2012年1月30日 星期一


Original Japanese poem:                                   
リンゴの画を題す / ムシャノコウジ・サネアツ

「私は一つの存在
亡ぶまでは美しく生き
亡べば地上に種をのこすなり
満足せる
一つの存在」


Translate to Chinese:                                            
 題蘋果之畫 / 武者小路実篤

「我是一個存在
死亡之前活得美麗燦爛
死亡時只把種子留在地上
就能滿足的
一個存在」

Translate to English:                           
    Inscribing the apple image 
by Mushanokoji Saneatsu

I present an existence
Before death, living beautiful and brilliant 
Death is only leaving seeds on the ground
( I feel) satisfy 
an existence 

2012年1月12日 星期四

Sculpture Builder: Richard Serra





  Richard Serra makes sculptures free-stand which objects are held up against the wall. The steel were rolled up and stands by its own. 
He hopes that the sculpture will provide both a public place and a private space for people to gather and experience the narrow, vertical, open column in relation to themselves.
 Richard's works can deduce to the piece cuts into space and the logic of the intervention is apparent  with the props. The relationships between his works and viewers do not seem to be arbitrary. While viewers are walking around inside a spiral, they may deduce artist's plan, feel the elevation and even nothing. Yet Richard's work just brings to bear psychologically on viewers. 


                    

   
                            
                    To Lift. 1967. Vulcanized rubber, 9140 x 2000 x 1524 cm










Promenade, 2008. Weatherproof steel. Five plates, each ca.55 3/4 x 13 feet x 5 inches. Installation in the nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, 2008.







St. John's Rotary Arc, 1980. Weatheproof steel. 12 x 180 feet x 2 1/1 inches. Installation at Holland  Tunnel exit, New York, 1980-88


Richard was hitting lead.

 Richard Serra born 1939
American sculptor, draughtsman and film-maker, born in San Francisco. Studied at the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara) 1957-61 and at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, 1961-4. Lived in Paris and Italy 1964-6, then settled in New York. Met Eva Hesse, Steve Reich, Judd, Nauman and others. First one-man exhibition at the Galleria La Salita, Rome, 1966. Worked 1966-7 mainly with rubber, including hanging units like thick harness juxtaposed with a tangled network of neon lights. Then turned to floor pieces: a horizontal wooden from with lighted candles, floor sheets in moulded latex rubber, torn and scattered crumpled pieces of sheet lead, and splashed molten lead. Began in 1969 to be primarily concerned with the cutting, propping or stacking of lead sheets, rough timber, etc., to create structures, some very large, supported only by their own weight; emphasis on the process of making and the character of the material. Also made films concerned with process, e.g. Hand catching Lead 1968. Since 1970-1 has made various large-scale exterior and landscape pieces, as well as monumental black drawing in charcoal or paintstick. Lives in New York.


2012年1月11日 星期三

The Whole World of the Artist

  In the installation entitled “The Whole World”, artist Chris Sauter of San Antonio, Texas surgically extracted drywall components from the gallery walls. 
  Sauter's work, The Mind and Body (2005), he presented his idea world in astronomy and biology.  He used the raw materials to construct a microscope and telescope. People use microscope to discover the world deeply in biology. Also telescopes are use to research the wide space. Both two tools are function in the real world. Sauter tries to put them together on the wall One side of the wall of the microscope is collected in the center of wall. It likes when we zoom in the micro-world by using microscopes. The opposite wall is hundred different size circles which likes a nice night sky.  He said that making artworks is not practical. It could connect with the real world and make a direct relationship between artworks (objects) and the world. 
 Next time, when we rise out head to see the whole start night sky, we may think about this work and the miserable world. It always attract people discovery.  













                               The Mind and Body, Chris Sauter, 2005
                     
                          Source http://www.chrissauter.com/main.html