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| Extrusion Map-69, 2010, Douglas Prince I've been fortunate to have some work from "Extrusion Maps" added to SLICEDSOUP, a curated collection of art discovered online: http://www.slicedsoup.org/ |
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| © David Prifti, 2009, Hannah, Assabet David Prifti, who died on November 21st, was a photographer and teacher who for the past 15 years embraced the earliest techniques of photography. Using the traditional wet plate collodion process, which was developed in the 1850’s, David made photographs of contemporary sitters and subjects that are tinged with a sweet and haunting sense of nostalgia. Because the wet collodion process requires exposures from 30 seconds to 2 minutes time it provides powerful opportunities for a deep inspection and engagement. “My interest lies in the power of a photograph to describe my subject clearly and with power,” Prifti once wrote. “What begins with my interest in the physical appearance of the subject, develops into an evolving exploration of the sitter and myself.” |
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Thanksgiving by John Currin, 2003, The Tate Collection, London. John Currin's artwork brings to mind the naturally lit rooms of Vermeer and the realistic, beautiful, yet often grotesque figures of Odd Nerdrum. What I see here are three women, obviously related, preparing a huge turkey for Thanksgiving, but the turkey is really the star. It is impossibly fat and huge, I have a hard time believing they will be able to fit it into an oven. |
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| La poupée by Hans Bellmer, painted wood, papier-mâché, mixed media, 1935/36, 61×170×51 cm, courtesy Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, photo © Collection Centre Pompidou/Vertrieb RMN/Georges Meguerditchian/ProLitteris. |
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| Francesca Woodman in her studio, Pilgrim Mills, Providence, RI,1976, click on image to animate, Douglas D. Prince |
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| The first is Herbarium of Artificial Plants for which Alberto Baraya took the role of a botanical explorer and collected, catalogued and displayed artificial plants from some of the earth's most fertile places, starting with Colombia, his own native country and one of the world's most biodiverse countries. Made out of plastic or fabric, the samples are dissected and exhibited inside botanical slides that rigorously detail the false plant parts and their characteristics. Baraya's concern is representation, not ecological critique. "A lot of people need a relationship with nature, the good feeling of nature, but they sometimes get it through artificial plants. We need the representation of nature more than the reality" (via.) |
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| Alberto Baraya, Herbario de plantas artificiales, 2002-2011 |
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| Entangled Man after GH(51), 2011 - Douglas Prince |
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| Entangled Man after NS(66), 2011 - Douglas Prince The credit for the image is here: http://50watts.com/#1989087/A-Dark-Stranger "Cover by Gertrude Huston for the 1951 New Directions edition of A Dark Stranger" Julien Gracq is an incredible French writer who died in 2007 at the age of something incredible like 99. I think you would like his first novel, written when he was still affiliated with the Surrealists, The Castle of Argol. I have an anthology from the "View" folks (Charles Henri Ford's magazine) which is dedicated to the novel itself! Gertrude Huston was the wife of New Directions' founder and publisher James Laughlin (they're both now dead). She designed a lot of their covers. Naomi Savage seems to have been famous for photocopying and manipulating images, which I think is a viable form of artistic expression. Gracq and her uncle Man Ray were surely good friends, and I have no doubt she had the novel in her collection, photocopied and manipulated it. I bet she even knew Laughlin and Huston, and felt her work was an appreciation of the original book cover. |
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