PALLADIO

SMO©2009

Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza

Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza

SMO©2009

READING GLASS

" the world is filled  with things  we do not see, even though they are right in front of us"

...

The truth is more difficult: seeing is irrational, inconsistent, and undependable. It is immensely troubled, cousin to blindness and sexuality, and caught up in the threads of the unconscious.

The Object Stares Back

by James Elkins

SMO © 2011

Sunday 10:43 A.M.

SMO©2012

January 28,
 Early morning hours, sun angle in the sky rather low, the room filled with light  I pulled down the  shades and crawl back into bed pull over the bedcover all the way up; no, no use, shades are too porous sunlight is everywhere.. Nothing can be done ..
I am fully awake..

PALLADIO

PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE (Basilica), Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza,     1545-80

Palazzo was Palladio's first public commission, after part of the loggia collapsed in 1496

efforts for the re rebuilding almost took half a century, many of the well known architects

of the region at the time, included Jacopo Sansovino, Sebastiano Serlio, Guilio Romano

submitted proposals for the site none is implemented, in 1545 commision of reconstruction

of the loggia given to PALLADIO. At the time of Palladio's death in 1580 loggia was only

partially built, construction was completed 1617. This was also Palladio's first building made

entirely of stone. Here Palladio extensively uses Serlian  motif, to provide flexibility  to deal

with the differences of the existing structure.

From inside the loggia looking toward Piazza dei Signori.

SMO©1994

CONSTANTINO NIVOLA 1911- 1987

FAMILY, BEACH CHANNEL HIGH SCHOOL, QUEENS, NY
CONCRETE AND STEEL

MICHELE DE LUCCHI

SOLID WOOD ARCHITECTURE MODEL BY ITALIAN ARCHITECT
MICHELE DE LUCCHI
VIA BARTLETT YEAR 1 ARCHITECTURE BLOG

FILIP DUJARDIN

FICTIONAL STRUCTURES- ASSEMBLAGES

FILIP DUJARDIN, BELGIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

LINCOLN CENTER, NYC

Selim. M. Ozalp ©

DETAIL -ORPHEUS AND APOLLO
BY RICHARD LIPPOLD
AVERY FISHER HALL

BOB GULLEY, NEW YORK

GARGOYLES- STUDY SKETCHES
1986

COSTANTINO NIVOLA 1911-1987

P.S. 46 BROOKLYN , 1959

MEDIUM: CONCRETE  FRESCO

10 PANELS : DIMS. 4'-0" X 6'-3"

MODEL

"SCULPTURED PANELS" 1956

RELIEF, CONCRETE

I.S. 13 MANHATTAN

GIULIANA MAURI

Gillo Dorfles

"Works of art are received and valued on different planes.
Two polar types stand out: with one, the accent is on the cult value;
with the other, on the exhibition value of the work"*
*Walter Benjamin
"The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction"

disappointment!

I have not found much

critical material on the web about him,

some photos, and limited amount 

of his paintings; mostly copyright by the sources.

"If kitsch rivals reality while simultaneously imitating its effects, then the truth of kitsch exists in its realized fabrication. Gillo Dorfles disparaged kitsch for its falsified nature: "if we have to recognize the mass-production of industrial objects originally intended for such treatment as perfectly authentic, we must regard all reproductions of unique works which were conceived as unrepeatable as the equivalent of real forgeries." [10]   Whether copying a pre-existing work of art or assembling a pretense of reality, the straightforwardness of kitsch belies its inherent contradiction as a "real forgery." (seemimesis)" *

*Whitney Rugg

Marcus Reickert

Enfant du Paradis 2011

Orgosolo Murales, Sardinia

Farkas Molnar, 1897-1945

 Bauhaus Villa, 1932

Excerpt from "Life at the Bauhaus (1925)"

"And now one or two intimate details about the bigwigs.  Kandinsky prefers to appear decked out as an antenna, Itten as an amorphous monster, Feininger as two right triangles, Moholy-Nagy as a segment transpierced by a cross, Gropius as Le Corbusier, Muche as an apostle of Mazdaznan, Klee as the song of the blue tree.  A rather grotesque menagerie…

The dance is non-stop.  The members of the Jazz-kapelle break up their instruments.  The proprietor loses his patience.  Outside the police set up machine guns made of cherry brandy bottles.  Inside, the high point is reached.  Barometer at 365 degrees.  Maximal tension.  But it all comes to an end.  Hebestreit the executioner shows up.  The red arrow points at the emergency exit."

[Originally published as “Élet a Bauhausban,” Periszkop (June-July 1925)]

Farkas Molnars's "Life at the Bauhaus (1925)

by Ross Wolfe

More Mats & A. Jarry

' ...But Faustroll crouched over the baboon, spreading his four limbs out on the ground  and strangling

him from behind. Bosse de-Nage made a sign that he wished to speak, and , when the doctor had relaxed

grip of his fingers, said in two words: "Ha ha " and these were the last two words he uttered.

Concerning the death of a number of people, and more especially of Bosse -De- Nage'

Selected works of Alfred Jarry, Grove Press, inc.

Andrew Topolski

ANDREW TOPOLSKI

Once , I knew a fine song,

-It is true, believe me,-

It was all of birds,

And I held them in a basket;

When I opened  the wicket,

Heavens! they all flew away.

I cried :  "Come back, little thoughts! "

But they only laughed.

They flew on

Until they were as sand

Thrown between me and the sky.

Stephen Crane

PLACE MATS (detail)

Last Purchase of the year 2011

I am not sure who's idea was this! slicing and stitching back together pieces of nature,
but sure was a delicate one; I bump into them yesterday, last day of yester year at the most unlikely
place, Marshals Department Store- only two were left, carelessly thrown onto the shelf, mix together with the coffe mugs, napkin holders, plastic utensils of all sorts, they all gathered under unified concept of the kitchen stuff.  They were in dilapidated condition, each leaf separated from the rest I could not even lifted up  without damaging more..
Big red sticker read as $ 2.00 .. I resented to the fact that they were actually asking any money
for something you cannot even bag it without completly destroy it.  I looked around to see, if any one of store personal in the vicinity,  there she was; I showed her the price tag and the condition of the mats, she agreed with me that they were overpriced she proposed price reduction that which  we agreed on. She took the merchandise back to the cashier  and re -tag them for: $ 1.00

Happy new Year.