John Divola

 

 

Not to be melodramatic, but this work makes me want to stop making art because it is too damn GOOD.  I first saw these images in Los Angeles in the exhibition UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN at Geffen Moca (what used to be the Temporary Contemporary).

Merda d'artista

IVAN ALBRIGHT

all paintings are oil on  canvas 1931-48

VIJA CELMINS

Untitled (Big Sea #2)
1969
graphite on acrylic ground on paper
33 1/2 x 44 in.

Vija Celmins
Untitled (Large Desert)

Graphite on acrylic ground on paper1974-75

Suh Nuh Nuh Nuh Phenomenon

"My mind compelled me to view all things occurring in such conversations from an uncanny closeness. As once, through a magnifying glass, I had seen a piece of skin on my little finger look like a field full of holes and furrows, so I now perceived human beings and their actions. I no longer succeeded in comprehending them with the simplifying eye of habit. For me everything disintegrated into parts, those parts again into parts; no longer would anything let itself be encompassed in one idea. Single words floated round me; they congealed into eyes which stared back at me and into which I was forced to stare back—whirlpools which gave me vertigo

and, reeling incessantly, led into the void."

Now it all makes sense.