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Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square
Oil on blotting paper with gouache, pencil and varnishJosef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his series of paintings, Homage to the Square, in which he endlessly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Less well-known are the studies he made for these compositions. With approximately sixty oil sketches on paper, this exhibition will reveal a private side of Albers’s work. These sketches were never exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and have rarely been seen after his death.
On view will be early studies (1930s–early 1940s), studies for Albers’s Adobe series, inspired by Mexican architecture (1940s–early 1950s), and studies for Homage to the Square (1950s–1970s). These vibrant sketches provide insights into the artist’s working process and, in contrast with the austerity and strict geometry of the final paintings, are remarkable for their freedom and sensuality. -
The World Explained. A Microhistorical Encyclopedia Divided over three exhibition projects taken place in Sao Paulo, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, Beltrán interviewed a large number of people and collected a variety of personal theories on all kind of subjects. He drew his inspiration from micro-history, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. ‘Our view of the world is determined not just by what we have learned about the world or even what we have actually experienced,’ Beltrán explains. ‘It consists to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations.’
book via: Roma Publications
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Mark Lombardi, George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens
c. 1979-90, 5th Version, 1999The late artist Mark Lombardi is well known for his large-scale flow charts of major political and financial scandals. Unlike most works of art, his maps do not depict the hypothetical or imaginary but are rendered based on facts from mainstream publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Lombardi carefully organized these facts in a handwritten database of over 14,000 cross-referenced index cards. He iteratively composed his “narrative structures” in his medium of choice: colored pencil and graphite on paper. This map shows the fifth version of a chart that focuses on the conjunction of illegal arms dealing by Chinese nationalists in Los Angeles and possible White House campaign-finance corruption. Two layers of information are presented: essential elements of the story in black, and major lawsuits, criminal indictments, and other legal actions taken against the parties in red. Interconnections of different types are revealed: a solid arrow represents influence or control; a double arrow, mutual relationship or association; a dashed arrow, flow of money, loans, or credits; a squiggle, the sale or transfer of an asset; and a double hyphen, a blocked or incomplete transaction. Line labels further detail relationships and dollar amounts.
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Ain Sakhri lovers figurine
This is the oldest known sculpture of a human couple making love. The natural shape of a calcite cobble has been used to represent the outline of the lovers.
via: British Museum | more: BBC
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Blackboard drawings by Rudolf Steiner
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John Arden Hiigli. Chrome 194, 2011
Transparent Oil on Linen CanvasThrough a process known as subdivision a tetrahedron can be broken down to infinity. Subdivision produces the cyclical growth of other structures, such as the cube octahedron (CUO). The lowest frequency tetrahedron capable of “growing” a cube octahedron is the four-frequency tetrahedron. The eight-frequency tetrahedron produces a two-frequency cube octahedron as well. The sixteen-frequency tetrahedron produces a nuclear CUO, a nuclear two-frequency CUO and a nuclear four-frequency CUO. Thus we can say that the sub-division of polyhedra manifests a natural space characterized by transformation and change of scale. Scale change involves systems in which the size of individual forms vary incessantly while the proportions and characteristic shapes of these forms remain constant. These forms and their proportions can be grouped in a regular sequence in which the elements of the sequence constitute an infinite series. Such “scale-invariant” sequences occur in nature (the leaf’s nervure, the laceration of the fern, the widening or narrowing line of the snail shell, the shoreline of the continents, etc). This “invariability” is also a characteristic of fractal geometry. In the Isotropic Vector Matrix the potential for scale change is related to infinite transformation. With every doubling (or halving) of edge-length the volume increases (or decreases) by eight (8), equivalent to the octave in music. The artistic strategy of using transparent oil paint makes it possible to explore and communicate this world of higher dimensions. Scale shifting, or scale change, as well as the repetitious logic enabling it, is known in mathematics as “iteration,” hence the term “iterative mathematics/geometry”. It is a particular feature of IVM that is a useful tool in both mathematics and art education. In particular scale change provides a tool of measurement with which to evaluate angle & distance information.via: bridges math art -
Jaq Chartier.Sun Test: Color Shifters
acrylic, stains and paint on wood panelA stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. Stains are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Stains are used intentionally in a variety of fields, including in research, technology, and art.
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Daisy Ginsberg, The Synthetic Kingdom
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a postmodern Michelangelo — equal parts designer and researcher. Her magnum opus, The Synthetic Kingdom, is a collection of prints, animations and objects that suggest how synthetic biology might add to the tree of life. Each of its sculptures represents a speculative syn-bio curiosity, from a new strain of light-emitting bacteria that evolved from a hairball found in a patient’s stomach, to bioluminescent kidney stones in bioelectronics-factory workers.
“Synthetic biology is promising to change the world, from sustainable fuel to tumour-killing bacteria,” says Ginsberg, 28. “But personally I’m sceptical about how we should use it — just because we can do it doesn’t mean we should.” She employs these fictional objects to raise questions such as “where do we draw the line?” and “what’s natural, and what’s synthetic?”
1. COLONIC ALCHEMY
Perhaps the ultimate pathology: the patient’s waste material turned to gold. It had always been thought that gold was impossible to synthesise. Genetic testing failed to reveal the origins of these prized alchemical bacteria. Previously uncelebrated, the colon is now a place of manufacture and our most precious organ.2. MATERIALS: DISPOSABLE CUP
Triggered by light, engineered bacteria secrete the fibrous protein KERATIN, producing a biodegradable material to replace petroleum-derived plastics.3. KIDNEY
Inside this resin “kidney” are large glow-in-the dark “stones”via: Wired
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Closest Packing of Spheres by Buckminster Fuller, 1980
BuckminsterFuller’s geometry shows that any sphere tangentialIy and symmetrically surrounded by spheres of the same radius will always produce an array of twelve balls around one ball. This phenomenon defines what he calls the Vector Equilibrium. The transparent spheres of this sculpture give it an ethereal quality reminiscent of a child’s bubble blowing while lucidly presenting the concept. Faintly visible equators illustrate the tangency of adjacent balls and the red nuclear sphere clarifies the radial symmetry of the structure. Twenty-four rods delineate the edges of the polyhedron uniquely determined by the nuclear packing of spheres. Its shape is unaffected by additional layers of balls. Two layers surround the nucleus which classifies this structure as “two-frequency,” a term that refers to the subdivisions along each edge.
via: artnet
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The Daily Dish project by Klari Reis
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My Soul - Katharine Dowson (2005)
Images of the mind in art and science
Deutsches Hygiene-Museumvia: eyemagazine
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Double Helix: An Essential Component of All Living Matter
Julie Chen, 1994Structure has always been a key element in the artist’s books of Julie Chen. She was particularly intrigued by the challenge of designing a book that employed the spiral elements of the double helix. Chen’s book is actually a two-volume set fastened together. Each volume represents a single strand of DNA.
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Pictograms by Warja Honegger-Lavater
Warja Honegger-Lavater (28 September 1913 - 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist’s books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words. - wikipedia
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