TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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TAR : The Arts in Review [ 2023 )

Christopher Allen - Visual Arts in Review (2023) - The Australian (23-24  December) - Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary

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Original Face

"Sweep away thoughts!" means one must do zazen. Once thoughts are quieted, the Original Face appears. Thoughts can be compared to clouds. When clouds vanish, the moon appears. The moon of suchness is the Original Face. Thoughts are also like the fogging of a mirror. When you wipe away all condensation, a mirror reflects clearly. Quiet your thoughts and behold your Original Face before you were born!

— Daito

Cease practice based
On intellectual understanding,
Pursuing words and
Following after speech.
Learn the backward
Step that turns
Your light inward
To illuminate within.
Body and mind of themselves
Will drop away
And your original face will be manifest.

— Dogen

You cannot describe it or draw it,
You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.
No place can be found in which
To put the Original Face;
It will not disappear even
When the universe is destroyed.

— Mumon

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poem to the see after Cy [ canvas offcut )

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TAR presents : Twombly, the Ancient Remains

Cy Twombly moved to Italy from the USA in 1957.

His ‘Poems to the Sea’ suite of twenty-four drawings were executed in a single day in 1959.

Twombly lived north of Rome at Bassano in Teverina. “Downstream from the city centre, not far away from the Tiber, lies Lake Vadimo, locally known as the "Pond", described by Pliny the Younger as "a lying wheel with a regular circumference [...] paler, greener and more intense than the sea." - Wikipedia

At the 1988 Venice Biennale he exhibited paintings responding to the Bassano in Teverina “Pond” along with unpainted plaster sculptures. Henry Weatherfield chanced upon that exhibition just hours before leaving Venice, that one time visit. “Paler, greener and more intense than the sea is the see", he later wrote.

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T - + - R

This glossy 8x10 arrived out of the blue with several others placed inside an old folded movie poster.

Recognised as a classic Theatre of the Actors of Regard document worthy of further regard, Henry Weatherfield & Associates were commissioned to sign-write it as it now appears.

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TAR : This Anagram Reversed

[chorus)
RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT
RAT ART TAR TAT

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Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard

Melbourne's Lyon House Museum shows this image online ...

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... and asks :

Should a painting be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is it composed and structured? How does it set up a relationship with us as the viewer?

These questions will be explored by Dr Mimi Kelly and Corbett Lyon as they analyse four works from the Lyon Collection.

LOOKING AT PICTURES 🖼️
Sunday 20 August, 3pm – 4:30pm
$25pp



Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard asks 

Should TAR be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is TAR composed and structured? How does TAR set up a relationship with us as the Actor?

FIAPCE presents LOOKING AT LOOKING

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TAR : “It’s really about ...

We received an email captioned :

Art Guide Australia #474
What to see at “the art fair that artists love”

and noted with interest this sub-section teaser, "It's really about..."

“It’s really about looking at images and putting them together, and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

Theoria

The Greek theoria (θεωρία) meant "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at", from theorein (θεωρεῖν) "to consider, speculate, look at", from theoros (θεωρός) "spectator", from thea (θέα) "a view" + horan (ὁρᾶν) "to see".[9] It expressed the state of being a spectator. Both Greek θεωρία and Latin contemplatio primarily meant looking at things, whether with the eyes or with the mind.[10]

According to William Johnston, until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term contemplatio, c.q. theoria.[4] According to Johnston, "[b]oth contemplation and mysticism speak of the eye of love which is looking at, gazing at, aware of divine realities."[4]

Several scholars have demonstrated similarities between the Greek idea of theoria and the Indian idea of darśana (darshan), including Ian Rutherford[11] and Gregory Grieve.[12]- Wikipedia

Darshan

In Indian religions, Darshana, also spelt Darshan, (Sanskrit: दर्शन darśana lit. 'showing, appearance,[1] view, sight') or Darshanam (darśanam) is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person.[2]

The term also refers to any one of the six traditional schools of Hindu philosophy and their literature on spirituality and soteriology.[3]

Etymology

The word darshana, also in the forms of darśana or darshanam, comes from the Sanskrit root of दर्शन dṛś 'to look at', 'to view', vision, apparition or glimpse.^[1]

Definition

Darshana is described as an "auspicious sight" of a holy person, which bestows merit on the viewer.^[2]

It is most commonly used for theophany, meaning a manifestation or vision of the divine, in Hindu worship, e.g. of a deity (especially in image form), or a very holy person or artifact. One can receive darshana or a glimpse of the deity in the temple, or from a great saintly person, such as a great guru.^[4]

In Hinduism

The term darshana also refers to the six systems of thought, called darshanam, that comprise classical Hindu philosophy.^[5][6] The term therein implies how each of these six systems distinctively look at things and the scriptures in Indian philosophies.^[6][4] The six orthodox Hindu darshana are Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedanta. Buddhism and Jainism are examples of non-Hindu darshans.^[4]

Mahayana Buddhism

On the significance of darshana in Mahayana thought, Paul Harrison writes: "By the second century CE... the vision of the Buddha (buddha-darśana) and the accompanying hearing of the Dharma (dharma-śravaṇa) are represented as a transformation experience of decisive importance for practitioners, be they who have renounced (mundane life) 'ascetics' or householders."^[7]

The Abhidharma, collections of systematic summaries of the sutras, mention Darshana-citta, i.e. visions.^[8]

Indian Mahayana philosophers Vasubandhu and Asanga acknowledged five paths to liberation, of which the third is darshana-marga, the "path of seeing".^[9]

Nagarjuna, a prominent philosopher of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, wrote that the wise person perceives tattva-darshana, true reality.^[10][11]

 “It’s really about looking at images and putting them together,

 and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

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TerminoLOGOS/HA HA Arrives Relentlessly

(for Nick the SorTAR)

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Thesis

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Thesis : All is Regard
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'The Analects of Robin'

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Holy Instruments

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Holy Instruments of the Passion
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'The Analects of Robin'

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Telling the children about TAR [ The Art of Rego )

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TAR : This Annual Repost

This Annual Repost is first from 2021 then 2022 and now 2023 after last night's loss by The Bombers to top side Port Adelaide from a 55m kick delivered by Dan Houston after the siren.

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design by Ela Egidy and Tristan Main
essays by Doug Hall, Claire Roberts, PT
photography by Christian Capurro
published 2023 by Buxton Contemporary

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