rotimi fani kayode

Sunil Gupta

http://www.sunilgupta.net/books.html

Sun city, 2010

Thomas Demand

Recommended by tutor ruth..thomas demand, constructed sets and further artists use here:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/7795/thomas-demand-paper-and-cardboard-sculptures.html

Social Space

Social Sculpture

http://horsesthink.com/?p=258

Above: Thomas Demand, Embassy VI and VII, both 2007

Zarina Bhimji

 Above film stills from out of blue

Above film still from yellow patch

Interesting article on anthea hamilton

http://adrdem.tumblr.com/post/15963821556/anthea-hamilton

and elmgreen & dragsets fourth plinth piece-

Simon Fugiwara

nets

really put off creating works based on nets now..i saw this 'famous' american artist use them in the most ridiculous manner possible (think lights, and glowing)..making me really irritated and confused why you'd do such a thing. i guess i wasnt aware that they could become so 'decorative'. i like ugly. dirty. tangled. ripped. like eva hesses first rope piece she made. that was incredible.

EDIT: Just been digging around the internet and came accross anya gallacio..used macrame in her work, also mentioned eva hesses

http://www.thomasdane.com/artist.php?artist_id=5&display=press&exhibition_id=2


Also Karla Black has an interesting set up at structure and material

http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/showExhibition.do?id=240

exhibitions

would really like to see this..dont think i will so will get the catalogue: http://www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2011/2011_Winter/Coming-After.aspx

'coming after' at the powerplant toronto.

Featuring artists from New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Toronto, and beyond, Coming After is a response to the recent renewal of interest in the period from the mid-1980s to early 1990s that was decisive for North American cultural politics. This time period witnessed the Culture Wars, the birth of “queer” as an identity and theory, and the rise of a direct-action AIDS activist movement — epitomized by ACT UP — fighting a new plague that was devastating communities of artists, queers and people of colour. While these years were highly traumatic, they also represented a galvanizing, dynamic moment for queer citizenship — one that is arguably haunting our present and our future.


Also I'm planning a trip to new york to see the cindy sherman retrospective at moma. I've really knuckled down to cut costs to make this possible..im moving from a to $700 p/m room to a $370 place! really tempted to buy zarina bhimjis print on whitechapel website though..

a £250 limited print Versus a xerox print out of the image above??(plus swanky frame?)


also really enjoyed the angela de la cruz talk tate britain: http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/692648672001

wow

just 'discovered' the rest of simon fugiwaras work...saw the frozen piece at frieze lucy mentioned to me but rly excited to find out more...

also trinh minh ha. incredible.

also nguyen tan hoang

robert mapplethorpe

and looking at eva hesses work much more intensely.

I'm trying to focus more on new materials and processes such as rubber, latex, resin, wax, carved wood, urethane, spraypaint, expanding foam and silicone...

busy busy..