minimal exposition is a contemporary art blog - art photography, abstract art, sculpture, painting, architecture, minimal photography, abstract photography, video, dance, crafts, performance art, earth art, and new music - for viewers who value images over words.
composer david lang was commissioned by the raymond poincaré hospital in garches, france, to write this music for their morgue, or salle des departs. the images in the video are of the morgue, which was designed by ettore spalletti. to learn more about the project: bbc.co.uk: the last goodbye
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working on a multitude of paintings at a time, karl bielik's brew of abstractions are developed in batches. irregular canvases cover his studio walls and floors, where he shifts from one painting to another, experimenting playfully with mark making.
formal lines taken from photographs and diagrams contrast loose oily wounds, thick emulsions offset light glazes and dribbles. bielik fluctuates between techniques, pushing and challenging the paint until a kind of harmony is met.
in contrast to this emotive imagery, banal solitary words form bielik's titles, tempering and balancing the melancholy character of his paintings; the result, a prolific collection of finely tuned sophisticated studies.
