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Urs Fischer: Melting Sculpture
Patterns from Tuscany
Isolating a particular element that is repeated throughout a specific place. That specific place was the region of Tuscany in Italy which I was able to visit for an artist residency in late summer 2011.
Dolomites Sketch
Sketch while sitting with my husband at a refuge in the mountains near Falzarego Pass.
Trassinelli’s Light
It started in 1970. “Light” is an ongoing exhibit of Trassinelli’s work at the Pieve di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. One steps into the exhibit and has to stop and remember to breathe. The light, although soft, filters through the room. The designs are functional, yet have been created with a care toward aesthetics. In Trassinelli’s work the line between func...
File Room from India: Dayanita Singh
Another photographer that I came across in the Arsenal at the Venice Biennale was Dayanita Singh from India. She presented five photographs in a series entitled File Room.
The Mirror Image of Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander from London, England produced the piece pictured above entitled Out of Sight (All on my own). This piece is located in the Arsenale at Venice Biennial Art 2011. The figures are reproductions of a Degas ballerina and are juxtaposed (along with the blue cubes and white plinths) to appear as mirror images.
Chianti Sketch 2
A quick sketch one sunrise:
Drifting in Venice with Annette Kelm
One artist whose work caught my eye in the Arsenal at ILLUMInations, the Venice Biennale 2011, was German artist Annette Kelm.
Kelm showed several series of photographs. The particular one that interested me was entitled Driftwood Lamp, a series of six images of a drift wood lamp on a white background.
My Tuscan Color Palette
Particular places are composed of specific colors. The Chianti region of Tuscany has certain colors in August and September, that will trigger memories in me of this time of relative peace and focus on my current project.