Saturday, November 13, 2010

Project for A.P.A.S students

To all students undertaking the Advanced professional art studies program.
Please scroll and browse the posts from my recent trip oversea's.
You are required to comment and express your responses to the artists and the
galleries shared. Please research and describe your opinion on any artists you
are not familiar with. If you have any concerns you may contact me on jow@cae.edu.au
Thank you   XJo

Back from Oversea's


Hi. I am back from a fantastic trip oversea's and would like to share with you

some photo's of recent artworks on view currently from Berlin and New York.

Please comment and ask questions and I will respond Cheers XJo
                            Neue  Nationalgalerie And MOMA
                                           Berlin Art Forum 2010
Berlin - Berlin lived up to its reputation as one of Europe's most vibrant artistic scenes at the weekend, as 40,000 artists, collectors and galleries from around the world attended the city's international art forum.
This year's event consisted of 110 exhibitors, selected from 300 galleries who applied for a stand at the Funkturm exhibition grounds in western Berlin.
The works on sale featured contemporary works since the 1960s, including artists Olafur Eliasson, Sol LeWitt and Joseph Beuys, as well as photographers Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton and Robert Applethorpe.
Individual works by Andy Warhol, Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso were also up for sale. In total, more than 2,000 artists from 18 countries were on display.
Prices ranged from a few hundred euros to the hundreds of thousands commanded by German postmodernist Georg Baselitz or painter Neo Rauch.
Artists and gallery owners enjoyed the opportunity to visit Berlin, where low rents and the legacy of Europe's Cold War divide have turned the city into a creative hub for European and international artists.
                                 Ai Weiwei @ Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
                                                     Neo Rauch @ Art Forum, Berlin
                                           Doug+Mike Stam, Big bambu @ The Metropolitan
                                            Anselm Kiefer @ Hamburger Bahnhof

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Hi, This Blog has been developed to introduce you
to E-learning. It is for artists studying at the Cae.
Please familiarise yourself and browse the video's. images 
and artist profiles, we encourage you to please comment
and share your thoughts with this portal
You are most welcome to submit to us an image or two
to share and discuss if you are participating in APAS.
If you have any technical questions or queries please
email Jo at jow@cae.edu.au
Cheers and enjoy
JOHN DAVIS
Born 1936, Ballarat, died 1999, Melbourne

With a career spanning three decades, Davis was one of Australia’s pre-eminent artists, a sculptor who regularly exhibited in Australia and overseas, particularly Japan and the United States. Davis represented Australia at the 38th Biennale of Venice and the Indian Triennale in 1978, and the Osaka Triennale in 1992. His ongoing concern for landscape resulted in numerous site-specific installation works in Australia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Britain, the United States, Japan and New Zealand. Significant commissions include an installation in the Australian Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Davis’s work is represented in all Australian national and state galleries, most regional galleries, and in private and public collections in Australia and abroad. He was the recipient of various grants, overseas residencies and prestigious awards, including the Comalco Award in 1970 and the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1993.

Davis drew inspiration from the Australian bush, particularly the Mallee country, the Hattah Lakes area and the Murray River, the artist often returning to these areas to create ephemeral works in situ. Recurring motifs in his work include rivers and fish, often referred to by the artist as nomads/travellers. Davis deeply respected Aboriginal art and culture, successfully establishing various collaborative projects and exchanges with local aboriginal people. Influenced by the Arte Povera movement and eschewing then fashionable metal sculpture, Davis worked with delicate materials, painstakingly modelling eucalyptus twigs, string, paper, calico and bitumous paint. His work and his many years of lecturing have been highly influential to the current generation of installation artists and sculptors.



Also evident in Davis’s work is his ongoing interest in Japanese forms and traditions, his first visit to Japan in the early 1980s resulted in an ongoing dialogue and relationship with that country and many of its significant artists. His contemplative solo practice was situated within thewider parameters of his exchanges and dialogues with cultures and locations, creating work rich in associations and vocabularies. 



The works at the John Davis exhibition
focusses on repetition, the organic and 
timelessness. How do you respond to
his sculpture... Please comment?

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010


NEO RAUCH


CINDY SHERMAN / PHOTOGAPHER
INTERVIEW

The Getty Centre has an educational blog
sharing lesser known works
from the collection

Check it out and enjoy

Julie Mehretu, Atlantic Wall, 2008–09

May 14–October 6, 2010

The term “gray area” speaks to a condition of indeterminacy, a liminal state in which something is not clearly defined or perhaps impossible to define. Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) adapts such an enigmatic circumstance as a tool to engage the viewer in her complex compositions of meticulously drawn mechanical renderings, spontaneous gestural markings, and colorful interjections. The images seem to exist at a horizon where the work could either plunge into dense obscurity or nearly disappear into an ethereal cloud of dust. Yet a remarkable sense of pictorial space always exists in Mehretu’s paintings, created not just by their layering but also by the contrasts inherent in them. What appears abstract from afar is replete with detailed drawing when viewed up close. And just as one is able to glean some bit of information in order to identify a rendering, it vaporizes into an indefinability that compels the viewer to look again and again.

The paintings in this exhibition were produced as the 15th commission of Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Inspired in part by Berlin, the city in which Mehretu created the works, the paintings evoke the psychogeography of a place and the effects of the built environment on individuals, while at the same time contemplating the past and the surviving traces of lived history. Walking through Berlin, where one still encounters the vestiges of war, an American such as Mehretu might recall that such destruction is currently perpetrated in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. A society at war often does not think of the lasting effects of its actions, and to see memories preserved after decades of recovery is a poignant reminder. These paintings are imbued with the ghostly traces of past and current transformations in the urban landscape.


Completed in 1959, the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright–designed museum is among the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. The museum's great rotunda has been the site of many celebrated special exhibitions, while its smaller galleries are devoted to the Guggenheim's renowned collection, which ranges from Impressionism through contemporary art.

Melbourne Art fair image 2009
Melbourne Art Fair, Australia's premier international visual arts event returns to the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building from 4-8 August 2010.
Melbourne Art Fair is an exhibition of leading contemporary art, presented by over 80 selected national and international galleries. The biennial event features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media art works of over 900 artists and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.
Oil and acyrlic on linen " Cul de sac"

Mamma Andersson / Discuss! Comment!
What do we think of this Artists work?

Beautiful Artist Peter Doig.

Peter Doig