Primordial Humaness
Looking for the Face I had before the world was made
by Terry Talty
January 30, 2010
Paintings by Belgian artist Michael Borremans at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
DENVER, COLORADO - Representing the human face in art is a little like saying aloud who you're sleeping with. You're telling people what you find attractive. When you paint faces, you're showing what you think is human. Painters have more trouble with it today because representing a particular face accurately puts that painting into a sub-genre of art: photorealism, portraiture, realism. Many contemporary artists use a cartoon, a symbol, or some other kind of messy mark or gesture to depict the meta-face, or the every-face. Michaël Borremans blur some, and focuses well on the nondescript parts struggling to find another way to that universal face.
The show called Looking for the face I had before the world was made is six-different exhibitions by six artists (or artist teams) that opened Jan. 29 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Borremans' paintings, about 10, are in the main floor gallery. More Looking for the face I had ...
What would you look like as a building
Looking for the Face I had before the world was made
by Terry Talty
January 30, 2010
DENVER, COLORADO - If you were a drawing of a building, what kind of building would you be? Follow this, to read more about the A.G. Rizzoli exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ....
Never Dead Poets
Looking for the Face I had before the world was made
by Terry Talty
January 29, 2010
The language is that of Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright who gave us Waiting for Godot and many other surrealistic plays and stories. The lips are a 2 foot by 1 foot video projection made before the playwright died in 1989, and it is installed in a completely black room at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The background of the face or anything else that would be on the screen is black. The projected lips are a deep value of black, the mouth less deep and the teeth white, and moving as fast as the lips.
Of course this image is intriguing. Is it the face I had before the world was made? as the title of this six-part exhibition at the MCA is called?
Read more at Beckett, Looking for the Face I Had Before the World ...
In Human Scale
Looking for the Face I had before the world was made
by Terry Talty
January 29, 2010
Drawings by William Stockman in the paperwork gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Photos:Terry Talty
It never seems like much at the time - what happens in a day - but when these days are put together it could be amazingly rich. Particularly if they are drawing, and enormous.
The images William Stockman pulled out from 2009 to put on the walls of the Contemporary are enormous. Stockman's drawings are one part of the 6-part exhibition called Looking for the Face I had before the World was Made that opened January 29, 2010. Read on about MCA Denver..