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pikeys:

Matthew Tischler – Screen Series

Screen Series is a series of photographs shot through window screens, netting and scrims, Matthew employs these grids and barriers in order to dissect, pixelate, filter and flatten landscapes and space. “None of the subjects in my photographs have any discernible features“ Matthew says, ”rather they are faceless characters whose identities are defined by their surroundings.”

– Junk Culture

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Agnes Geoffray – Incidental Gestures (2011-12)

The photograph collection Incidental Gestures stems from loss, lack and absence. This photo series is based on the reappropriation of archival images, which Agnès Geoffray manipulated in order to give a different reality. Images in this series are retouched, falsified and reinvented. Thus, the original image is lost, and it only subsists as a ghost image. These images produce a relic of the gestures and archetypal postures, which originate from a varied repertoire. Geoffray’s desire is to highlight the manipulations, which shift preexisting images to a new reality.  Through the act of retouching, Agnès Geoffray creates an act of reparation and returns a sense of dignity to the depicted victims. For example, she puts clothes back on a punished woman during the Liberation of France and renders a face on a facially disfigured veteran. Conversely, she also transforms the characters in an everyday life setting into victims as well..

Statement on Incidental Gestures

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museumuesum:

Robert Rauschenberg

Winter Pool, 1959

Combine painting: oil, paper, fabric, wood, metal, sandpaper, tape, printed paper, printed reproductions, handheld bellows, and found painting, on two canvases, with ladder, 89 1/2 x 58 1/2 x 4 in.

Winter Pool represents a very important period in Robert Rauschenberg’s work, the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when he created bold objects that were a hybrid of painting and sculpture and a reinvention of collage. He called these works Combines. In Cubist collage, pasted papers add up to a readable image, such as a still life. With Combines, there is no narrative and the interpretation is left to the viewer.

Source: museumuesum
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walpurgishall:

Yule! What a wonderful word, and what memories it awakens! Our hearts go back to our childhood. It’s a children’s feast day, families spend this evening together with their kids, and for a few hours even the elderly return to the lost land of magic and their childhood memories.

We celebrate the birth of the sun, the return of our Baldur. And the light of the Gods once again fills our hearts with hope.

Heil Yule!

Franz Stassen “Das Baldr-Kind”, 1943

Source: dritttenreichkunst
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welkinlions:

Hill of Witches, Lithuania

On one of the most beautiful and oldest parabolic dunes in Juodkrantė, Lithuania, the forest is alive with a vast array of fairy-tale creatures, witches, demons, kings, princesses, fisherman and devils. Known as the Hill of Witches (Raganų kalnas), this public trail through the woods takes visitors on a trip through the most well-known legends and stories in Lithuanian folk history.

Work began in 1979 on the sculpture park, and it now features over 80 different wooden carvings from local artists. Each beautifully hand-crafted sculpture depicts a popular character from folk and pagan traditions of Lithuania. The public park got its name long before the sculptures were placed along the wooded trails, and is in fact a reference to the pagan celebrations that take place on the hill during the Midsummer’s Eve Festival.

Each year on June 24th, people across Lithuania dance, sing and bring in the midsummer with the older folk traditions of the country. After Christianity came to Lithuania, the celebration was renamed Saint Jonas’ Festival, but many of the practices still have pagan roots, as echoed by the fantastic Hill of Witches sculptures.

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Source: panoramio.com