Brian Dettmer

Website : http://briandettmer.com/

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Interview

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Aliey Ball - Sculpture

http://alieyball-fineart.blogspot.com

Evan Penny

Evan Penny is a conceptually based figurative sculptor and photographer living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Born in South Africa in 1953, Penny immigrated to Canada in 1964 and received his formal training at the Alberta College of Art and Design, completing his BA with Honours in 1975 and his MFA in Sculpture in 1978.

Penny has built an international reputation for his hyper-realist figurative sculptures that capture the paradox of an unreal reality. Employing traditional as well as contemporary sculpting methods, Penny molds figures out of clay, and then casts his sculptures in resin, bronze or silicone. While his earlier works were largely cast in resin or bronze, Penny's recent works have centered around busts or backs cast in silicone with resin eyes, implanted human hair, and custom-made clothing. Penny's project at large over the past several years investigates the relationship of sculpture to photography and virtual technologies, and the ever changing and unstable boundaries between reality and illusion.

http://www.trepanierbaer.com/artists.asp?ArtistID=30&currPage=2

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Documentary about sculptor Evan Penny.
Part 1 of 3
Produced by Columbus Museum of Art



part 2



part 3 of 3



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKz225afelw&feature=channel

more videos
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=evan+penny&aq=f

reviews and essays
http://www.evanpenny.com/reviews_and_essays.php

artist website
http://www.evanpenny.com/home.php

Rookwood Sculpture Walk - Sydney

OW IN ITS SECOND YEAR, HIDDEN: A ROOKWOOD SCULPTURE WALK UNVEILS THE WORK OF 24 ARTISTS' RESPONSES TO THE ROOKWOOD SITE, ONE OF THE LARGEST CEMETERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. THROUGH ASSEMBLAGES AND EPHEMERAL, TEXT AND SOUND BASED INSTALLATIONS, ARTISTS OPEN UP QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH AND GRIEF AND EXPLORE THEIR OWN PERSONAL CONNECTION TO THE SITE.

THE WALK WILL BE OPEN FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET, STARTING AT THE REFLECTIONS AT ROOKWOOD CAFE (NEAR THE STRATHFIELD GATES, OFF WEEROONA ROAD) CONTINUING SOUTH ACROSS MEMORIAL AVENUE ROOKWOOD.

THE EXHIBITION IS FREE TO ATTEND.

OPENING WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH FROM 6PM-8PM AT REFLECTIONS AT ROOKWOOD CAFE. TO BE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED BY JUDITH BLACKALL, HEAD OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMS, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART.

AN ARTIST LEAD AUDIO GUIDE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE REFLECTIONS AT ROOKWOOD CAFE AND WILL ALSO BE DOWNLOADABLE FROM THE ITUNES WEBSITE.

BUSES TO ROOKWOOD ON ROUTE NUMBER 408 DEPART FROM BURWOOD, STRATHFIELD, HOMEBUSH AND FLEMINGTON RAILWAY STATIONS.

VISIT OUR GALLERY TO VIEW WORK FROM LAST YEAR'S EXHBITION.

http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/hidden.html

Lectures - Sculpture

High Museum of Art Exhibition Curator Gary M. Radke discusses how art historians try to reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's sculptural production. Da Vinci evidently made plans for and produced sculpture throughout his career, but little of it survives. Radke also presents arguments for attributing two previously unrecognized figures to da Vinci. 1 hour 54 secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/da-vincis-sculptures-decoded


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Mary Pat Matheson, executive director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, discusses what TIME Magazine named as one of the top 10 Museum Exhibitions of 2008. The Atlanta Botanical Garden is the final 2009 destination of the tour, with 20 of Henry Moore's monumental sculptures in a single locale. 49mins 23secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/moore-america

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Sophie DesCamps, curator of the Musée du Louvre, discusses colors in Greek and Roman ancient bronzes. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World". Descamps has co-authored the book The Ancient Greeks: In the Land of the Gods. 1hour 4 mins

http://forum-network.org/lecture/color-greek-and-roman-ancient-bronzes

asylum seekers - Melbourne

The art in Hosier Lane, Melbourne is constantly changing. This is one of the last photos I took in my recent visit to Melbourne. The work was freshly installed. The name of the artist is not known, but I suspect from the size of the hands that it is a female.

Sticky tape sculpture is not new in street art, but what I liked about this piece was its timeliness with respect to the asylum seeker debate currently ongoing in the media. Street art is inherently political.

For me, a measure of success of street art is that it must work in relation to its installed position. If you move it and it loses its context, then its good street art. This piece fulfills that criteria. The reading of the art lies in its relation to the iron bars from behind which the fragile and nameless hands entreat.

Well done.

Blakkbyrd

Will Coles

http://www.willcoles.com/default.html

media
http://www.willcoles.com/media.html

Lauren Porter - Ferrari

If you can't afford to buy the real thing then why not knit one. That's what 22-year-old art student Lauren Porter did. For her university degree show, Lauren decided to knit a life-size Ferrari. Mainly modelled on an F355, it took her 10 months and 12 miles of yarn to put the Ferrari together. Lauren got friends and family to help knit approximately 240 red woollen squares that she then assembled and strapped over a metal frame in the shape of the car. The bright-red Ferrari got instant attention when Lauren exhibited it at her degree show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8XnQm7FjY

Art in Second Life

What is Second Life?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt8L2hr-m4I&feature=channel

Artist Interviews



Interview with a highly successful Second Life artist, Cheen Pitney. Cheen's sculptures are found all over Second Life - in this video, we follow their trail, explore this extraordinary work and discover different aspects of Second Life on the way.

(World descending a staircase)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T7YFDEEbrU





Presents the work of a talented Second Life sculptor - Rezago Kokorin...also showcases the use of simple building and scripting tools from SL to produce remarkably effective sculptures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPQ0AlmO2Q




A highly prolific kinetic sculptor in Second Life. elros' work has quickly gained a sizeable following for its beauty, grace and poetry, and this interview presents an opportunity to get to know the artist better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWjUrflZb10

more videos from Magellan Egoyan
http://www.youtube.com/user/mageEgo

On the Home Studio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkXRB29kT0

Tony Hancock's Sculpture Scene From The Rebel

Jim Coverley

Artist's website
http://www.jimcoverley.com/home.php

reviews

Softcore Hardcore by Trond Borgen
Dirty Pretty Things by JJ Charlesworth
Folds and Cuts by Kit Hammond
The Luxuriance of Signs by Christophe Kihm
Individual Condition by Jim Coverley

JIM COVERLEY graduated in 2001 from the Royal Academy Schools of Arts in London with a PGDip Fine Art (Sculpture), Distinction. In 2003 he was awarded the Sharjah International Biennial Prize. He had his first solo show in Paris in January 2008 at Schirman & de Beaucé Gallery, and in 2007 was in group shows at the Ashwin Street Gallery, London, and at the Royal Academy (with Kiki Smith).

at saatchi online artists
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2008/02/saatchi_online_artists_at_form.php




artist's statement
http://www.re-title.com/artists/Jim-Coverley.asp




University exhibition
http://www.sculpture.wsa.soton.ac.uk/jc/pages/jc06.htm

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Jim Coverley close to the skin
British artist Jim Coverley, not yet forty years old, produced troubling flowers. They ressemble orchides, full of scrolled petals, speckled with dark colors. If one looks closer, we notice it is simply old pieces of cloth, folded in a geometric manner and held by tie pins or thick nails. This original origami, that is also reminiscent of the symetric figures of the kaleidoscopes, is always made based on textiles that have been in contact with the skin – sheets, pillow cases, dresses. They have all been used or worn and this lived, sometimes stained, aspect makes these compositions so much more disquieting.

Jim Coverley is exhibited at the Shirman de Beaucé gallery (7 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris) until 30 May 2009.
Know more

Deborah Redwood

http://www.deborahredwood.com



Reflections video

Art Machines Machine Art - Basel

From Tinguely to Damien Hirst, machines that produce their own art

We all agree that art is created by artists. But what happens when machines start producing art? Do artists become simple engineers? What can we then consider as the artwork: the machine, the final product or the process of creation? From Jean Tinguely's drawing machines dating back to the 1950s to the ones currently produced by Angela Bulloch, Jon Kessler or Cornelia Sollfrank, all of them have a common feature: they produce their own art. Depending on the mechanical process involved, visitors may keep certain works such as drawings produced by Jean Tinguely's Meta-Matics and certified stamped sheets produced by Damien Hirst's or Olafur Eliasson's machines. To create a machine as an artwork and to entrust it with the responsibility of developing further artworks is a radical step. It means delegating creativity to a piece of equipment. Do such art machines then possess a “soul”?

http://www.tinguely.ch/en/exhibition/index.html

ART MACHINES MACHINE ART
The Museum turns into a production hall...

TINGUELY MUSEUM
Paul Sacher-Anlage 1, 4002 BASEL

FROM MARCH 5 TO JUNE 29, 2008

>> download Press Release English

>> download Press Photos

Museum of Cycladic art

"Her(his)tory"
4th June - 29th September 2007


MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART
4 Neofytou Douka Street
106 74 Athens

The Museum of Cycladic art is delighted to announce Her(his)tory, the first ever contemporary video exhibition in its premises, examining the notion of the subjective development of the 'historical condition'

http://www.cycladic.gr

sculpture

Darren Knight Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptural works by Billy Apple, Mikala Dwyer, Rob McHaffie, Ricky Swallow and Ronnie van Hout. The exhibition runs from 24 July until 1 September 2007.

BILLY APPLE

Billy Apple was born Barrie Bates in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 to 1962 where he was part of Britain’s pop generation. His name change to Billy Apple in 1962 was an art-branding exercise and he had the first solo pop art exhibition in the UK - Apple Sees Red: Live Stills 1963 (Gallery One, London).

In 1964 Billy Apple moved permanently to New York and became the bridge between the British and American pop art movements. Leo Castelli arranged for Paul Bianchini to show his work, which was curated into the seminal exhibition, American Supermarket 1964 by Ben Birillo, artist and partner in the Bianchini Gallery. This was a groundbreaking installation where art objects were presented using the display techniques of the modern supermarket, repositioning art in relation to the context of commodity culture. It included the great names of American pop art – Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Richard Artschwager, Robert Watts, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman and Billy Apple.

In 1969 Billy Apple opened the second artist-run alternative space in New York called Apple at 161 West 23rd St and was at the forefront of the emerging conceptual art movement. He exhibited regularly in the New York art scene (112 Greene St Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the New Museum) throughout his 26 years of residence there, having gained US citizenship in 1981. On his return to Auckland, New Zealand in 1990, Billy Apple continued to exhibit internationally as well as have works included in survey exhibitions (Tate Liverpool; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Queens Museum, New York and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh).

The two Rainbow works in this exhibition date from Billy Apple’s second solo New York show, Neon Rainbows at the Bianchini Gallery, November 23 - December 14, 1965. Rainbows in neon, translucent acrylic and serigraphs on paper were exhibited in the Bianchini Gallery’s large internal space in a smart high rise on West 57th St. With no outside windows the only light in the space was produced by the neon rainbows installed on the floor. The additive effect of the neon rainbow colors produced a beautiful bright white light, which if refracted separated back into a rainbow spectrum - all the shadows in the gallery were rainbows.

The show hit the mark in New York. None of the pop artists were working with neon and Billy Apple had taken the rainbow, an icon of pop and electrified it to create white light and rainbow shadows. Robert Pincus-Witten wrote that Billy Apple’s rainbows are among the most beautiful that hover over the present scene (Artforum, February 1966) and components of it were curated into exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris and the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

The translucent acrylic Rainbow here at Darren Knight Gallery is a unique work and the Day-Glo six-color serigraph is a genuine pop multiple. Their spectral vibrancy embody the spirit of 60s pop culture. – Mary Morrison

Billy Apple appears courtesy of Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington.


MIKALA DWYER

For this exhibition Mikala Dwyer will construct in the space a new sculptural work, “…a stack of transparent bundles of space.” This work will continue the artist’s interest in ‘empty sculptures’, which have formed an important part of Dwyer’s practice in recent years.


ROB MCHAFFIE

Rob McHaffie’s recent forays into sculpture are unsurprising considering the subject matter of much of his painting oeuvre. Considering portrait painting too problematic, McHaffie turned to sculpting abstracted human forms from plaster and porcelain to use as subjects for his paintings. Now these figures have been developed and have emerged from being the stars of his canvases to works in themselves. The sculpture in this exhibition exemplifies McHaffie’s interest in the loaded sentiment found in the accoutrements of everyday suburban life. Expressing D.I.Y. spirituality, the work must be cared for daily like some sort of votive as the flowers are refreshed in a form of idol, or perhaps idle, worship.


RICKY SWALLOW

The exhibition will present two new Ricky Swallow bronze sculptures, Last of the Unnatural Acts 2007 and John 'The Wolfking of LA' 2007. These sculptures see Ricky Swallow's interest in historical art and popular music brought together in an unlikely duet.

One half of the work consists of a cover version of St. Mary Magdalen by Donatello (c.1457) from the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. The other, inspired by the original version of the former and realized in the same, small scale, an interpretation of pop-star John Phillips, as photographed on Malibu beach for the sleeve of his album 'John the Wolfking of LA' (1970) . Phillips (the author of two of the more significant anthems of the late 1960s - 'San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)' and 'California Dreaming') was, at the time, writing and performing as a reluctant solo artist and descending into heroin addiction. The album's superficially optimistic music carries lyrics about heroin use, miscarriage and the breakdown of friendships and of his marriage and thus articulates an end of 'the 1960s'. In Swallow's sculpture the bedraggled Phillips, dressed in fur on a beach is paired with Mary Magdalen in ragged burlap. Giorgio Vasari wrote of Donatello's original depiction: 'She is portrayed as wasted away by her fastings and abstinence' (whilst Phillips suffers from over indulgence).

'The Last of the Unnatural Acts' is the first by Swallow to directly reference the Roman Catholic carvings that were the first sculptures that he experienced as a child. Both figures appear alone, desperate. Separated by 2,000 years, they remain apart, presented on separate plinths: fetishistic figures ready for somebody else's ritualistic worship - Extract from Robert Tufnell's text for Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin exhibition and catalogue, Ricky Swallow 10 May - 23 June 2007

Last of the Unnatural Acts 2007 was part of Ricky Swallow’s recent solo exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and will be included in his forthcoming solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna in November 2007.

RONNIE VAN HOUT

Ronnie van Hout will be exhibiting a new sculpture titled Failed Robot. A robot that failed to grow up is like looking back at a future that might have been.

In what could be seen as a reversal of the futuristic fascinations of early science fiction, van Hout’s work laments the passing of an age of unbounded imaginings of technological and human potential. Thus we are drawn to consider our relationship with technology in contemporary times, where the lightning speed of development fails to meet with expectations of what a consumer culture should be able to provide, and where romantic visions of robots in the future are notably absent.

For further information please contact Darren Knight Gallery. For images of artworks, and exhibition text by Chloé Wolifson, please refer to Gallery website at www.darrenknightgallery.com


For more information please contact Darren Knight Gallery, Telephone +61 2 9699 5353 Email info@darrenknightgallery.com, Website www.darrenknightgallery.com
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

If you would prefer not to receive email invitations from the gallery please let us know by return email.

Alberto Giacometti

Man Among Men: Alberto Giacometti 1963

A Man Among Men: Alberto Giacometti (Jean-Marie Drot, 1963). Sometimes we see the interviewer. Sometimes we hear him. Sometimes we even see a wide shot of the studio that reveals the simple, face-to-face architecture of the encounter. But most of all, we see Giacometti in mid-shot, extemporizing on his obsessions, assiduously working the damp clay of an as-yet inchoate figure. As his fingers probe and tear, he wryly pooh-poohs the interviewer's anxieties about disrupting his creativity: "The filming draws me to the work... it's a chance to work..." And so Giacometti, the charming, witty unrepentant workaholic emerges, reliving in what the poet Jacques Dupin called an "intense, rasping voice," the cathartic moments of his artistic career.


http://www.ubu.com/film/giacometti.html

sculpture projects muenster 07

sculpture projects muenster 07 opens on June 16, 2007 and runs parallel with the documenta in Kassel, from June 17 to September 30, 2007. For one hundred days, the exhibition will put its stamp on the city and the region. In 1997 more than 500.000 visitors came to Muenster to see the work of artists from 25 countries. This large attendance certainly raises similar expectations for 2007.

http://www.skulptur-projekte.de/information/ausstellung/

Hague Sculpture 2007 - part 1

Hague Sculpture 2007

DE OVERKANT / DOWN UNDER
Contemporary Art from Australia and the Netherlands
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/hague-sculpture-2007.html

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS



Brook Andrew,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/brook-andrew.html



James Angus,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/james-angus.html


Robyn Backen,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/robyn-backen.html





Jon Campbell,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/jon-campbell.html



Mikala Dwyer,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/mikala-dwyer.html



Shaun Gladwell,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/shaun-gladwell.html



Richard Goodwin,
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/richard-goodwin.html

Richard Goodwin

The central tenet of Richard Goodwin’s artistic practice is that public art and architecture inform, interrogate and constantly redefine each other.

Richard Goodwin Goodwin was recently awarded Australia’s richest sculpture prize, the 2004 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. This award has enabled the creation of, amongst other projects, an extraordinary website www.richard-goodwin.com which further details the artist’s cross-disciplinary expertise. To add to his list of recent achievements, Richard was also the recipient of the 2003 Sydney Water Sculpture Prize in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi NSW.

Sculptural installations, performance based pieces, photography and works on paper all imbued with a strong architectural ethos, Goodwin’s work has been collected by numerous public and private collectors, and can be seen around Australian and international cities as public art or as an integral part of the urban infrastructure.

http://www.christineabrahamsgallery.com.au/adisplay.cfm?id=86



AUDIO | 256K | 56K

http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/SculpturePrize05




http://www.lempriereaward.com.au/gallery_view.asp?galleryId=11



http://www.richard-goodwin.com/

interview
http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/future/Transcripts/s1139100.htm

Mikala DWYER

http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/scholars/scholars05/dwyer.asp






http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com.au/artists/works.asp?ID=11



Just over two decades ago, Dwyer's use of detritus in her sculptural installations had her labelled as a grunge artist, with a kind of pseudo-punk aesthetic where anything went. With her current exhibition at the Anna Schwartz Gallery, Flowers, Flies and Someone Else, Dwyer's grunge - while remaining bizarre - has taken on an odd elegance.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/16





http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/SculpturePrize05/Detail.cfm?IRN=139759