Posts Tagged ‘MIT’

Love and Death

Friday, December 14th, 1990

The prayers were long, thin strips of paper or can­vas, newsprint, pho­tographs, or tin­sel, embell­ished with draw­ings, paint, cut‑outs, dried ros­es, gold leaf, but­tons, beads. Some were abstract; some had words; oth­ers had musi­cal nota­tions writ­ten on them. One prayer was made from a piece of old, paint‑splattered blue jeans, with a peace sym­bol and love beads. 

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Matt Mullican

Friday, July 6th, 1990

Being inside MATT MUL­LI­CAN’s instal­la­tion is like being inside Matt Mul­li­can’s mind — a dizzy­ing expe­ri­ence. He’s con­stant­ly clas­si­fy­ing and re-order­ing every­thing. “It’s the first time I’ve arranged my mean­ing as objects in space depict­ing my mean­ing,” he says. 

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Gyorgy Kepes

Saturday, March 10th, 1990

GYORGY KEPES paints with a mix­ture of oil paint and sand, which gives his work a rough, earthy tex­ture. He likes to tell the sto­ry of Antaeus, a hero who was the son of Moth­er Earth and could nev­er be defeat­ed as long as he touched the earth. Paint­ing with sand is Kepes’s way of touch­ing the earth.

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Michael Mazur

Sunday, May 1st, 1983

In MICHAEL MAZUR’s hands, the Mono­type was the per­fect form to con­vey the mul­ti­plic­i­ty of life in the nat­ur­al world. The clear­est, most lucid flow­ers are sur­round­ed by a paler aura of oth­er flow­ers, oth­er sum­mers, oth­er inter­pre­ta­tions — a riot of reeds and flow­ers, organ­ic growth, con­fu­sion, and decay. Revenants of images repeat like ghost­ly, half-remem­bered things.

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Otto Piene

Saturday, May 1st, 1982

As a very young man, OTTO PIENE saw the sky reflect­ed in a sea at long last calm: “The feel­ing of being reborn has nev­er left me.” Out of this rebirth came “a love for the sky, the desire to point at it, to show how beau­ti­ful it is, how it makes us live and feel alive.”

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Sky Art Conference

Friday, January 1st, 1982

Artists and sci­en­tists. work­ing in neon, laser, steam, smoke, video, pyrotech­nics, film, inflat­ed and fly­ing sculp­ture, and oth­er celes­tial nav­i­ga­tions, cel­e­brate the sky as a medi­um of expres­sion, trans­mis­sion, and space.

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