"I think you’d have to live in the forest not to have been influenced by Hollywood."
— Urs Fischer (via The Art Newspaper)
“Obey the Giant” is the recently funded Kickstarter film about OBEY creator Shephard Fairey. The project is the first narrative film about Fairey’s legacy (think of it as The Social Network for the art world) and depicts the origin of his Obey the Giant street art campaign at RISD. The film shows us where it all began and gives hope to all artists who are trying to do something bigger than themselves. You can back the film here!
Ryan Park
What you’re having
2010-ongoing
C-prints. 9 x 11 inches.
Each photograph is an edition of 1 + 1 artist proof.—
An exercise in the idea that you are what you eat taken to a perhaps
desperate extreme. An insistent attempt to experience the world as
someone else does, over the course of a meal or drinks, perhaps
extending to the time of digestion, time of defecation, or perhaps even
longer as we both absorb the same composition of molecules into our
bodies.
I order whatever another individual does at a restaurant or bar,
submitting both my subjective taste, and body to their choices. Our
separate receipts are photographed on location upon the surface we
were sitting at.
Matt Richardson created a camera which doesn’t deliver a photo but a description of the photo it made. Eh what? After the shutter button is pressed, the Descriptive Camera sends the photo to Amazons Mechanical Turk for processing. Somewhere someone receives this photo and writes a short description about what’s on the photo, that person receives a small payment for this task. As soon as that text comes back, a thermal printer outputs the result in the style of a polaroid print.
From Antonio Vega Macotela’s “Mexican Rashes,” a series of artworks based on interaction with inmates:
In exchange for my being the witness of his son’s first steps, Superaton spent the three hours that I was with his son cataloguing the cigarette butts in his cell.
(via Vice)
“The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol” on display through Aug. 20
MOCA:
This exhibition explores the recent transformation of abstract painting into one of the most dynamic platforms in contemporary art. The exhibition will address a painting tradition that was once seen as essentially reductive but has now become expansive, merging popular culture and current technology into its vocabulary, including works by Tauba Auerbach, Mark Bradford, DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder), Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Seth Price, Sterling Ruby, Josh Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Kelley Walker, Andy Warhol and Christopher Wool.
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