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john gerrard
@john__gerrard
Joined November 2011
- November 6th 2024 Artwork: john gerrard, Flare (Oceania) 2022. Courtesy the artist @john__gerrard and Pace Gallery @PaceGallery
00:00 - Corn Work, housed in a mirror polished pavilion has opened by the River Corrib at Claddagh Quay, Galway. Four folk figures, the Straw Boys, remade virtually, perform a symbolic wheel of production. Commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival for Galway 2020 #mirrorpavilion
00:00 - Western Flag. An artwork by John Gerrard, commissioned by @Channel4 for #EarthDay See more all4.com/westernflag & westernflag.art
00:00 - What we need is a new academy. The art school is in complete crisis right now, and people are producing work that is more conservative & analog, & more influenced by the art fair, which is a catastrophe for contemporary art. I think contemporary art is backsliding into nostalgia.
- Anyone who missed my zoom lecture this evening on crystalline work for @FeralFile which actually begins in 1994 and gives an overview of my art life in data with pieces such as Western Flag ... find it here : vimeo.com/960634635
00:00 - love is ... acquiring Tower#31 for my personal collection at the end of a very interesting art year + as we gear up for the great decade of the digital... Thank you @andreasgysin + @fx_hash_ Towers just get better + better A bit like @kimasendorf Monogrids beta.fxhash.xyz/iteration/towe…
00:00 - Flare (Oceania) 2021 by John Gerrard at @COP26 Responding to Tongan artist + activist Uili Lousi whose ancestral ocean is changing due to global warming. Shown as large-scale LED at Uni of Glasgow, 5-6 Nov. @UofGlasgow @hunterian @Artofchange21 @SE_Foundation @PaceGallery
00:00 - ‘crystalline work’ my solo show & annual data performance is live on feralfile.com now. I will present an open public zoom talk on the work Monday 17th at 1400 EDT / 1900 GMT+1 / 2000 CEST : us06web.zoom.us/j/85942114663
00:00 - Banging the drum for generative art @wallpapermag in an article by Nick Compton. Particular shout out to @kimasendorf whose work I admire hugely. Also a grumble about where the mainstream artworld has gone (or not gone) in the last two decades ....
- Tomorrow is last chance to see Corn Work at Claddagh, Galway. Here's a shoot from dawn to bid farewell to the installation. Four simulated straw figures walk a solar wheel beside the Corrib River. Commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival for Galway2020. 🎥 Ros Kavanagh
00:00 - Amazing opening for visionary @HerbertWFranke at Francisco Carolinum, Linz + also getting to meet and hang out w/ @WeidingerAlfred @thisaintanika @RossnerManuel @Damjanski @martina_menegon @quasimondo @kevinabosch @JanRobertLeegte This is a killer HF 60's plotter drawing ... 😍😍
- crystalline work (arctic) 1 performs live on @FeralFile all this solar year. Today on the winter solstice the robot presents a pure mirrored surface, 12 ray snowflake. season: autumn. vibration level inaudible 12. See & collect the performance here : feralfile.com/explore/exhibi… 🧵
00:00 - Today is Earth Day. If in London see #WesternFlag, commissioned by Channel4, on a massive LED wall @somersethouse #earthday #johngerrard
