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Christian Marclay made a lot of videos. One I love is on youtube search for video quartet 2002.

He also made a lot of other work, just check the first one, if you like it look futher!!!

This is one of the paintings I like of Martin. The colours and objects are simple. But the way he presents it is very impressive. This is a painting I have seen in London last year. The work that he got on his website is different. (check his website: http://www.michaelcraig-martin.com/) In this painting the use of colour is strong, the colour of the other paintings are bland. But still he uses everyday objects.

One art pieces that I really love is by the artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
I saw some of his work on Malmö Konsthall in Sweden 2005.

“Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is a Vietnam-based artist who works with film, photography, conceptual objects and installations. In a long series of works he has used Vietnam’s complex history as a starting point and created “alternative histories” and “memorial projects”. Since 2001 he has produced a series of four films recorded in water.”
/ Malmö Konsthal - http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/

The films show different things, all under water. In one of them you see young men struggling with getting their bike taxis (and if I remember also wheelchairs further and further out into the sea, dragging them along the sea floor. In another of the films white “tents” are set up on the sea floor. In yet another balls of colour are realized from a “machine” places on the sea floor whilst a huge asian dragon is moveing around in the water above.
The films are totally capturing. It is something with this pointless struggle in the films that is so beautiful, and bizarre. Also the total tranquility is amazing.

I later read that the film title, In Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious and the Cowards, was a tribute to the millions of boat people who entrusted their fate to the waves, and that Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba wanted to show the suffering and struggle for survival which has plagued the Vietnamese people both during and after the war with the United States.

I personally like the work better without that explanation. It is truly beautiful in itself.

In class I also mentioned Wanås sculpturepark (http://www.wanas.se/). Kind of crappy webpage but fantastic park with works by Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Charlotte Gyllenhammar and many more.

Translated as Ash Wednesday(restful melancholic day that follows the
annual carnival celebration in Brazil

This was the last good piece of art I saw with a little story along with it.

I went to louise bourgeois retrospective at the Tate Modern in
January. I was a little disappointed since there was a lot of hype
surrounding the show and my expectations were high. Yet my visit to
the Tate was not let down when I ventured up to the top floor to see
the film by Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander and filmmaker Cao
Guimaraes entitled Ash Wednesday/Epilogue.

I watched the 6 minute film 4 times before I left, and I began to also
watch the way people were reacting the film. Everyone was as
captivated as I was and once they walked through where the film was
projected they stopped to watch. One man who had a young boy on his
hand walked in with the intention of walking out immediately looking
exhausted and rushed most likely because he brought a six year old
into the Tate, but the little boy exclaimed enthusiastically “WOW!” he
exclaimed in such a happy and over the top way. The father stopped and
the boy sat with just as much devoted attention as the rest of the
viewers.
The whole short film is 6 minutes and this clip does not give it the
justice it deserves, but I could not find the whole video online. The
sound was taken from dropping matchsticks. The whole film shows
close-ups of ants picking up sugar coated confetti bringing it back
into their home.

About the works or exhibitions which have marked us the most, I must say i’m very disappointed by the limitations of computers and the Internet in the sense that paintings and colors always look like complete trash, so I will refrain from posting actual photos… (ego-problem!) … so if you’re interested, go to a ‘Gallery Near You!’ for Yves Klein, or check out his performances on YouTube…

Symphonie Monotone, an orchestra plays a single note composed by Klein-

On overview of his other paintings made with women -

Also, we discussed this exhibition currently at the Van Gogh Museum about John Everett Millais - some really beautiful paintings with amazing precision…not to mention the very delicate and overwhelming sensitivity.

So check it out! I also mentioned that I would post this film I saw at the MACBA museum in Barcelona - this will come. In the meantime, I promised I would post the site where you can pay 5 euros a day and watch all the movies on database for sale to museums by Spanish artists (I was looking for the movie i saw in the museum, and only found it here….there are other sites which are similar!) …really worth it, especially if youre interested in film - its like paying 5 euros for an 24-hour online film museum where you can choose and see whatever you like!

http://www.hamacaonline.net/ (at the top right you can switch to English)

Reposting my response to Tori’s message, since for some reason my reply doesn’t show up….

As I was saying, reading the earlier post, the phrase ‘being moved by a language not understood’ somehow immediately made me think of one of my all time favorite films, Orson Welle’s interpretation of Kafka’s novel, The Trial - in my opinion a great masterpiece which puts in pictures the unexplainable and some of the absurdities of reality …

For some reason this is not liking my youtube embed link? :

Promised a couple of weeks ago..

During one of the seminars i told something about a black wall on a square, but i didnt knew the name of the artist, i searched it op on in my arthistorybible, and i have another link for you..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/tiltedarc_a.html

Bye bye!

Amanda

Hello!

I was searching on youtube, we talked a lot about is, so … what to search?

and then i thougt let’s look for the body expo, and i found a movie, in the beginning its a little bit cruel, but it gives a idea for those who dont know what the expo presented…

See you on the blog ;)

Amanda

Here are some paintings by Cy twombley. The collection of four pieces. “the four seasons” i saw three times in three different musea i really really love them. I cannot take my eyes away from it.

this is the jewish museum in berlin, it’s a beautiful building made by Daniel Libeskind.The museum is really impressive and some spaces were almost making me cry. You totally loose your orientation because the building has so many weird spaces and in a way it feels like your al the time not walking straight, especially in the garden. If you are going to berlin don’t miss this museum but be prepared because it totally knocked me of my feet.