Memento 2
Derek Knight: Observational / Stream of consciousness
January 7, 2024 (10:15 am)
New York Rooftops; a waterborne statue [near the Giardini]; a wooden ark in a baroque palazzo; a bronze rock outside the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Tracey Emin; Neptune; plastic jugs and neon; a crushed red car; a monument; London skyline; dog of flowers; a cyclist; coloured stripe mural. Barcelona; New York; Paris; London. Ornamental railing at the Hotel Praktik Ramba; La biennale; [Glenn Ligon’s] Double America; parking garage in Rotterdam; Bilbao; Gaudi; Goya; Caravaggio. Dome; [unicorn] garden monument; Louis XlV bust; Modernism; speed; [Milan cathedral] pinnacles; grass lawn; dazzle ship; [oval] window, Tapies Foundation, Barcelona; Neo-Classicism; steel perforated wall; Donald Judd metal boxes; neon; Roman ruins; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; stripes; Fondazione Prada, Rome. Do Ho Suh staircase, Tate Modern; domed Venice; picturesque garden at Stourhead; nude; [exterior of Dylan Thomas’] writing shed in Laughlin, Wales; Stourhead garden; Dylan’s desk; coloured neon; rust; green; Venice; San Marco; empty room; Virgin Mary; dome interior; Pace Gallery; minimalist; blood flowers [on the Met roof]; staircase; wooden column; America; police [phalanx]; [iron] statues on Liverpool beach; [female] statue in [Rotterdam forecourt]; Mickey Mouse [and George Washington]; Matthew Marks Gallery. The Deep of the Modern; Pope [John-Paul ll]; my orange [plastic capsule at the Venice biennale]; chairs in Venice; Ordinary World; Tate Modern; sky viewed through a perforated metal wall; statue reflected; Maurizio Cattelan’s [suspended] horse at the Guggenheim; Peace is the Nu Funky; James Rosenquist’s F-111; Pantheon; Richard Wilson’s oil bunker; sun burst; The Afterlife of Images, Yan Lei’s is itpaintings at documenta halle; Tate Modern; Rodin; Warhol; Guggenheim; circular temple [at Stourhead]; Milan; Caixa Forum, Madrid; tulips; water; columns; rusted Corten steel sculptures; Urs Fisher’s wax Giambologna; Towers; Every Building on the Sunset Strip; Turin; St. Paul’s; City of London School; chairs [at the Hamburger Gallery, Berlin]; block [modernist] building [juxtaposed] to a Gothic church [in Münster]; Barcelona cityscape toward the Mediterranean; Liverpool beach; Gaudi; Art Gallery of Ontario; flying figure; Pop Life; Triumphant Secretions…; MACRO, Rome; Hedwin Cathedral, Berlin; Ara Pacis Augustae; out of focus dome; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; interior garden (National Gallery of Canada); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; mother and child; hands of God; dirigible; R. Mutt, 1917; Carsten Holler Experience; [forensic reconstruction of] crashed aircraft, Bologna; TRACK, Ghent; [Imperial] Roman busts; Hotel Gent; Checkpoint Charlie; Tate Modern; War Memorial [Ottawa]. Rome, Venice, Liverpool, Berlin. Love It, Shove It; Blame It [Barbara Kruger]. Gilded [equestrian statue]; coal mine, Ghenk, Belgium; Le Corbusier; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; [mine] shaft; Picasso; nude; Adam and Eve; ball; Angel Gabriel; Jeff Koons’ Rabbit; vases; Minimalism; graffitied train cars [in Antwerp station]; Ai Weiwei bicycles; Hell, Yes!; bicycles; Madonna of the drain pipe; It’s the End Bili the Kid; Berlin Wall and the Topography of Terror; Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin; Canada [Venice pavilion]; Maillol; Monet; Rodin. Post-industrial; boiler house; Modernist; Venice; Whitney biennial, New York; Venice Arsenale; Blind Idealism (Barbara Kruger); Chrysler Building; Maillol; water tower; gilded building [Fondazione Prada]; It’s All True (Bruce Connor); red neon; Cadmium; blue neon; green neon; all colours; Vancouver Art Gallery; velvet couch; Silo City Buffalo; Haida carving, Northwest Coast; the Fabric of our Land; Mother and Child; water rock with Leonardo inscription; belfry; Broken Pyramid; All Art Has Been Contemporary; Salon style in Boston; Jeff Koons; Diana Thater projection; We Wanted a Revolution [Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston]; Jeff Koons’ Rabbit; Ed Ruscha’s Standard; Evolution Revolution Now What?; The Kitchen; Manhattan Fruit Exchange; crushed car; MUMOK, Vienna; Hope!; Blue Blood Bruise; When There’s No Safe Space…; BGL Canadassimo; plaster body parts; Carnation Milk; Johnnie Walker; Austrian [pavilion]; Pierre Huyghe’s After Alife Ahead [Münster Skulptur Projecte]; Me; Ibrahim Mahama’s cocoa bean sacks; walking on water [in Münster]; discus throwers; Parthenon [constructed from banned] books; George Orwell; Joseph Beuys; orange intervention; winged horse; cross through Hitler; purple and red bricks; Being Safe is Scary; It is distressing to think… New York Yellow Cab; spectral chairs; Brückenhof; I Was a Stranger and You Took Me In…; Do Not Enter; Stati Uniti d’America; yellow and red panels; fountain; New York rooves; German pavilion; Le Corbusier; upside down truck; Paris; [Anne Imhoff’s Faust] performance; equestrian statue; Warhol; Warhol; Warhol; Duchamp; General Idea; Banksy is not for sale; Warhol; Basquiat; Pontormo. Benin copies; Bologna; Art Deco; St. David’s Cathedral, Wales; Henry Moore, Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Houghton Hall, Norfolk; Italianate mansion; Richard Long slate circle; Roy Lichtenstein [dot matrix]; Tate Modern; Capturing the Moment; The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist; Felix Gonzales-Torres’ lights hanging from a cord; Please Mourn…[Barbara Kruger]; neon corridor [at the Villa Panza, Varese]; Damien Hirst; the [eye of the] Pantheon…
Images:
Villa Panza, Varese, Italy. Corridor lit by Dan Flavin's neon installations (© dk 2012).
Imran Qureshi (b. 1972, Pakistan), "Roof Garden Commission," 2013, acrylic paint on concrete patio, detail. Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA (© dk 2013).
William I. Koch Gallery, (Gallery 250), European Painting 1550-1700, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (© dk 2018).
Dan Flavin (1933-96, USA), "Untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection)," 1973, fluorescent light tubes, Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA (© dk 2015).
Rembrandt van Rijn (1604-69, Holland), "The Night Watch," 1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland (© dk 2013).
Caitlin Hurd (b. 1978, US), “Flying Animals,” 2010, 8 x 140 ft. Street mural, vinyl on construction barrier, Rector Street, New York, USA (© dk 2010).