On November 20th the Carnegie museum of art had a free teen event called Ground Control. Despite the less then statisfactory turn out, it was a quality group of art inspired young adults. They were very impressed, as were the...
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55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
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Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
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Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
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Musings
On Thursday, November 20, the Zero Gravity Interns opened an event to the public, Ground Control, that was mainly targeted to the highschool crowd. From the hours of 6-10, guests were open to the many activities that took place such...
it was awesome the life on mars event party on last thursday night !!yummy foods , snacks,having fun with making clothes by myself ,great runway shows. ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: What has legs draped in yarn, arms wrapped in tin foil, duct tape hanging like hair tendrils from its temples, and hobbles around in a tattered cardboard box?Yes, you guessed it: A couple...
Connect and create with high school students! Zero Gravity Teen Interns invite you to participate in an evening of art, music, food, and lots of fun! Connect with contemporary art in Life on Mars: the 55th Carnegie International, and create your...
He was known as the heart man, because of the love everyone had for him. When he walked the streets everyone talked to him trying to find out what he was up to, how he was, or simply to say...
I saw this movie by Ryan Gander. of a man walking on a bridge. he doesn't really have a destination. no motivation, he is just walking. he walks to the middle and looks off the bridge, like he is looking...
I found myself dong the same shit over and over. Work, the bar, sleep, repeat. I was a nice guy. People liked me. Girls found me attractive. I had a decent job. Sounds pleasent, right? Nah, it's not. It's...
This piece by Wilhelm Sasnel shows a lot of emotion. Despite its seemingly simple painting technique, it depicts an older man playing the piano. He has a drink on the top of the piano, as if to imply he has...
This is a creative writing piece based of of Wilhelm Sasnal's piece "Untitled." In the piece, there are two shoes tied together by the laces hanging for a tree. For a year I walked the country. Just my shoes and me....
Today my painting class took a little trip to the Wood Street Galleries to see the new exhibition by Kurt Hentschlager. Hentschlager's installation Zee is an immersive environment that creates an indescribable sensation.The gallery attendant is required to issue a...
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16007209&type=track Recently I came across a song called Veins by an artist named Charlotte Martin and I was pleasantly surprised. I think the song is so infectious. I hear the sound resonating inside my head and find myself humming...
Isolated in a stairwell adjacent to the Hall of Sculpture, a simple light box displays Haegue Yang's sequence of images depicting globes and orgami forms transforming from one to the next. The day I saw the piece it was alternating...
There are many works by Friedrich Kunath within the gallery. The one we focused in on is on the far right corner of the wall. It's on a muave canvas and Kunath used watercolor paints. There are two rings converging...
Mark Manders has many fantastic pieces in Life on Mars. One of his most interesting is "Continuous Livingroom Scene," consisting of two sculpted men that are split in half with a piece of wood. The sculpted men seem to be...
To me, the photograph Tiere, 2006 represents the collision of civilization and nature. This piece, done by Wolfgang Tillmans, sends different messages for me. The first is the lighting. From one side, you see and almost feel the warm light...
The piece "I'm Dead" consists of a taxidermy cat standing on his back legs, holding a small picket sign stating the words "I'm Dead." It is displayed in the largest case of the seven glass cases which puts emphasis on...
Cavemanman, Thomas Hirschhorn's contribution to the International, has recieved media attention, skepticism, and excitement from many.As one man said after experiencing the installation, "It's clever but art is not supposed to be clever." Whether art is or is not supposed...
Fredrich Kunath's piece, "Let the distance keep us together," is a light box with a yellow striped awning. Its rainbow wash draws attention to the hidden message. The black letters first appear to be a jumbled mess of letter, but...
The ripping sound of tape, crunching cardboard, and sweat rolling down your chin. This is a new way to look at blood, sweat, and tears going into a work of art. "I'm not interested in quality, No. 100% energy." Thomas...
Life on Mars could be a reflection of life before the journey to Mars. However, what if we no longer own art when we visit Mars. If the Orphan Works legislation is passed artists may no longer own work. Therefore,...
Kai Althoff's untitled installation seduces the viewer with a strange scent drawing them into a carnivorous red room that is foreboding yet provokes the viewer to question and explore this foreign space. This carnviorous room with glossy curved plexi-glass walls...
The name of this internship, Zero Gravity, has always seemed clever and catchy to me. It relates to the theme of Life on Mars through the association of outer space. Furthermore, the physical state of zero gravity in which a...
This whimsical self-portrait proposes the artist’s point of view about the aggression of government. In “Untitled (Political),” Maria Lassnig offers the unique experience of staring into the mind of another human being. She does so in a fanciful, comical manner...
Recently, the Zero Gravity interns have been writing and recording our own audio tours for viewers to use as guides throughout Life on Mars. I think that this was a good project because it forced us to articulate our personal interpretations of some of the...
One of Friedrich Kunath's paintings reminded me of this music video directed by one of my favorite visual artists, Floria Sigismondi, her work is absolutely amazing. While most German artists are known to produce dark expressionistic art, Friedrich Kunath is playful yet...
Daniel Guzman is an impressive artist, bringing life to bizarre cartoonish paintings. While all Mr. Guzman’s work attract the viewer’s eyes, Tristessa, from the series La búsqueda del ombligo (2005-2007) is one piece that really speaks out to me. Created...
don't doubt that your leftovers can explain his. that what you have on your plate in its nourishment of confused acceptance is of the world and the only thing to it. your meager meal is now over, its history told in silence. yet the...
The land unites and explodes. It’s a predictable process, but still, no one knows when it will happen. Every earthquake, every rainstorm, every decaying tree, every ant is a part of this process. It takes some time, but what is...
This is a drawing I sketched out in response to David Shrigley's "I'm Dead" *Note: Disregard the inaccurate title of Mr. Shrigley's work. I accidentially thought it was "Dead Cat."My bad. - Philosopher Wong...
Really large cave space Made of paper & duct tape Cool place to make out Posted by student from West Virginia Governor's School Cavemanman (2002) by Thomas Hirschornn ...
David Shrigley's "I'm Dead" reminds me of a PETA advertisement. It is terrible to watch videos on the PETA website about the making of fur coats. But their ads are always so gloom and doom. I think if they would...
Light.I cant breathe.I cant move.I cant speak.My every being is gone.Isolated and coldI try to find warmth.Illuminating and breathtakingLight is in my grasp but i cant reach it.I am in between heaven and hell.With no emotion.I stand and wait for...
When I looked at Paul Theks peice the first thing that came to mind was the news paper and the headlines on it. This to me represents reality and in most cases corruption of man. Painted across the newspaper is...
By Margaret Transforming air molecules into canvas, Ranjani Shettar sprinkles the space of the Carnegie Museum’s Scaiffe Galleries with a delicate, geometric web of blue beeswax beads and tea-dyed thread. The piece is suspended from the ceiling from taught, horizontal...
Light.I cant breathe.I cant move.I cant speak.My every being is gone.Isolated and coldI try to find warmth.Illuminating and breathtakingLight is in my grasp but i cant reach it.I am in between heaven and hellWith no emotionI stand and wait for...
Flooded with five feet of water in the Mattress Factory basement, archictect and artist, Yumi Kori spirits you away to an otherworldly environment where you lose a sense of time and space in her hypnotic installation, Kanata Kanata is a Japanese...
Gazing at Ryan Gander's "A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw as it slipped from my table and fell to the floor" I began thinking about the extremely long title of the piece and also about...
In Althoff's installation "untitled," the viewer is amerced in a complex world where he or she is able to find an alienated and yet recognizable comfort in both good and evil.
At the bottom of the grand staircase I listened to the rhythmic sounds of clinks, drips, tinks, and plinks echo as I sat watching Cao Fei's video Whose Utopia? The video starts off with machines in a light bulb factory....
One morning I turned on the TV to find the weather, but something else caught my attention. It was a story about a security guard who vandalized a $1.2 million painting with a key at the Carnegie Museum. And as...
This post is a response to Tyler's Bjork and Bowie post :-) I really liked the relation to the Bjork video, and after reading your post a few days ago, thought of it again when I saw Linkin Park's...
When I first saw Ranjani Shettar's Just a bit more, I was instantly mesmerized by the delicate installation. The piece is hung at the back of the Scaife galleries next to a large rectangular window that lets the light flow...
When I originally heard the title of the International I immediately thought David Bowie. For the past few days I've been listening to the song Life on Mars and trying to interpret the lyrics. I think the song is about...
"What is art? What makes it good or bad?"The question is from the 2003 movie Mona Lisa Smile. I happened to be changing channels the other day when I saw it for the first time. The reason I paused when I got to this channel was because I caught...
As we've discovered and learned over the past few weeks, Life on Mars isn't meant to be about outer space and aliens, as much as it is about the human condition. My own interpretation of the human condition may...
Douglas Fogle said that, "'Life on Mars' poses a poetic question of longing, and of trying to connect. It relates not only to a literal search for extra-terrestrial life, but also to sending out signals in the dark, and hoping...
So, Life on Mars has officially been open for a whole 2 days and I still have yet to see it (but shhh don't tell anyone because I'm a Zero Gravity intern and that's kind of part of my job).However, I can...
I wish to begin this blog by first saying that I have not actually seen Life on Mars at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Therefore, I am writing this as a reaction to the initial questions that have formed this...