Podcast of and from the Venice Biennale 2011, the Accademia Museum and the Museo Correr
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Venice Biennale 2011 extravaganza. Mark Staff Brandl is in the City of St. Mark. Brandl, the Central European Bureau and VaporettoShark, traverses and discusses his way through this huge international festival with sporadic assistance from Peter Stobbe, Claudia Tolusso, Manuela Gritsch, Elisabeth Payer, Tamara Remus, Lucas Malsch, Adam Vogt, Sarah Rohner, Johanna Gschwend, Marc Bless, Manuel Ackermann, Chandra Marquart and others from the Art Academy of Liechtenstein. He covers many of the national pavilions at the Giardini park, discusses much of the Centrale and even works his way through all of the massive Arsenale. Furthermore, at the end Dr. Mark and Dr. Peter visit and discuss some thrilling old paintings at the
Accademia, the wonderful Venetian Museum and go to a retrospective of Julian Schnabel in the
Museo Correr, located in the Piazza San Marco. Whew. Viva la Serenissima!
This is the 54th incarnation of this show, probably the most important contemporary art exhibition. It takes place once every two years, the first Biennale being held in 1895. The Exhibition this year, titled ILLUMInations was curated by Bice Curiger; it is the largest yet, spreading over 108,000 square feet between the Giardini and the Arsenale, and features 83 artists from all over the world. The Accademia art museum is situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was founded in 1750 and contains among a huge number of others, works by Bellini, Guardi, Giorgione, Pietro Longhi, Lorenzo Lotto, Mantegna, Tiepolo, Titian, Veronese, Vasari, and Mark's great favorite: Tintoretto. The Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venice and extends along the south side of the Piazza. It holds art, documents, artifacts, and maps that chart the history of Venice across the centuries. It has also has shown one person exhibitions of contemporary artist such as Anselm Kieffer, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and Enzo Cucci.
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Labels: Biennale, podcast
Brandl: My Table Artwork, with Four Other Artists: Ungers, Roth, Boetschi, Richardson.
30 years ago I had an idea that I was finally able to realize this year: for my dining room table to be a work of art. Or rather four (or five) that is. I had a solid pearwood top made at a great local cabinetmakerr/carpenter shop with four legs to my and my wife Cornelia's specifications (10 cm square).
Then the four legs were each made into artworks by four artist friends of mine. the first here is a work by the older traditional Swiss "Bauermalerei" husband and wif team of Hermann and Vreni Unger. The four sides are in the traditional Appenzell style, of scenery, each side one season, with many of my favorite things incorporated (like the mountain Säntis, a Schitterbiig, etc.). The 6 cows are had carved, all high bas.-relief, and each different. The second is by a very young comic and illustration artist, Julia Roth (also of Switzerland). A tapestry of her beautiful comic sketches in black on a light yellow background. The third is a tribute to my late friend, the geometric painter Charles Boetschi, who died a few years ago surprisingly and way too young. Charles was inetrenational --- born in Hong Kong, raised in Japan, studied inn NYC, half Swiss and half English. He had promised to do one like his paintings, yet passed away before doing so. So I did his idea as he wished. The fourth is by artist and fine art furniture maker David Richardson from the US. It is either rain or rays of the sun cut into the leg. The fifth work of art is my idea to have it all come together.
Finally my wife found some excellent high-quality transparent acrylic, designer, chairs. Thanks to the artists. I love each leg and the whole object!
The dining room with the table and chairs.
The table.
The Unger leg.
The Roth leg.
The Boetschi leg.
The Richardson leg.
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Labels: art, Kunst
St Galler Tagblatt Artikel zur Brandls Doktorarbeit
Labels: dissertation, Doktorarbeit, Dr. phil.
Michele Bachmann Red Skull
OK they did the Joker on Obama, so now the tables can be turned, Bachmann as the Red Skull.Labels: politics
the Collapsible KUNSTHALLE™ an exhibition of paintings by Julia Kubik, 2011
Eine Ausstellung der Malerei von Julia Kubik in der Collapsible Kunsthalle, was zur Zeit sich in der Kunstschule Liechtenstein findet.
An exhibition of paintings by Julia Kubik in the Collapsible Kunsthalle, which at this time has been in the Art Academy of Liechtenstein for a residence.
Julia Kubik (1994) ist zur Zeit Studentin im Vorkurs der Kunstschule Liechtenstein.
Sie malt und fotografiert gern und hat Interesse am Theatre und Szenografie.
Die Gemälde in dieser Ausstellung sind Design Marker auf Karton oder Fotocollagen.
Julia Kubik (1994) is a student at the Art Acadmy of Liechtenstein.
She is a painter and photographer with interest in theatre and scenography.
The paintings in this exhibition are in design marker on museum board with the last having elements of collage as well.
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Labels: Collapsible Kunsthalle, Kunstschule, Liechtenstein, Malerei, painting
Bad at Sports Podcast: Basel Art fair Opening 2011
This week: Mark Staff Brandl reports from Art Basel 2011!
Link here:
http://badatsports.com/2011/episode-308-basel-2011/ Labels: art fair, Basel, podcast
Articles about Peoria Contemporary Art Center Installation
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Labels: art criticism, comics, drawing, installation, painting
Jetzt auf deutsch: Contemporary Art Center Exhibition: "Meanwhile...." Mark Staff Brandl
Contemporary Art Center Press Release:
“Meanwhile….” 11.Juli - 27. August 2011
Mark Staff Brandl arbeitet zusammen mit Gary Scoles und Thomas Emil Homerin
Das Trio entwickelt und zeichnet vor Ort eine raumübergreifende Comic-Installation. Die Besucher sind eingeladen diesem Prozess beizuwohnen und haben die Möglichkeit, interaktiv mitzuwirken. Die laufende Arbeit von Brandl, Scoles und Homerin wird mittels Video und Fotos laufend dokumentiert. Die Dokumentation ist Bestandteil der Ausstellung.
Vernissage: Samstag 16 Juli 2011, 18.30 bis 210.30
Die Kunsthalle in Peoria, Illinois, USA, bekannt als „The Contemporary Art Center“, lud Mark Staff Brandl letztes Jahr ein, eine seiner "Panels" Installation zu machen. Der Künstler, geboren in Illionois aber wohnhaft in der Schweiz, bemerkte bald, dass dies eine perfekte Möglichkeit wäre, sich einen seit langem gehegten Wunsch zu erfüllen. Er wollte seine beiden Jugendfreunde, Gary Scoles aus Peoria und Emil Homerin aus Rochester New York, als kreatives Team wiedervereinigen, und gemeinsam eine Installation realisieren. Vom 11. Juni bis 16. Juni wird dieser Wunsch wahr. Das Trio realisiert vor Ort in der Peoria Kunsthalle eine "live" Installation.
Brandl, Scoles und Homerin lernten einander 1965 mit 10 Jahren in der fünften Primarschulklasse in Pekin, Illinois kennen. Sie wurden eng befreundet und verbrachten praktisch jeden Samstag während ihrer Zeit im Gymnasium zusammen. Sie waren stets damit beschäftigt, ihre eigenen Superheldencomics zu schreiben und zu zeichnen. Mark und Gary waren die Künstler und Letterer, Emil der Autor und Editor. Obwohl sie sich später in ganz verschiedene Richtungen entwickelt haben, sind sie sind fest befreundet geblieben. Brandl ist bildender Künstler und Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz, wo er vor kurzem zum Doktor an der Universität Zürich promovierte; Scoles ist pensioniert und arbeitet als Comiczeichner in Peoria; Homerin ist Professor für komparative Religionswissenschaft und Poesie an der Rochester University in New York.
Die geplante Installation wird auf der Basis von Kritzeleien aufgebaut. Brandl und Scoles haben über das letzte Jahr hinweg regelmässig spontane Skizzen in Comics-Stil auf alles Mögliche gezeichnet. Sie sammelten diese Bilder auf alten Couverts und Zetteln, die eher fürs Altpapier bestimmt wären. Sie werden diese jedoch auf die Wände montieren und neue grosse Bilder, Sprechblasen und Zeichnungen hinzufügen. Dies alles unter der auktorialen und redaktionelle Beratung von Homerin, der versuchen wird, ein Narrativ daraus zu schaffen. Die Besucher und Besucherinnen sind eingeladen die „Installation-in-Progress“ zu besichtigen und mit dem Trio ins Gespräch zu kommen. Am Ende der Woche wird die "Panels" Comics-Installation den ganzen Raum umfassen. Und die Aktivitäten werden auf Video, Fotos und in Sektionen von "Meta-Comics" dokumentiert sein.
Mark Staff Brandl kam 1955 in der Nähe von Chicago zur Welt und hat lange Zeit dort gelebt. Seit 1988 ist er in der Schweiz ansässig; wohnt seit 10 Jahren in Trogen AR. Er ist Dozent in Kunstgeschichte und Malerei an der Kunstschule Liechtenstein und der Höheren Fachschule für Bildende Kunst und visuelle Kommunikation in St.Gallen. Seine Ausbildung in Kunst, Kunstgeschichte und Theorie machte er an der University of Illinois, der Illinois State University, der Columbia Pac University und promovierte am 20. Mai 2011 mit magna cum laude an der Universität Zürich als Doktor in Kunstgeschichte. Brandl ist international seit 1980 als Künstler tätig, hat verschiedene Auszeichnungen erhalten und ist mit zahlreichen Publikationen und Ausstellungen an die Öffentlichkeit getreten. Seine künstlerischen Arbeiten wurden unter anderem von Galerien und Museen in der Schweiz, Deutschland, Italien, Ägypten, der Karibik sowie in Städten wie Paris, Moskau, Chicago, Los Angeles, London oder New York gezeigt. Einige seiner Werke wurden vom Museum of Modern Art in New York, dem Whitney Museum in New York, dem Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, dem Victoria und Albert Museum in London, dem Thurgauer Kunstmuseum, dem Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, dem International Museum of Cartoon Art, der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zürich und anderen aufgenommen.
Vernissage Samstag 16. Juli 18.30 bis 20.30
Für weitere Auskünfte und Bilder wenden Sie bitte an:
William Butler, Executive Director,
Contemporary Art Center Peoria
+1 309 674-6822
Labels: comics, installation, Kunst, Malerei
Contemporary Art Center Exhibition: "Meanwhile...." Mark Staff Brandl
"Meanwhile...." July 11-August 27 Gallery 3R Mark Staff Brandl with Gary Scoles and Thomas Emil Homerin
The trio creates a comic book installation on site from scratch, eventually enveloping the entire room. Visitors are invited to watch the process and interact with the creators. Their activities are documented in video and photos, also becoming part of the completed exhibition.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 16, 6:30-8:30 pm
When Mark Staff Brandl of Switzerland was invited to exhibit at the Contemporary Art Center, he realized this would be an opportunity to fulfill a long-held desire to reunite his friends Gary Scoles of Pekin and Emil Homerin of Rochester, New York into an active creative team in order to realize one of his Panels Painting-Installations, utilizing as a springboard the steady stream of comic-related ephemeral sketches and doodles he and Scoles consistently produce. Starting on July 11, the team will convene in Gallery 3R to create the work on site.
The three met in 1965, at the age of 10, in fifth grade at Douglas Primary School in Pekin, Illinois. They became fast friends, spending almost every Saturday and Saturday night together for years, through high school, creating original superhero comic books. Mark and Gary were the artists and letterers, Emil the author and editor. All created their own characters, yet each helped to contribute to and develop the others' ideas. Emil bore the brunt of making narrative sense of them all. Although their lives took them in various directions after high school, the three have remained in contact, sending comics, art and related materials to one another and collaborating on projects.
The installation will commence with a batch of collected comic-art-oriented doodles on various scraps and sizes of paper that Brandl and Scoles will have done and collected over the year prior to the exhibition. These have no planned continuity nor are even consciously link-ed or guided in any way. They will be laid out as well as mounted on the walls and serve as the basis for the event and installation. Then Homerin will concoct a narrative from these, telling the artists what to add, complete, extend, or change. Visitors will be invited to come to the Art Center, watch the process and interact with the creators. After a week, an installation-comic will envelop the whole room. The activities will be documented in a video, photos, perhaps even sections of "meta-comic" where sequences about the creation of the work will become part of the completed exhibition.
The opening reception on Saturday, July 16, 6:30-8:30 pm will also honor Minnesota artist Sally J. Bright in the Preston Jackson Gallery. Food & drink will be provided. Music provided by Paul Adams. Admission is free but a donation is requested.
This exhibit is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Hi-res photos are available.
Mark Staff Brandl: www.markstaffbrandl.com/
William Butler, Executive Director Contemporary Art Center of Peoria 309-674-6822 artcentr@mtco.com www.peoriacac.org
Labels: comics, exhibition, installation, painting
Dr EuroShark (finally)
Mai 2011, zum Dr. phil. promoviert in Kunstgeschichte
Innovative Metapherntheorie: Künstler und Kunsthistoriker Mark Staff Brandl legt eine beachtenswerte Studie vor
Für seine Dissertation zur Theorie der Kernmetapher in der Kunst erntete Mark Staff Brandls höchste akademische Lorbeeren. Seine Arbeit überzeugt durch hohe Eigenständigkeit, intellektuelle und gestalterische Originalität.
In seiner Studie Metaphor(m): zur Theorie der Kernmetapher in der Kunst entwirft Brandl eine eigene Metapherntheorie für die visuelle Kunst. Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass Kunstschaffende in formalen, technischen und stilistischen Aspekten ihrer gestalterischen Arbeit besondere Tropen oder Metaphern entwickeln, die antithetisch auf kulturelle und historische Ausdrucksformen reagieren. Brandl nennt sie «Kernmetaphern».
Brandls Theorie stützt sich auf Untersuchungen zur konzeptuellen Metaphorik, vor allem auf die Arbeiten des Kognitionswissenschaftlers George Lakoff, sowie auf Harold Blooms Traditionstheorie und dessen Aufsätze zur «kreativen Fehl-Lektüre» (poetic misprision). Seine Theorie der Kernmetapher wendet er auf Malerei, Installationskunst und elektronische Medien ebenso an wie auf das Konzept des erweiterten Textbegriffs, auf Zeitachsen der Kunstgeschichte, Comics und künstlerisches Kulturgut im weitesten Sinn.
Die traditionelle, auf Texten basierende Buchform wird durch zahlreiche Bilder und Zeichnungen, Comicsequenzen und eine Bildinstallation des Künstlers erweitert.
Seine am kunsthistorischen Seminar der Universität Zürich eingereichte Arbeit wurde als aussergewöhnlich originell eingestuft und von Professor Philip Ursprung (Kunstgeschichte) und Andreas Langlotz (Kognitionswissenschaft) mit dem Prädikat magna cum laude ausgezeichnet.
Der Philosoph Arthur Danto meint, es könne «nicht viele Dissertationen geben, die so kreativ und anschaulich sind» und der Kunsthistoriker James Elkins ergänzt: «Dies ist die farbenfreudigste Dissertation aller Zeiten!»
Brandls Doktorarbeit wird zurzeit mit kuratorischem Beistand von Markus Landert, Direktor des Kunstmuseums Thurgau, als Kunstausstellung und Installation konzipiert.
Mark Staff Brandl kam 1955 in der Nähe von Chicago zur Welt und hat lange Zeit dort gelebt. Seit 1988 ist er in der Schweiz ansässig. Seit zehn Jahren wohnt er in Trogen/AR. Er ist Dozent in Kunstgeschichte und Malerei an der Kunstschule Liechtenstein und an der Höheren Fachschule für Bildende Kunst St.Gallen. Seine Ausbildung in Kunst, Kunstgeschichte und Literaturtheorie machte er an folgenden Universitäten: University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Columbia Pacific, Universität Zürich.
Seit 1980 ist Brandl international als Künstler tätig. Er hat verschiedene Auszeichnungen erhalten und ist mit zahlreichen Publikationen und Ausstellungen an die Öffentlichkeit getreten. Seine künstlerischen Arbeiten wurden unter anderem in Galerien und Museen in der Schweiz, Deutschland, Italien, Ägypten, der Karibik sowie in Städten wie Paris, Moskau, Chicago, Los Angeles, London oder New York gezeigt. Einige seiner Werke wurden vom Museum of Modern Art in New York, dem Whitney Museum in New York, dem Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, dem Victoria und Albert Museum in London, dem Thurgauer Kunstmuseum, dem Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, dem Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, dem International Museum of Cartoon Art, der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zürich und anderen aufgenommen.
Als Kunstkritiker schreibt Brandl für The Art Book (London), Proximity (Chicago), und Art in America (New York).
Labels: Dr. phil., Kunstgeschichte, Malerei, Metaphertheorie
Brandl: Four Works
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A horizontal-scrolling doc of images of a few of my more recent works. Made for the profile on me at teh Höhee Fachschule Bildende Kunst St Gallen Switzerland.
Labels: installation, Malerei, painting
Brandl Painting-Object in MerzWelt Exhibition in Cabaret Voltaire
Here is one photo of the Painting-Object (titled
45s Drawer) which I have in the MerzWelt exhibition in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The CB is an art center in the original space which was indeed a cabaret where Dada was created in Zurich in 1916. The show is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and his Merzbau(en). The show is from 14 April –21 August 2011. It includes many artists whose works are exhibited within a kind of Merzbau filling the space, made of cardboard. In my piece there are about 20 45s represented life-sized and 5 movable separate movable ones, including one not seen here which is an homage to Schwitters's
Ursonata, titled
Urblues. All are my own inventions of potential 45s that do not, however, exist. Such as a Garage Rock version of John Cage's 4'33" of Silence, Marcel Duchamp's Erratum Musical, The Handcuffs, "Meet Brandl," a single of my PhD dissertation, a record by my pets and more.
Link to show
here.
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Labels: art, painting, Switzerland
Podcast: Interview with Latvian Painter Ieva Maurite by Mark Staff Brandl
This week: Mark Staff Brandl talks to Ieva Maurite, a young Latvian artist living in Riga. Brandl, (the Bad at Sports Continental European Office and EuroShark) interviewed her during her visiting artist gig in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Maurite is a painter, book artist and art academy instructor who has also had residencies in Paris, Iceland and many other parts of Europe.
Maurite and Brandl discuss the itinerant European artist life, art study and the artworld in Latvia, Maurite’s difficult-to-photograph linear imagistic paintings and generally have fun meandering around art topics while Brandl fails to pronounce anything in Latvian correctly including her name (which begins with an “i”, by the way, in case Richard and Duncan screw up this paragraph.)
Link:
http://badatsports.com/2011/episode-292-ieva-maurite/ Labels: art, painting, podcasts
Liechtensteiner, Ostschweizer, Vorarlberger: Malen! Deine Stil finden! Öl, Alkyd, Acryl. Paint like a Profi!
Allgemeine Einführung in die Malerei für Fortgeschrittene;
Kurs für Erwachsene mit Mark Staff Brandl
im Kunstschule Liechtenstein
Auf dem Weg in ein selbstständiges künstlerisches Schaffen.
Möchten Sie ihre eigene Malerei und Zeichnen weiterentwickeln?
Dieser Kurs ist für Teilnehmer/innen gedacht, die schon fundierte Erfahrung mitbringen, sei es im Zeichnen, Malen oder im experimentellen Gestalten. Er wendet sich an Kreative, die bereit sind, sich nicht nur handwerklich, sondern auch geistig mit künstlerischen Phänomenen auseinanderzusetzen, um ihr eigenes künstlerisches Schaffen bzw. Gedanken zur Kunst weiterzuentwickeln.
Mögliche Inhalte:
• Verschiedene Zeichen- und Maltechniken, historisch und modern.
• Beschäftigung mit moderner und aktueller Kunst in Theorie und Praxis
• Ausstellungsbesuche
• Atelierbesuch
Mögliche Fragestellungen im Unterricht:
• Was denke ich über ein Bild?
• Wie finde ich zu einem eigenen Ausdruck?
• Welche Prozessen mache ich gerne?
• Was sind die Bedeutungen der verschiedenen Techniken?
• Techniken als Metaphern
• Welche Techniken sind richtig für meinen eigenen Ausdruck?
Ziele:
• prozesshaftes, praktisches („hands-on“) Lernen
• zum eigenen Ausdruck finden
• lernen, sich selbstständig weiterzuentwickeln
• Miteinander zu Diskutieren, Analysieren und Malen
Kursort:
Kunstschule Liechtenstein, Nendeln
Kursdaten:
Dienstags 19.00 - 22.00 Uhr (jeweils alle 14 Tage)
1.2. / 15.2. / 1.3. / 22.3 / 5.4. / 19.4. / 17.5. / 31.5. / 14.6.201 (aber Anfang zu jeder Zeit)
Kurskosten:
Erwachsene CHF 480.- / Lehrlinge und Studenten CHF 260.- inklusive Materialbeitrag
Anmeldeformular:
http://www.kunstschule.li/?page=4&action=anmelden&kat=46&id=221&kurs=221Labels: Kunstschule, Kurs, Malerei
Interview with Berlin Artist AlexanderJohannes Kraut
This week: This is the second of two interviews with German artists conducted by Mark Staff Brandl on the island of Elba, Italy. Alexander Johannes Kraut is an artist who concentrates on drawing and printmaking, sometimes reaching installative proportions. He has also created an amazing thirteen chapter wordless graphic novel. Kraut comes from a farming village in the Allgäu, and is now based in Kreuzberg in Berlin. He has lived in many places and exhibited widely in important museums and other venues including in Mexico City, Paris and New York as well as several places in Germany.
The artist was in an invitational retreat in July as a working guest of a foundation on the island of Elba along with Viennese jazz pianist and composer Martin Reiter, New York playwright Sony Sobieski, Ruessellsheim artist Martina AltSchaefer (the interviewee in part one) and Mark Staff Brandl, the EuroShark the Bad at Sports Continental and now also islandal European Bureau. As a note to English speakers: Kraut's name is not only amusing as the English-language slang for 'German,' but also means 'herb' in German, and 'Johannes Kraut,' called 'St. John's wort' in English, is a plant traditionally used to combat depression and, in ancient times, to ward off evil.
Look for more Sharkforum Berlin connections soon!
Link:
http://badatsports.com/2011/episode-279-alexander-johannes-kraut/Labels: drawing, German artist, podcast
Martina AltSchaefer, German artist of drawing, interviewed on Bad at Sports
This week on Bad at Sports I interview Martina AltSchaefer.This is the first of two interviews with German artists I conducted on the island of Elba, Italy. Martina AltSchaefer is an artist living in Rüssellsheim, Germany. She studied with the famed Konrad Kapheck and her creative work centers on very large, labor-intensive drawing in colored pencil on translucent paper. AltSchaefer has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums. She also does printmaking and is an expert on mezzotint, about which she has curated shows and written essays. She was in an invitational retreat in July as a working guest of a foundation on the island of Elba along with Viennese jazz pianist and composer Martin Reiter, New York playwright Sony Sobieski, Berlin artist Alexander Johannes Kraut (the interviewee in part two) and me, Mark Staff Brandl, the EuroShark, Bad at Sports Continental and now also islandal European Bureau. And for all the Napoleon fans, especially those commenting on Facebook, they were not in exile and even Mark was allowed back on the mainland without having to invade it.
Link:
http://badatsports.com/
Direct page link:
http://badatsports.com/2010/episode-272-martina-altschaefer/Labels: contemporary art, drawing, German artist, podcast
Brandl Dissertation On-Line
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The final central chapters to my PhD dissertation, Metaphor(m): Engaging a Theory of Central Trope in Art, in almost finished form, are now up on my website. That is, Chapters Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Please check them out including the accompanying Covers paintings at the beginning and sequential comic art sequences at the end of each. They are titled:
Link to the dissertation on-line here.
Please comment on them either here or on my Facebook page, if you desire.Labels: dissertation, Doktorarbeit
Brandl: 'Cover' Painting for Chapter Four of the Dissertation
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Labels: dissertation, Doktorarbeit, painting
Bad at Sports exhibition at Apexart Gallery NYC --- With extra special guests!
Over the past two months everyone at Bad at Sports has been in a frenzy preparing for the exhibition, "Don't Piss On Me And Tell Me It's Raining" at apexart in New York. The show was a bit of a last-minute golden opportunity, so details have been scarce, but we now have the full scoop on what's in store, and it's pretty awesome. (You can keep up with Meg, Duncan, Amanda, Tom and Richard throughout the show's installation and opening events by following Bad at Sports on Twitter and the hashtag #basapex.) The exhibition features over 100 objects, images and ephemera that will serve as a visual complement to Bad at Sports' considerable audio archives, submitted by Bad at Sports contributors and guests of the show, including:
Carol Becker, Britton Bertran, Temporary Services, Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, Ivan Brunetti, Tom Burtonwood, David Coyle, Death by Design, Elizabeth Chodos, Miguel Cortez, Tony Fitzpatrick, Rob Davis and Michael Langlois, Jeremy Deller, Lisa Dorin, Jim Duignan, Dan Devening, Cody Hudson, Jason Dunda, Fendry Ekel, James Elkins, Anthony Elms, Pete Fagundo, Mary Rachel Fanning,Tony Feher, Rochelle Feinstein, Pamela Fraser, Liam Gillick, Helidon Gjergji, Michelle Grabner, Dylan Graham, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Sarah Guernsey, Terence Hannum, Anni Holm, Brian Holmes, Astrid Honold, Christopher Hudgens, Meg Onli, Amanda Browder, Tom Sanford, Duncan MacKenzie, Christian Kuras, Ben Tanner, Scott Hug, Richard Holland, Carol Jackson, Paddy Johnson, David Jones, Alex Jovanovic, Atsushi Kaga,
Mark Staff Brandl, Vera Klement, Peter Saul, Gregory Knight, Monique Meloche, Leo Koenig, Chad Kouri, Steve Lacy, Caroline Picard, Jose Lerma, Laura Letinsky, Kerry James Marshall, Ed Marszewski, Eric May, Dominic Molon, Anne Elizabeth Moore, David Morgan, Julian Myers, Gavin Turk, Liz Nofziger, Jamisen Ogg, Neysa Page-Lieberman, Trevor Paglan, Raymond Pettibon, John Phillips, Allison Peters Quinn, Lane Relyea, Lawrence Rinder, David Robbins, Thomas Robertello, Julie Rodriguez Widholm, Elvia Rodriguez, Nathan Rogers-Madsen, James Rondeau, Marlene Russum Scott, Alison Ruttan,
Steve Litsios, Dan S. Wang, Stephanie Smith, Deb Sokolow, Scott Speh, Chris Sperandio, Lisa Stone, Shannon Stratton, Randall Szott, Christine Tarkowski, Tony Tasset, Tracy Marie Taylor, Ron Terada, Philip von Zweck, Hamza Walker, Chris Walla, John Wanzel, Chris Ware, Oli Watt, Tony Wight, Anne Wilson, Jay Wolke, InCubate, Curtis Mann,
Alex Meszmer and Reto Müller, Michael Velliquette, Clare Britt, Shannon Stratton, Damian Duffy, William Conger, M N Hutchinson, Mark Francis, Annika Marie, the artists of Blunt Art Text, and more.
The exhibition also features three related exhibition talks, all of which are free and open to the public. They'll all be rebroadcast on upcoming episodes of Bad at Sports' podcast, for those of you not able to catch the events in NYC.
You can download the exhibition brochure, which features a conversation between co-founders Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland about the history of Bad at Sports,
here.
Labels: Ausstellung, New York City, podcasts
Brandl Dissertation Chapter Three: Excursus
This is Chapter Three of my PhD dissertation (thus the fourth on-line following the Prelude and Chapters One and Two which I already posted). This chapter is in
comic form and in it I begin to apply my theory to my own work as well as that of others.
The Chapters are permanently archived on my website
here, but I am posting a notification on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and approved. (I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Prof. Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland.) This is also to offer a location where any reader who wants to can post comments, most of which will go into my final dissertation project in some fashion. I would love your comments, criticism, tangential thoughts and more!
Link to chapter here (in pdf).Please be aware that by commenting here, you are giving me permission to use your words, with proper citation including your name, in some fashion in my final book and exhibition.
All elements are (c) and TM 2010 by Mark Staff Brandl.
Labels: art, art history, comics, dissertation, Doktorarbeit, hiking, metaphor, theory
Brandl Dissertation Chapter Two, The Theory of Central Trope: Metaphor and Meta-Form
This is Chapter Two of my PhD dissertation (thus the third on-line following the Prelude and Chapter One which I already posted). This is the key chapter, as it fully elucidates my theory.
The Chapters are permanently archived on my website
here, but I am a post of notification up on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and approved. (I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Prof. Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland.). This is also to offer a location where any reader who w ants to can post comments, most of which will go into my final dissertation project in some fashion. I would love your comments, criticism, tangential thoughts and more!
Link to chapter here (in pdf).Please be aware that by commenting here, you are giving me permission to use your words, with proper citation including your name, in some fashion in my final book and exhibition.
All elements are (c) and TM 2010 by Mark Staff Brandl.
Labels: art, dissertation, Doktorarbeit, metaphor, theory
Steve Hamann: Bad at Sports Podcast Group, Cartoon for Apex New York
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Labels: art, cartoons, Chicago, exhibition, New York City, podcast
HOLLAND COTTER: Art in Review ‘#class’
Winkleman Gallery
621 West 27th Street
Chelsea
Can we talk? That seems to be an urgent art world question, partly because of an economic shakedown that sensible people — i.e., the writers of art fair news releases — keep saying is over, or never happened. But New York artists, in need of jobs or apartments or ways to pay their art school loans, are pretty sure that it did happen, and that it isn’t all that over, even if the Armory Show really had an extraspecial year.
Winkleman Gallery is doing its part to keep the conversation on the boil with an exhibition called “#class,” organized by the artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, who is on loan from Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery. The pair have turned the main exhibition space into a combination lecture hall and conference center, with big tables, sit-up-straight chairs and wall-to-wall chalkboards in a constant process of being filled and erased as the show’s events come and go.
So far, the schedule has included discussion panels titled “Success,” “Access,” “The Ivory Tower,” “The System Works” and “Bad Curating.” To get competitive juices flowing, the artist Amanda Browder of “Bad at Sports,” a Chicago-based art podcast, offered a presentation called “Battleship,” which pitted Formalists against Conceptualists, artists against dealers, and painters against the world. A bruiser, I hear.
The art historian and critic Mira Schor, author of an excellent new book called “A Decade of Negative Thinking” (Duke University Press), read an essay on the potentially positive aspects of failure and anonymity. And the artist Joan McNeil led a panel on the notion that the art world isn’t as racially integrated as it likes to think.
So the show’s program is substantial. And there’s even something for gallerygoers in search of art on the wall. The chalkboards — think 1960s Cy Twombly — make for very entertaining reading. And Ms. Dalton and Mr. Powhida have small, conference-approved text drawings in the gallery’s back room. (They’re for sale, but with stipulations way too complicated and finicky to go into here.)
Bottom line: artists are artists’ best friends, and there should be more gatherings like this one.
Final thought: class, as in social class, is the elephant in the art fair V.I.P. rooms, in the art school studios and in Chelsea galleries. Please, can we talk? Yes we can: Friday at 2 p.m. in the gallery, the estimable art critic Ben Davis will present his “9.5 Theses on Art and Class.”
The New York Times, March 19, 2010
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Labels: art, art criticism, class, exhibition, politics
