Poetry in Motion

January 13, 2012November 16, 2014startind

Daniel Libeskind - Chamber Works Architectural Meditations on Themes from Heraclitus

A set of 28 Drawings done by Daniel Libeskind while he was the head of the Architecture Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Image reproduced from http://daniel-libeskind.com/projects/chamber-works/drawings

Architect: Adolf Loos

January 12, 2012November 16, 2014startind

Adolf Loos, House for Josephine Baker 1928

‘The best form always already exists and no one should be afraid of making use of it, even if its elements derive from someone else’s work. We have enough original genius. Let’s repeat ourselves ad infinitum.’ Adolf Loos

Text reproduced from http://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-landscape-possible-horizon-place-of.html, Image reproduced from http://myranchburger.blogspot.com/2009/07/adolf-loos-and-his-house-for-josephine.html

Poeticizing and Thinking

January 8, 2012January 23, 2014startind Leave a comment

…into the space of renunciation…

‘for language as the origin of the work of art proved to be an impossible origin, since its repetition undermined any possibility of origination outside its iteration […] a substantive shift away from the discussions of origins into one of essence pp171 […] nothing, but relation: that which gives being, but that iself is not. pp.179

‘The word gives being.’, ‘to the word gives:Being’. Nothing has been added but the simple mark of a pause or break, a ceasura, but in doing so the relation of the word to being has been suspended and thus its wording has appeared. It inscribes the space of being but withdraws from it, because it is nothing more than its spacing, its mark of lack and rupture by which it becomes a space, a neighbourhood in which relations can take place, thus Poeticizing and thinking are pp184 Continue reading →

David Ope > Gif Magic

January 7, 2012November 13, 2014startind Leave a comment

Gif reproduced from the Change the Thought, visit for more and if that’s not enough see Love Gifs or visit the visual china town of David Ope. Prepare to be mesmerised by a contemporary versions of Duchamp’s Rotorelief.

Ellsworth Kelly

January 5, 2012January 5, 2014startind Leave a comment

La combe II, 1950–51. Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly is among the most important protagonists of colour field painting. His paintings, in large format for the most part and consisting usually of several panels, are an impressive interplay of form, colour and space. Kelly’s works are notable for their very lean imagery: the forms are geometric or organic, the contours are drawn sharply, the colours are intense. Form, derived from real observation, is at the source of kelly’s creative process. The window of a museum, the floor of a paris café, the diagonal shadow of a garage entranceway – fragments of everyday reality that the artist translates into the simplest, most memorable forms, hence turning the quotidian into two-dimensional signs. Kelly does not find refuge in invented lines or shapes and is therefore liberated from the need to compose an image: “the things that interested me were always there”.

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