Art
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The Peripheral
‘He seemed genuinely mild, amiable, but also singularly alert, in some skewed way, as if there were something else looking out, around corners, swift and peripheral….. And the peripheral thing was right there, peering around some inner angle, taking her measure.’ Zero History p.70 & 71 has become…
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Space Oddity
I don’t know where or when I first saw Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Project’ photo of ‘Clean room, Indian National Satellite Insat 4B, Arianespace, Guiana Space Center [CGS], Kourou, French Guiana, 2007’ but everything about it is perfect, the colours, the objects. The whole collection of photo’s are great, but the spartan clean rooms with their…
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![Vehicle Payload Canister Transporter, John F. Kennedy Space Center [NASA], Florida, U.S.A., 2011](https://chrlie.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/vincent_fournier-featured-image-1200x900-1.jpg)
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Melancholia
Just heard on the radio a wonderful show about Dürer as part of the ‘Germany memories of a Nation’ by Neil MacGregor. I have always been fascinated by the print and its wonderful symbols. I was less familiar with the print of the Knight. I was also intrigued to hear MacGreor and a german art historian Horst…
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Pastel Beach
Found on the web. A photo of Copacabana beach, with its mosaic pavement, designed by Roberto Burle Marx. Wonderful washed out colour palette. Saw the photo and wanted to remember the designer of the wave pavement.
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Space Oddity
Space exploration is other worldly, this makes it odd, its strange and peculiar. But space exploration has created an amazing library of imagery and I am always struck by the colours. Nasa’s collection of vibrant technicolour photo’s are often seem matter of fact in their documentary approach, they are just recording events, but the subject matter is…
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Visual Analysis 1924
Nearly a hundred years ago, from 1924 to 1927, Kazimir Malevich was using charts to explore art styles, movements and techniques. When I saw the charts at his Tate modern retrospective in 2014 they reminded me of so much of my professional work. Where rather than trying to create understanding through words and reports, as…
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Tom Sachs – Bricolage
I don’t know this artist Tom Sachs at all, but I came across his model of a NASA Hasselblad camera. The low-fi real but not real aesthetic of it appeals. Its not a copy, but, too crude to be a facsimile. I am never quite sure what a Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra means, but it our mixed up world…
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Matisse at the Tate Modern
Went to the Tate today without the kids, as they refused to see an exhibition about paper cut-outs. Not unreasonable as they spend all day making paper cut-outs.
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Pastel Dystopia
Not good bad Place is how my google search defined dystopia. Having just finished reading Dave Egers ‘The Circle’ and watched ‘her’ with Joaquín Phoenix, it seems that we are going to be over run with an appealing, useful, ubiquitous, user experience, which masks a more threatening reality. Seems rather sad.
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