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Thursday, 7 September 2017

The Philips Pavilion by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis - Expo 1958

“Colonization equals adventure. The scholar and the artist colonize daily. They discover and reveal. By revealing they change the view of things and they give the past a future.” - Le Corbusier

VMAN - ‘Philips Pavilion’ by Le Corbusier - Expo 58

The Philips Pavilion was a World's Fair pavilion designed for Expo '58 in Brussels by the office of Le Corbusier. Commissioned by Philips, an electronics company based in the Netherlands, the pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Pavilion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKyYmU2tPg

Friday, 28 July 2017

Still Clyfford's '1951-E'

Still Clifford - Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery

1951-E , 1951 by Still Clyfford, American (1904-'80), OOC - 297 x 363 cm

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Gift of the artist, 1964)

"He rose above the commonplace that oppressed him."
Andrew Graham-Dixon about Still Clyfford in ‘Art of America’

Friday, 7 July 2017

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14

"The ceremonial perpendicular lines (lines that are at right angles of 90° to each other) are the backbone of life within space" wrote Frantisek Kupka in 'The creation of Art and Sculpture' - 1923

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14, bronze H 60cm - National Gallery Collection, Prague

Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Joseph Beuys - "I Like America and America Likes Me, May 1974"

"We have to revolutionize human thought. First of all revolution takes place within man. When man is really a free, creative being who can produce something new and original, he can revolutionize time." - Joseph Beuys ('Performance Art' by R.L.Goldberg)