New York and London: Routledge, 1995; 546 pp., ill. b. & w. DEAR LA GALLERISTS: PLEASE REDUCE ART DRIVING This guide brings together critical essays on the genealogy, science and imagination of cyborgs in ways that are relevant and culturally specific. The term “cyborg,” imputable to Manfred Clynes, by now attaches to wherever a “human-machine…
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Perspective 96
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, November 13 – February 9 “Perspective 96” is the last instalment of George Gilmour’s annual endowment to showcase young artists. For the exhibition, curator Jessica Bradley chose four painters: Cora Cluett, Eric Glavin, Angela Leach and Steven Shearer. Barring only Cluett, whose work is the most painterly, the remaining three…
Kim Adams exhibition
Gathered in the exhibition space as in a great carnival or flea market, vehicles, models of vehicles, dwellings and model dwellings compete for epistemic authority. The gallery is filled, detail upon detail, in a satirical exploration of a culture’s excessive production. Most of the works in this show are comprised of the kind of equipment…
An important text for museum and cultural studies
An important text for museum and cultural studies, Civilizing Rituals destabilizes binarisms such as art/artifact, ritual observed/ritual enacted, and sacred/secular. Duncan’s theoretical approach is based on notions of liminality and ritual; how the museum serves to temporarily suspend “normal” social behaviour in its effect on the visitor. The result of this suspension is that the…
C’est a l’occasion d’une exposition
C’est a l’occasion d’une exposition consacree a Hans Haacke, a l’ete 1995 a Barcelone, que parut ce magnifique catalogue. D’abondants documents photographiques commentes par Haacke lui-meme informent le lecteur sur les tenants et aboutissants de ses nombreuses creations. On redecouvre l’oeuvre des annees soixante avec ses structures complexes et ses systemes en temps reel. Et…
Yvonne Lammerich exposition
Espace purement plastique, construction austere et depouillee, sobre contraste de la peinture noire sur fond blanc: c’est d’abord a la tradition tout intellectuelle de l’abstraction geometrique qu’on associera les tableaux d’Yvonne Lammerich. Comment ne pas penser a De Stijl devant les Modular Self Organization of Consciousness, ou ne pas voir quelque lointain avatar du suprematisme…
Castellini Launches New Web Site
At long last, renowned comic artist, Claudio Castellini has his own web site. the new web site, created by Integrated Web Solutions and ComicBookPros sports galleries of past work, downloadable wallpapers and original artwork for sale. “This is something I’ve wanted to do for some time now, thankfully, I was introduced to the Integrated Web…
Castellini Covers Atomika
Here’s a look at the cover for Atomika #8 by our own, Claudio Castellini. “Besides being among the greatest cover artists on the planet, Claudio is a good friend,” said Sal Abbinanti, Mercury Comics’ Creative Director and creator of Atomika. ” To see this cover come from the early sketches and thumbnails to the final…
Castellini Joins ComicBookPros
Renowned artist Claudio Castellini has launched his first ever official art website at http://claudiocastelliniart.com featuring news on his upcoming work, galleries, and original art, much of which has never been available to the public before. Castellini made his debut in 1989 with a story for Dylan Dog, a popular Italian horror character published by Sergio…