Esquire Theme by Matthew Buchanan
Social icons by Tim van Damme
23
May
John Whitney “Catalog” 1961 (by crystalsculpture2)
This is John Whitney’s demo reel of work that he created with his analog computer/film camera magic machine he built from a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight. Also, Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull (special fx wizard) to use the slit scan technique on 2001: A Space Odyssey
shared by George Grimaldis
15
Apr
Alfred Jensen
Fourty ninth Time Inc’s Project Diagram, February 5, 1959
Oil, crayon and ink on paper
shared by: george grimaldis
21
Mar
Marcel Broodthaers
La Camera qui regarde, 1966
glass, paper, wood, paint tripod 14x35x106 cm Caldic Colletie, Wassenaar
L’espace de l’ecriture is currently showing at MAMbo until May 6, 2012
shared by: George Grimaldis
12
Mar
Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Umatilla, 1959
Oil on canvas
04
Mar
Bridget Riley
Blaze 1, 1962
Emulsion on hardboard
shared by: george grimaldis
25
Feb
Antony Gormley
Asian Field, 2006
an installation of 180,000 clay figures
shared by george grimaldis
24
Feb
Beverly McIver
Dear God Series, 2008
(two of nine self portraits)
21
Feb
Cement Eclipses by artist, Isaac Cordal
* shared by George Grimaldis from Isaac Cordal’s photostream on flickr
16
Feb
Al Hansen
Bambolina, 1994
Cigarette butts on Wood
Al Hansen (October 5, 1927 – June 22, 1995) was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a member of the Fluxus art movement and friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II, he pushed a piano off the roof of a five story building—this act became the foundation of one of his most recognized pieces, the Yoko Ono Piano Drop and inspired artists like Nam June Paik.
Hansen was a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol’s studio in New York. Hansen also studied with and worked with the composer John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Hansen was perhaps best known for his performance pieces, his participation in Happenings, and for his collages in which he often used cigarette butts and candy bar wrappers as the raw materials, among them numerous variations of a sculpture referring the Venus of Willendorf.
He wrote an important book about performance art, A Primer of Happenings and Time Space Art published by Something Else Press in 1965. In 1977 Hansen managed Los Angeles punk bands the Controllers and the Screamers in Hollywood. In the 1980s Hansen moved to Cologne, Germany where he established an art school, the Ultimate Akademie. Inspired among others by the Final Academy of Genesis P-Orridge it became a meeting point for local and international performers of the time based arts. He died in Germany in 1995 with a number of friends celebrating a fluxus funeral according to his plan.
Al Hansen was also the father of Bibbe Hansen, one of Andy Warhol’s proteges. He is also rock musician Beck’s and artist Channing Hansen’s grandfather— he had a huge amount of influence on their artistic endeavors.
* This information is shared from Wiki by George Grimaldis.
