Mar 21, 2017
Looking at the amazing girdle book-medieval almanach @therosenbach with #ARTH343 seminar class soon to be digitised in #bibliophilly @kislakcenter @upennlib (at Rosenbach Museum & Library)
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Looking at the amazing girdle book-medieval almanach @therosenbach with #ARTH343 seminar class soon to be digitised in #bibliophilly @kislakcenter @upennlib (at Rosenbach Museum & Library)
The four large items are pages of #jeanbourdichon 's magisterial Hours of Louis XII. On view today for #ARTH343 seminar: Manuscript Illumination in Philadelphia-area collections @freelibraryrarebooks #upenn @pennarthistory @freelibrary (at Free Library of Philadelphia)
Quote
“Global Feminisms aims to present a multitude of feminist voices from across cultures.”(Reilly, p.3)
The quote that I chose to highlight and expand upon comes from Maura Reilly’s Introduction to Transnational Femminism, and consists of writings/ideas from Reilly that center around feminism and the women’s culture movement within art. This quote comes fairly early within her writings, but I feel as though it very well sums up the general goals of the feminist movement. Along with general goals of feminism, there were also more specific goals that curator Maura Reilly had in mind for the Global Feminisms exhibition. The Global Feminisms exhibition was expected to reveal an overview of American feminist art from the 1970’s to the present that looks at contemporary art from the female/feminist perspective.
The exhibition also seeks to update a pioneering exhibition called Women Artists, a curatorial project that is specific to the 70’s. Another goal of the Global Feminisms exhibition is to present an array of feminist voices from different cultures that challenge exclusionary practices within contemporary art. Additionally, the exhibition aims to present a future inclusive counter-discourse that encourages cross-cultural differences. Probably the most notable goal from the Global Feminisms exhibition is to manifest a different narrative of art through showcasing many youthful mid-career women artists born after 1960. I believe the quote and the ideas behind it are extremely insightful toward Global feminism awareness and contemporary art as a whole, because art would not be as contemporary without the powerful/inspirational voice of the feminist artist.
Citation:
Reilly, Maura. Introduction: Toward Transnational Feminisms. London/New York: Merrell, 2007. Print.
A valuable resource
One resource that I found to be relative to the class is collagemuseum.com, which offers an interactive detail about collage artists from around the world. Their email group is comprised of over 1,150 collage artist from many different backgrounds and styles who converse and collaborate with each other on everything that has to do with collage art. Based on the “specimen gathering” model, collagemuseum.com creates an inclusionary museum that educates/inspires through its domain. This resource also offers announcements of web sites, projects, and opportunities for collage artists that are valuable to anyone interested in collage art.
The museum’s current collection currently consists of over 1,000 collages that have been collected since 1999. The mode of exchange is made up of a series of mail exchanges, named the “Baker’s Dozen” that is designed by Cecil Touchon and coordinated by Dale Copeland. The beauty of this resource is that anybody and everybody can participate in the mail exchange program, and any of the other projects and collaborative programs being offered on the website. The only requirement would be that the person would need to at least have an interest in collage and/or collage artists. Otherwise, I don’t see the point of someone wanting to be involved. I feel that this is a great resource for the class, because collage art is a relatively new and contemporary form of medium. Although collage has been within the realm of the art world for the better half of the last century, the amount of design and contemporary though processes behind the medium in its current form is manufactured in a totally different way.
http://collagemuseum.com
My own idea!
For my own idea post I decided to spotlight the award-winning artist, author, speaker, and entrepreneur Justin BUA, and mainly his upcoming work being showcased at the free exhibit “The Art of Fighting” at The Gallery on Main Street in Downtown Vegas on July 2nd-4th. BUA uses a contemporary style while working with oil paint on canvas that shows multiple “action shots” from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
BUA is best known for being the artist that came up with many popular fine art prints, and one in particular titled The DJ, being his most popular seller. BUA uses a commercial appeal (hiphop, fighting, and contemporary culture) to make his art not only relevant to the contemporary youth, but also relevant on the global scale because his art is not directed toward a specific nationality. For example, the UFC exhibits fighters from all around the world, which is just one way that BUA exemplifies the global mentality through his work. I can go off on a separate tangent on just highlighting all of Justin BUA’s achievements, from all of his awards in different mediums like his art direction in the documentary On The Shoulders of Giants and being the first artist to launch an online school (ArtistWorks) that allows beginning and advanced art students to interact one-on-one through video exchange.
Separate from all of his previous achievements, I took a special interest in his upcoming exhibit because it reveals an emergence in the art world that I see as directly linked to the contemporary phenomena of today. Not only are the artworks done through painting, there is another aspect in terms of art being showcased. Mixed Martial Arts may not be thought of a true art form, yet, but I believe that it is because it involves the same adaptability, mindset, and integration of specified skills that prove what it means to be an artist.
Project from outside of class
One project that I found very interesting in regard to contemporary art is from the artist Regin Saura titled Through the Forest, and consists of a large scale installation of 15 mixed-media paintings stretched to form into a single 85-foot canvas mural that is fitted within the Soho gallery space. The paintings have been a yearlong process which she began in her countryside studio in Catalonia, surrounded by the Mediterranean coast that serves as her initial inspiration. Saura interposes a natural flow of colors and earth tones to form exaggerated brush strokes that juxtapose between the two, and her composition paired with a balance of shape/line inferences highlight her knowledge in landscape painting.
Saura predominantly used oil paint, scraping, silkscreen, lithography, and collage to create her paintings installation that are presented in huge proportions compared to most paintings of the same composition. Regina Saura was born in 1955 in Barcelona, Spain, and has been exhibiting her work internationally since 1984. She mainly works within the realm of interpretive landscape paintings, but she also likes to do still life artworks as well. Her works have (almost) exclusively been shown in Solo gallery exhibitions throughout Europe, US, and Japan. She has also created a number of public commissions, most notably a permanent mural in L’Illa Diagonal in Barcelona.
Although her subject matter does not seem contemporary, it is more about her use of tone and brush strokes that is done in a contemporary style. Like mentioned above, she uses hard tones mixed with harsh brush strokes to create a unique style that I can describe as akin to Vincent Van Gogh’s style. I imagine she must have gone through a ton of paint, but the yearlong process definitely pays off.
Bienal De Cuenca
Located in Cuenca, Ecuador, the Bienal de Cuenca first opened more than two decades ago with the intentions of involving a vision of Latin America. The first exhibitions were exclusively paintings but as time progress the exhibition expanded to different types of media and representing the Bienal to the whole country. With expanding their Bienal, they were able to receive art from around the world and presenting that vision of contemporary art. Now, the Bienal de Cuenca joins the other nearby biennals that exhibit events of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The 12th Bienal de Cuena is exhibiting Ir Para Volver from March 28 through June 27, 2014. This exhibition describes the physical and temporary absence while highlighting the state of movement as the key aspect. They will be showcasing works from 42 artists from 21 countries in 6 different venues; some of the artists participating in this exhibition are Mario Garcia Torres, Francois Bucher, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Patricia Esquivias and Mauricio Bueno.
Aside from the solo exhibitions of the artists, Ir para Volver will also be hosting special events and performances.
Ir para Volver will also be hosting an Education Project with three different schools coming in to actively participate in the artworks, which totaled up to 604 students. It was meant to reach out to kids and for them to be being able to connect, understand and reflect with the artwork.
Another project, ¿Que Se Digo Durante Dialogos? will be a panel of three people discussing three different themes on the world-system, appropriation, media, and the reconstruction of history followed by tactic poems by Edoudard Glissant.
Before I Die
Before I die interactive project started, Candy Chang lost someone she really loved and going through depression and grief, she found clarity in contemplating death. To help her cope she got permission to paint on the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans. She gridded the sentence “Before I die I want to_____”. The next day, the whole wall was filled with the public’s responses and it kept growing, turning into an interactive art piece compiled with the public’s responses and stories. After Candy posted pictures of the wall, she received hundreds of messages from people who wanted to make a “Before I die” wall within their community.
What is unique about this interactive project is that they have a special designated area where the public can come to and share their personal aspirations and reflect on their lives. Each of the location is organized by locals and they get to register their wall onto the Before I Die website with a picture of their wall and a story about it. On the website, they have hundreds of walls registered from around the world and seeing how each one differentiates from one another, whether using the stencil or just writing out the bold sentence at the top.
Now, 500 “Before I die” walls have been created in over 30 languages in over 65 countries including Japan, Portugal, South Africa, Iraq, Denmark, and more. This wall is seen as a celebration and the stories behind them.
In creating your own wall in your own neighborhood, their website http://beforeidie.cc/site/build-your-own-before-i-die-wall/ has the steps and resources in doing so.
And, there is also a book about this project written by Candy Chang.