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Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Le grant pot, 1968

house face

October 2012
 

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house

October 2011

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Niki de Saint Phalle at work

Shooting, 1961 / Studio with Nanas in progress, 1965 / Golem in progress, 1972 / 2 Maquettes for the Tarot Garden, Tuscany, 1979 / Sketch by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle on photo of Tarot Garden in progress / Niki in front of finished 'shooting painting', 1961
from Niki de Saint Phalle by Pontus Hulten, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1992

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Gabriel Orozco: The Weight of the Sun

The Weight of the Sun

A broom is suspended in mid-air by the counterweight of 13 objects found in or around the gallery; a banana peel, plastic cups, empty bottles...

From Of Games, The Infinite and Worlds: The Work of Gabriel Orozco, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, 2003

Wave Goodbye

Wave Goodbye to Grandma, poster paints on paper, 1970

from Alan Ruppersberg: One of Many---Origins and Variants, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 2006

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I'll be away from the blog for a little while. I should be back posting in a couple of weeks (and possibly once or twice before then). Take care and thanks for visiting.

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Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011)
(Wishing the Mountains Madness, Missoula, Montana, 1977)

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snowball

in my neighbourhood.

floats

Floats by Robert Breer

from Horizon, Vol. VIII, No. 4, Autumn 1966

"motorized polyhedrans...programmed to switch direction whenever they encounter resistence...The limitless possibilities of position were demonstrated earlier this year when one of the larger "floats" had to be physically restrained from departing the premises of the Galeria Bonino in New York."

Clarence Schmidt: My Mirrored Hope

Clarence Schmidt's Miracle on the Mountain, Ohayo Mountain, Woodstock, NY.
from Horizon, Vol. VI, No. 4, Autumn 1964 (before the fire)
elsewhere

synthèse des arts

Low cost housing development near Berlin. Architect: Eduard Ludwig, Painter: Theodor Werner, 1952

Mural by Hans Fischer, primary school in Saatlen Zurich

Play sculptures in Stockholm, Sweden, by Egon Möller-Nielsen

Mosaic in a primary school in Riehen, Switzerland. Architect: T. Vadi, Painter: Charles Hinderlang

From Synthèse Des Arts/Art In European Architecture by Paul Damaz, Reinhold Publishing, NY, 1956

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The graves of James Brown and Isaac Hayes,

Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, October 2008

double-sided snowman, December 2009

October 2009