January 2012 – criticismism ii

January 30, 2012

Found Objects 30/01/12

Ten links from around the virtual week in art: Artnet has the latest on the Prince vs Cariou case regarding copyright and image appropriation. You get to read the people specs for an A-list opening at Gagosian. A paranoid genius has managed to uncover at least two partial words spelled…

January 25, 2012January 25, 2012

Lygia Pape, Livro do Tempo (Book of Time), 1961-63

This semaphore frieze will stop you in your tracks at the Serpentine. Lygia Pape calls her epic a (the) Book of Time. Well, it both is and it isnâ€™t. Yes, it has 365 elements which might be called pages. They are made from wood, which is related to paper. And…

January 23, 2012January 23, 2012

Found Objects 23/01/11

Great links this week. Please tuck in: I’m still not entirely sure what SOPA is, but I vehemently oppose it. Even if it has thrown up this ace Jonathan Jones rant on Wikipedia As Prime Minister David Cameron calls for more commercial British films, comedian Stuart Lee offers a commercial…

January 18, 2012

The Catlin Guide 2012

Say that two individuals began, at the same moment in time, to sit down with a pen and ream of paper. They will copy out the bible word for word. One of the pair may have been Daniel Rapley, graduate of an art MA at Chelsea. His work is soon…

January 16, 2012

Found Objects 16/01/12

Regular users of this internet thing will be pleased to know this week’s Found Objects are a spot free zone: Instead we have this awe inspiring NY Times story about geoglyphs in the Amazon News that Picasso and Warhol have been knocked off the top of the bestseller charts by…

January 10, 2012January 21, 2012

Interview: Liliane Lijn

Liliane Lijn is such a hands-on artist that, within two minutes of arriving at her North London studio, my own pair were enlisted to help lift a Poem Machine from the floor onto a well-worn work surface. There was an issue with this kinetic, text-bearing sculpture. It creaked as it…

January 8, 2012January 21, 2012

Found Objects 08/01/12

With a major death, a minor spat and completely mad bit of art crit in Denver, the year has got off to an eventful start. Please enjoy any or all of the links below: Ronald Searle gets called “perhaps the greatest British graphic artist of the last 100 years” in…

January 5, 2012January 5, 2012

Agnes Meyer-Brandis, The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Bird Migration (2011)

The ideal place to relate this piece of art might be in a pub. You could try a dinner party, but you may not get the requisite howls of disbelief. â€œThereâ€™s this German artist, see, who wants to fly to the moon. No sheâ€™s not in a space training programme.…

January 2, 2012

Found Objects 02/02/12

A rather sheepish selection of five post-celebratory links this week. Thanks for reading in 2011 and rest assured I’ll be back on it later in the week: Somewhere between art history and art criticism, this is a heavyweight consideration of either version of Leonardoâ€™s Virgin of the Rocks. Elucidating (via…