Stretching to infinity with the help of two mirrors – one on the ceiling, another on the floor – and colour changing LED lights. I’m not sure about the ”heaven” part, the effect is more like ”as above so below”, with worshippers debating on which direction is better to take.
From ”Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE”, an exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, 2019
November 29th, 2019
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead to charcoal drawings to satisfy portrait commissions.
The Morgan Library & Museum presented a major exhibition of his beautiful portraits of beautiful people, in charcoal.
November 10th, 2019
Hans Namuth
Joseph Cornell in His Backyard, Utopia Parkway, New York, 1969
”It kills me, it’s so good. Let’s pretend I took this, okay?… I used to go to Cornell’s house once a week for I don’t know how long. He would make tea on his ancient, Depression-era stove. He’d turn the gas on, and the flames shot up. He talked a lot, gesturing, in this very fluffy angora sweater he wore. And I’m thinking, I should keep the camera ready in case he goes up. A Flaming Cornell: that’d be amazing! Unfortunately, he never caught on fire. But this portrait is going to upstage the whole exhibit – I may have to set it on fire.” – Duane Michals
From ”Illusions of the Photographer”, an exhibition of the art of Duane Michals, which included this photograph of Joseph Cornell by Hans Namuth and, as far as I was concerned, upstage the whole exhibit, it did.
The Morgan Library
November 10th, 2019
The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art. Opened just after we’d left for New York in 2016, Brussels’ newest contemporary museum showcasing works by younger artists mainly, it goes without saying that we couldn’t wait to pay a visit. The renovated red-brick building – a former brewery – is amazing; the art on show not so much, but fun nonetheless.
Brussels
October 20th, 2019
The Gaze Within (The Hour Blue) (2011-2013), by Jan Fabre
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium [Musée Oldmasters Museum], Brussels
October 19th, 2019
But we can all see who steals the show
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium [Musée Oldmasters Museum], Brussels
October 19th, 2019
Elaborately worked details define most of the Elder’s paintings but, in The Fall of the Rebel Angels, he manages to surpass even himself! If anyone could encompass an entire cabinet of curiosities in one painting – and have tons of fun in the process, that must be Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
So absorbed was I by all these wonderful details – every little one a work of art in itself, I almost missed the violence the work is supposed to depict, with the fall of Lucifer and his fellow rebel angels, chased away from heaven by Archangel Michael.
Another ”fun” detail: The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the masterpieces at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The Royal Museums acquired the painting in 1846 thinking it was the work of his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The work was then attributed to Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) until 1898 when the date and signature “MDLXII / Brvegel” were found in the bottom left-hand corner, hidden by the frame.
Thus the painting was finally attributed to its legitimate creator, Bruegel the Elder. [source]
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium [Musée Oldmasters Museum], Brussels
October 19th, 2019
The Old Masters may be all divine symbolism and biblical images, but who said they couldn’t have fun?
Detail #1: apparently, keeping squirrels as pets is not a new idea.
Detail #2: the ”Oh, man…” look on the Demon’s face.
(Suzanne, a married woman, sends her maids away while is she is taking a bath. Once alone, two elders who secretly desire her, make advances. Suzanne refuses, but is later accused of adultery by the very men she refused. She is found guilty and condemned to death).
Detail #3: Carnival costume inspiration.
Detail #4: the Younger having fun copying the Elder but, in a bout of originality, appropriates a barrel to sign his work.
Detail #5: the original. As in most of the Elder’s paintings, there’s so much going on here, you’re bound to discover something new every time you look. This time, the eye lingers over the warm red sun setting far at the background, beyond the dark bare branches of the tree.
Detail #6: Going commando in the 17th century was the norm, apparently.
Detail #7: so much to see, so little time… *yawn*
Detail #8: what did you see first?
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium [Musée Oldmasters Museum], Brussels
October 19th, 2019
Adorning the Great Hall at the entrance of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, together with its companion ”La Fontaine de l’Inspiration”, it is so striking one simply must stop and stare. These monumental paintings (they measure around 400x500cm) were created by Montald specifically for the Museum, but were both rejected by its acquisitions committee and returned to him – yet, in a symbolic twist of fate, they ended up back were they belonged!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
October 19th, 2019
by Chiharu Shiota
‘‘Chiharu Shiota’s (Osaka, 1972) spectacular installations transform the spaces in which they unfold, and immerse the visitor in the artist’s universe. They combine textile materials such as wool and cotton with various elements, sculpted shapes or used objects.
The artist combines performance, body art and installation in a process that places the body at its center. Her protean artistic practice explores the notions of temporality, movement, memory and dream; and requires both the mental and physical involvement of the spectator. Chiharu Shiota’s highly acclaimed participation in the Venice Biennale, where she represented Japan in 2015, confirmed the international scope of her work.
Me Somewhere Else (2018), a work of great visual strength, occupies a very special place in the artist’s production. Shiota talks about her fight against her illness, and the certainty that her mind will survive her body. “Before I was diagnosed with cancer I thought that if I die, everything about me is going to die; I am going to die, but now I know only my body dies – not my mind. My mind remains somewhere else.”
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
October 19th, 2019
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