Looking Up.

More Mexico City adventures, this time focusing on the sculptural works I encountered. 

Looking up at the Ancient School of San Ildefonso.

A work in the “Rutal de la Amistad” – A sculpture park originally created for the 1968 Mexico City Cultural Olympia. 

Learn more about this sculptural monuments Here.

Grimanesa Amoros, Huanchaco 2012 (inside a concrete sculpture complex for the “Rutal de la Amistad”)

Grimanesa Amoros, Huanchaco 2012. Learn more & watch a video of installation HERE. 

Aerial view of Courtyard Installation @ Ancient School of San Ildefonso.

Laura Lima, 2/4 2013 @ MUAC

Laura Lima, 2/4 2013 @ MUAC. 

Yona Friedman, Architectura sin Construccion 2013 @ MUAC.

(shadow) Yona Friedman, Architectura sin Construccion 2013 @ MUAC.

Sculpture park @ MUAC. 

I believe the same artist did all of these works, but I can’t be positive as I couldn’t find labels. 

But they were wonderful to explore and were hidden enough that it was a surprise when the rugged path we were following led to one. 

work in front of the Jumex Collection Space.

@ the Muac. 

detail of light installation.

& because it is just too great not to share.. some of my classmates and I having a moment. [[Photographs taken by Tara Westermann]]

Devoted Absence.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Last Light) 1993. Image Source.

Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled 1993 (Billboard)

Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled 1993 (Billboard)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) 1993. Image Source.

Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (North) 1993. Image Source.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Perfect Lovers) 1991. Image Source. 

The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation here.

 

Looking at Work.

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Sunset Over Manhattan 2003

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) 1998

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Dark Stuff 2008 (189 mummified animals (67 field mice, 5 adult rats, 42 juvenile rats,44 garden shrews, 1 fox, 1 squirrel, 1 weasel, 13 carrion crows,7 jackdaws, 1 blackbird, 1 sparrow, 1 robin, 1 toad, 1 gecko, 3 garden snail shells), glue, metal stands, light projector) Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Youngman 2012

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Wasted Youth 2000

Tim Noble & Sue Webster Artist Website Here.

not architecture li

photographs of sculpture from my adventure in DC 

Mark di Suvero, Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) 1967. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden

Roy Litchenstein, House I 1998. On view at the National Gallery of Art. 

Louise Bourgeois, Spider 1996. On view at the National Gallery of Art 

Dan Graham, For Gordon Bunshaft 2006. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden

Kenneth Snelson, Needle Tower 1968. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden 

Jenny Holzer,  For SAAM 2007. On View @ Smithsonian American Museum of Art. 

Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads 2010. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden. Learn More Here. 

living sculpture. 

Self-Portrait in Dan Graham, For Gordon Bunshaft 2006. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden

Visit the Hirschhorn. 

Visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 

Visit the National Gallery of Art and their Sculpture Garden. 

SURPRISEMISCHIEF ROBUSTFANTASY

John Chamberlain, Pineapplesurprise 2010,  Mermaidsmischief 2009,  Robustfagotto  2008

I stumbled upon this John Chamberlain installation at the Seagram Building on the corner of 53rd and Park Ave the other day in the mid-afternoon while the sun was in perfect gleaming mode for these works to truly sparkle in all their aluminum glory. These biomorphic forms are playful yet alien, whimsical but severe. They become activated by the time of the day, the intensity of the sun and the distance you approach them. I was startled with how powerful these works are, they literally demand your attention, though as I said I was there when the sun was most intense and I truly was blinded by the light. 
John Chamberlain, Frostydickfantasy 2008

John Chamberlain, Robustfagotto 2008

Installation & Self-portrait from reflection of Seagram Building

John Chamberlain, Pineapplesurprise 2010 (instagrammed)

This installation was coordinated through Gagosian Gallery and is up until November 16, 2012. Read more!

Even If I knew I could only know what I thought it meant. –John Chamberlain

Oh, it’s a rock.

I don’t know about ya’ll but  I have been following the journey of the 340-ton granite boulder, known as Levitated Mass, since LACMA’s twitterfeed , blog blasts and Facebook posts sparked nation wide attention back in March. That’s when the rock traveled 105 miles, over a span of 11 nights (never going faster than 5mph) to arrive to LACMA’s grounds where it would become suspended  over a 456-foot long concrete channel. (As it traveled from city to city, crowds would gather to catch a glimpse and in one town, thousands of people even gathered for a street party around it.)  Michael Hezier, the artist and visionary behind Levitated Mass worked on  bringing this massive rock from a quarry in Riverside all the way to Los Angeles for nearly 40 years and the artwork cost a staggering $10 million. It finally opened to the public last weekend to a welcoming crowd, and is sure to become a landmark monument to Los Angeles. I love all the different meanings and interpretations I have been reading about the rock, so I thought I’d share some..

It is a monument to our own time and our own place and our own aspirations as people, and being made of stone, concrete and steel and engineered to withstand time, perhaps it will be here millennia forward to communicate those feelings to future civilizations. – Michael Govin, LACMA’s chief Executive from here.

This is a world event. This is sit-up-and-take-notice. Because L.A. will move the earth, and not only from the earthquakes. – Marlene Picard from here.

Paris got the Eiffel Tower, Pisa got a leaning tower, Giza got the pyramids, and Los Angeles… got a rock. – @TheMattKnight

It’s such a massive monument in the heart of the museum. It’s a natural sculpture. It’s God’s Sculpture. – Gerry Wright, LACMA member from here.

some photographs that rock I found on instagram.

Levitated Mass by travisjordantan

Levitated Mass by Nenshi86

Levitated Mass by Raulroa

Levitated Mass by Jamesmorel

time lapse of the construction of Levitated Mass at LACMA

more articles.   here.   here.  & PhotoGallery. fun fact: It is speculated to be the largest thing moved by man.

*UPDATE: This is a wonderful more critical article on Levitated Mass and brings up an interesting point about possible interpretations.. READ HERE. 

your welcome

this is a bizarre way to say thank you. The Bathing Woman, was designed by Oliver Voss for a German company, Soap & Glory as a thank you to the town of Hamburg for supporting their line of cosmetics. strange, but a pretty amusing, (both conceptually and aesthetically)  public art piece.

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woven wonder

I love this large-scale thread sculpture by Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe. I had the pleasure of seeing this at the wonderfully rustic, Dallas Contemporary last fall. I recently saw his name on the list of UT  mfa grad students and had to check out his website.  Although I usually try not to read about work, his bio really added another dimension to his colorful woven wonders. You can currently see his work at Condult Gallery in Dallas thru the end of the month!

plexus no. 4 site specific installation at the dallas contemporary + gütermann thread, wood and nails 2010

Gabriel Dawe, Plexus no. 3 + site specific installation at guerillaarts + gütermann thread, wood and nails 2010Gabriel Dawe, Plexus no. 3 + site specific installation at guerillaarts + gütermann thread, wood and nails 2010

Plexus no. 3 (after) thread from site specific installation at guerilla arts,september 2010, and plexiglass 2011