Archive for the ‘eva & franco mattes’ tag
Grand Theft Museum (Stolen Title)
Today, The Washington Post features a wonderful piece of art criticism. Written by Blake Gopnik, the article was occasioned by the unveiling – at Postmasters Gallery in New York – of Eva and Franco Mattes‘ first artwork ever, Stolen Pieces (1995 – 1997): «a piece of contemporary art that consists of fragments stolen from priceless major modern works», Gopnik writes. The reason I’m pointing to the article (and not to the work) is because the work is not online yet, and because the review is really able to bring you into the piece and its complexity.
If you want to know more, please read Fabio Cavallucci‘s gorgeous essay on Stolen Pieces in the Mattes’ recently published catalogue. The essay is available as a pdf download on Postmasters’ website.
No fun
Eva and Franco Mattes, No Fun, 2010. Video documentation of a suicide performance on Chatroulette. Soon at Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Out Now: Reality is Overrated
Domenico Quaranta, “Reality is Overrated. When Media Go Beyond Simulation”, in Artpulse Magazine, Issue 3, March – May 2010.
Patrick Lichty: The Cartoonist Manifesto
The Cartoonist Manifesto: Performance Art for the Fin de Millennium.
For the past three or four years, there have been a number of artists, interveners, performers, (or whatever you want to call them), who are performing in virtual worlds. Second Life, World of Warcraft, Active Worlds, OpenSim – all these places are merely meaningless names that stand for the fact that there is a portion of the world that is embracing a “New Flesh” of pixels and nothingness. There are communities of “bodies without organs” writhing in a Tron-like fog of shapes and colors in imaginary spaces. But still, here we are – revisiting performance art, Happenings, interventions and the like, dragging the shadows of Dada, the Surrealists, Fluxus, the Situationists, Abramovic, Anderson, Barney, Burden, Export, Gilbert and George, Wiebel, and all the rest into the Virtual on our backs. It is again, like the seminal scene of Tron, where the hacker Flynn’s flesh is ripped apart by the laser of virtualization and pulled into the computer world, upgraded with new, luminous bodies. Read the rest of this entry »
ARCO Madrid 2010 – Expanded Box
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Once again, ARCOmadrid is opening up its own particular “black box” to provide room for renowned international artists using new media in their works. The use of new technologies and digital tools in art creation is no longer viewed as anything strange or exceptional, and in fact a large number of artists have already added it to their everyday practise without further ado. This new addition of electronics to art is reflected in the eight spaces at EXPANDED BOX, in a programme coordinated by the Italian critic and curator Domenico Quaranta, a specialist in digital and net art.
