Kelly Mark, Litany (2009)
Etched aluminum foil
24” x 24” x 1/2” approx
Private Collection
“Every swear word, & combinations of swear words, I could think of written onto aluminum foil and then framed in reverse.”
via kellymark.com (p.s., no relation)
From the Aluminum Foil Series which includes: Litany, All My Stuff, My CV, My Friends, & My Address Book
Kay Rosen, 9/10 (1998-99)
installation view of Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e, at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
via kayrosen.com
Ed Ruscha, from his current exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London
John Baldessari, Terms Most Useful in Describing Creative Works of Art, 1966-68. Acrylic on canvas; 114 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
via xtraonline
Baldessari’s major retrospective opens this week at the Tate Modern
Poem by F. T. Marinetti
“The leader of the Futurists was F. T. Marinetti, a poet, novelist, and manifesto-writer. At about the same time that Boccioni was painting streets entering the house, Marinetti was experimenting with parole in libertà (“words in freedom”), poetry made from words thrown about the page, poetry composed with type, lines, and the occasional drawing. Stéfane Mallarmé and Guillaume Apollinaire had experimented with placing words all over the page before him, but Marinetti innovated in his simultaneità, simultaneity. It’s impossible to read this poem in any definitive way: what order should these words and phrases be read in? The impression that Marinetti seemed to be trying to provoke was of a lot of people yelling at the same time, though the title of his poem suggests that it’s meant to be a letter that a gunner at the front sent back to his lover. But Marinetti’s mark-making doesn’t represent the words that the gunner says: instead, the words present the sounds that the gunner hears.”
from if: book A Project of The Institute of the Future of the Book
Paola Pivi, Have you seen me before? (2008)
Abjection.
“Even artistic experimentation and creation that is not explicitly political can do important political work, sometimes revealing the limits of our imagination and at other times fueling it.” —Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
