OLAFUR ELIASSON MICROSITE NOW LIVE!

To coincide with the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opening 10 December, the MCA has launched a microsite dedicated to all things Eliasson.

Regularly updated posts feature artist profiles, interviews and articles about Eliasson's large-scale installations. All this and more at eliasson.com.au

CURRENT WHITELEY STUDIO EXHIBITION

ICONIC WHITELEY 12th September 2009 - 4th April 2010

This collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings at the Whiteley Studio represents many facets of Brett Whiteley’s career. Several works are well-known favourites from his early success in Europe and Australia, from his late teens and early twenties, including the Abstraction, Christie and Zoo series, through to his popular Lavender Bay, Paris and Bird series. From Brett Whiteley Studio Website

ONE OF MY NYC HIGHLIGHTS!

I have just returned from a whirlwind visit to NYC.

Of course while I was there I "had" to visit the Chelsea art scene and I happened (by pure luck) to visit Tony Oursler's latest exhibition at the Metro Pictures Gallery.
519 West 24th Street New York NY 10011 gallery@metropicturesgallery.com


Little did I know how "clever" I was as it was the last day! Here is a link to some of the images. Below is a report about the exhibition and some video, which is probably the best way to view it as most of the works have a motion element (as one would expect from Oursler).

Metro Pictures presents an exhibition of new work by Tony Oursler titled Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards. On display are a variety of new works that take on technology, obsessive desires, phobias, socially acceptable addiction, and self-help culture.

The largest work is a forest of smouldering cigarettes. Other works are an 8-foot long five-dollar bill with an animated Abe Lincoln, an enormous cell phone spewing disjointed snippets of conversations, and a series of miniature architectural-model tableaux illuminated with projected performers that enact scripted existential dramas. There are also wall pieces that combine video and painting.

Tony Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s, known for his video and installation works combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural objects. Tony Oursler (born in 1957) lives and works in New York. He has had numerous project and survey exhibitions in institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Musée de Jeu de Paume, Paris. He will present a show of new work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz later this year.

REF: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009/03/04/tony-oursler-cell-phones-diagrams-cigarettes-searches-and-scratch-cards-metro-pictures-new-york/

It is a chance experience like this that makes travel so exciting (and worthwhile)!

I also managed to visit the Jenny Holzer exhibition Protect Protect (that I mentioned earlier) stay tuned for a full report!
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JENNY HOLZER @ THE WHITNEY

Jenny Holzer is having a show @ The Whitney in NYC. The site resources look really fantastic, with images, video and even the exhibition brochure (they use Scribd too).

Have a look and let's see how we can develop this as a resource!

PROTECT PROTECT

Jenny Holzer's pioneering approach to language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and significant artists working today. Alternating between fact and fiction, the public and the private, the universal and the particular, Holzer's work offers an incisive social and psychological portrait of our times. PROTECT PROTECT centers on Holzer's work since the 1990s and is the artist's most comprehensive exhibition in the United States in more than fifteen years.
Text from The Whitney website; Image from Art das Kunstmagazin

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