Holzer Truisms

Jenny Holzer is an American Conceptual Artist. I happened to come across her documentary entitled, About Jenny Holzer. Protect Me From What I Want and found it to be quite inspiring.  Who knew that such few words can have such an immense impact. These short phrases or one liners she would go on to call, Truisms. Below are some of her most famous lines.

‘men are not monogamous by nature’,

‘money creates taste’,

‘a lot of professionals are crackpots’,

‘enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway’,

‘freedom is a luxury not a necessity’,

‘don't place too much trust in experts’.

Although she initially wanted to become an abstract painter, the medium she would become famous for is writing- whether it be on walls, t-shirts or LEDS. Some call her a futuristic Artist because of her use of LEDS, and to a certain extent I would agree. Her work relates more than ever now given how our world currently revolves around such technologies as touch screens and smart phones. But what I like most about Jenny Holzer is that she lets her art do the talking.

Is this something you would call art? Does it have an impact on you or do you simply think this is nothing more than writing on a wall.

Calculated Aesthetic

Facade Printer

Alright, I cannot lie - this is quite brilliant! Martin Fussengger and Michael Sebastion Haas, two product designers, combined paintball with graffiti to create a new form of street art! Why didn't I think of this? Below is a description of their facadeprinter.

"The Facadeprinter is a simple robot. Its purpose: shooting out large scale graphics onto walls. Calculating movements based on digital artwork, software controlled motors position an airpressure-marker to fire thousands of colorballs and print the work on a distant surface. The artwork grows dot by dot, like the drawing of a magic pen. An inkjet-printer in architectonical dimensions."

Peeta : 3D Graffiti

Commissioned mural work by Italian graffiti artist Peeta.  His interest in shadow-play is what allows these drawings to really pop off the wall.

I'm interested in these works for their formal composition in their seemingly 3 dimensional space.  If only architects were as talented at arranging shapes in space...

Visual communication in Chicago

Thanks to technology, communication between individuals has become simple and instant but it got me thinking - how else can you send a message without actually saying it verbally or displaying it through technology?

I spent a few hours walking around Chicago trying to find these different forms and managed to come across these few examples...

Combo : Mural Painting Animation

Get ready to get your mind blown away!!! This painting animation was shown to us during our studio lecture and needs to be shared amongst all of you. Blu and David Ellis, two very talented artists, collaborate in this masterpiece that took roughly about a week to complete. Check it our for yourself!

Morton Anderson : suckerPUNCH

Reminiscent of Cubism art work circa 1920's, Anderson's work seems to use modern day color palettes, line gestures, and composition techniques, which make these art pieces very graphically appealing to me.

Enjoy

Lost in Architecture : Nicolas Grospierre

Artist Talk: 6PM

Opening Reception: 6:30-8PM

Nicolas Grospierre will discuss the Graham Foundation exhibition and his most recent work. This event is free and open to the public.

Mr.Brainwash

He considers this art; I don't - Do you? 

In my opinion, it's been done and done better but check it out for yourself.