Here is one of M.C. Escher’s symmetry drawings. Look at the white spaces and you see angels. Look at the dark spaces and you see devils.
It’s like humans. ‘Normal’ people turn into monsters. The person you least expect to do something courageous becomes a hero. How does this happen? The American psychologist Philip Zimbardo proposes an explanation in his TED talk from 2008.
Seeing double: The Flavour of Tears
One is an original. The other, evidently, a copy. But René Magritte was a Surrealist, and the truth behind The Flavour of Tears suggests he was enjoying a huge – and probably lucrative – joke.
The canvases – both dated 1948 – come together for the first time in Britain later this month as part of The Pleasure Principle, Tate Liverpool’s exhibition of the Belgian artist’s work, and the story behind them throws light on the artist’s early struggles. . .
It’s so Surreal… the artist who forged himself by Andrew McCorkell in The Independent.
In the first place can you forge yourself? If you do, is it meta or fake meta? Meta-meta? Or just…you? And isn’t it just like a Surrealist to do this?
Here’s Magritte’s Golconde, or as we call it, It’s Raining Men In Bowlers, and I still can’t find one that fits my head.
I don’t know, I just wanted a title with a hook.
When one hears the title “Strip 2011: Painters As Photographers”, the mind automatically goes off on a riff: Plumbers As Photographers, Undertakers As Photographers, Insurance Agents As Photographers, Nuclear Physicists As Photographers. What the hey.
But yesterday I dropped by Silverlens Gallery to see the works being hanged and it became clearer.
The paintings of Yasmin Sison and Geraldine Javier have always looked like photographs to me. When I saw these photos I actually thought they were paintings.
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Photo: Jose Tence Ruiz, one of 8 commissioned artists for a large-scale public art project along EDSA, supervises his work along the Barangay San Lorenzo wall. This painting will be unveiled on Saturday, May 7 at 8 a.m.
The Philippine paint manufacture leader BOYSEN, with the support of the MMDA, is launching an urban renewal initiative that simultaneously cleans the air and enables ambitious public artworks to be accomplished.
Eight huge artworks by 11 artists will be executed on EDSA, one every 45 days, until early 2012. In their hands the revolutionary paint product KNOxOUT becomes a medium of social change.
The BOYSEN KNOxOUT PROJECT: EDSA was designed around a paint that is activated by sunlight to transform airborne toxins into safe residues that can be washed away by rains. Scientific texts have demonstrated that for every square meter of surface painted with KNOx-OUT, the exhaust of 10 cars is eliminated.
Each artwork will cover 1000 square meters of high walls. The works will be executed on high walls along EDSA and on a selection of MRT pylons and station walls. At this size, collectively 10,000 square meters, the toxins in the exhaust of 100,000 cars can be neutralized. The project goes beyond “beautification” and beyond illustrating environmentalist ideas by using a paint medium that helps to address one major urban problem.
The commissioned artworks should make the often difficult ride down EDSA more pleasant. The artists are Jose Tence Ruiz, Neal M. Oshima, Baby Imperial and Coco Anne of B+C graphic design studio, the art department of the advertising agency TBWA, Virgillio “Pandy” Aviado, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Erika Tan and Tapio Snellman. The Boysen KnoxOut Project: EDSA is curated and supervised by Tao, Inc.
Kariyanan, an exhibition of new paintings by Elmer Borlongan, will be on view at Pinto Gallery in Antipolo from April 10 – 27, 2011. The exhibit opens on Sunday at 3pm.
Borlongan is known for his figurative expressionist works which document Manila’s urban sprawl. Eight years ago he moved to Casa San Miguel in idyllic rural Zambales, and the transition is visible in his current subjects, themes, and palettes.
The exhibition is open daily except Mondays. For more details contact the gallery at 6971015.
Click on the image to see the map to Pinto Gallery.
This is my ear. A cast taken of my ear–it was damaged (the cast, not my ear) so we had to redo it.
Leo Abaya is making casts of the body parts of different people for a mixed-media piece. Last year he made an installation that involved people’s butts.
He had the models sit on paint, then sit on white upholstery.
I did not have to sit on paint. If I did we would need a bigger chair. I only had to have something cold poured into my outer ear. My ear was plugged up with cotton so the stuff didn’t slosh into my brain.
What is my interest in this project? I get a pair of earrings out of it. Earrings in the shape of my own ears! So it’ll look like I have four ears.
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