2012-05-03
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IKB 79 by Yves Klein from the Tate Collection. From their text summary:
IKB 79 was one of nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Yves Klein made during his short life.
Klein did not give titles to these works but after his death in 1962, his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay numbered all the known blue monochromes IKB 1 to IKB 194, a sequence which did not reflect their chronological order.
The letters IKB stand for International Klein Blue, a distinctive ultramarine which Klein registered as a trademark colour in 1957. He considered that this colour had a quality close to pure space and he associated it with immaterial values beyond what can be seen or touched.
2012-04-29
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William Forsyth’s Scattered Clouds installation at the Midland Goods Shed, London, part of a Sadlers Wells / Tate retrospective of his work in 2009. (via Larissa)
2012-04-09
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In 2007 they were the subject of a large Tate Modern retrospective. “We felt we deserved it”, says Gilbert. “But we wanted it in the right Tate, not the wrong Tate.”
“Every English artist who has a show in Tate Britain is finished two weeks later,” says Gilbert. “It’s the kiss of death. If you have Tate Modern, then the other one must be Tate Old-Fashioned. They’re trying to say that they don’t really believe in British modern art.”
”2011-06-22
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Vorticist journal ‘Blast No. 1: Review of the Great English Vortex’, p. 11, June 20, 1914. Courtesy The Poetry Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo. (via BLAST! The radical Vorticist Manifesto.)
2011-02-04
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Google Art Project: Behind the Scenes at the Tate’s blog (via Robin Ray):
The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge.
