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Disturbing yet beautiful images of tyres piled up into crazy landscapes, captured by Edward Burtynsky in Westley, California, USA. Share/Bookmark This
Gold & Silver Stars (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
After a whirlwind trip to DC, up to Philly and back I had a moment to taken in some of DC's finest - including the Corcoran! Lucky for me the Edward Burtynsky exhibit was still up. I missed it when I was last out in Oct. The photos are spectacular!!!! So clear, so concise, you can't tell if they are real or a little CG. The photo above is not my fav - that would be Oil Refinery #3 - sounds kinda odd...
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Manufacturing #17: Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, China (2005) by Edward Burtynsky.
fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
AMSTERDAM.- With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
For years Edward Burtynsky has claimed he is not a particularly political artist. He can no longer make that claim: The Corcoran/Steidl catalogue for ‘Edward Burtynsky: Oil’ is the most immediately political museum catalogue I’ve seen. It is a catalogue that may — should? — impact the way museums and kunsthalles approach contemporary art catalogues [...]
Hrag Vartanian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
These two lines put a smile on my face. In all the zaniness about the New Museum we’ve forgotten that artists shouldn’t only strive to decorate the homes of the super rich but lead or mold discussions on important topics that impact our global culture. While some artists simply reflect society, some are critical of it [...]
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
For years Edward Burtynsky has claimed he is not a particularly political artist. He can no longer make that claim: The Corcoran/Steidel catalogue for 'Edward Burtynsky: Oil' is the most immediately political museum catalogue I've seen. It is a catalogue that may -- should? -- impact the way museums and kunsthalles approach contemporary art catalogues and exhibitions. It includes the standard: A strong...
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Wonderful set of posts by Tyler Green about Edward Burtynsky's 'Oil' at the Corcoran ; here's part 2 .
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Edward Burtynsky's photographs about our reliance on oil (on view now at the Corcoran) include a kind of trap. The pictures are beautiful. A Burtynsky picture of the landscape near extraction facility outside Fort McMurray, Alberta , looks like a classic Western landscape, complete with big sky, a reflection of a just-right cloudscape and endlessly unfolding hills. But look closely: That sky isn't...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
An artist interested in tackling a big subject -- a subject such as mankind's dependence on oil -- has a tough job: You can't do it in one picture. Photographer Edward Burtynsky understands that. For the last 12 years he's taken hundreds of pictures in an effort to document our relationship with oil. A thrilling, haunting exhibition of 56 of them, "Edward Burtynsky: Oil," is on view now...
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Edward Burtynsky: Oil Edward Burtynsky: Oil from Corcoran Gallery of Art on Vimeo .
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
On a summer day in St. Catherines, Ontario , a 25-year old Edward Burtynsky reported for a temporary job at the local General Motors plant. He'd been around auto plants his entire life: his dad had been a line worker for GM and in the 1960's and 1970's and it seemed like everyone in St. Catherines worked for either GM or Ford. When Ed finished high school, he worked some stints in auto plants, stamping...
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It's not original thinking to put rail transit on freeways. Even if the New York Times thinks it is and deemed it necessary to run this not very interesting op-ed, " Revolutionary Road ." But it's dangerous thinking. Freeways allow people to get to and from places, but generally they don't connect activity centers and neighborhoods very directly. From the article: WITH the unemployment rate...
The Morning News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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