Yuko Otomo December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #5 (Part One) I’m still planning to write about Jeff Koons — although his show is down & the summer is gone & the winter is here & nobody talks about him any more & no more media attention & no more big billboard ads hovering over us… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own
Paris & Paris, Again
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Futurism
Yuko Otomo October 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing The Universe @ Guggenheim Museum, NYC Feb. 21- Sept. 1, 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] <prior to viewing the exhibition>[spacer height=”10px”] I am writing this part in advance without having seen the exhibition at the museum. I want to consume my thoughts on non-visual… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
Futurism
In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own
Yuko Otomo July 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #4: Public Art [spacer height=”20px”] For some reason, I still haven’t been back to the Futurism show at the Guggenheim Museum yet. I’ve been meaning to do so in order to finish my writing on this fascinating movement for my Perpetual Ripplets column. I definitely have to make a date… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own
In the Meantime:
A Playroom of my Own
Yuko Otomo May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #1: Shoku-Sho Today, finally, I went to the Futurism show @ Guggenheim that opened at the end of February. I had been gathering my thoughts here & there on this first prototype of an “art movement” of the 20th century beforehand, thinking & writing on every aspect… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of my Own
Perpetual Ripplets
On Cubism
Yuko Otomo April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Part One[spacer height=”10px”] V.[spacer height=”2px”] Things break up into pieces. Light & shadow join their company. Here. An apple’s sweetness never gets called into question. A pear’s form terminates.[spacer height=”20px”] VI.[spacer height=”2px”] Things fall into pieces. Light & shadow escape from their world. An apple’s sweetness is now… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
On Cubism
What We Eat
(for Ferran Adrià)
Yuko Otomo February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]1. a column stands in the middle of an atelier/library. events. articles. 1997. 1989, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96. a classified idea of when where who how & through. carrots, grapes, chicken, radishes & corn. juice,… Continue reading What We Eat
(for Ferran Adrià)
Sei Shonagon
Yuko Otomo February 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Makura no Soshi (The Pillow Book)[spacer height=”20px”] A Note on The Pillow Book It was like a Big Bang. My head exploded in such a way. It took place in the Japanese Classics course in my high school freshman class. When a teacher read the first line of the… Continue reading Sei Shonagon
Perpetual Ripplets
Malevich
Yuko Otomo February 2014 [spacer height=”40px”]Part One[spacer height=”20px”] The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of “intuitive reason.” The square is a living, regal infant. Under Suprematism, I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. – Malevich[spacer height=”20px”] I ended my last piece, On Ad Reinhardt, with a mention… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
Malevich
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Reinhardt
Yuko Otomo January 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Part One: Ad Reinhardt at David Zwirner Part Two: Ad Reinhardt Retrospective at MoMA [spacer height=”10px”] Introduction:[spacer height=”10px”] I have been writing so-called “critical writing,” mainly on visual art, for quite a while. Interestingly, “critical writing” came to exist in my world as the last means of creative… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
Reinhardt