+Seze's blog+ » sculpture http://www.seze.net/blog a visual diary of my favorite NYC exhibitions, films, books, concerts, food, etc. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nick Cave’s Creatures http://www.seze.net/blog/2011/09/28/nick-caves-creatures/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2011/09/28/nick-caves-creatures/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:10:47 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=743 Yesterday I ventured to Chelsea to visit the two solo exhibitions by the artist Nick Cave. One is at Mary Boone Gallery and the other is at Jack Shainman. His work is a real treat to see in person. There is a really great documentation of the Jack Shainman show here on their gallery site.


Fur bunny icemen!


]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2011/09/28/nick-caves-creatures/feed/ 0 Tara Donovan at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/11/25/tara-donovan-at-institute-of-contemporary-art-boston/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/11/25/tara-donovan-at-institute-of-contemporary-art-boston/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:51:35 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=301 I went to Boston for the Brainwaves three day music festival.  On Saturday I took a break from the dark theater of warm sounds and went on an excursion to the newly built Institute of Contemporary Art.  The ICA is a gorgeous temple of light, a perfect place to look at art.  The architecture truly rivals the art.  Plus they have the best museum elevator I ever rode on.  I was delighted to see that they had a very extensive show of Tara Donovan’s sculptures.  Donovan makes beautiful futuristic structures out of very common materials.  I was only able to take a few photos in the museum.

Be sure to look at the rest of her work on the Ace Gallery site.


ICA interior photo by Seze Devres


Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres


Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres

ICA Boston site

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/11/25/tara-donovan-at-institute-of-contemporary-art-boston/feed/ 1 Mutek Montreal 2008 http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/06/13/mutek-montreal-2008/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/06/13/mutek-montreal-2008/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:54:01 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=189 I ended up having more fun at the smaller festival Mutek because of the intimacy of the events. We were only there for the last two days of the festival. Saturday night we headed over to Metropolis for an amazing line up. I was excited to see Chloe live but for me the best act of the night was a debut dubby set by Code 9 and Space Ape. This normally isn’t even the kind of music I like but there was something really transcendent about their performance. After their set ended DJ Olive said “Wow that was like Sun Ra!”

The real highlight of the weekend was the outdoor Picnic Electronique with Mathias Kaden & Onur Özur djing together. We danced all day in the foggy wet light rain. No one seemed to be phased by the crappy weather because the music and the vibe was so unbelievably good. In their totally creative set Mathias Kaden & Onur Özur mixed strings and horns into techno tracks. Plus they were super cute to watch as they picked records to play and danced together.

Here is David Last’s amazing photo documentation of Mutek 2008 on Flickr


Me and my new fellow pink haired new artist friend Megan, we instantly became friends after I walked up to her. Photo by my dear friend David Last


We arrived at Metropolis right when the night started, the empty dance floor filled up soon thereafter. Photo by Seze


The visuals were gorgeous and totally different for each act. Photo by Seze


Bunker Bryan with Philip Sherburne, one of my favorite music writers and a super nice person as well. Genevieve & Matt (Portland Techno Promoters Kulture Szene) and Derek are behind them.
Stupid snapshot by Seze


How lucky we are! We danced under a Calder sculpture all day in the rain.
Photo by Seze


I love the pee pee dance logo by Picnic Eletronik
Photo by Seze

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/06/13/mutek-montreal-2008/feed/ 0 Geometry as Image at Robert Miller Gallery NY http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/geometry-as-image-at-robert-miller-gallery-ny/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/geometry-as-image-at-robert-miller-gallery-ny/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 23:37:12 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=184
John Pai meticulously joins welding rods into open steel structures that develop organically as they occupy space.
Photo by Seze


Detail, Photo by Seze


Ilya Bolotowsky Trylon , 1977 (left)
Kenneth Snelson Easter Monday , 1977 (right)
Photo by Seze
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]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/geometry-as-image-at-robert-miller-gallery-ny/feed/ 0 Lee Bul at Lehmann Maupin Gallery NY http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/lee-bul-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-ny/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/lee-bul-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-ny/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 23:16:34 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=183 Like a vast ship, from the years when the earth was still flat and spices were rare, Lee Bul’s gorgeous sculpture comprised of chains and beaded links took my breath away….


Photo by Seze


Detail of Lee Bul’s stunning sculpture now on view. Photo by Seze
www.lehmannmaupin.com

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/28/lee-bul-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-ny/feed/ 0 Goodbye to my Grandfather of Collage http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/13/goodbye-to-my-grandfather-of-collage/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/13/goodbye-to-my-grandfather-of-collage/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 20:14:00 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=180 Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82


Robert Rauschenberg, “Solstice” 1968

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/05/13/goodbye-to-my-grandfather-of-collage/feed/ 0 Marcel Duchamp http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/marcel-duchamp/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/marcel-duchamp/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:00:55 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=167
The Large Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
photo by Seze

While studying art at Bard College in upstate NY in 1996, I made a trip to Philadelphia just to see the Marcel Duchamp room at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. He was that important to me, and he still is. I made my second trip to the Duchamp room yesterday, 12 years had past and I was still just as thrilled to see his work again. But the real treat was to see his haunting installation Étant donnés that is only visible trough a peep hole.


Étant donnés interior view
From Wikipedia:

Étant donnés is Marcel Duchamp‘s last major art work which surprised the art world that believed he’d given up art for chess 25 years earlier. It is a tableau, visible only through a peep hole in a wooden door, of a nude woman lying on her back with her face hidden and legs spread holding a gas lamp in the air in one hand against a landscape backdrop.

Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art.

It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a “Manual of Instructions” in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.

It wasn’t until 1969 that the Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed the tableau to the public.

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/marcel-duchamp/feed/ 0 Carlos Amorales http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/carlos-amorales/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/carlos-amorales/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:43:48 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=166 Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague at the Philadelphia Museum of Art


Surrounded by paper butterflies,
Photo by Bryan


Installation view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Photo by Seze

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/30/carlos-amorales/feed/ 0 Paul Villinski’s Butterflies http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/22/paul-villinskis-butterflies/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/22/paul-villinskis-butterflies/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:13:27 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=161 So beautiful it makes me want to cry…

www.paulvillinski.com


“My Back Pages” (detail) 2007; vinyl records, wire, phonograph, record covers.


“Lumen” (detail) 2007; aluminum (found beer cans), wire, powdered pigment.

]]> http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/22/paul-villinskis-butterflies/feed/ 0 Olafur Eliasson at the Museum of Modern Art. http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/18/olafur-eliasson-at-the-museum-of-modern-art/ http://www.seze.net/blog/2008/04/18/olafur-eliasson-at-the-museum-of-modern-art/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:26:41 +0000 Seze http://www.seze.net/blog/?p=160
I really wish I had been able to see Olafur Eliasson Take your time @ SFMOMA in San Francisco. He is one of my absolute favorite artists and I can’t wait to see his show in NY.

Like abstract painting, Mr. Eliasson’s art can be slow to reveal itself. In an installation called “Beauty” a rainbow emerges from a curtain of mist and vanishes. Maybe you see it; maybe you don’t. The illumination in an empty “white” room at P.S. 1 changes color all but imperceptibly as you watch: from white, to faint gray, to pale pollen beige, to lavender, one dissolving into the next like shifts in weather or the readings of a mood ring.

Art Review | Olafur Eliasson
Stand Still; A Spectacle Will Happen
By HOLLAND COTTER
New York Times Published: April 18, 2008

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