LESLIE HEWITT "READING ROOM" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

 

LESLIE HEWITT "READING ROOM" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK video here

Leslie Hewitt

On the occasion of her solo exhibition at Perrotin New York (September 11 – October 26, 2019), Leslie Hewitt talks about Lewis Michaux, a Harlem bookseller and civil rights activist who inspired the show. She also explains her attraction to minimalism, and the connection between her photographic work and the Dutch still life paintings of the 16th and 17th century.

Artie Vierkant "Rooms Greet People by Name", Perrotin New York

 

Artie Vierkant "Rooms Greet People by Name", Perrotin New York video here

Artie Vierkant website here

Artie Vierkant uses augmented reality to put his art in your hands

By Drew Zeiba • March 13, 2018 

Brooklyn-based artist Artie Vierkant melds photography, commercial printing, and sculpture. For Vierkant, there is no real hierarchical distinction between art experienced in real life or in a photograph. In Vierkant’s post-digital world, 2-D and 3-D, image and object, original and copy, exist on a level playing field. He often takes photos of his installation, modifies them, and repurposes them as new works in and of themselves. 

Most recently, this has taken the form of an augmented reality (AR) app, Image Object (a term Vierkant termed in 2010 to describe work which “exist[s] somewhere between physical sculptures and altered documentation images”), released in conjunction with his exhibition Rooms greet people by name at Galerie Perrotin on the Lower East Side. Vierkant sat down with the Architect’s Newspaper to discuss the app, the boundaries between 2-D and 3-D, and what augmented reality means for the future of public space.

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Documenting Objects at Home for Photosculpture

 

For photosculpture projects artists often use original photographs to compose the sculpture and also, when completed, to document the sculpture. Since many artists are now not close to photo facilities here are three videos that go over tips for producing good photo documentation of objects/sculptures. The videos are here and here and here. 

Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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An introduction to the art critic Walter Benjamin and his most influential essay, the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Including David Douglas's the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Original Score by August Aghast

John Berger Ways of Seeing

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A BAFTA award-winning BBC series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. In the first programme, Berger examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past. Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

ART21 Oliver Herring "Play"

 

Oiliver Herring on Art21 video here

Searching for a release from his past meditative work of knitting colorless sculptures with Mylar tape, Oliver Herring began making fantastical stop-motion videos of himself, and subsequently of strangers encountered by chance. In addition to videos, Herring creates sculptures of “off-the-street” strangers, using Styrofoam covered with photographs that reproduce the skin of the model.

He also photographs strangers’ faces after they’ve spent hours spitting colorful food dye over their faces. The portraits are intense documents of an unusual kind of intimacy. “I usually wait for a moment that brings out some kind of vulnerability,” he says. “That’s what I’m after. This personal connection with a stranger.”

Mixing Photography and Sculpture with Osang Gwon

 

Osang Gwon is a Korean sculptor/photographer who is sick of arguing with his countrymen about which label best suits his medium. Avoiding traditional materials like wood, clay, and metal, Osang created his own genre -- Deodorant style -- that makes use of photo-covered foam.

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What Is Photosculpture?

 

What Is... Photosculpture?

Photosculpture (photo + sculpture), etymologically, is the combination of photographs and sculpture. In an early nineteenth century Webster’s Dictionary (published 1913) definition, it was simply defined as:

A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.

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What Is a Photosculpture? Explaining Art's New Hybrid Obsession.

By Ian Wallace 

There's a slight sense of urgency underlying the many exhibitions that have recently popped up exploring the historical phenomenon, and of-the-moment utility, of the photography-sculpture hybrid as an art form. And it's not entirely surprising that the art world is actively revisiting the physical manifestations of photography at a time when hardly anyone prints photos out anymore—why waste the paper?—prefering to store their images on social media and the cloud. Once upon a time, of course, a photograph was more than bits of digital information; it had to be physically made by hand, and, because of that fact, a photograph had an inherent physicality it now lacks. Now this aspect of the medium's history is suddenly of interest for younger artists working from the perspective of digital technology today.

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Form and the Photograph: Bodily Dimensions

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