Speed of Sight

MoMA  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA 

  

Passion Play

Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence

Though still alive -
His hair and nails
continued to grow.

 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 

  

Sight Gag

 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

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BAR click NETT click NEW click MAN click BAR NET NEW MAN

Modern Merican Painted Canvas didn't always float free to be seen in Independence Daze on the staged walls of Theatre of the Actors of Regard.

Various photos of Barnett Newman in his studio show him with heavily-suspended stretched right-angles of canvas anchored by chains before during and after the paint. 

These proof sheet photographs are from the 1965 studio portraits of Barnett Newman by Ugo Mulas.

In the mid-1940s Newman painted a small number of mostly untitled circle/sun motifs. One was clue-titled Pagan Void. After that, the vertical line motif ("zip") on the field (of colour) motif predominated the play. 

His 1948 consolidation work - one vertical zip centred on a vertical format canvas - he titled Onement (at one out of atonement). The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he had studied philosophy in New York and it all showed. Soon came By Twos (1949).

We do wonder about the presence/influence/role/

dynamic of the suspension chain verticals 'outside' 

on the painted verticals 'inside'?

Photos of the early exhibitions of these artworks, such as at Betty Parsons gallery, show them still in obvious suspension, not 'free floating'.

Ditto when shown in Melbourne in 1967.

We conclude this now with the Sight Gag song as...

Barnett Newman conducts the Choir of Eyes (TAR) 

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               A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

               someone looks at something... 

         

               LOGOS/HA HA 

 

Vale John Clarke (1948 - 2017)

John Clarke : writer, satirist, broadcaster, actor, comedian, everyman, everywoman. 

Of wit, wisdom and compassion (Shakespeare). 

Up there and down there with Spike Milligan.
     

 John Clarke and Fred Dagg - the early years 

Fred Dagg's Greatest Hits (1976) 

 John Clarke and Sam Neill -

 an antipodean Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Death In Brunswick , 1990 

 John Clarke and Brian Dawe for 27 years

  Look, again : nothing, everything, nothing, everything...

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA 

  

TARd edge

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

 Two boys of TAR en regarde Malevich 'Black Square'

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

 Woman of TAR delighted to behold TARd Edge Label 

  extract from Diary of a TARd Edge Teen

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA 

  

The Hou_e That sLaughter Built (Le Regard Mental)

       
In my Father's house are many mansions: 

if it were not so, I would have told you. 

I go to prepare a place for you.

- John 14 : 2 (King James Bible) 

 Rene Magritte, Le Regard Mental, 1946

Those houses!... Just like in my dreams!

  FIAPCE (Black Bats) at Architectura Picta, Ewing Gallery, 1984

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

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The House That Laughter Built

  
 ...has fallen down again.

TAR  

Imagine that all the elements suddenly collapsed...

FIAPCE (-1975-)  

collection : Art Gallery of South Australia  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA 

  

Patrick Pound : The Great Exhibition

Patrick Pound's grandest work so far opens at the National Gallery of Victoria this month. Four thousand of his own collected objects and photographs will be installed amid his selections from the gallery's collection. Hubristically titled The Great Exhibition, it's Pound's version of a world expo.

"It's a mad folly," he says, erupting with laughter. 

Pairs (and the double), 2016−2017 (detail)    

  

"It's another version of the world," he says. "A tragic comedy of the world through things. It's a bit like Balzac's Human Comedy – that vast novel cycle that had all of Paris in it. The whole world can be pulled into this one constraint so that it can have things about race and class and gender, and history, and culture, and the everyday life and death, and fun and daftness or serious implications, but they are all drawn in by one thing. And it makes us look at what they are differently.

The photographer's shadow, 2000-2017 (detail)    

"It's collage meets a car-boot sale," he says, before bursting into laughter.

Patrick Pound's The Great Exhibition is at NGV Australia, Federation Square, March 31-July 30. Patrick Pound In Conversation, April 1, at 2pm.

- Extracts above are from From eBay to the NGV: Patrick Pound's 'mad folly' makes art of our cast-offs by Ray Edgar in the week-end AGE/SMH.    

Positions Vacant :

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

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FIAPCE Education

Théâtre des Acteurs du Rire  

Learn to Laugh at Art this weekend :
   
Serial and Conceptual Photography
Works by Rooney, Coventry, Tyndall, FIAPCE, Ruscha, Huebler, König, Boltanski, Feldmann, the Bechers, Tajiri, Groover, and more.

Spare Room 33
Canberra, Australia

open Saturday 25 March and Saturday 1 April 2017
11.00 am - 4.30 pm
and by appointment 

FIAPCE Education, 1974     
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FIAPCE Education, 1974     
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 written under the photographs
 IF YOU'RE REALLY SERIOUS YOU SHOULD BE LAUGHING

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA