Opening our ‘black box’
Conniff’s artwork covers nearly every inch of his home. The eccentric mixed media pieces number in the hundreds, and his granddaughter Clare Conniff is seeking to restore and catalog the images. She’s funding the project through Kickstarter, but as of press time is a few thousand dollars short of the amount she says she needs to restore the images, catalog them, self-publish a book and conduct a professional interview with her grandfather about his work.
“I never thought of any of this stuff as art,” Conniff says. “I did it because I wanted to do it, I felt like doing it and it was gratifying to accomplish it.”
The Accidental Artist: Granddaughter Seeks To Save 91-Year-Old’s Jim Conniff’s Art
Reblogged from The Huffington Post
“All” exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan: consisting of 128 pieces of his life’s work hanging in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum.
Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures that reveal contradictions at the core of today’s society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing critique of authority and the abuse of power.
Reblogged from the MAGNOLIUS machine factory
Background?
This clip from the BBC special on Musique Concrete typifies the intersection of the various inputs—electric signals, quantitative systems of measurement (so subtle we might call them subconscious), sensory intake—that formulate our expectations as observers experiencing a creation.
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