John Cage
Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17)
1983-1992
Between 1983 and 1992, John Cage created some 170 pencil drawings, an intensive exploration of Japan’s most famous Zen garden of the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. Working on handmade Indian rag paper at a small light table built into his office desk, the Ryoanji drawings can be seen as the opus magnum of Cage’s visual work, illustrating aesthetic and conceptual reflections relevant to his entire oeuvre.
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Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17)
1983-1992
Between 1983 and 1992, John Cage created some 170 pencil drawings, an intensive exploration of Japan’s most famous Zen garden of the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. Working on handmade Indian rag paper at a small light table built into his office desk, the Ryoanji drawings can be seen as the opus magnum of Cage’s visual work, illustrating aesthetic and conceptual reflections relevant to his entire oeuvre.
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Vera Molnár
144 Trapèzes
1974
A series of 16 variations showing the progressive deformation of 144 trapeziums from a stage where the deformation is nearly invisible to the stage of the decompostion of the forms.
144 Trapèzes
1974
A series of 16 variations showing the progressive deformation of 144 trapeziums from a stage where the deformation is nearly invisible to the stage of the decompostion of the forms.
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Julius Bissier
Gimpel Fils, London, 1963. Exhibition: May-June 1963
Art Books & Ephemera
Gimpel Fils, London, 1963. Exhibition: May-June 1963
Art Books & Ephemera
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1) Anna Reivilä, Bond #22, 2015
2) Anna Reivilä, Bond #12, 2015
2) Anna Reivilä, Bond #12, 2015
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You can't give away the virtues
these days, and I have none
to offer anyway.
Only these silent hands,
their heavy weakness,
their inscrutable signs.
*
But is it the emptiness
of the left hand that you want,
or the emptiness
of the right?
One of them holds the pick.
One of them presses down
on the strings. And one of them stretches
without ever daring to touch
to stroke to caress
the beloved's neck.
*
Four thousand years ago
we all inhabited
the same tiny bulletproof egg.
*
Were you two close?
someone asked,
and I replied yes,
I was too close.
— Troy Jollimore, from "Going Viral", Syllabus of Errors
these days, and I have none
to offer anyway.
Only these silent hands,
their heavy weakness,
their inscrutable signs.
*
But is it the emptiness
of the left hand that you want,
or the emptiness
of the right?
One of them holds the pick.
One of them presses down
on the strings. And one of them stretches
without ever daring to touch
to stroke to caress
the beloved's neck.
*
Four thousand years ago
we all inhabited
the same tiny bulletproof egg.
*
Were you two close?
someone asked,
and I replied yes,
I was too close.
— Troy Jollimore, from "Going Viral", Syllabus of Errors
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