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quarta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2015
quinta-feira, 26 de novembro de 2015
James Turell & Rainer Maria Rilke
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James
Turrell (1943-) is an American artist
primarily concerned with light and space, known for his work in progress, Roden Crater — a
natural cinder cone crater (Arizona) that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory. He has
also worked as a pilot with over twelve thousand hours flying; maybe, that is why he considers the sky as his studio, material and canvas. New Yorker critic Calvin
Tompkins writes, “His work is not about light, or a record of light; it is
light — the physical presence of light made manifest in sensory form.”
Fargo, Blue, 1967
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most
lyrically intense German-language poets. Several critics have described Rilke's
work as inherently "mystical." His writings include one novel,
several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which
he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the
ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply
existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the
traditional and the modernist
writers.
"You, darkness, that I come from"
You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything —
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! —
powers and people-
and it is possible a great presence is moving near me. I have faith in nights.
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything —
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! —
powers and people-
and it is possible a great presence is moving near me. I have faith in nights.
...
Connection
between the two works of art
Both authors are fascinated by the
contrast (and by the coexistence) of darkness and light, by this mystery that
brings the unique experience of transcendence. One is
therefore invited to step out of his/her comfort zone to enter the
darkness, in order to get to know him/herself better. As human beings, we
are naturally scared of dark, of the unknown. To face darkness means
to suspend for a moment our effort to control everything around us, to
gain a new knowledge and to gain an experience that might make our
perception of the world different.
Patrícia Proksová
quarta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2015
Bruce Nauman e Walt Whitman
Bruce Nauman One Hundred Live and Die (1984) Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum
Bruce Nauman
É um dos artistas mais
versáteis dos EUA. Começou a sua carreira nos anos 1960 e desde então tem vindo a
misturar Minimalismo, Conceptualismo, performance e vídeo nas suas obras.
Concentra-se no comportamento das pessoas como ponto de partida para a criação, a partir de sessões de pesquisa e momentos de reflexão, tendo em conta os
seus interesses políticos e éticos. Daqui resulta a criação de uma obra que
pretende servir como espelho, refletindo o individual e, mais tarde, o plural (o público).
Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
Have you practiced so long to
learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get
at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with
me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of
the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take
things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed
on the specters in books,
You shall not look through my
eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides
and filter them from yourself.
Relação obra/poema
A obra de Nauman One Hundred Live and Die apresenta-nos
cem propostas de vida, todas com o mesmo fim. O contraste entre a vida e
morte é assim explorado num cenário pouco habitual. Através do jogo de luzes néon
aliadas ao texto é criada uma tensão entre o espaço físico em que se encontra a
obra e o psicológico, o que resulta na impossibilidade de o espetador ficar indiferente, pois ele próprio é também criador da obra. Com base nesta última
ideia, poderá ser mais fácil a compreensão de Whitman e a sua maneira de ver o corpo,
convidando-nos a encontrar a origem da criação — “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin
of all poems”.
Maria Rocha
terça-feira, 24 de novembro de 2015
Edward Kienholz & Charles Bukowski
Edward Kienholz, The Beanery, 1965
© Nancy Reddin Kienholz/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
"A bar is a sad place, a place full of strangers who are killing time, postponing the idea that they're going to die." Ed Kienholz
"My Vanishing Act"
when I got sick of the bar
and I sometimes did
I had a place to go:
it was a tall field of grass
an abandoned
graveyard.
I didn't consider this to be a
morbid pastime.
it just seemed to be the best
place to be.
it offered a generous cure to
the vicious hangover.
through the grass I could see
the stones,
many were tilted
at strange angles
against gravity
as though they must
fall
but I never saw one
fall
although there were many of those
in the yard.
it was cool and dark
with a breeze
and I often slept
there.
I was never
bothered.
each time I returned to the bar
after an absence
it was always the same with
them:
"where the hell you
been? we thought you
died!"
I was their bar freak, they needed me
to make themselves feel
better.
just like, at times, I needed that
graveyard.
Bukowski, Charles: My Vanishing Act [from You Get So Alone At Times That It Just
Makes Sense (1986), Black Sparrow Press]
Edward Kienholz

23/10/1927 - 10/06/1994
As obras de Ed Kienholz, de carácter imersivo e tridimensional, apresentam uma reflexão sobre questões contemporâneas, políticas e sociais, prementes na última metade do século vinte. Assemblage é o método usado pelo artista na maior parte das suas obras, cujo material inclui despojos, lixo e objectos encontrados em flee-markets e que, pela sua condição degradada e danificada, pretendem evocar os "podres" da sociedade (neste caso, a norte-americana).
Charles Bukowski
Poeta Ameriano, natural da Alemanha, cuja vasta obra se debruça em grande parte sobre questões políticas e sociais. O comum cidadão americano de classe baixa, a fadiga do trabalho, o álcool, a relação com o sexo feminino e a escrita em si são temas recorrentes na sua obra, cujo estilo é coloquial, cru e muitas vezes obsceno.
The Beanery
...
Um excerto do documentário Kienholz On Exhibit, de June Steel que pretende documentar a reacção do público face à exposição de Kienholz no Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA), em 1966. Ainda que a obra "The Beanery" apareça apenas nos dois últimos minutos deste video, é de interesse vê-lo tanto pelas várias obras apresentadas como pelas diferentes reacções que estas provocam no público.
www.theartstory.org
www.stedelijk.nl/en
www.bukowski.net
Bolin, Paul E. and Doug Blandy, "Beyond Visual Culture: Seven Statements of Support for Material Culture Studies In Art Education", Studies in Art Education, Voll. 44, Nº 3 (2003), pp. 246-263
Published By: National Art Education Association
Bolin, Paul E. and Doug Blandy, "Beyond Visual Culture: Seven Statements of Support for Material Culture Studies In Art Education", Studies in Art Education, Voll. 44, Nº 3 (2003), pp. 246-263
Published By: National Art Education Association
Inês Furtado Nº48711
domingo, 22 de novembro de 2015
Willem de Kooning e Walt Whitman
Willem de Kooning, Untitled,
1966
Charcoal on
paper, 25,4 x 20,3 cm
The Museum
of Modern Art, Nova Iorque
Willem de Kooning
Pintor estado-unidense, nascido em Roterdão. Um dos pintores mais celebrados do Expressionismo Abstracto que inclui nas suas obras uma fusão de movimentos artísticos como o Cubismo, o Surrealismo e o Expressionismo. Em 1950, cria uma série de quadros sobre mulheres, intitulada "Woman", que são ainda hoje as obras mais discutidas do artista.
Walt Whitman
This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless
vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was
expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response
likewise ungovernable,
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif
fused, mine too diffused,
Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swell-
ing and deliciously aching,
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of
love, white-blow and delirious juice,
Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the pros-
trate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.
This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born
of woman,
This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the
outlet again.
Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the
exit of the rest,
You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as
daughters.
As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness,
sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female
I see.
Relação entre o poema e a obra
O desenho de Willem de Kooning propõe uma desconstrução do corpo feminino. É-nos apresentado um corpo fragmentado, um corpo estranho, em contraste com o que o poeta Walt Whitman descreve nos dois primeiros versos do poema ("This is the female form, / A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot"). Se a verdade é que somos, de facto, atraídos ao ver a imagem desta mulher perturbadora não é de todo pela sua forma divina e bem desenhada (deformação vs. ideal).
Neste esboço a figura feminina, nua e com o corpo em forma de cruz, remete para a ideia da submissão da mulher ao homem (vejam-se os versos: "mine to difuse", "she is both passive and active"). Trata-se, pois, de um corpo idealizado pelo voyeurismo masculino.
Ana Palhão
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