Sunday, September 23, 2012

investment opportunity ...




















... mobile kerbside crematorium business for sale ... place your deposits in my swiss bank account now !

Saturday, September 22, 2012

bae joonsung in the korean exhibition at the saatchi


a prolific korean artist who overlays multiple photographic and hand painted images behind a lenticular screen

as you walk past the painting so whole figures appear and disappear and are transformed within one coherent picture space






http://www.baejoonsung.com/artworksLentiCanvas_2010.html


... and there was another one ...












up close, you can smell the turpentine





Friday, September 21, 2012

Adolf Wölfli

i've only just become aware of

Adolf Wölfli

since we saw two of his large coloured drawings in the "maps of the mind" exhibition at the caixa forum art museum in barcelona

not the kind of man you'd want to be let out of the asylum, ever, but an inspired and fascinating "driven" artist






















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQHYK6RNlk

Saturday, September 15, 2012

opposite a truly fabulous pretzel bakery, pretiola in corders ...
























i take my hat off ...

































... nope, i kneel in reverence to joan tomas a.k.a senor lorenzo's lovely and clever testament to human happiness, glued to two walls on a barcelona demolition site near Santa Maria del Mar

links discovered later later ... after i'd found the street again on barcelona's excellent city map

http://www.flickr.com/photos/troballola/7462975754/in/set-72157630310270458/

http://www.joantomas.net/

http://w20.bcn.cat/Guiamap/Default_en.aspx#x=27601.01&y=83987.71&z=0&c=&masc=&filt=&data=&w=1380&h=830


ye, of course i should have saved one for you, but ...