Xu Bing, A Book From the Sky, 1987. Installation at Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991. Moveable-type prints and books.
Xu trained as a printmaker in Beijing. A Book From the Sky, with its invented Chinese woodblock characters, may be a stinging critique of the meaninglessness of contemporary political language.
Fuck, this is amazing.
ABECEDARY (NABOKOV’S THEORY OF A COLORED ALPHABET APPLIED TO HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE) 2004 by Spencer Finch
Ink and watercolour on paper.
http://www.lissongallery.com/#/artists/spencer-finch/works/
Sarah U G posted some installations by Spencer Finch on her tumblr and now I can’t stop looking at/sharing all of his work.
THE ROUTE OF EVANESCENCE 2011 by Spencer Finch
Dimensions variable. 950 LEDs, cables. A 16 minute sequence of fireflies moving through a space based on Act III of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES (NIGHT SKY OVER TROY) 2009 by Spencer Finch
This installation is an illuminated star map of the night sky as it appeared during the siege of Troy. This star map, comprised of 384 cans hanging from the ceiling, each illuminated by a single light bulb and punctured with a small hole representing a single star, is based on the Almagest, Ptolemy’s original catalog of the 48 constellations named by the ancient Greeks. The magnitude and wavelength of each star is accurately depicted by the size of the hole and the color of the light. The hanging height of each star is determined by its distance (in light years) from Earth.
Bloom by Anna Schuleit is an installation in the soon to be demolished Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Anna and her team filled the center with a variety of nearly 28,000 plants and invited past patients and family to reflect on their time there.
Dale Chihuly is one of my favourite artists and not just because he has an eyepatch.
Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere hand crafted 10,000 (!) clay flowers that now ignite the Somerset House in London.
Wow! I miss London.
Jennifer Steinkamp
Daisy Bell
2008The title, Daisy Bell, refers to a particular moment in the history of science and culture: 1962, Bell Labs used the IBM 704 computer to voice synthesize the popular 19th-century English song of the same name. The song was also used in the climactic scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the supercomputer HAL 9000 begins to sing daisy daisy as his consciousness is degraded.
The Daisy Bell series is comprised of a variety of poisonous flowers that appear to cascade down the gallery walls.
Antony Gormley
Field
1984 - 1985
Lead, fibreglass, plaster, air
195 x 560 x 66 cm
Oh Antony Gormley, you have my heart.
Song Dong, Waste Not, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010
ed: Recommended to me by my good friend Jon Keown.
