Contemporary Art Truck: Relational Art

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Nato Thompson on "Socially Engaged Art Outside the Bounds of an Artistic Discipline"
http://vimeo.com/27289754

JR and Inside Out

JR, known for his huge portraits pasted all over the world has started this collaborative project. Replacing the faces of rulers and famous people with portraits of you and me. more and more

two works by Robert Montgomery. I saw these on booooooom blog. Someone commented saying that he should write poetry... I thought that was interesting, because I think that the top work could easily be considered installation poetry, or poetry+ as I commented... I am glad he uses his voice by replacing advertising space, instead them for a book. I would definitely enjoy running across one of these works.
Another comment caught my attention, saying that people should donate money to replace advertising around them with art like this. I wonder if there is a way to do this? The audience for billboards could easily pool together money and 'curate' their block, with images and text they want to see. Maybe images that will make you feel content and beautiful instead of ugly and needing...

image taken from here

This of course reminds me of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. One of my favorite ideas of his was his images that the gallery or museum curator would place on billboards around a city. These simple, wordless, photographs would give unexpected aesthetic consideration to a common location. Nice. Yet, the museum is still funding and curating, isn't there a way to crowd-source this? I think so.

Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert has both poignant social criticism and aesthetically engaging art, a rare mix. He now is asking for your help to create this capitalism truck, which we here at contemporary art truck fully appreciate, more at his website here and hyperallergic here.

You Are Still Alive

Luhring Augustine

I'm sick today, so instead of getting out of bed, I plan on going through art books all day looking at pretty things.

I'll tell you what I find.

Firstly, I grabbed the Luhring Augustine 25year anniversary catalog, which they were handing out for free in the fall. Here are some of the amazing artists in the catalog.

Janine Antoni, Lick & Lather, 1993

Luisa Lambri, Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, #11), 2008

Christopher Wool, She Smiles for the Camera I, 2005

Rachel Whiteread, untitled (library), 1999

Above images taken from Luhring Augustine website, here

Some artists that are not representing by the gallery but were in the catalog:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled, 1991, Andrea Rosen gallery, here

Gerhard Richter, Working in the Garden I, 1966, here

Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Land

The Land:
"The land project was initiated by Rirkrit and Kamin Letchaiprasert as a self-sustaining environment emerging from the artistic community. The land is located in the northern part of Thailand, near the village of Sanpathong, 20 km southwest from the provincial city of Chiang Mai. It is intended to be cultivated as an open space or community free from ownership, with elements favoring discussions and experimentation in the fields of culture. The land is open to the day-to-day activities of local living (i.e. the growing of rice) and to the neighboring community. On the social field of the land, artistic practices are discussed and tested. This project, a hybrid of innovation and traditionalism, contrasts contemporary materials and technologies with
ancient forms of agriculture."

I have grown to appreciate Rirkrit Tiravanija more and more, this project sounds like it has much of the draw of a commune, with none of the hippy architecture and cooking.

Text taken from here.
more at the Land's incomprehensible website here.

Gavin Brown: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA - FEAR EATS THE SOUL

This show looks like it would be fun, and taste good. Website, and more at Curbs and Stoops
open till April 16th

Truck stop

Hans Hemmert here

Music video by Hold Your Horses should be watched by anyone who has taken survey of western art. here
C-monster talks about Tino Sehgal here interesting point, working at the Indianapolis Museum of Art allows me to appreciate all of the art even when the museum is closed to the public, and I can be by myself. Tino Sehgal's work, especially This Progress, requires a certain atmosphere for full appreciation, maybe the museum is failing Sehgal.
Graffiti can be good. here