VFGY9

1979 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

Larry Bell

location: Venice, California
year born: 1939
gender: male
nationality: American
home town: Chicago, Illinois

Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight. The blocks resemble a stone carving, or slabs of wood shaped into a simple organic composition whose overall sheen is varied through a thin layer of aluminum vapor. Yet, the real material of Bell’s piece is actually light, formed within the viewer’s eye into masses as present as stone.


Often associated with the Light and Space movement—which as also includes James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and John McCracken—Larry Bell has been an important figure and influence in the West Coast contemporary art scene since the early 1960s. Less interested in the material, concrete qualities of the object than in heightening awareness of the environment in which it is situated, his abstract geometric sculptural works possess a certain mystical aspect and engage the viewer in a myriad of perceptual experiences.


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Untitled
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John McCracken

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Perro en Tlalpan (Dog in Tlalpan)
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Gabriel Orozco

1992

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This is not in Spanish
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Sergio De La Torre

2011

This is not in Spanish looks at the ways in which the Chinese population in Mexico navigates the daily marginalization they encounter there...

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Tree on Keystone
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Lucas Blalock

2011

Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...

three, three, three
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Lucas Blalock

2013

Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...

Towhead n’Ganga enclosed in darkness, lorded over by the sexualized folded high priestless form
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Mike Kelley

1996

Towhead n’Ganga, enclosed in darkness, lorded over by the sexualized folded high priestless form reflects many of Kelley’s works, in both its compositional and semantic qualities...

Higher Horse
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Kate Gilmore

2008

In the six-minute single-channel video Higher Horse , Kate Gilmore perches herself on top of a tall pile of plaster blocks, in front of a pink colored wall with vein-like streaks of red...

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Untitled (Construction)
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Larry Bell

2007

Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...

Tree on Keystone
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Lucas Blalock

2011

Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...

three, three, three
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Lucas Blalock

2013

Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...

Color of History, Sweating Rocks
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Ranu Mukherjee

2011

Conceived as a large-scale mural-like projection, Color of History, Sweating Rocks is a neo-futuristic, hybrid film that combines cinematic language, collage, animation, and inventive forms to highlight the plight of the peoples of the Sahara—and refugees in general—who have been displaced by oil-mining....

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Gated Commune
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Camel Collective

2018

Gated Commune , a video by Camel Collective, is a critique of the complex, and often obtuse, language used to describe sustainable development projects...

The Great Adventure of the Material World Knight
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Lu Yang

2021

The Great Adventure of the Material World Knight by Lu Yang is a video game world in which an androgynous protagonist goes on a hero’s journey to overcome their understanding of the material world as a coherent, objective truth...

Photography Exhibition - DartBLAY: Corinne Vachon - Si Loin, Si Proche
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© 2023 All rights reserved - The Eye of Photography Jour de pêche - Russie 2019 © Corinne Vachon Ali Khan - Afghanistan 2019 © Corinne Vachon Rosan Gela - Pérou 2022 © Corinne Vachon Shambi Balas - Afghanistan 2019 © Corinne Vachon Jeunes Nénètses - Russie 2018 © Corinne Vachon On the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain and PARIS PHOTO, DartBLAY a gallery in Paris since 2011, presents SI LOIN, SI PROCHE, an exhibition displaying the photographic diary of Corinne Vachon, around the world...

Final works and a Pokemon mashup: New van Gogh exhibitions
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Final works and a Pokemon mashup: New van Gogh exhibitions - arts24 Skip to main content Final works and a Pokemon mashup: New van Gogh exhibitions Issued on: 06/10/2023 - 16:58 11:53 arts24 © FRANCE 24 screengrab By: Marion CHAVAL | Aline BOTTIN | Magali FAURE | Alison SARGENT In this roundup of cultural news, we kick off with the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature: Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse...

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Sirens
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Paul Kos

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Taking its title from the eponymous mythological creature—famously featured as sea nymphs in Homer’s Odyssey...

Sound of Ice Melting
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Paul Kos

1970

Sound of Ice Melting is based on the ancient Zen Buddhist koan about the sound of one hand clapping...

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Parked on the shoulder of a single lane highway running through a desert landscape, Marlene looks over her shoulder from inside the car at a fierce storm looming over a distant horizon...

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Untitled (Construction)
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Larry Bell

2007

Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...

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Untitled
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John McCracken

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Les allégories
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Chloé Quenum

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Ballerina
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2010

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