<span style="font-style: italic;">"Whether you comprehend it or not, you don’t understand it all. It’s infinite."</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Lynda Benglis</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Like a tower ready to fall, Spinning over the ground"</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> - Mark Eitzel</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">vs</span><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">anti form: the perpetuation of FORM is functioning idealism</span>" <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Robert Morri<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">s</span>, 1968</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5988260324_940d110363_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5988260324_940d110363_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 540px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><br />Lynda Benglis EAT MEAT, 1969/75 Bronze</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Like a tower ready to fall, Spinning over the ground</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Like the gorilla ride, <span style="font-weight: bold;">There's moments and minutes</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">There's seasons and there's dreams, Glued onto dreams,<br />And everything's beautiful"</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Mark Eitzel</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lynda Benglis' retrospective</span></span> finally makes it to the West Coast, after being at the<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/432"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> New Museum</span></a> </span>in New York for the first half of 2011! The opening at<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=449"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> MOCA</span> </a></span>is this weekend, and her work will slowly be slumping into our subconscious. Benglis' "fallen paintings" and post-minimal sculptures shaped my perceptions of space and interiors. I was introduced to her work about the same time I was reading <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Daybook-Journey-Artist-Anne-Truitt/dp/0140069631" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Anne Truitt's Davbook</a></span>. To this day, I still think of some of Benglis' works as "melted Anne Truitts." It's strange how the mind works.<br /><br />If <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"space is the place</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"</span>, then I'd like to be on my back, slumped on "EAT MEAT 1969/1975" staring at the stars, and thinking about collapsing post-modern forms and fallen civilizations. <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">------------<br /></div><br /><br /><br />"But actually it’s really <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">a marriage between the conscious and the unconscious that occupies the creative mind. </span></span>I find what the materials can do and within that context there is that decision-making. In the beginning I romanticized it; and you can say what you want, it is still confined by the format. I saw visions of clouds yesterday; you couldn’t imagine how complicated they were on all horizons. That’s one reason I love New Mexico! The kinds of images of the clouds are infinite. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I think we deal with an <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">INFINITE </span>imagination!</span></span></span> This is how the artists must get the God-complex! However, the artist is always dealing with the bounds of the material and the unbounded nature of the universe and of the imagination – and trying to mark the time. Whether you comprehend it or not, you don’t understand it all.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> It’s infinite</span></span>."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />( <strong>Lynda Benglis</strong> talks to <em>Marina Cashdan,<a href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_article/time-tide/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> via FRIEZE</span>. take time to read the entire article here.</a>)<br /><br />lyrics taken from Mark Eitzel's 60 Watt Silver Lining<br /><br />check out <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2011/01/when-formless-becomes-attitude-it-was.html" style="font-weight: bold;">FORMLESS Furniture</a>.... the MAK exhibtion catalog.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /></em>

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