Sitting On Empty

National Gallery of Victoria, 1975 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
presents
'Zazen'

AAA_Art Archive Australia 

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

 LOGOS/HA HA 

         
      
        

Speak Truth To Power : LOGOS/PFFFT!

   
Hugh Heffner has confirmed that Playboy magazine will no longer show photos of nude ladies.

Now readers of Playboy, the glossy men's magazine known for its nude fold-outs, can honestly say they are buying the magazine for its articles.
Playboy will no longer publish nude photographs of women, the New York Times reported on Monday in an article quoting Scott Flanders, the company's chief executive.
The Age (here) 13 October 2015

Call us pedantic, or voyeuristic metaphysical, but "nude photographs"? We'd like to see that.

Headline : Nude Photos Reveal Nothing

Anyway, O spirit of the times, today we read in The Age that federal Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly reckons the image of a bare blue-painted bum of a witch is not something appropriate for the bloody corridors of power at Parliament House.

       

Pass slowly with non-attachment : (above) Theatre of the Actors of Regard at Parliament House yesterday and (below) a detail of 'The Witches' by Wendy Sharpe. Photos: Andrew Meares

Which reminds us of another round of recent arse-baring, an 
art-historical reconstruction of a sort, a celebration of the great Edo period Japanese scroll so euphoniously named He-Gassen: The Battle of the Farts. Here's the particular scene that inspired (exhausted!) the TAR group 'Falstaff Four' ...


       
to perform their latest 4x projection-space propulsion routine

           

with additional rapid expulsion courtesy NGV.

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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PS  Digital Malcolm, why isn't the people's Parliament House art collection viewable online?

         

Matthys Gerber at MCA Sydney

               

Sydney artist Matthys Gerber is a deft painter who deliberately makes work in an array of contrasting styles. From photorealism to fluid abstraction, portraits and still lifes, Gerber’s interests remain wide-ranging and his approach incessantly experimental.

The motif of the Rorschach reappears in his paintings. In varying colours, sizes and styles that morph into different physical forms, from the canvas to the wall, the Rorschach epitomises the intentions of Gerber’s work to reflect the nature of desire and the will to find figurative elements in abstract forms. This will be the most comprehensive exhibition of Gerber’s work ever staged in Australia.

Curated by MCA Senior Curator, Natasha Bullock.

22 September-6 December 2015

#matthysgerber

Discover: hear from the artist and gain a deeper insight into the artworks

 Matthys Gerber

 Painting for Peter 

 2003

 Museum of Contemporary Art

 purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation

 2015

 image courtesy and © the artist

 photo: Ashley Barber

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Spy v Spy

Further to the previous :
      
"Yes, this is he. To whom am I speaking, please?"


           

 Thanks to Tash of TAR for alerting us to the cover of 

 UNDERCOVERISM :
             

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Re noir

     
We have received the following announcement from the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Sydney, sent with the headline Paint in polar opposites :

If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?  Explore the past, the now and the tomorrow of painting during a series of talks presented in association with Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, including Dr Jacqueline Millner and Leonhard Emmerling from the Goethe Institut, Delhi.

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If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting? 
               
This image about (regard of) PAINTING received widespread inhaustion this week. It's a protest staged outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Click here for The Boston Globe article 'Renoir haters picket outside Museum of Fine Arts' by Mark Shanahan and photographer Lane Turner. 


              
If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?

RENOIR or REYESIR?

   
If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?

Re noir : Renoir is the new black : QED

1. "Renoir" is the name of a French painter
2. Translated to American, that French painter's name means
    "Regarding black"
3. Black is the colour of Satan / God is Light 
_______________________________
= GOD HATES RENOIR / USA LOVES GOD

              HONK IF YOU HATE RENOIR  
     
If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?

And where does that leave Theatre of the Actors of Regard, you might then ask?

In fact, TAR were there, undercover, staging their own infiltraitor alt_action. See the dude without a hate sign, the one on the left who's sidled up to the others, the one holding a half-taco in that unmistakeable classic TAR pose ...

Yes, that him!

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA : a series of talks

         
We have received the following announcement from the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Sydney, sent with the headline Paint in polar opposites :

If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?  Explore the past, the now and the tomorrow of painting during a series of talks presented in association with Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, including Dr Jacqueline Millner and Leonhard Emmerling from the Goethe Institut, Delhi. In the galleries, Matthys Gerber’s exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to get to know the many styles of painting, from photorealism to geometric abstraction. .  .  .  .

If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?          If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?                     corella-as-image in cwest of correlation  If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting? On December 14, 2010, Linden Tibbets, the creator of IFTTT, posted a blog post titled “ifttt the beginning...” on the IFTTT website, announcing that the new project was called IFTTT.   IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes", which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail,  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.[4] IFTTT is an abbreviation of "If This Then That" (pronounced like "gift" without the "g").[5]      If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting? If images are exhausted, where does that leave painting?  cumulative attendance of TAR  Clouds #2 (1995) by Matthys Gerber  MCA survey          detail  A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/  someone looks at something...  LOGOS/HA HA

Where the bee sees

      

The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)

by William Shakespeare

Ariel sings :

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:

In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat’s back I do fly

After summer merrily.   

Merrily, merrily shall I live now

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.  

      

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Malus Lemoinei 'Label Tree' buds

   
Around the grounds, Spring is sprung. 
           

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TESTING, TESTING

  
We have a technical problem : the images that we added recently (since 3 September) are showing here okay but they are not appearing for you?!

We're working on it.

Test, testing...

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard presents : Purple Gaze

Purple gaze, all in my brain
Lately things they don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky

 We are what we think.
 All that we are arises with our thoughts.
 With our thoughts we make the world. 

 Buddha
 The Dharmapada 

Purple gaze, all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

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Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no

Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!

Purple gaze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Ooo
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple gaze
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Tell me, tell me, purple gaze
I can't go on like this
Purple gaze
You're makin' me blow my mind
Purple gaze, n-no, nooo
Purple gaze
   
- with apologies to JH

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We have received the following email announcement from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney : Question the post-critical irony  How do we distinguish between an ‘original’ and a ‘copy’?  Professor of Art History at Monash University, Rex Butler  takes a look at the practice of two painters making similar  work for two very different reasons. Explore the theories  and future of painting, in this thought-provoking lecture.         Read more >>>

Clicking on that takes us to this :

           

TALK

WHY PAINTING? 
– Rex Butler

Explore the recent history, current state and the possible futures of painting in this series of talks.

REALLY POST-CRITICAL

Rex Butler (Monash University)
Sat 26 September
2-3.30pm

The Brisbane-based newspaper The Courier-Mail recently carried a long article by journalist Susan Johnson, 'CJ Hendry shows how artists are finding fame and riches by using social media' (Read article here) (December 15, 2014), featuring the work of one CJ Hendry, an artist whose work bears an uncanny resemblance to that of another Queensland artist Michael Zavros. Painter Zavros is known for his “post-critical” attitude towards art-making, his doing away with that critical “irony” that distinguishes the work of art from that object or attitude it appears to represent. Zavros’ work simply is what it represents: cars, handsome young men, the artist narcissistically bathing in his own wealth and glamour. And yet Zavros and his dealer in the article are quoted defending his work against its imitation by Hendry. In what could the difference between the two bodies of work lie? How are we to distinguish between Zavros’ “original” and Hendry’s “copy”? And why would Zavros, given his apparently “post-critical” attitude, want to?

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at Monash University. He is currently working on a history of UnAustralian art with ADS Donaldson and has recently completed a book on Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy?

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Veolia Lecture Theatre

Presented in association with Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Image Credit: Lucy Parahkina
               

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 

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

 LOGOS/HA HA