Maps via Pentagram.com
In the 1990s, Paula Scher began painting colorful typographic maps of the world, its continents, countries, islands, oceans, cities, streets and neighborhoods. Obsessive, opinionated and more than a little personal, the paintings were a reaction against information overload and the constant stream of news, which, like the paintings, present skewed versions of reality in a deceptively authoritative way. The paintings are collected for the first time in Paula Scher: MAPS, a new book out now from Princeton Architectural Press.
MAPS presents 39 paintings, drawings, prints and environmental installations, including Scher’s recent commission for New York City’s Queens Metropolitan Campus. Many of Scher’s original paintings are huge—as tall as 12 feet—and the book reproduces the works in full and in life-size details that reveal layers of hand-painted place names, information and cultural commentary. The book’s jacket folds out into a 3’ by 2’ poster of a portion of World Trade, one of Scher’s most recent paintings, from 2010.
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The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of the other Muswell Hill Stuckists (2009)
The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of the other Muswell Hill Stuckists (2009)To be challenging in art today presents no challenge at all. To be revolutionary in art today is to be reactionary. To be unconventional is to conform. All the barriers that need to be broken have been broken already. The need today is to find out and affirm what is valuable, in the face of contempt.
…Painting pictures is a human communication in a pre-packaged world of uniformly sized, tasteless tomatoes and so-called art which is afraid to be vulnerable, make mistakes and do anything apart from replicating in a gallery something that is commonplace everywhere else.
Running is not art. Scrunching up a sheet of paper into a ball is not art. Sticking blu-tack on the wall is not art. People who think it is need to get out more.
From 100 Artists’ Manifestos, from the Futurists to the Stuckists; selected by Alex Danchev, Penguin Books, 2011, via oneyearintheartlibrary
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
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Luis Camnitzer, This is a Mirror, You are a Written Sentence, 1966-68.
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EXHIBITING AT DIA:BEACON, RIGGIO GALLERIES
EXHIBITING AT DIA:BEACON, RIGGIO GALLERIES - 3 Beekman St., Beacon. “Work As Action.” Works by Franz Erhard Walther. Through Feb. 13. “
Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the Electronic Arts Intermix Archive.” Works by John Baldessari, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Carolee Schneemann and others. Through Sept. 4, 2012. www.diaart.org or call 845-440-0100.
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Steal like an artist.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
