c. Chris Von Steiner
You still have time to see this excellent exhibition of digital paintings by Chris Von Steiner. It shares the large 3rd floor gallery with Laurie Lipton’s “Extraordinary Drawings” so you get to see two great shows in one visit.
I’m amazed that Chris creates these using just the computer mouse – not the stylus and tablet that most digital artists prefer. He tends to create series of paintings which perhaps tell a story – The Snow King being a good example is reminiscent of Narnia and are my favourites. Others include familiar pop imagery and icons in bold colours, some mildly gruesome or fetishistic scenes – some very colourful dreams (or nightmares) are portrayed. Lovely. Continue reading ‘Chris Von Steiner at CUC’
Michael Landy H.2.N.Y. Metallic suicide 2006 Courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, London © Michael Landy
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-51. H.2.N.Y. Metallic suicide 2006 by Michael Landy in Joyous Machines at Tate Liverpool 2 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
The final artwork for 2009, I must have missed a week somewhere. This is one of the larger of several paintings by Landy responding to Jean Tinguely’s Joyous Machines and his Homage to New York suicidal sculpture. I think this was drawn with white oil stick onto black paper, others were done with gouache or correction fluid.
If you haven’t seen the exhibition yet why not go this weekend Sat/Sun 2-3 January 2010 as its only £1 to non-members (Normal full price is £6)
Landy co-curates Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, and devotes special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely’s work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York. This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.
Michael Landy’s comprehensive research and responses to the work, including a new documentary film and a selection of his impressive series of drawings (he has made over 160 in total), will be presented alongside photographs, films and relics of the original event.
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
2 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
at Tate Liverpool
Just a reminder to participate in Nathan Jones poetry project at the Bluecoat
The Things We Say and The Things You Say to Me (Morning and Night)
Inspired by a few concepts at the Janeck Schaefer exhibition, including the feelings of new life and regeneration implicit in his work Extended Play, and the montage feel of National Portrait, newly commissioned by the Bluecoat, I am going to create a poem using reported speech.
The Culture24 Year in Review: culture bosses and museum directors choose the best of 2009 | Culture24.
Yes, I should do a Liverpool art review but I like to relax at the end of the year and find it very difficult to look back anyway. Present and Future are more exciting.
Completing job application forms over the holidays may not be much fun but if you’re job-hunting we have just posted a few more vacancies at NML in our Classifieds.
Keep checking.
Philip Hayes
Nice video featuring Phil Hayes about the Picket produced by Keyhole Productions a local media company is now online, you can see it at www.bandinabox.tv its only a few minutes long.
Some good shots of the venue and a description of the work they are currently engaged in.
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