Girl in a coma / Series on paper

'Girl in a Coma I', 2010 - acrylic on paper, 24x30cm - © Michiel Keuper

'Girl in a Coma II', 2010 - acrylic on paper, 24x30cm - © Michiel Keuper

'Girl in a Coma III', 2010 - acrylic on paper, 24x30cm - © Michiel Keuper

'Girl in a Coma IV', 2010 - acrylic on paper, 24x30cm - © Michiel Keuper

Series of quick paintings with acrylic on paper, at the end the day, with left overs of paint. After a photo of a 9 year old girl in a coma, being in a vegetative state for years. I had this photo stuck on my wall for a long time, fascinated by this state of being and not-being.

Live at KEXP Seattle / The Tallest Man On Earth

Ok, I'm tempted to copy all of the 6 videos from this live concert in this post, but you better look for them online. Instead a selection of my favorites. Listen to the complete audio of this 30 minute concert here: http://feeds.kexp.org/~r/kexp/liveperformances/~5/yvJ75dadj7E/3b6663d6-a1d8-411f-9bcc-3a1d35bd994e.mp3 Also you can download this as a podcast from the KEXP website, here (look in the right 'on demand'-column). The KEXP youtube channel, with a lot more other interesting studio live tracks, you find here.

Back to The Tallest Man... aka Kristian Matsson, the singer/songwriter from Sweden... indeed he is an amazing guitar player and certainly has a Greatest voice... And gosh, do I now wish I'd learned to play the guitar as a teenager, instead of the saxophone... dammit!

Kinetics / Cory Arcangel's dancing shelves at Hamburger Bahnhof

In january I saw this kinetic installation of 2 pairs of dancing shelves by Cory Arcangel in Hamburger Bahnhof. The 'soundtrack' in the clip is coming from his video installations, one of them featuring Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar. In the clip you see a glimpse of that on a monitor on the wall.
The heart of the exhibition (still up till 28 august 2011) is the two-screen installation 'a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould' from 2007. Arcangel's video version of the 1st Variation from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, entirely constructed from downloaded youtube material.

Cory Arcangel - a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, 2007
© Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg

"Compiled from over 1100 individual snippets that the artist downloaded off the Internet and edited using software that he himself devised, we are treated to a video version of the 1st variation from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. At a bewildering speed, the images alternate from person to person as each individual plays a completely different instrument, each time performing a single note from Bach's composition. The pianist Glenn Gould used the technique of piecing together various recordings to produce his commercial records, something which Archangel takes here to its humorous extreme." (via website Hamburger Bahnhof)

Cory Arcangel - a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, 2007
© Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg

Juxtapositions / And the series continues... on a separate blog

Peter Lindbergh - 1994

Paul Strand - 1951

Since I started the juxtapositions-series, it has become a story on its own. It turns out to be addictive to find matching pairs of paintings, photographs or other works of art, that somehow relate to each other. Sometimes from different disciplines, sometimes from different eras. The one inspired by the other...? Intentional quoting...? Subconscious coincidence...? Homage...? Zeitgeist...? Not that it really matters, good art is good art I suppose, yet it is fascinating to discover parallels and connections. 

Just couldn't stop and still can't. However, since I intended this blog to have a personal character, whether it is by posting my own work, or indirectly by posting stuff that interests me, or by sharing my thoughts, the juxtapositions seem to be playing a slightly different role. Sure they show my vision, or my artistic preferences for that matter, since I'm the one who juxtaposes, but apart from that, it generally is not my own work, nor do I put any comments other than creating a dialogue between the images by juxtaposing them. So, in order not to confuse, I decided to create a separate blog. From now on, if you're interested, please check mfk / juxtapositions for regular updates.


www.mfk-juxtapositions.blogspot.com