trying to do is stay alive

Its all circular

Touch of God?

Guston Late Paintings at the Inverlieth House

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HAMBURGER BAHNHOF

Entrance to the Bahnhof

Marjtica Potrc, Caracas: Growing Houses, 2012

Bruce Nauman, Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Car, 1984

Bruce Nauman, Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Car, 1984 (detail)

Thomas Schütte

Thomas Schütte

Cy Twombly

Robert Rauschenberg, Stripper, 1962

Dieter Roth

Anselm Kiefer, Hoffmann von Fallerslebn auf Helgoland, 1983/86

Coolest Sign, Eva

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OLD WHITE GUYS

Mr. Sophokles

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Mr. Sokrates

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Mr. Hesiod

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Mr. Stoic Philosopher

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NEUS MUSEUM, House of Ancient Art in Berlin, Germany.
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The Sands of Time

The Sculpture?

This sculpture stands in the Kreuzsburg area of Berlin.  I came across it on my drunken late-night walk home.  I searched for an explain-o.  I found a little placard detailing an impetus behind the amalgam as 'symbolic of those lives wasted living under the totalitarian rule of communism'.  Guess that sums it up.  It's unfortunate though from the perspective of the United States that we have demonized so much associated with communism as bad, that it must be noted that these versions of communism had more to do with control and dictatorship (of which being totalitarian) and than with useful tenants of socialism.  Regardless...this image stands in my mind more or less symbolic of my Time in Europe coming to an end.  I will be back.  My life will go on, but oh boy I do miss her right now.

Isn't It Beautful?

 Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Pretty as a postcard...nature fulfills our need for a being greater than us...it rises out of this Berlin park.  Quintessential misty-pukish loveliness.  Ah......those Germans!

Something in German about the waterfall.  I included it because it's carved.  They just don't make those park signs like they used to, eh?

Mai-Thu Perret - Beast of Burden @ Barbara Weiss

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BRENT RIDGE - DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - KUNSTQUARTIER BETHANIEN

Left to Right: Surfas Tention, XYR, DeeCrumBaa, installation shot. Brent Ridge

Left to Right: Brent Ridge, Kyle Channing Smith, Clair Moore, Aideen Doran, installation shot

Left to Right: Surfas Tention, XYR, DeeCrumBaa, installation shot. Brent Ridge

 

Brent Ridge, Surfas Tention 2012

Brent Ridge, XYR 2012

Brent Ridge, DeeCrumBaa 2012

Left to Right: Surfas Tention, XYR, DeeCrumBaa, installation shot. Brent Ridge

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GSA MFA 2012 - BRENT RIDGE

Don't Leave Me This Way - GSA MFA 2012 International Show Berlin

Kunstquartier Bethanien

 

Our Lovely Sign: Don't Leave Me This Way

Don't Leave Me This Way: Entrance to Studio One, Kunstquartier Bethanien

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

 

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

Don't Leave Me This Way - Installation View

Exhibition exit: foyer of the Kunstquartier Bethanien

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Glasgow Berlin Edition 2012

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Participating Artists:
JOSÉE AUBIN-OUELLETTE
FEDERICO DEL VECCHIO
SUZANNE DÉRY
MARIE-MICHELLE DESCHAMPS
AIDEEN DORAN
NILS GUADAGNIN
DUNJA HERZOG
HYOJUN HYUN
G. KÜNG
DOUGIE LAING
ALEXANDER T. OLEKSYN
ERIK OSBERG
BLAKE PETERSON
BENJAMIN RANKIN
BRENT RIDGE
SCOTT ROGERS
SARAH ROSE
GENEVA SILLS
KYLE CHANNING SMITH
JUSTIN STEPHENS
MINKA STOYANOVA
URARA TSUCHIYA
ZOE WILLIAMS
JAMES WINNETT

Lift Off - We're Leaving Europe

Well, here the moment after 2 years of living abroad that comes to an abrupt halt: takeoff to America begins tomorrow and that will mark an obvious new beginning for myself and my family.  I will leave friendships built here, and some of those friends, being international artists themselves have left for their respective countries already as I speak.  I have loved living as an ex-Pat artist in Europe and feel I have taken advantage of that situation to my betterment.  Now comes a new chapter in which I will re-integrate myself and my art into my old (and new) country.  I now don't think I'll ever look at it the same way --- which is a good thing.  I'm not big on souveniers, but there's a bit of Glasgow that's going be leaving with this artist on his way back to America.  It is a well of rainwater I will always be able to draw upon.

Neo Rauch

Found this gem, amongst others at Museum der bildenden Kunste Leipzig.  Leipzig is home to Neo Rauch and the 'New Leipzig School' of painters.  Great Place.