Barragan vs. Mangold : "The Quiet Revolution"

<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"try me, senseless today.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span> before daylight they came.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">falling, not to get up.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span> before, nothing could change.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7315244118_d83c70305f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7315244118_d83c70305f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 690px; height: 969px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7315171624_b85b16343e_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7315171624_b85b16343e_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 499px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />"try me, so tender. the last time it's so nice to get there.<br />try me, so tender. bet you don't foget to wonder too.<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> a balance has taken so long.</span></span>"<br /><br /><br />1.<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Luis Barragan House</span></span>, Tacubaya, Mexico City 1947 ... "Through a combination of International Style and traditional Mexican architecture and materials, Barragan created a modernism not of industrialized Europe, but of pre-industrial Mexico, not of sleek steel and glass but of warm, natural materials; <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">not of the modernist "machine for living" but of spaces that respect human needs.</span></span> - "Barragan" Armando Salas Portugal photographs, Rizzoli<br /><br /><br />2. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julia Mangold</span></span> Untitled, 1994 Waxed steel 100 x 205 x 15 cm Private collection, USA. <a href="http://www.barthacontemporary.com/jmangold/works/steel_wall_sculptures.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bartha Contemporary.</span></a> ... "Striped to a bare minimum Mangold’s sculptures and works on paper reflect on a visual language associated with early American Minimalism as well as European concrete art, however rather than merely relying on a limited notion of romanticised modernism or an hard edge aesthetic the artist’s works evolve through a refined play on human scale and the deliberate confrontation of precise forms and sensual surfaces.<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> It is the artist’s inherent ability to unite these two seemingly opposing traits, which in turn lend the works an extraordinary sense of presence."</span></span><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTtNXkVy3s" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">all lyrics by sea and cake, "everyday"</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;" >--------------------</span>

Barragan vs. Mangold : "The Quiet Revolution"

"try me, senseless today. before daylight they came. falling, not to get up. before, nothing could change. "try me, so tender. ...

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