\nthe big big<\/strong> stand-out trend is: SCALE !!
\nscale, such an ugly word. like fish . . scales.
\nor, the scales<\/strong> of law . . that the ‘blind’ justice chick, holds.<\/p>\n
‘size’ . . works for me: and, the more ‘nano, bite-sized \/ mini’ . . . the better – !!<\/p>\n
just plain ole size . . as opposed to let’s say, concept-driven, hyper-realism, minimalism, narrative, or purely pictorial-based works. I began to really notice this, back in June 2014 with that . . deep-dish, indie 170 SUFFOLK pop-up.<\/p>\n
of course, a scant summer passed, when . . SATAN CERAMICS, JJ PEET & CREW – nailed<\/strong> that mini-ature . . notion !!<\/p>\n hello . . . IMAGE & PHOTO COPYRIGHTS, ARTISAN, LOCAL-BASED, ORIGINAL-TAKE VOICES of the social network, and, even yes – the cult of the SELFIE, it all comes down to SINGULARITY . . how funny is it, how powerful ironic – that this is<\/strong> where the easy-to-rip-off-digital world has brought us. full circle. with a just little shout-out to the music world \/ and those Marvin Gaye copyright rip-off artists: ROBIN THICKE & sad sad day, PHARRELL WILLIAMS – making headlines this weekend. NANO, MICRO, PIXEL, BITE-SIZED, MINI, MINIATURE . . YOU NAME IT !! 1. ‘NANO’ . . NICHOLAS STEINDORF \/ DARREN WILLS – CURATED BY YULIA TOPCHIY.<\/strong><\/p>\n SPRING\/BREAK ART SHOW, 2015 – a truly indie fair, was subtitled: ‘TRANSACTION’<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n just as SPRING BREAK, was my best take . . on the sheer madness of ARMORY WEEK, these guys were my best take on SPRING BREAK . . !!<\/p>\n I thought they were among the best young ‘un-kowns’<\/strong> of the entire week, it’s easy to call the celebs, and the guys who have been around the block. and to auction. but also importantly, and why I’m putting them at the very<\/strong> starry top of the dizzing-ly vast mostly young new artist pyramid, that was SPRING BREAK – is that these two young BROOKLYN-based collaborators, NICHOLAS does the digital imaging, DARREN did the original sound . . totally got, as in . . ‘deep’ & profoundly, understood: ‘TRANSACTION’, ca-ching. <\/p>\n it wasn’t just about . . shredding dollar bills.<\/p>\n they priced their short videos at a concept-inducing . . $1 PER MB. talk about nano: this was the king of all nano video loops, all of 30 seconds, nano-sized, in fact . . micro-sized image, and . . micro-priced !! ‘PURPLE’ was like stumbling upon the nano universe building block. like walking into a moon beam, but more powerful. less dreamy. more tech-based. it wasn’t so much a ‘representation’, as in an ‘object’ . . it was literally a life force pulse. it was an ’emitter’. a literal ‘beam’ of hi-energy life. the beginnings of life, it even struck me as perhaps, the portal to life, and perhaps other universes. the beyond. walking through the fair, which was itself like an immense bee hive, with many smal ‘cells’ pulsing with ideas and art, this was a pure energy ‘beam’ – encountered, in the first person. it was like a truly 3-d, make that 4-d ? sculpture . . as much as it was a ‘video animation’.<\/p>\n I just read this morning that the JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY<\/strong>, or Jaxa (!!) in “one small<\/strong> 55 meter step” . . said “it succeeded in transmitting electric power wirelessly to a pinpoint<\/strong> target using micro<\/strong>waves . . an essential technology . . for space-based solar power.” watch: NICHOLAS STEINDORF + DARREN WILL .. ‘SPRING BREAK 2015 – SEQUENCE’, in its entirety . . on VIMEO<\/a><\/p>\n 2. ‘MINI-ME’ . . GLASS SCULPTURE BY DUSTIN YELLIN – CURATED BY NATALIE KOVACS.<\/strong><\/p>\n unique edition, can be yours. . for somewhere in the range of $30,000 – which is actually a mini-priced opportunity for followers of this better known<\/strong> art scenester !! what’s so fun about this piece, is that not only is it a table-sized mini<\/strong> rendition of Dustin’s classic glass pieces, which are usually human-sized, and often, far larger !! and free-standing. but since it is a smaller rendition<\/strong> of his work, think hotel room mini-bar !! it can, with glee . . be termed a ‘mini-me’ – !!<\/p>\n Dustin Yellin . . is one strange cool cat, I don’t care what anybody says. a lot of it is jealousy, or ceiling-on-the-‘so-called’-art-critic-brain. I’m the one<\/strong> who first stood up, in print – against Roberta Smith who dismissed his work with one flick of the academic, stogy hand as: “kitsch”. I don’t think it’s gonna be an RIP situation here, but it’s funny – life. 3. ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, ‘MINI<\/em> MODULAR BRONZE BROTHEL’ – CURATED BY NATALIE KOVACS.<\/strong><\/p>\n this has to go under the internationally FAMOUS<\/strong>, but totally un-known and new . . to me !! category – which is what art fairs are supposed to be all about, and it was super cool to find this here, and not at INDEPENDENT or the ARMORY. JOEP VAN LIESHOUT founded this artisan<\/strong> design, art workshop in 1995 in ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS . . in large part to dis-spell the myth of the “single genius artist.”<\/p>\n talking about: PLASTIC – as in RESIN . . !! do yourself a favor !! and read: his own words – about . . ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT<\/a><\/p>\n and, then check out: ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT<\/a><\/p>\n all I can say is:<\/strong><\/p>\n follow the bread crumbs . . . when the work is good, responding & pulsating to the ‘creative’ universe, it all lines . . up !! 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\nJACK SHANNON, mini or toy replica USA flag, stuck in a tiny hand-made clay ‘rock-like’ foundation.
\n170 SUFFOLK – a pop-up group show curated by SEAN VEGEZZI, ANDREW KASS & ABELINE COHEN,
\nLOWER EAST SIDE, MAY 31 – JUNE 5, 2014.
\nsee: HELLO, 170 SUFFOLK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJJ PEET, miniature cup, SATAN CERAMICS, SALON 94 FREEMANS ALLEY, LOWER EAST SIDE.
\nSEPT 7 – OCT 25, 2014.
\nsee: SATAN CERAMICS, OPENING NITE PIX <\/a><\/p>\n
\nfor absolute sure, appropriation is NOT<\/strong> THE KEY WORD any longer . . .
\nfor what’s going on, and being thought about – on and around the scene these days !!
\ne-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y is so over<\/strong> that . . everybody is so on board with original statements, and . . one-of-a-kind hands-on \/ artisan-like vibes.
\nrebel rebel, indie . .
\nmeans . . original CONTENT !!
\ncall it the BROOKLYN HAND-MADE ONE-OF-A-KIND MINDSET . . vs. RICHARD PRINCE & JEFF KOONS – IMAGE \/ PHOTO THEFT . .
\nor, go a-w-a-y: BARBARA KRUGER wannabes. that’s so stale.<\/p>\n
\nback . . to the preservation of intellectual property ownership, and the appreciation of the hand-made, and singular . . both in craft and art object & video, and thought\/concept\/voice.
\nin popular culture think, mini series, big stars.
\nthink: GIRLS & HBO. HOUSE OF CARDS, etc. etc. HOMELAND. endless list. <\/p>\n
\nI understand moving those ole-time music genres ahead, but come on Pharrell – admit to duping the drumstick riff, at least. give credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n
\nthey all spell: BIG MESSAGE – POWERFUL LITTLE PACKAGE !! GETS YOU AHEAD OF THE MADDENING MASSES !!
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF + DARREN WILL, ‘PURPLE’ – a 30 SECOND (!!) VIDEO PROJECTION, of a TINY RED & BLUE COLOR ‘CARD’ – DIGITAL ANIMATION BY NICHOLAS STEINDORF \/ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY DARREN WILL.<\/p>\n
\nit’s hard to call . . the new-found talent.
\n‘knowledge’ . . . transmission = transaction: check !!<\/p>\n
\nthis one, ‘PURPLE’ coming in at 36.28 MB – was $36.28 (plus a small sales tax !!)
\nall sales were limited editions of 3, and included a signed 11 x 14 in. print specific to the video – ca-ching, count me – IN !!<\/p>\n
\nit’s a . . win, win, win.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n‘nano’ was<\/em> such a good word, for this work, and in fact for their whole short series of 4 clips that ran on a loop, ‘nano’ as in . . birth – the smallest bio\/biological unit \/ in-the-beginning, the most basic unit. so small, it is literally<\/strong> the life force – pulse !!<\/p>\n
\nplus . . red and blue make purple.
\nin a nutshell: ‘PURPLE’ was . . nano birthing !!
\nconstructed from digital nano pixels, even the music was the sound of nano spheres, Darren Will took the actual sound of the computer, that is usually NOT AUDIBLE it is so small, and enlarged and manipulated it – as the computer actually processed each image – as it was being processed, ‘animated’.<\/p>\n
\ntalk about: a high power beam !!
\noh, yeah. for sure – the future is nano \/ micro !!
\nread: Japanese Agency Snares Solar Power <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF + DARREN WILL, ‘Model’.
\nthis clip was slightly larger, more in the scale of: ‘MINI-ATURE’, as opposed to purely empirically n-a-n-o. ha.
\n132.52 MB or . . for $132.52 – it’s yours !!
\nso, yes the sequence itself – was . . birthing. in scale, and concept.
\nhere was the birth of civilization – the Greek mind-set. man. culture, art.
\nit was also very nano, formally – in its composition, the head placed way up there in a small corner.
\nvery un-conventional. all about color pulse, as well.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF + DARREN WILL, ‘JAMES, TOBEY POND, NORFOLK, CT, USA’
\n212.07 MB – $212.07.
\nso, bio life progresses . .
\nto a modern-day swimmer, a man, a young<\/strong> man on a dock . . diving into the ocean. the poetics, the narrative become complex. the image starts off small and ghostly, it wavers, it fades, it literally bobs up and down on the screen, just like the swimmer.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF + DARREN WILL, ‘THE ROSE, NEW YORK STATE’.
\n861.58 MB – $861.58
\nnano – in all its complexity . . the unfolding of a flower.
\nthe unit vs. the group.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF used an ‘hommage’ to JACK GOLDSTEIN’S, ‘THE KNIFE’ as the metaphoric \/ symbolic glue or bridge that linked all parts of the brief individual clips – to each other, and to the whole.
\nit was interesting to dwell on Goldstein’s now ‘vintage’ use of this common household object and how it was to become a huge sensation, or, eventually at any rate, and at the time for a lot of us . . when he filmed it so minimally, and so . . LARGE !!
\nthere’s the neat trick. that was<\/em> that . . era.
\nand please note, Pharrell: Nicholas did<\/strong> make a formal footnote – as to the source.<\/p>\n
\nhis work usually goes in the $100,000 range.<\/p>\n
\nbite your tongues, my friends. well I remember, the days back in the early 80s when all my proto-hipster artist friends on the Bowery – used to laugh at JEAN MICHEL, that’s Basquiat to YOU . .
\nJean Michel couldn’t give his art away, in those days and times. famous last words.
\nin fact I remember the same action happening around . . DASH SNOW, RIP.
\nI also came out then – as a big fan.<\/p>\n
\nthere’s no . . WINNING.
\nyou get the feeling that although Dustin has so much, though he does<\/strong> spread the wealth around nicely when he wants too, that he can’t<\/strong> ever feel, truly . . secure. he craves so much attention, so much validation. one wonders, does he ever feel that he’s made<\/strong> the moment . . inside of himself ?
\nof course this makes for great showmanship, something a little bit in short supply at SPRING BREAK, esp for such a young with-nothing-to-lose-bunch, still in their 20’s, but we’ll leave that for the next post – TEEN BAZAAR, hoo-ray !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nmagic carpet ride.
\nmake that . . mini magic carpet ride !!
\nI love (glass) transparency, and I love – fables.
\ncome on, I’m not the only one to note, the huge fab ride, the major ‘trend’ crush . . our littlest bio humans have, with their huge fascination with: all things . . U-N-I-C-O-R-N-S.
\nif you guys are the ‘millennials’ – then wtf are these little kindergarten babies going to be called, the ‘unicorn-ists’, aka the ‘unicorns, for short ???!!
\non one side of the globe you have kids pointing unicorns at each other, on the other . . guns.
\nwhat gives ?
\nyin yang ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI love fortune telling, tarot cards, CRYSTALS !! magic rocks. omens, and oracles.
\nrituals. patterns in rugs. folk art, fables, trips in the imagination.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nit’s the same piece, mini-sized, just from a close-up view.
\nI love glass piled up. stacked up – so it turns, green.
\nmust be the proto-autistic in me, loving surfaces. esp transparent glass, and esp . . plastic.
\nI love how the collage-d images disappear . . magic in the making, magic in motion.
\nsuperficial vs. profound ?
\nwho’s to say. or maybe it’s yin yang. just that simple.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, 2014. bronze sculpture, 48 x 30 x 51 cms. editon of 3.
\nno price given.<\/p>\n
\nso, there. SPRING BREAK, apparently does trump all.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI thought at first Atelier Van Lieshout was an artist collective with a made up . . name !!
\nmy bad !!<\/p>\n
\nworkshops, and . . ARTISANS.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nyeah, it was even . . wired for light.
\nred light . . district, huh. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nevery brothel has its wash basin . . .<\/p>\n<\/a>
\ncurator NATALIE KOVACS . . in her SPRING BREAK 2015 exhibit, with “Mini Modular Bronze Brothel’ by ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, in the center.<\/p>\n
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\nPAT McCARTHY, ‘MINI PIGEON COOP’. 2014. mixed media, mostly clay, exhibited in SATAN CERAMICS, SALON 94 FREEMANS ALLEY, LOWER EAST SIDE, SEPT 7 – OCT 25, 2014
\nsee: SATAN CERAMICS – OPENING PIX<\/a><\/p>\n