#Oliver Beer

[mentaltimetraveller]

Oliver Beer Resonance Painting (West Coast), 2022 Pigment on canvas 100 x 75 cm

at Thaddaeus Ropac

[victusinveritas]

Art by Oliver Beer

Oma’s Kitchen Floor

2008

Linoleum floor tiles

“Oma was the name I called my grandmother. She put the lino down in the 1960’s and over four decades her feet gradually wore through the decorative pattern.

Over the years marks appeared in front of the oven, the sink, the front door, where she turned around in front of the fridge, where she sat at her table shuffling her feet.

Like a drawing made over forty years, these worn patches describe half a lifetime of movement.” https://www.oliverbeer.co.uk/omas-kitchen-floor-2008

[nedison]

Oma's Kitchen Floor by Oliver Beer immediately put me in mind of this Simpsons scene.

Mmmmm... Oliver Beer...

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Oliver Beer: Resonance Painting (Short Ride in a Fast Machine).

[petnews2day]

Oliver Beer and His “Cat Orchestra” Create Cosmic Paintings

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Oliver Beer and His “Cat Orchestra” Create Cosmic Paintings

Art Maxwell Rabb Portrait of Oliver Beer performing during “Resonance Paintings – Cat Orchestra” at Almine Rech in Tribeca, 2024. Photo by Thomas Barratt. Courtesy of Almine Rech. In 1650, occult philosopher Athanasius Kircher conceived an instrument as peculiar as it was provocative: the Katzenklavier (or cat organ), where live cats, arranged by the pitch […]

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[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Want a beer? Eh, probably more than one

[art-h]

I have left this post for a while as I wanted to sit with the experiences and feelings that the pieces evoked. On the 8th December we attended the British Art Show 9 in Plymouth. I have been to exhibitions at galleries previously, but the work on show here was something extraordinary for me. Placed across 4 art galleries & featuring the work of 32 artists of different fields and specialties. I was truly overwhelmed and invigorated with the ideas and forms the exhibitions displayed. I came home totally unable to communicate how much I had taken in, hence needing to sit with the ideas for a while. I decided to select the most inspiring pieces to talk about to make it easier to concentrate.

This piece is an interesting place to start. By Than Hussein Clark; this deconstructed baby grand piano at first glance didn't look like anything to me, so I thought it was meant to represent how, as humans, we only see things as they are presented, not how they could be seen. This idea was astonishing to me as I take it for granted that so many things are just as they are. I do not look at trees and see future tables and chairs or papers on which to be printed. I do not see a table as anything else than a functional, occasionally beautiful piece of furniture. But to look at a piano sawed to pieces and reconstructed as a sculpture really opened my mind to a wealth of new ways of looking at things. It was only when I looked at the accompanying card that I found out that it was meant to be a camel!

This next triptych moved me somewhat. The stained glass pieces by Elaine Mitchener feature scenes from her performance work "Sweet Tooth". I have since watched the performance on the back of seeing this info card. For anyone who is interested, you can watch it here:

I found it deeply moving as it explore the premise and ideas surrounding slavery. Even though I studied the Triangular Trade in school, it never sunk in how it would feel to be treated as a possession. In much the same way as any object. If we broke a plate, we would discard it and probably purchase a new one. In times of slavery, this was no different for humans. If they were no longer up to the use you purchased them for, they would be discarded, either by murder or abandonment. Even in the 21st century - a very current dialogue that needs to be discussed and understood by all.

I went into this piece thinking about the power of audio/visual art forms that we have learned in our Mac Training sessions with Cally and Dan. Most recently, the ideas behind projection mapping. I had never heard of GAIKA or his work but found the sounds on the headphones coupled with the visual shown above to be quite evocative. I wanted to understand more about how he wanted to portray this animation of man by machine, I found the video below very useful for explaining the indescrible emotions the visuals and sounds made me feel.

This final one - was the most profound experience of the day which I am still processing.

An audial and totemic piece, the photo above depict the work of Oliver Beer that he named "Household Gods". I was already drawn in by this title as I am acutely aware of the term from my previous reading of ancient civilisations. Oliver positioned objects belonging to his Grandmother, Mother and Sister with microphones in and around them on pillars of varying heights to show the viewer the sounds objects make in relation to their surroundings. And that sound is being constantly fed into speaking which utterly immerse the viewer in an experience that truly feeds the intellect and stimulates thought that would otherwise be ignored. I went to view this twice, the first time I was alone and I was transcended into thoughts of my own upbringing, how there were items that belonged to my family that still evoke memories of them. What made me stop and think was the idea that objects are subjected to vibrations of all kinds of sounds that, in some microscopic way, might still be reverberating inside them to this day; like the rings on a tree can reflect what was happening in the world around it at the time. It made me wonder how, like the ripples on water, vibrations never really fade away and how sound is an almost ignored sense; for instance our brains are programmed to drown out background noise or focus on a very select sound that could pose threats to us. It made me reevaluate how emotive sound can be, for example I've often wondered how the highest pitch in Allegri's Miserere never fails to bring tears to my eyes and yet I've no idea why. When I did finally leave my solitude in this piece I came across Dan, who was capturing some local shots and was on his way to the Mirror Gallery where this was located. I was aware of his background as a sound engineer and how impassioned he gets when talking about his chosen field. I didn't go into detail about the Household Gods piece, just that there was a piece I wanted to see how he would react to. It was truly an acutely vicarious experience to witness how someone with a deep wellspring of passion for the field felt about the piece. We then sat and discussed the almost metaphysical experiences that sounds and their place within objects have an unseen history. Very much informed by the cliche "If these walls could talk", we discussed at length how objects can in fact "listen" to what we say in their proximity. Our voices work on vibrations which are interpreted by how they bounce off of our ear drums and again interpreted by our brains in microseconds and while objects might not have the interpretive powers of our brains, they can still receive the vibrations of what we say and then once those vibrations dissipate, the sound becomes part of the objects life and existent history.

A fantastic day that inspired me in so many ways. I am grateful beyond words to have experienced all of it.

[s2buddie]

i am speechless

[visually-corrupted]

[monachopism]

i really do hope at some point buck is comfortable enough talking abt his sexuality to casually tell eddie at one point how attracted he was to him initially

"yknow, i didn't see it at the time, but im pretty sure the reason i was mean to you when we met was because i had a crush on you."

"you- uh- you did?"

"yeah, weird right?

"weird"

and then maybe.....messy kiss? miscommunication trope? mutual pining? slowburn? idk pick ur poison

[mentaltimetraveller]

Oliver Beer Resonance Paintings—Blue Notes 28 January—11 March 2023 Salzburg Villa Kast

[endlich-allein]

After the elevator, Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, 31-07-2024 @ ignite.black

[mydarlinglaszlo]

he gets it

[discordinthediscordorsomething]

[clove-pinks]

Tonight's find in the grocery store: Commodore Perry IPA!!! omg @ussporcupine I've finally made it! To the land of—to the other land of Commodore Perry.

I'm drinking one now, to see for myself if it is "Victoriously hopped, with an arsenal of caramel malt flavors befitting the Hero of Lake Erie."

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Hey Babe Have A Beer