A 60 - page pamphlet distributed throughout the fair, made by Darren Bader and designed to resemble the official event map, compiles a series of absurdist,
unrealized proposals for Randall's Island, including one for sculptures made of soap that could be washed away by water and another that would recreate Vito Acconci's notorious 1972 Seedbed performance piece, in which he lay below the floorboards of a gallery masturbating, beneath the island's ferry terminal.
aspects of Martens» practice — from Martens» influence as an educator (4 February, Kunstverein München, Munich) to the reference material Martens collects and generates around his work (9 February, San Serriffe, Amsterdam), from
the unrealized proposals Martens injected into his new publication (17 February, Section 7, Paris) to Martens» accounting of past and most recent work (24 March, CAC Reading Room, Vilnius).
Martens is also punctuating the images with new work and
unrealized proposals.
McElheny's «models» of Fuller and Noguchi's proposal - that use the form and sculptural vocabulary of Noguchi's mostly
unrealized proposals for modernist landscapes - offer up a seductive experience of an «aesthetic utopia» while implying the inhuman climate of conformity it would demand.
«My American Dream» (1971), the most fully documented project, was
an unrealized proposal to carve a Rolls Royce out of pink marble at twice its actual size.
Not exact matches
Yet moving among preparatory sketches, installation plans, instructions, studies,
proposals for
unrealized sculptures, and imaginative responses to existing works, this aspect of Nauman's production is difficult to categorize, encompassing a broad range of functions that surpass conventional ideas of the medium.
Alongside the realized
proposals (there are 2 of the 12 Proposals unrealized in Twofold at Sean Kelly Gallery) are the equally important non-realized proposals, which I do not consider to be failures because the individuals reading the typewritten text complete the work through how they respond to and inte
proposals (there are 2 of the 12
Proposals unrealized in Twofold at Sean Kelly Gallery) are the equally important non-realized proposals, which I do not consider to be failures because the individuals reading the typewritten text complete the work through how they respond to and inte
Proposals unrealized in Twofold at Sean Kelly Gallery) are the equally important non-realized
proposals, which I do not consider to be failures because the individuals reading the typewritten text complete the work through how they respond to and inte
proposals, which I do not consider to be failures because the individuals reading the typewritten text complete the work through how they respond to and interpret it.
Ten artworks hung around the gallery and twelve
proposals accompanying them signal two
unrealized, failed attempts.
A new monograph, written by Martin Herbert and published by Thames & Hudson, lists 15
unrealized projects, including a colossal and lurid balloon of a human heart that was to hover over the Kent town of Folkestone to commemorate the 17th - century physician William Harvey, a life - size biblical ark to perch atop a mountain in northern Britain, and a
proposal to the Aspen Art Museum to scatter 822,000 coins (worth $ 15,000) into Colorado's Roaring Fork River, in reference to Aspen's wealth and mining history.
Centered on a screenplay for an
unrealized film, which restages the process and exchanges of the original
proposal, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5 also includes texts and projects by leading theorists, artists and academics who debate the roles of spatial practice and politics today.