Hoarding with Curatorial Intent

SF Director @spoke-art Curator

[mxdvs]

Nudity

Photo by Axelle Degrave

[horsiie]

Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge, ca. 1886

[spokeart]

Happy Holidays from gallery pup Meera and Spoke Art!

The gallery will be closed until Serge Gay Jr’s opening reception January 7th

[hoardingwithcuratorialintent]

Happy Holidays from my favorite little sculpture!

[aleyma]

Printing block for textile printing, made in Malaysia, 1920-23 (source).

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Seonna Hong’s “In Our Nature” at Hashimoto Contemporary.

Opening on Saturday, October 16th, 2016 at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, California is the solo exhibition of artist Seonna Hong entitled “In Our Nature.”

From the press release:  Hong’s paintings navigate through fragmented realities and unfiltered notions of child-like whimsy.  People and animals inhabit rich environments that verge between geometric abstraction and figurative representation.  The controlled, yet unaffected gestures of Hong’s landscapes are often achieved through the repurposing of dried paint. The artist creates this effect by peeling swirls of acrylic from a painted surface and collaging them onto a final piece. The result is a blithe contrast of focus which highlights the dream-like qualities of the work’s narrative.

“In Our Nature” will be on display until October 29th, 2016.

[hashimotocontemporary]

“Hyperbolic” - a new installation by Crystal Wagner in Łódź, Poland 

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

I’d like to clarify:

dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain. 

dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)

so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.

but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing

in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement. 

so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.

related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this

tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:

you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.

As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.

[sam-keeper]

My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:

and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:

And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.

[mizulyn]

I think you might be onto something…

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Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.

[blackwoolncrown]

This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.

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Love

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[glassaxolotl]

Will forever reblog

[perpetuallurkernazanin]

I’m so happy to have found this post. The other day I had to explain Dada-ism and got as far as, “An art style that emerged after WW1 in response to the atrocity of the war, that intentionally makes no sense… And there was this urinal.”… Which, glad to confirm was basically on the right track tho rudimentary, but… Wow, to then find this wealth of a post!

[girlwithalessonplan]

I love teaching dada poetry btw. Shibi dog (wow much bork) is practically dada.

[itsagifnotagif]

And there it is

[spokeart]

“Eversion” - a solo exhibition by 1010, now on view at Hashimoto Contemporary. 

[whoweareneverstopschanging-deac]

Leslie Knope is never not relevant

[jonasgrossmann]

lawrence schiller… 1966 @ taschen

[wehadfacesthen]

Convertible on Broadway, New York, 1949, a photo by Louis Faurer

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November 1st

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December 1st

[hoardingwithcuratorialintent]

me, finally getting a chance to say something I've thought about for twelve days straight: oh, hey, that reminds me, funny thing, this just came to mind but

[spokeart]

We let Hashimoto Contemporary borrow our Gallery Dog for the afternoon to help keep an eye on the gallery/sun bathe. 

“Mightier Than” series by Ravi Zupa

[lustik]

Arquicostura.com de Raquel Rodrigo.