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Flat Files #10: Random Images from the Archives
The Gradient
Jun 2010
We were doing a little housecleaning and came across some images of our work that Greg Beckel took for the Studio Culture book. So pristine.
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Re: 1 (… or modalities of completion via the work of Anne Collier and Marina Abramović, along with some notes by Umberto Eco).
The Gradient
Jun 2010
Anne Collier acknowledges the gap between her understanding of a pair of photographs of seascapes as “quasi-portraits” of her parents and the viewer’s understanding. In Reflection she positions herself in the image as a way of introducing the viewer to her history, moving from the hermetic to hermeneutic.
Below is an except from a conversation between Bob Nickas and Anne Collier regarding these…
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Re: 0 (Lawrence Weiner and the Ellipsis)
The Gradient
May 2010
written by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, in a 1986 essay titled “The Posters of Lawrence Weiner,” provides the inspiration as well as an analogy (in regards to how Weiner utilizes the ellipsis) for how Re:, a new series of posts, will unfold:
Above: Weiner’s use of the ellipsis as “a fragmentation prohibiting closure and perfection … .” Above Left: Poster for Galleria Sperone (Turin, Italy, 1973) Above Right: Poster for…
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Some New Faces/De Nouveaux Caracteres
The Gradient
May 2010
These typefaces represent the latest selection of the Letragraphica type experts. The new range represents a study in contrasts, ranging from ‘Pop’ to antique; and was drawn from within the Letraset Type Design Unit as well as from external international sources… The Letragraphica Series of Type-styles is unique. It is a range of typefaces selected by type experts whose objective is to present the…
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Scattered Light by ASDF as commissioned by RO/LU and presented at AOT
The Gradient
May 2010
On Saturday (5/22), Art of This gallery will present the opening reception for Scattered Light, an ongoing participatory poster project and exhibition. RO/LU, our local landscape architects with the amazing blog, commissioned art/design duo ASDF to create a project that would “attempt to reacquaint the viewer to his/her surrounding environment and introduce another way of seeing and interpreting the…
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Alpine Butterfly, Beer, Cat’s Paw, Dogshank, Englishman, Falconer, Half Blood, Italian, Jack Ketch, Klemheist, Lark, Noose, Oysterman’s Stopper, Pratt, Rigger, Sheepshank, Thief, Uni, Versatackle, Wagoners, Yosemite, Zepplin Bend
The Gradient
May 2010
One of our most basic forms of manipulation, we encounter knots in many situations, from shoelaces to tangled wires. But beyond their useful qualities, also have historical, cultural and scientific dimensions that make them a fascinating subject of investigation.
Culturally, knots have been used as tools of representation in a variety of ways. Incas used knots in complex recording devices called…
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Collective Imagination campaign
The Gradient
May 2010
To announce the launch of the Walker’s refreshed permanent collection galleries (last November) we created a campaign that highlights the diversity of the Walker’s holdings as well as our multidisciplinary mission. The layout mirrors the salon-style hanging of Benches & Binoculars, creating random juxtapositions between artists, disciplines, subjects, decades, and aesthetics. In the hopes of intimating…
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Hand Werk & Make Do Image Making — Q&A with Peter Nencini
The Gradient
Apr 2010
Ryan G. Nelson: Our paths first crossed in relation to a Max Bill poster [fig. 1] — perhaps this is a good place for us to start. You’ve mentioned how that poster finds a nice balance between a machine-aesthetic and a hand-craft-method. The same could be said for this poster of Bill’s [fig. 2] (designed for another, earlier Konkrete Kunst exhibition) which was a linocut print and which also showcases a high…
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Stefan Bucher / Insights 2010
The Gradient
Mar 2010
Tonight, 7:00 pm Insights: Stefan Bucher In anticipation of tonight’s lecture by Stefan Bucher, we asked him to answer a few of life’s most—and possibly least—pressing questions:
1. What have you been obsessing about?
2. What’s your most prized possession? My view. This is an unaltered, unedited image from January 25th.
3. What are you reading? The poser yin and yang: The New Yorkerand Daily Variety.
5. What…