Thomas Demand: House of Card
“Demand found in Lautner’s dusty models a way of problem solving and working through designs even though these were for Lautner’s building proposals that never saw realisation.”
Tag Archives: Sculpture
Concrete, Plastic and Future Landscapes: Boris Loder’s Particles
“Loder’s constructions may appear simple, even whimsical, but they subvert conventional ideas of landscape in a really clever way.”
Felicia Honkasalo: Objects and Ontologies
“What is held onto through a photograph, is no longer the disappearing object itself but something that appears or becomes visible in the moment of its vanishing: as it were, the last glance that it casts at us, or the last glimpse of it that we can catch.”
Lorenzo Vitturi: We Need More Markets
“It is an aesthetic examination of the material of everyday life that barely impinges on representational issues and I love that about it.”
Darren Harvey-Regan’s Chalk Muse: Reflections on Time in The Erratics
“The plinth and the chalk are symbiotic vehicles for vision. One bleeds into the other with precision, which given the cleanliness of the image is something to consider-to strip away millions of years of aggregate bio-mass and reduce it and time to the constraints of light and human hand presents a challenge to the eye”
Chance Encounters: Interview with Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
“There nothing more boring than, lets say, a picture of a chair and everybody looking at it thinks, well, thats a chair.”
An Interview with Tom Lovelace: ‘this way up’
“Materiality has always been a strong thread in my work.”
Interview Darren Harvey Regan – “The Erratics” @Unseen
“Photography is a medium that typically hides its own materiality – we commonly look at an image rather than the material surface it appears to us on. Photography translates everything to surface, its depicted world flattened, the space is squeezed out of it. And yet it still usually looks like the world we know. This […]
Thomas Albdorf: The Non-Alpinist @ Unseen
“I normally start with a rather specific set of ideas for images in mind; named set originates in sketches and research I normally engage in for some time, maybe months, before starting to even make or use photographic imagery.” Thomas Albdorf‘s main interest focuses on photography and sculpture – in particular, the intersection area […]
#UnseenASX – Associative Methods, Inherent Algorithms and History Through the Self-portrait: A Conversation with Peter Puklus
“It is about expressing an idea freely. As soon as you say you’re a photographer, you’re immediately blocking yourself inside a medium or a technology. “
A Capitalist Sublime: Richard Serra
Despite Serra’s insistence on the political neutrality… it’s hard not to read the installation of four towering plates of steel in the virgin desert as a wry observation…
Asger Carlsen – ‘Hester’ (2012)
“I am tired of photography.” – Asger Carlsen By Paul Loomis, ASX, February 2013 Asger Carlsen’s new book, Hester, features twenty-one impossible photographs. Their subjects are almost humorously mangled yet unbloodied human bodies. The first image is a pile of plump flesh with stretch marks, mounded in globs atop a bipod consisting of […]