WOLFGANG TILLMANS lecture at Harvard

Wednesday, March 2, 6pm
Wolfgang Tillmans
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

WOLFGANG TILLMANS, artist

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) first received critical acclaim in the 1990s for his arresting images of youth culture. He has recently embraced a much broader range of subject matter, from intimate still lifes to cameraless abstractions. He produces photographs in varying sizes and techniques, and displays them in provocative, unconventional, and carefully conceived installations. In this lecture, Tillmans will discuss past and current projects.

Free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=33685.

Google Art Project

Here's the link to Roberta Smith's critique of the Google Art Project:

www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/arts/design/07google.html

and the link to the project itself:

http://www.googleartproject.com/

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE LECTURE

EXCELLENT NEWS!

William Kentridge lecture is Monday, Feb.28, 6:30 at Boston University

William Kentridge—Tim Hammill Lecture

Monday, February 28, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Ave.
Free and open to the public

William Kentridge, a South African artist, was born in Johannesburg in 1955. Kentridge is probably best known for his animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art. His recent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed work from the past two decades, along with films and motorized theater sets. Kentridge’s work touches on the atrocities of apartheid and social injustice, yet also expresses the new South Africa. In an introductory note to Felix in Exile, Kentridge writes, “In the same way that there is a human act of dismembering the past there is a natural process in the terrain through erosion, growth, dilapidation that also seeks to blot out events. In South Africa this process has other dimensions. The very term ‘new South Africa’ has within it the idea of a painting over the old, the natural process of dismembering, the naturalization of things new.”

Installation assignment

The next assignment:

"Create an installation larger than yourself and photograph it in multiple ways", will

NOT be due on Monday, Feb. 28. Thursday to Monday is not enough time. But, I would like you to bring studies for your ideas and the class will recommend lighting and make other comments. Most people have never attempted this in their practice, it is sculptural, conceptual and big but does not have to cost alot of money to produce. I want you to think about how 3-dimensional space gets collapsed into a 2-dimensional photograph. Position of the camera is key. Lighting is extremely important. It may be the first time that you make a picture where you are controlling everything. You will be acting as a director, lighting designer, stage set designer and photographer. Someone like Gregory Crewdson does this with a whole cast of helpers. I am asking you to do it alone. I don't want there to be people in the pictures.When we look at your still lifes you may find a kernel of an idea for the installation.

We will looking at the following artists:

CALVIN COLUM

SANDY SKOGLUND

THOMAS DEMAND

EILEEN COWIN

BRUCE CHARLESWORTH

ANA MENDIETA

PHILLIP-LORCA diCORCIA

LORIE NOVAK

PIERRE and GILES

GREGORY CREWDSON

LAURIE SIMMONS

JEFF WALL

MONA HATOUM

MARIKO MORI

CHARLIE WHITE

ANNE HARDY

JAMES CASEBERE

FELIX GONZALES-TORRES

JAMES WELLING

SOPHIE CALLE: The Chromatic Diet

GEORGES ROUSSE

Text and Image

Hi Class,

Here is a list of artists who use TEXT in unexpected ways:

Rachel Perry Welty

Gillian Wearing: "Signs that say what you want them to say,

not signs that say what other people what you to say"

Barbara Kruger : Google images

Laila Essaydi

Tracey Emin

Kay Rosen

Shirin Neshat- http://www.iranian.com/Arts/Dec97/Neshat/index.html

Duane Michals

Ken Lum

Larry Johnson-painter

Christian Marclay "The Clock"

Hi Making a Picture class,

If you are in NY you may enjoy an important show at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

The show, "The Clock" is related to our sequencing assignment.

http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/497

"Conversations"

Dear Making a Picture class,

Please feel free to add your photos, qts. etc.

If you get a chance go to the MFA to see the new photo show, "Conversations",

selections from the Bank of America photography collection.