Monumental Nature

Three artists who work with nature in personal and momentous fashion.

Thierry De Cordier
http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/thierry-de-cordier

Patrick van Caeckenbergh

http://www.insituparis.fr/en/artistes/presentation/4982/van_caeckenbergh_patrick#oeuv-1

Berlinde de Bruyckere
http://rolandwegerer.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/berlinde-de-bruyckere/

Dawn Clements

"Draw everyday, draw everywhere" said Dawn Clements when asked, What advice to give students?

Dawn Clements’ works use drawing as a way to document and describe durational experiences: watching a film, for instance. Employing a painstaking precision of description and often writing notes directly onto the paper, Clements uses the act of drawing as a parallel to remembering: these are aides-memoires, attempts to hold transient things in the mind. Like the tracking shots of cinema, they sweep through interiors, gathering visual information, but by eliding the human presence, abstract place and setting from their narrative contexts.

http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/dawn_clements_movie2.htm

Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold - Table of Work: a Collaboration (Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold) - 2011, Mixed media (including sumi ink on paper, porcelain, stoneware, wood), 303 x 126 x 30 inches (with table & sculptures) - Courtesy of Pierogi Gallery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-couillaud/dawn-clements_b_1207546.html

Travels with Myra Hudson  2004, Sumi ink on paper, 3 x 1.4 m

detail

Sarah Sze

I have just finished reading Sarah Sze Infinite Line. A book about her exhibition at Asia Society Museum, New York back in 2011.

Sarah is an artist well known for her amazing installation works made out of a huge range of eclectic materials and objects.

The Art of Losing 2004
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Detail of Untitled (Tokyo) 2008

360 (Portable Planetarium) 2012

I was most interested in her drawings and paper works some of which I have posted below.

Untitled 2011 Paper & mixed media

Sarah describes her work
"I've been thinking about drawings that shift between perspectives and many ways of seeing - all in one experience"
p. 21

                         Checks and Balances  2011
                         Stone, string and ink on paper
                         190 x 46cm

Guggenheim as a Ruin 2009
Ink, string and collage on paper
127 x 81 cm






























http://www.sarahsze.com
http://youtu.be/xk1597J5g50
http://youtu.be/fnndiUK01kU

Sarah will represent USA at the 2013 Venice Biennial

Nicola Moss

I was impressed with Nicola's exhibition at SGAR gallery in Spring Hill. Meticulous paper cuts using evocative stained papers ... beautiful!

Nicola's blog http://nicolamoss.blogspot.com.au
SGAR gallery http://sgar.com.au/exhibit/now

Thomas Hauri

Interesting mixed media works on paper and canvas from Swiss artist Thomas Hauri  http://thomashauri.ch

Amy Commins

Amy goes global! Art and Science Journal
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/tagged/amy-commins

Really interesting work. Also http://amycommins.com

Manifesta9 - Genk, Belgium

Christian Boltanski 1997
Archive of old tin boxes covered with the photos and registration numbers of the miners who once worked at the exhibition site - an old coal mine

Detail of above

Drawing machine using algorithms of original interior decorative details found in the old coal administration building. A constantly changing pattern results, printed with charcoal and hung

Europe exports vast quantities of its waste. Chinese artist Ni Haifeng has reversed the process by first importing waste fabric from China and also reversing the manufacturing process by using the scraps to make the artwork. Spectators are able to sew sections and join to the large hanging

dOCUMENTA13 - Kassel, Germany

A sample of interesting artworks

Geoffrey Farmer - Canada

Fabio Mauri - Italy
Text cut into large doormats

Mark Dion - USA

inside view

Michael Rakowitz - USA

Lost or destroyed books recreated as stone reminders

examples of burnt valuable and important books

Michael Rakowitz

stone books














Julie Mehretu

detail of above

Istvan Csakany - Romania

carved timber














Claire Pentecost - USA

Soil traded as if like a currency, 'gold bars'














Below paper currency



Doreen Reid Nakamarra - Australia

Gordon Bennett

Margaret Preston

Fiona Hall - artist hut

Fiona Hall artist talk

Inside Fiona Hall's hut

Fiona Hall "American Eagle"

Berlin

Remains of Berlin Wall and old East German cars now part of tourist fun drives

Jewish Memorial - a powerful experience, completely open with no text, guides, names or explantaions

Also powerful - Nazi book burning site, an underground library with empty shelves viewed through glass square at ground level

Anselm Kiefer
















detail of above

detail of one of Kiefer's planes

Georg Baselitz

Rebecca Warren

Preparing exhibition in old church

Small gallery

Willi Sitte 'Leuna 1921'    1965-66  Soviet social realism

Street art

Street mural

Details for these images will follow soon