Lens Flare and the series Untitled Basel Lens Flare (6168, 5950, 7497) were part of a solo project by the artist presented at ArtBasel in 2009. Included in the Kadist Collection, these works continue to explore the ontology of the image to investigate the relationship between painting, photography, and a new time-based variable: film. Reduced here to the essential function of recording the exposure of light through the apparatus of a lens, Kantor then translated these film stills into painted colored canvases that retain the 3:4 aspect ratio of the 16mm film as well as the exact size of the projected image. The resulting paintings depict the “lens flares” in the film—the fleeting reflective glare inside the camera apparatus that results from when its lens is pointed directly at a bright light source.
Jordan Kantor’s artworks explore relationships between painting and photographic mediums. Unified by an overarching logic rather than a singular aesthetic approach—and strongly informed by art history—his interdisciplinary practice addresses discourses in contemporary image culture through the lens of conceptually-driven painting.
Eclipse is a series of screenprints from Jordan Kantor’s larger vitrine installation that included reworkings of a single image of a small group viewing an eclipse through shielding cut-outs...
Berlin Bad Boy Artist Jonathan Meese: 'I'm the sweet boy of art!' - arts24 Skip to main content Berlin Bad Boy Artist Jonathan Meese: 'I'm the sweet boy of art!' Issued on: 31/08/2023 - 16:57 11:45 ENCORE! © FRANCE 24 By: Marion CHAVAL | Magali FAURE | Eve JACKSON Follow | Yinka OYETADE | Loïc CHALAVON It's back-to-school time here in France, which means a whole new season of cultural gems to look out for...
Eclipse is a series of screenprints from Jordan Kantor’s larger vitrine installation that included reworkings of a single image of a small group viewing an eclipse through shielding cut-outs...
Lens Flare and the series Untitled Basel Lens Flare (6168, 5950, 7497) were part of a solo project by the artist presented at ArtBasel in 2009...
Reborn, 2010 is a three-channel video by Desiree Holman that questions ideas of motherhood and the maternal instinct...
Victory at Sea is a simple mechanism made from cardboard and found materials that mimics the Phenakistoscope, an early cinematic apparatus...
The title Untitled Passport II was first used by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in an unlimited edition of small booklets, each containing sequenced photographs of a soaring bird against an open sky...
Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky...
Yosuke Takeda gives the viewer brightly colored views, each of which he has searched out and patiently waited for...
Yosuke Takeda gives the viewer brightly colored views, each of which he has searched out and patiently waited for...
Set to the iconic and spiritual music of Alice Coltrane’s Turiyasangitananda (1937–2007), Cauleen Smith’s film Sojourner travels across the US to visit a series of sites important to an alternative and creative narrative of black history...
Was Rauschenberg’s grand prize win at the 1964 Venice Biennale a US plot, or just good PR? Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Film review Was Rauschenberg’s grand prize win at the 1964 Venice Biennale a US plot, or just good PR? A new documentary delves into the machinations that led to the upstart American artist’s stunning triumph at the art world’s Olympics David D'Arcy 15 December 2023 Share Robert Rauschenberg (right foreground) receives from Italian Minister of Education, Luigi Gui (left foreground), the top prize for the best foreign painting at the Venice Biennale in 1964 Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo In 1964, the American artist Robert Rauschenberg was awarded the grand prize at the Venice Biennale...