We need to email these people.
― The-Dreams That Money Can Buy (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
if nothing else, this mystery has seriously filled in a ton of my 20th-c. art historical knowledge gaps
― the *facepalm* at the trend of the hivemind (donna rouge), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
we need to send it to Unsolved Mysteries.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 September 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
I found this thing by Charles Biederman; what do you guys think?
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/12102d3b.jpg
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
i like it
― (gr8080), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's upside down! (j/k)
― StanM, Sunday, 2 October 2011 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
(that was a maybe too obscure reference to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bateau btw)
― StanM, Sunday, 2 October 2011 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
Do you guys think it's Karl Benjamin?
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 23 February 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
my only other close guess is tim bavington
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
ragh this painting!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
After Forks found his rap song and Tuomas found his black & white movie, I'm kinda happy we still have this baffling painting.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
not one of us has thought to actually check the basel 2010 printed catalog, huh
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
*hangs head*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
not even the modern miracle of google's 'visually similar' search helps. pretty sure it's not, for example, this guy:
https://img-s.foursquare.com/userpix/UDJHBVBZX0TJRFPQ.jpg
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
but do we know for sure
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
also: loooooool
Stumbled across this guy today, mentioned before but def similar and Stevie would loves it: Carlos Cruz Diez
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBBJQ3_z9uM/Ta3B87WdLKI/AAAAAAAADf0/XgsFXXc6gm0/s1600/Carlos-cruz-diez_2.jpg
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Aaand how cool is this image?
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/programs/image_1_608.jpg
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Saw an exhibit of this dude's work when I was in Buenos Aires last year. It's pretty awesome in person.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390896_557621819867_62600376_31391309_1229389329_n.jpg
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
(^in person)
Brought this one into photoshop to check: the rgb in the stripe was the same as outside of it! You down with OP?
http://artbasel.insideguidance.com/miamibeach/2011/images_large/Product1328711.jpg
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ your image has since disappeared for me but that looked rad!
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, probably b/c I copied it directly from FB... But yeah, there's some cool optical tricks in his work that are enhanced when you're actually in the presence of the art. Like paintings that change color as you walk from one side to the other.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
ross bleckner?
― the late great, Monday, 27 February 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.arcanabooks.com/bookimages/014521.jpg
maybe not bright enough
― the late great, Monday, 27 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
Some 60s op-art guy trying to paint himself out of a hole in 1984
there is a lot of writing in the hal foster school about this very approach, comparing bleckner to, say, dan flavin ... i don't actually think it's bleckner, it doesn't have that gauzy, painterly look that bleckner has
my best guess is that it's someone from that milieu though there is also something chillwave-y and "zoomed in too far on a fuzzy VHS image" that screams recent work, too
― the late great, Monday, 27 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
there are so many people doing this type of art though, it's crazy
― the late great, Monday, 27 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
xp omg LOVES IT!!
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
there's an awesome exhibit at the Hirshhorn right now, Suprasensorial, that showcases Carlos Cruz-Diez, along with Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Jesus Rafael Soto and Helio Oiticica. I was at the opening day of it and got to watch a panel with Le Parc and Cruz-Diez which was AMAZING.
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Fuuuuck!
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol this painting, i did my part and i emailed a friend abt it once, she did not know
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's still at the Hirshhorn til May 13th! Come and see it! I really liked Soto's stuff (I posted the video below in waht is awesome - it's not from the Hirshhorn but will give you a feel), but Cruz-DIez's Chromosaturation was jut phenomenal. Three rooms interconnected by hallways, each bathed in intense red, green, or blue light, and in addition to the wonderful blending of the colors at their soft edges, and the contrast with the lights on the ceiling, there was also this mindfuck that would happen when you stayed in one room for a few minutes and then quickly walked into another room. Just totally unreal, and very inspiring. Come see it!!
Soto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLMYbr8btQ
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
wish i was better at describing art (and music and writing and film and poetry and theater and everything else that is good on earth) because i feel like i often do a disservice to the artists, but for the love of god check it out
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
Suprasensorial DC meetup!
― I DIED, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
I would love to go back and spend more time with it. We arrived late, just 30 minutes before the panel, so we kinda rushed through everything. There was also a cool room with this in it by Dan Flavin:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m01alfRUZm1qbnyzno1_500.jpg
my new favorite person in the entire world took that picture but it's hard to see the overwhelming nature of what's going on with that piece from that image. first of all, it's huge - a room probably 40 feet long, 20 feet wide. the light, again, is overwhelming, so that whoever or whatever enters the room becomes immersed in blue. but what's totally fucked up is that after spending some time in there, everything else becomes desaturated. you look at your friend, and your friend is in black and white. it's disturbing and addicting.
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
aw man that is a rad-looking show
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
on that same tip, i sadly missed this show when it was up
http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/phenomenal-california-light-space-surface-0
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Me and my boof are for real def gonna come down to see it.
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
I loooved that flavin last time I was there but they were p militant abt NO PICTURES
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
awesome! let me know when you do, if you don't mind! i'd love to see you again and meet yr boof, and you can probably meet my...er...goof, too!
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome Stevie D! Let us know when. We can see the show then go to a bar.
Wait, we can go to a bar THEN see the show.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
and THEN go to a bar!
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
dan flavin would have wanted it that way
― I DIED, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
FLAVIN
http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1191.jpg
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
next closest (but still prob wrong) guess: markus ebner
http://jackystrenz.com/content/view/49/34/
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
4 yrs later and still no clue
― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Feel like this is the last great unsolved identification mystery of ilx, since we found forks' rap song and Tuomas' typewriter movie.
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 09:46 (nine years ago) link
There is a new app describing itself as the shazam for art, called magnus. Very much doubt it would nail this, unfortunately I'm stuck on ios 7 and can't put it to the test.
― I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Monday, 20 June 2016 09:33 (eight years ago) link
I think of this thread/pic from time to time and disappear down a several-hour Google Images rabbithole every time. Hopefully one day the mystery will be solved.
(no Magnus for Android yet so I can't try it out either, but their FAQ says there will be one eventually)
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 20 June 2016 09:59 (eight years ago) link