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    Beyond the Canvas

    An art blog with opinions

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    Where Once the Waters, David Cass - Venice Biennale
    Beyond the Canvas
    • May 29
    • 2 min

    Where Once the Waters, David Cass - Venice Biennale

    My experience at the Venice Biennale is that it is often the fortuitous detour, aka me getting lost like I inevitably do, that is going to take you to the most unexpected rewards. This is how I came across David Cass' installation near the Giardini (now sadly closed so apologies for the late post). David's work is about the rise of sea levels, an issue Venice knows all too well. The idea behind Where Once the Waters is to raise awareness about the variation in sea level in t
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    Ukrainian artists: Zhanna Kadyrova at the Venice Biennale
    Beyond the Canvas
    • May 17
    • 1 min

    Ukrainian artists: Zhanna Kadyrova at the Venice Biennale

    “During the first two weeks of the war, I had the impression that art was only a dream, that I had only dreamed these twenty years of my professional life. And that art at all is powerless and ephemeral compared to the ruthless machinery of war that destroys civilian cities and human lives. Today I don’t think that way anymore, and I see that every artistic gesture makes us visible, and our voices audible.” - Zhanna Kadyrova After fleeing from Kyiv and finding shelter in the
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    Kim Abeles' Smog Collectors
    Beyond the Canvas
    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Kim Abeles' Smog Collectors

    "The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or fabric, then leave these on the roof of my studio and let the particulate matter in the heavy air fall upon them. After a period of time, from four days to a month, the stencil is removed and the image is revealed in smog." - Kim Abeles Since the beginning of the year, wildfires have burned over 4 million acres in California, with 5,000 firefig
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    Héctor Zamora's Lattice Detour, The Met rooftop
    Beyond the Canvas
    • Sep 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Héctor Zamora's Lattice Detour, The Met rooftop

    "The wall is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence — it’s also fraught with political meanings." - Héctor Zamora Oh the timeliness. Oh the metaphor. Oh the poetry. Oh the delight. Lattice Detour truly has it all. This wall, in fact, may well be the ultimate installation for a social space in 2020 America. A wall in America - the defining symbol of our (extremely messed up) times. A wall on the Met terrace, one of the most
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    In Memoriam: Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935-2020)
    Beyond the Canvas
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    In Memoriam: Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935-2020)

    Christo left us earlier this week, he died in his New York home at the age of 84. Together with his life and work partner Jeanne-Claude (d. 2009) he created some of the most visually arresting temporary large-scale installations ever seen. Their work was visionary and unique, it truly stretched the boundaries of what we understand as art. Through their signature wrapping and draping technique, they used monuments, landmarks, bridges, islands, buildings, and nature itself as t
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