- German Artist Alice Könitz at the Saatchi Gallery
Konitz has often employed models and maquettes as a means of interrogating space, and even her fully realized works often feel provisional. Based on a maquette on view in the gallery's back room, the show's capacious if spare centerpiece, Mall Sculpture (all works 2006), comprises four large, thin, hexagonal melamine frames covered in brown felt that are in turn supported by five triangular columns covered with sheets of reflective gold-colored construction paper. Despite the regularity of the modular units, the work's overall plan is asymmetrical and looks surprisingly arbitrary, appearing at once like an enormous, unclasped gold bracelet and an errant fragment from a low-budget science-fiction set. Konitz based her form on architectural structures she observed in West Los Angeles's Century City--shiny urban-scaled emblems of late capitalism, anxiously situated between Utopian modernism and the empty promise of postmodernism. Theatrically exposing its thrifty origins and heavily glued joints, Mall Sculpture communicates its inability to signify luxury and power, instead performing as both disruptive barrier and open-ended monument to the contingencies of social space.In her 2004 exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter, Alice Konitz presented an absurdist video featuring four characters in an idyllic natural setting, all wearing geometric masks that looked at once primitive and fashionable. Such images represented a way for Konitz to begin negotiating the complex symbolic terrain between exteriority and interiority. In her latest show she continued to use formalism as a vehicle for moving from idiosyncratic concerns--recurring modular shapes, familiar low-budget materials, a limited palette now further refined to brown and metallic colors--toward an investigation of the wider social realm. While Konitz stated no explicit political ambition, the exhibition's no-nonsense title, "Public Sculpture," invokes a social dimension at a moment when "public" and "private" are semantic notions defined by an elite.In the wooded setting of Alice Könitz's untitled video, "primitive" imagery (geometric masks and props) meets "primitive" facture in a series of three tableaux that recall the mannered staging of early cinema. Collaged from plays by Ionesco and other absurdist masters, the scenarios seem intent on going nowhere.
- Catch Montana Mania With Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana Tickets
If you have noticed the lines outside ticket counters lately, it is just people waiting to get their Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana tickets. Hannah Montana mania is not something that has just caught the country by storm; it is spread all around the world. Youngsters everywhere are hoping to get their chance to see the Hannah Montana girl live in concert.
- I’m Baking My Own Cake
Let’s say I wanted a cake. I really like the big fancy cakes you see at the bakery, but I can’t justify spending all that money on one. After all, it’s just a matter of mixing up a bunch of ingredients and cooking them, how hard can that be? So I think to myself, I’ll just make my own cake, it will be just as good, cheaper, and no one will know the difference.
- German Artist Jeppe Hein at the Saatchi Gallery
Jeppe Hein’s sculpture and installations explore the relationship between viewer and artwork. Using the minimalist aesthetic of the archetypical cube, Hein’s Shaking Cube is both sculpture and mechanical object. Framed by an invisible field of motion sensors, the work is impelled by the movements of the viewer. Using sculpture as an expanded field of social interaction, Hein calls into question traditional perceptions and functions of art, creating a work that can only be experienced through the viewer’s participation.Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he attended the Royal Academy of Arts, Hein has exhibited extensively in Europe. In 2003 Hein exhibited his outdoor installation, Water Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In the same year, Raimar Stange produced a monograph of his work, called Jeppe Hein: Take a walk in the Forest at Sunlight. This year Hein has a solo exhibition at Miami Beach’s Moore Space and his work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in both Los Angeles and Chicago. Hein is represented by the Johann Konig Gallery, Berlin, where his solo exhibition, Minimal Overload, was on show in May this year. Hein is also represented internationally by Union Gallery, London.This exhibition is the fourth in a series of projects supported by Clayton Utz. The first project resulted in the commissioning and purchase for the permanent contemporary collection of a major work by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. The second project facilitated an exhibition and acquisition of a video installation by Susan Norrie, titled Undertow; and the third enabled Australian artist James Angus to create a work entitled Truck Corridor: a life size MACK truck installed in the Level 2 Contemporary Project Space.
- Ipod Song Downloads Involve Plenty of Fun
Getting iPod song downloads is always challenging, as there are hundreds of sites that have to be researched before you can find an ideal place to download. While there are some sites that offer free services, there are also other sites that offer paid services. Most paid sites will have a one-time fee that has to be paid, and any number of songs can be downloaded from the sites. Basically, the users are getting a membership in the sites with the fee. We will be talking a bit more about these membership download sites.
- Vases Too Can Help Enhance Looks
Vases have always known to be of great beauty because of their shapes. Besides looking very elegant, they also enhance the look of the flowers in it. They can come in various sizes and shapes as well. One interesting thing about the vase is that there will be even certain ethnicities attached to it. For example there could be the Chinese vase, and this will be designed in a way pertaining to their culture.
- Vincent Van Gogh - Great Painter & Self Multilator
Famous for cutting off his ear, or were his paintings really that good?
- Online Art Galleries: Bringing Art to your Doorsteps!
Collecting various forms of art and paintings is a passion that art lovers find hard to resist. A classic piece of art can add that extra spark to the place where it is displayed. Whether the purpose is to give an aesthetic feel to one's home or office or to flaunt one's eclecticism, a painting can add an extra dimension to the ambience. However, the kind of art one intends to collect is a personal choice. While a passionate collector may be buying paintings to add to his private gallery, an interior decorator may suggest one to his/ her client to add to the “feel” of the ambience. Paintings are of different genres and it is up to the collector to decide the suitability of a piece of painting with the ambience where it is to be displayed. Whether it is an art gallery, home or office, the painting should be displayed in sync with the place. The art lovers know this very well and thus their focus is always on selecting the right kind of painting.
- How to Pick the Right Vases?
Sometimes picking the right vases may be a difficult task. This is because you will have a variety of flowers that you may use for decorating the room. Vases may have different designs, colors, and even shapes. If you want to pick the right vase, you will have to consider the flowers first. As the vase is going to hold the flowers, you must choose a vase that will blend with the types of flowers as well as its color.
- Get Tickets to Young Frankenstein Show
What happens when a brain surgeon gets entangled in a brainy mess? “Young Frankenstein” revolves around the story of a well-known brain surgeon and professor from New York, Frederick Frankenstein, who inherits a castle as well as a laboratory from his grandfather in Transylvania. His grandfather, Victor Von Frankenstein, was nuts and now, Frederick has to decide either to continue his grandfather’s crazy experiments of reanimating the dead or escape from his family’s troubled past. What does he do in the end? There is also a gorgeous lab assistant named Inga, who has a soft corner for Frederick. Does the brain surgeon fall in love with Inga?