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

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


16 August 2012

Everything is Everything

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From a GOMA Media Release received today : 

Sculpture is both a way of looking and an action, just like drawing, painting, film or theatre … when it appears, an act of magic occurs. 
 - Marina De Caro 

What is contemporary sculpture? Sculpture is Everything explores the diverse and often unexpected forms we may consider sculptural — from film, photography, painting and performance, through to three-dimensional objects that fall outside what has been defined as ‘sculpture’ at different times. 

'SCULPTURE IS EVERYTHING' OPENS AT GOMA
 
A brooding mass of 300 tyre tubes hovering like clouds; dance machines from the Torres Strait Islands; two giant red polar bears and a seal balancing a baby grand piano on its nose are among more than 130 contemporary sculptures that will transform GOMA's ground floor in a major exhibition opening on August 18.
 

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detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

LOGOS/HA HA

"WHY MAKE ONE MORE SCULPTURE?" :

From 1981, another someone regards another suspension of tyres (Tyre Week, Melbourne). 

From the cataLOGOS/HA HA
SCULPTURE IS AN ADJECTIVE, NOT A NOUN.
SOMETHING IS DESCRIBED AS SCULPTURE.
SOMEBODY DESCRIBES SOMETHING AS SCULPTURE.
SCULPTURE IS A NAMING (DIVIDING) ACTIVITY.

WHY MAKE ONE MORE SCULPTURE?
Exhibited simultaneously at Art Projects, Melbourne (Feb. 1981) and at The First Australian Sculpture Triennial (Non-catalogized Section) - Preston Institute of Technology and LaTrobe University, curator Tom McCullough.
   
click image to enlarge                                       Peter Tyndall
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

LOGOS/HA HA
"WHY MAKE ONE MORE SCULPTURE?"