Duncan Ballantyne-Way Livres

How does a simple line become a horizon? When do we begin to see colors and shapes as a landscape? Michelle Jezierski's painting homes in on the tipping point at which our perception begins to oscillate between color/surface and space/representation. At that very point, she captures the essence of the landscape as such, which is not a concrete place but a metaphor for inner states of affairs. To get there, Jezierski distills what she sees in her surroundings down to the elements of painting-- shapes and colors-- which just barely intimate a pictorial space while persistently drifting toward abstraction. The defining feature of her technique is that she layers several pictorial planes and spaces on the canvas in staggered arrangements. " Perpetually discovering new ways to unsettle the visual space," as she puts it, she engenders ruptures and structures that open up multiple perspectives and a portal for reflection on one's own perception. Above all, however, the cuts lend her pictures a peculiar rhythm that powerfully pulls in the gaze, making the reader paging through this catalog forget time and space.

Benjamin Rubloff's paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, Benjamin Rubloff photographed tags and graffiti as he walked around the city, turning the marks into oil paintings. Benjamin Rubloff's paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, the artist photographed tags as he walked around the city, mainly because he was interested in their painterly qualities: the speed of a gesture, the way they sit on a wall, their random drips and splashes. As an experiment, he began copying these marks into oil paintings, altering the scale and framing, but otherwise aiming for an exact transcription of the original tag. His intention was to create abstract paintings that would not bear the qualities of his own hand. Instead, they would be records of the traces of others. When he retraced his steps — sometimes years later — to find the original tags, Rubloff often found them gone. Sometimes the sites themselves had been radically altered. He began to write about these places in conjunction with the paintings, exploring the intersection of their histories with his own. As a result, each painting in the book is accompanied by a text and a photograph of the site, intended to provide an anchor back to the city itself.

Selby ist kein Hund wie jeder andere: Er kann sprechen, Zeitung lesen und logisch denken. Diese Begabung muss er vor Herrchen und Frauchen, den Tüftlers, geheimhalten, denn wenn sie wüssten, wie schlau Selby ist, würden sie ihn bestimmt zu ihrem Laufburschen machen. Und dazu hat Selby nicht die geringste Lust. Aber er gerät immer wieder in ganz verzwickte Situationen, und da muss er schon höllisch aufpassen, dass er sich nicht verplappert.