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Québec Triennial 2011; The Work Ahead of Us is currently underway at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal. While the show features contemporary work by a variety of Quebec-based artists, the Triennial is North American in scope as many of the artists were born outside of the province. We had the privilege of attending the opening last Thursday and were impressed with the overall ambitiousness of the work. The following were some standouts- Chris Kline continues to unleash beautifully minimal paintings with his signature blue translucent sheen. Jessica Eaton’s photographs continually push the envelope with regards to photographic techniques. Séripop’s installation is a highly colorized visual onslaught; it covers three walls, the floor and features a freestanding paper-based structure that towers within the museum. Mathieu Beauséjour’s Icarus (the Triennial’s top line image above) is mammoth in size and direct in its graphic appeal. Nuna Amun’s work is brilliantly inset in a wall and thinly grouted over; get up close and check it out. Lastly, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Vectorial Elevation (which is outside the museum and visible at night) is an outstanding, interactive work that illuminates the sky with searchlights- it’s arguably the city’s best public installation in recent years. The Québec Triennial runs until January 3rd 2012.
CRAIG REDMAN’S “PROTAGONIST” EXHIBITION IN MILAN
Having worked on projects for clients like LVMH, Nike, Apple, Vogue, Microsoft, Converse, MTV and The New York Times, NY based artist Craig Redman has worked with his partner Karl Maier to create works of art that have exhibited at the Louvre as well. Keeping things fluid, Redman continues with an exhibit called Protagonist that showed at two Slam Jam stores in Milan.
The artist presented a series of portraits in his usual colorful modern graphical style. On show were some prominent faces, including Kanye West, Woody Allen, the Pope, Terry Richardson, Lady Gaga, Takashi Murakami, LeBron James and others.
Photography: Marco Marzocchi / Giorgio Ranu
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▣ The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci
The golden ratio, also known as the golden mean, is a number with some truly amazing properties. This number is equal to 1 plus the square root of 5, all divided by 2. Rounded to 10 decimal places, it is equal to 1.6180339887. The golden ratio has fascinated people throughout history, and as a result, it appears in numerous works of art and architecture. In addition, the ratio occurs in nature as well as in geometry and in connection with the Fibonacci sequence. [via]
✩ examples, facts and other coolnesses:
- Fibonacci Quilt : Here is a quilt whose design is based on Fibonacci numbers!
- “Fibonacci Sequence” Music Video : A music video for the song “Fibonacci Sequence” by BT, using experimental time changes and different filters.
- Fibonacci Sequence on the Ukulele : The Fibonacci Sequence can be used in musical composition!
- “Lateralus” Music Video : The music video “Lateralus” by Tool uses images from the Hubble telescope along with information about the use the Fibonacci Sequence in the song and in their album.
- Leonardo da Vinci : Leonardo da Vinci used the Fibonacci Sequence in his paintings due to their aesthetic appeal.
- Martina Schettina : Schettina is an artist who uses Fibonacci numbers in her paintings, which have been popularized as “Mathemagic paintings”.
- The World’s Best Photos of the Fibonacci Sequence : Look at pictures of the occurrence of the Fibonacci Sequence in nature!
- The Fibonacci sequence is mentioned in the children’s book Math Curse by Jon Scieszka. [ ◐ i used to love this book as a kid :) ]
- Black Star’s song, Astronomy (8th Light) from the 1998 album Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star, features the Fibonacci sequence in the chorus:
- Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
- It’s the third eye vision, five side dimension
- The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
[listen to the song here]
- The Criminal Minds episode “Masterpiece” in season 4 features a serial killer who uses Fibonacci sequences to choose both the amount of victims at a given time and the location of their hometowns. [via]
↑ check out Graphic Nothing’s flickr photostream. “The Golden Ratio (61.804%) is huge influence in much of the work here, with many pieces containing shapes that are expressions of it in various ways.”
◘ The Rule of Thirds: Why it works and how to use it in your art
