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THE STATUE or PYGMALION

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Dia Al-Azzawi, The Human Condition, 1976

oil on canvas

59 x 47in. (150 x 119.5cm.)

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Journal de bord - La guerre me fout les boules

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John Coburn, The Lovers, 1959

oil on board

122.0 x 91.5 cm

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THE MACHINIST’S REVENGE

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* To create, one must first question everything. Eileen Gray

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JOHN COBURN (1925-2006) Light and Thorn, 1959

oil on composition board

122.5 x 71.5cm

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John Coburn, Edge of the Desert, 1963

oil on composition board

92 x 122 cm

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Constantin BRANCUSI - La Sorcière

Sculpture en bois sur socle réalisée de 1916 à 1924

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Josef Rikus, Abstrakte Form, n.d., limewood, Paderborn, Diözesanmuseum. Photo from June 2023.

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Casa Girasol, Valle de Bravo, Mexico,

Designed by Derek Dellekamp and Jachen Schleich,

Interiors by Locus

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Alexander Calder - Croisière, 1931

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Willy KREITZ (1903-1982) - Tête asiatique, 1969

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Benito Viliano Tarabella (1937 - 2003)

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Tom Wilkinson | Le Merveilleux Jardin Secret de Bella Brown (Comédie) Fi...

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Gordon Studer, Absorbed, 2023

Mixed media on wood panel

12×12 in

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NO BIRD HAS THE HEART TO SING IN A THICKET OF QUESTIONS

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In the modern era, one of the most active metaphors for the spiritual project is "art." The activities of the painter, the musician, the poet, the dancer, once they were grouped together under that generic name (a relatively recent move), have proved a particularly adaptable site on which to stage the formal dramas besetting consciousness, each individual work of art being a more or less astute paradigm for regulating or reconciling these contradictions. Of course, the site needs continual refurbishing. Whatever goal is set for art eventually proves restrictive, matched against the widest goals of consciousness. Art, itself a form of mystification, endures a succession of crises of demystification; older artistic goals are assailed and, ostensibly, replaced; outworn maps of consciousness are redrawn. But what supplies all these crises with their energy -- an energy held in common, so to speak -- is the very unification of numerous, quite disparate activities into a single genus. At the moment when "art" comes into being, the modem period of art begins. From then on, any of the activities therein subsumed becomes a profoundly problematic activity, all of whose procedures and, ultimately, whose very right to exist can be called into question she says

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Joan Mitchell - untitled, 1955.