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Paintings – Fung Ching Kelling

Happy birthday, Fung-Ching.
Fung Ching is my sister and I showed her chine-colle print in my previous post.

Untitled painting by F.C. KellingFung Ching Kelling

Here are some painters my sister and I love.
See all pages to see their range and fluidity (Except for David Row the other three masters have been neglected and forgotten).

James Brooks here and here.

William Scott

Conrad Marca-Relli and here.

David Row and this page with text.

Apples, more applesApples by F.C.Kelling

Nov 21 was also a birthday for Rene Magritte. Check his apple and poems by Mark Young – blog poems dedicated to paintings by Magritte.

Untitled painting by F.C. KellingFung Ching Kelling

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His interviews – Her Noise – & Their Exhibit

Four interviews of William Gass
William Gass’ interview from Believer Magazine.
“But I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I’m antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum—not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can’t always be serious about it..” (via 3quarksdaily).

On Teaching and writing interviewed by Jan Garden Castro.
“Gass: I’m interested in making a self-contained system of concepts, ideas that will then define a kind of consciousness. It’s a way of inventing a consciousness by supplying someone with the structure and content of an experience. So I make that up and create that consciousness. It’s not a consciousness of the world; it’s a consciousness of the work.”
On Wittgenstein,
“The intellectual integrity he displayed was awesome, absolutely. I was watching not just a really great mind in operation but also an absolutely honest and pure intellect. I don’t think he was an honest and pure person, but he had that intellect, and you saw it. It was like seeing a great artist in operation—absolute scruple. No second-rate stuff would be permitted. That was really impressive. Again, it was an exemplification. Socrates embodies that way; I’m sure Spinoza must have. And Wittgenstein was the complete embodiment of that quest in himself.”

From Gadfly an interview on William Gass in 1998 – “The Tunnel may well be the greatest prose performance since Nabokov’s Pale Fire, but only the most stalwart readers will be able to last the full trip through Kohler’s anti‑Semitic, sexually-depraved and bathroom‑humor obsessed world. ”

“For instance, I can show in what way a sentence by Henry James “is” a spiral staircase. It has the same thought. And my mind works that way. (From Center for book culture – W.G interviewed by Arthur M. Saltzman)

InstallationInstallation

Two art exhibit announcements via email
Received this notice via Paul Malone this morning.
“I’m making a series of 6 radio programmes for HER NOISE at South London Gallery.” Melanie Clifford.

Broadcast in London on Resonance 104.4fm and worldwide online/

South London Gallery 16.30 – 16.45 gmt Wednesday 16th; 23rd; 30th November; 7th; 14th; 21st December 2005.

The PearlC.Yuen Pearl
This announcement from Charles Yuen via email came from Brooklyn.
The Road So Far
Metaphor contemporary art
382 atlantic avenue, brooklyn, ny 11217
November 16 – December 18, 2005

Charles Yuen, Tricia Wright, Ilene Sunshine, Margaret Neill, Mary Judge, Mary Ting, Lissi Sigillo,
Julie Evans, Julie Gross, Stephen Nguyen, Martin Kruck, and Jung Hyang Kim.

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Les Biller – Open Studio in L.A.

Les Biller goes to the studio 7 days a week. If you can paint like a wizard you would too. Every first Sunday of the month his studio is open for visitors from 2 pm to 5 pm.

Mesa Road
Mesa Road

Phantom
Phamtom

His early start as a writer is reflected in the choices of titles for his paintings. The titiles like The Russian Envoy, the Manchurian Candidate are often witty and allusive. While studying at the University of Hawaii Les met Sumiko from Japan and got married. He went to study in Japan under a Fullbright scholorship. Patterns from Kabuki theater, Japanese folding screens, Oscar statuettes and desperate housewives all collide in rich vibrant colors and presented in a coherent dramatic fashion. The Cry of the City series deal with darker themes of decay, fear and chaos of the sprawling freeways, wires, debris from the city of Angels.

“After the conclusion of the games Poppaea died from the casual outburst of a rage from her husband (Nero) who felled her with a kick when she was pregnant” Tacitus, Annals from the Book XVI

Pappaea
Les Biller
(Find the enlarged version from his homepage – Open Studio 2005 October. You can see the cute Oscar Statuette on the right hand column)
See more paintings and get the directions to his studio from his beautiful homepage.

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Facts, Fiction – The Filmmaker, the Mad Fascist Poet and the Prosecutor

The NYtimes celebrated Gael García Bernal‘s birthday one month ahead. Other sources confirmed this fact – Bernal is not a Scorpio – he is a Sagittarius (Nov 30).
What other facts have the NYtimes distorted these days? Come clean and correct all of your mistakes in the past.

Both Ezra Pound and Louis Malle were born today (Oct 30).

Louis MalleLouis Malle

The films by Louis Malle. We almost never see the many great films he made in his early career.

“He was attracted by certain dangerous or taboo subjects –
from Philip French on Louis Malle. (From BBC)

Setting aside of the difficult subject of how Ezra Pound embraced Fascism and got jailed.
We will start this painting by Wyndam Lewis.
PoundEzra Pound
“Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, 1939, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Lewis produced this portrait many years after Vorticism had faded away. It was American poet Ezra Pound who coined the name “Vorticism.” In 1914, he and Wyndham Lewis began the promotion of Vorticism as an avant-garde art movement celebrating the machine age and the artist as a mystic, inventor, and organiser of forms.” (from here)

“The Savage Messiah” directed by Ken Russell introduced me to the fascinating friendship between Pound and Henri-Gaudier Brezska.

“Art is alive – enjoy it, laugh at it, love it or hate it, but don’t worship it!”. This says a lot about both the sculptor and the filmmaker in that it points to their feelings that art is there to touch, to embrace, and to be used. It is no accident that Gaudier behaves like this in a gallery as renowned as the Louvre. He wanted to stop the whispering and the church-like hush synonymous with art appreciation, and the reverence that has been afforded to art.

Going back to the topic of NYtimes and fact checking, here is someone who might help us with facts.
I like this man.Patrick Fitzgerald

From Ken Starr(a repressed pervert) to Patrick Fitzgerald, we may see a movement toward clarity, light, truth and justice – we hope.

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Deptford X Ephemeral Cities – Net Art Open from London

The Ephemeral Cities web art project is curated by Paul Malone and hosted by A2 Arts in collaboration with the Deptford X Festival.
Click on the small thumbnail image to the left of the page to see each artist’s project.

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Contributors : Caspar Below, Elizabeth Coulter-Smith, Errol Francis, Valery Grancher, Fung Lin Hall, Susie Hinchliffe, Julian Konczak, Mac McKean, Paul Malone, Andy Parsons, Nicola Rae, Jurgen Trautwein

(To Paul, thanks for putting together Net Open and for inviting me. Fung-Lin Hall.)

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Ephemeral Cities

Lost in Words Lost in Words
Watercolor on the photos of Jungmannova in Prague.

” … the city which can not be expunged from the mind is like an armature, a honey-comb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember…” Italo Calvino.

Uffizi Ephemeral Cities
Uffizi, Florence Photo Fung Lin Hall –

“Perfection is a road that leads only to solitude: I no longer see in men anything but surmounted rungs. The Maestro, who has greater genius than I, is in my presence nothing more than a poor man no longer in possession of himself, and Michelangelo would gladly exchange his ardor for my serenity…..
That mad emperor wished that the world had only one head, so that he could cut it off. Would that it were only one body, that I might embrace it: one fruit, that I might pluck it: one enigma, which I might finally solve. Shall I seize an empire? Shall I construct a temple? Shall I write a poem, which will last longer?…
One has to have too many illusions to desire power, too much vanity to desire glory. Since I possess myself, what enrichment could the universe bring me – and happiness means nothing to me. ” (excerpt from “That Mighty Sculptor, Time” by Marguerite Yourcenar.)

Boboli Boboli Fung Lin Hall
Boboli Garden, Florence photo by Fung Lin Hall – Sculpture by Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj

The archive of Cities from this blog will be presented at the Deptford Festival in London. The following index was created to offer an alternative viewing experience for the audience. The individual pages will be presented without the sidebar menu.

-c- New Orleans

-i- San Francisco

-t- Walking in the Clouds – New York City

-i- Cities + Cinematheque

-e- Venice to Florence

-s- Besieged

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    Film Quiz + Nobody Knows + Cities & Neglected Children

    The film quiz of this month – do these images seem familiar?

    Name this man. –Dziga Vertov-
    Clip of L’atalantaParis, Paris (Paris, Paris)

    What is the relationship of this man and the film directed by Jean Vigo?
    Go here for Answers.

    Theme: Abandoned children growing up by themselves in the cities, name three.
    Well the answers are here for this quiz. Two are acclaimed films from last year and one is almost 17 years old.

    Tokyo – Nobody Knows – Kore-eda

    Bombay –Salaam Bombay Mira Nair (Her first film is her best film – a near masterpiece).

    Rio de Janairo – City of God – Fernando Meirelles.

    Nobody KnowsNobody Knows (via).

    Back to Ephemeral Cities

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    Recycle Diaries

    Here is what to do with images collected from last year’s popular film.

    Happy Che, Serious Che and the Actor – Recycle Diaries
    BW Che

    1) Film version

  • 2) Motorcycle Diaries – De Usuahia a la Quiaca – G. Santaolalla (Remixed – shorter version on youtube)

  • Happy Che, Serious Che and the Actor in Color – Recycle Diaries
    Che Guevara
    Update: Oct 9, 2005
    On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite a revolution. (Go to article.) Pleasantly surprised to find this piece of information from NYTimes this morning. This was a case of strange precognition from somewhere else, I did wonder what prompted me to work on Che’s photo-collage piece.

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    Ruth Thorne Thomsen – Songs of the Sea

    Proverbs 4 by Ruth Thorne Thomsen
    Ruth Thorne Thomsen

    “For Ruth Thorne Thomsen photography is theatre: the alleged credibility of the photographic image signifies to her a myth by which to “palm off fantasy as reality” while leading us to the kingdom where the human psyche dwells.
    Using a pinhole camera she constructed to achieve infinite depth of field, Ruth Thorne Thomsen a third generation woman photographer-creates images of the spirits quest for integration. In compositions at once mysterious, witty, and erudite, Thorne-Thomsen deftly employs archetyping, appropriation, and manipulation to invent landscapes where the individual and collective unconscious merge in an alluring and spirited dance. (from here)

    “Blimp” “The World Turns as a Ball” and more here.

  • Head with Ladders 1ThorneThomsen
    Thomsen and Thomasson
    1) Ruth ThorneThomsen

    2) Thomasson or The Illusiveness of the Entirely Useless

    More images here.

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    Glenn Gould as Umeboshi – The Idea of North

    “This is Glenn Gould This programme is called The Idea of North. I’ve long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the arctic and sub-arctic of our country….”
    (From A transcript of the prologue to The Idea of North, a sound documentary by Glenn Gould.)

    Glenn Gould’s birthday today (Sept 25, 1932, Glenn was a Libra/Monkey – a glib manipulator).

    GG interviews GG

    David Teague Interviews David Teague About Glenn Gould

    Glenn plays Goldberg Variations 1-7 (youtube)

    Glenn Gould

    Glenn Gould
    Photo collage by a Canadian poet, P.R. Pottelberg (From an ill fated project of mine called icON cOFFin – background images comprise of miniture candy bento, and nothing to do with global warming or the Penguins ).

    What is Umeboshi?

    Excerpt from a play “Glenn” by David Young
    Prodigy The twenty-fifth of September. No Cake, No candles. No celebration. Instead this … this inconsolable longing.
    Puritan It was a test. A chance to look at myself on the barren heath, so to speak.
    Progidy I feel like I’m circling above my childhood, never finding a place to land except…..
    (The Prodigy moves toward the phone again. Should he call?)
    Puritan (gaining conviction) The idea of solitude was with me from the very beginning. Isolation was a doorway to ecstasy.

    Another excerpt from the same play,
    The Perfectionist I believe that all the spiritual energy that has ever been is with us now, radient and invisible. We should not confuse ourselves with these bodies. I am not this body.
    I am an electromagnectic field that animates this body.

    Phone Fetishist, the Glenn Gould Factor by Margie Borschke

    “Phil: Was there ever any kind of relationship between Glenn Gould and John Cage?
    Kevin Bazzana: Yes, in fact the intellectual relationship between Gould and Cage is the subject of an article in the next issue of GlennGould which should be published within about a month. There was a brief correspondence between Gould and Cage in the early 1970s at the time of Gould’s CBC Radio Documentary on Schoenberg and Gould interviewed Cage, who was a student of Schoenberg’s, for that documentary.” (from here)

    Glenn plays Schoenberg here with Menuhin (youtube)

    Love, Russia and the Next Glenn Gould

    “Gould’s Solitude Trilogy is a main inspiration for my RNC Protest piece” wrote Christopher DeLaurenti a Seattle composer. (via email)

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    Paul Malone – Open Studio, Deptford, London

    Shadow Dot Bar
    Perspex, spirit dye and aluminium.
    100x2x2cms : 2004
    Paul Malone
    ‘Light Ballistic Spectrum’
    Perspex and shellac.
    100x15x8cms : 2000Ballistics

    An email announcement from Paul Malone.
    Hi
    Just to let you know the A.P.T. Artists Open Studios are on this weekend – the 17th and 18th September, 1 – 6 pm.
    At 6, Creekside, Deptford, London. SE8

    Featured artists are Andy Parsons Chris Marshall Liz Harrison Nicola Rae and Paul Malone

    Visit their beautiful website.Splash

    “A2 Arts is an independent group of contemporary visual artists, named after the main A2 road in South East London, along which we all live, work and travel.”

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    Charles Yuen – Honolulu to New York

    Gauge
    Charles Yuen

    Big Oil Small Mountains
    Big OIl Small Mountains

    Sky Grid
    Charles sky grid

    Pay attention to titles like “The World Trouser Center”, “Life Along Denial” “Oil Brain’ , Charles Yuen goes straight to the great crisis our world faces today. Will Condi Rice buy his “Ribbon on Her Shoes” or
    better yet commission Charles to paint the shoes she bought at Ferragamo?

    New Primitive paintings by Charles Yuen in “Psychographic” mine the subconscious in dreamlike imagery, (a review by Rachel Youen)

    Charles Yuen at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled “Honolulu to New York”
    May 13 – Sept. 27 2005