bLOGOS/HA HA: March 2010

31 March 2010

Letter-winged shallow M(ind)

Behind Isidore Isou, in this 1951 photo, are the magazines SEE, LOOK and POST. It could be the prescription for this bLOG.

Isou was the founder of Lettrism.

Letter-winged Kite
Elanus scriptus Gould, 1842.
Elanus inscriptus Gould, 1842.
Elanus scriptus victorianus Mathews, 1917.

As depicted by John Gould :

And, by our Artist-In-Residence,
Letter-winged shallow M(ind) of a certain Regard
after Yves Klein and in the manner lettrism :

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30 March 2010

Continuing the theme of recent posts is this 1895 portrait of Vincent Van Gogh by Lucien Métivet.

Published in the magazine Le Rire (Laughter) only five years after Vincent's death, the artist has already entered into myth.

29 March 2010

O

Oh, so slow! Of course...

Winged Victory is to be the sky

see : Paint It Blue

Leap Into the Void-Winged Victory_Yves Klein

Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void)
by Yves Klein
at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses
October 1960
photomontage by Harry Shunk

28 March 2010

AlphaBetiCalMonoLogoGram

From Which Cometh
&
To Which Returneth

25 March 2010

Paint It Blue

On March 18 we made reference to the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Here's another.

Yves Klein
Victoire de Samothrace
(1962)

"Et moi?
Peut-être que je suis son grand-père."
(1880s)

24 March 2010

Another whole new way of looking at art

bLOGOS/HA HA has tested our own whole new way of looking at art .

Following closely Eric Satie's prescription for Vexations

last night a team of 840 one-by-one performed

to a select audience of Art Cult notables.

22 March 2010

Title Song

Song Sung Blue
Who would have thought so few
(Neil Diamond meets Samuel Beckett meets Yves Klein)

"Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know, start to feeling good
You simply got no choice"

Sing it now
Sing it loud

21 March 2010

30,000 years of art

who would have thought so few

two and a half million seconds
who would have thought so few?
...
thirty thousand nights
who would have thought so few?

from A Piece of Monologue
by Samuel Beckett

18 March 2010

ECCE HOMO beholdeth WINGED VICTORY

"The work is notable for its convincing rendering of a pose where violent motion and sudden stillness meet, for its graceful balance ...
is seen as an iconic depiction of triumphant spirit and of the divine momentarily coming face to face with man. The power of the work is enhanced, to many people, by the very fact that the head and arms are missing."

Winged Victory of Samothrace (Wikipedia )

Still Life (2009) by Ron Mueck
@ National Gallery of Victoria (International) until 18 April 2010

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15 March 2010

B/Lest We Forget

Melbourne's favorite unfixed Public Projection-Space summons forth another page

11 March 2010

MELBOURNE⪥BRISBANE: punk, art and after (until 16 May)

MELBOURNE⪥BRISBANE: punk, art and after was officially opened at the Ian Potter Museum of Art last night.

Special guest Robert Forster sang about the time, in the early 1980s, when the Go-Betweens relocated from Brisbane to Melbourne. How they slowly realised, among their circle, there were two Melbourne music scenes: the unreconstructed Rock wannabes of St Kilda and the cold anaemic theorists of Fitzroy-Northcote, as each group characterised the other. The Go-Betweens had friends in both camps, north and south of the Yarra: "We weren't called the Go-Betweens for nothing".

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Robert was accompanied on lute by a member of The Angels ...

... an early Melbourne little band formed by the artist John Perceval in 1958 ...

... and depicted by John Brack, John Perceval and his angels, in 1962 ...

... much as Jenny Watson would in 1981 picture the Go-Betweens for the cover of their LP record Send me a lullaby ...

... much as this exhibition's curator, David Pestorius, in his turn ...

10 March 2010

On the way to a teaching

In Melbourne last night were two visiting pointers to the mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book Of Living and Dying, gave a public teaching at the Collingwood Town Hall. In considering the nature of mind, one of Rinpoche's favorite analogies is the film projector, with it's passing image filters and it's projections, behind which, uninvolved, is a pure intense light. He quotes the summary of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche:

During last night's teaching there were references to clear seeing and to empty projections, empty prejudices ...

On the way to the Sogyal Rinpoche teaching, this student of mind, already aware the Dirty Projectors were also in Melbourne, photographed their poetsoftheinterverse listing outside the hi-fi bar.

What a marvelous work of name, he thought again. He imagined them taking the stage and declaring to their followers :

Hi, we're Dirty Projectors.

05 March 2010

Poema Futurista

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was!

After the previous two posts, from 1515 and the 1880s, this one from 1922. Bought in Rome in 1984 from a postcard collector who, to my surprise, seemed to say it was the work of a child, and priced it accordingly. Have long wished I knew the story of it, of Francesco and Maria.

04 March 2010

And again

This French fold-out is circa 1880s.

03 March 2010

You

Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Portrait of a Young Boy holding a Child's Drawing
circa 1515

01 March 2010

Object ov You

David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :