You are the Weather, 1994-1996. speaks of the process of consciousness, of the physical dimension and its transcendence, which goes beyond concrete things. Else 11, 2010 feature a succession of twists and turns, stops, changes and contacts that do not follow a pre-established pattern. Her, Her, Her and Her, 2002. she finds an ideal space […]
Ulysses turned his back on the harbour and followed a rough track leading through the woods and up to the hills towards the place where Athena had told him. A group of men were idling around an oil barrel in which a fire was burning. He muttered a greeting and stood for a moment with […]
Dead. Dead. Every child. Shriek out from the stormed park, the smouldered school-yard Shout!because this quiet shocks the sky as muchas the first roar of bombers. Noise becameexpected: ears survived. Even the touchof shadows changing, that had stayed the samefor hundreds of holy years, became expected. But the planes went, and all unresurrectedlies the […]
And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows? Yes, he said. And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them? Very true. And suppose further that the […]
I am writing this from Madrid, in our tiny flat in Calle Olivar, our new home for the next year. As you would expect, I have spent the first week here exploring the wonders of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. In my three visits so far, two were centered on Picasso’s Guernica. […]
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Today is the last day of the wonderful exhibition Fragments of an Unknowable Whole at the OSU Urban Arts Space, curated by Tim Smith. This group show is not only a dizzying dose of eye-protein but it is also brain-tingling in its ambition, ostensibly exploring how artists actively engage in an ongoing questioning of the […]
On being generously invited by Ann McCoy to contribute a brief essay to the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail that she edited on the topic of the unconscious in contemporary art, I chose to write about how the Epicurean conception of the unconscious, via the work of the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius, can […]
“King Sisyphus, it turns out, had little on the folks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to push a giant rock up a hill for eternity. In modern-day LA, the city’s largest museum has spent months – and $5 million to $10 million – […]