Thursday, August 18, 2011

desmemória [unmemory]

These pieces of work represent an extraordinary metaphor of what imagination and age can do to memories. Not only erasing them but also transforming them and making them more the way we wish they were. The less obvious are extremely disturbing but at the same time I can't get my eyes away from them. If good art confronts you, this work does to me what Mike Tyson did to Evander Holyfield. It's poetry and it's cruelty at the same time. Like Alzeimer I guess.






http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucsa/5164930255/in/set-72157625362579314/

Awesome Juxtaposition of Pictures by Stephen Wilkes






Photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a minimum of ten hours taking hundreds of shots to create each one of his Day to Night. Weaving and blending thirty to fifty parts, the photo-collagist extraordinaire created seamless, surrealist scenes of New York City life. The Flatiron Building splits the urban landscape from AM to PM, sunlit yellow cabs turning into a river of neon streaks around its sharp corner. Clusters of wintry Central Park are submerged into the dark. Times Square teems more densely in the shadowy patches of night. This “fluid narrative” captures two sides of each landmark and the never-ending current of energy cycling throughout. See the series at Chelsea’s Clamp Art Gallery, September 8 through October 29th.