Issue 01
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Volume 200,000
Tim Plamper presented his new drawings at the solo exhibition "The Night's Heat/Awesome Noise".
Download the catalogue for exhibition
The exhibition took place at Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin from 20th August till 17th September, 2011.
STATE: Cohort Now in the Freies Museum Berlin:
Articles
The Paradox of Magic
Samuel Playford 2010
About Matthew Douglas´ practice.
This paradox, as Blanchot knows, is also the paradox of art. We can see a name, a definable point on a piece of paper that gives us this artworks origin; and yet, by no means was the artist alone during the works inauguration..
Gesture: forced and unforced action
Matthew Douglas 2009
Creative activity, that is - the actions of an artist can be split [ crudely ] into two types : The forced and the unforced.
Whenever I am asked to elaborate or explain this belief I always use the analogy of throwing paper balls into wastepaper baskets...
...If one allows the mind to work instinctively and throws without over thinking, the shot will be more likely to hit target. Once one begins to pull apart the mechanics of this process and over thinks ones action the shot becomes more hesitant, more forced, and usually less successful.