Showing posts with label images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label images. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

images: Iannis Xenakis

links and copy/paste texts:

http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm?exh=662

Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this is the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included are rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is co-curated by Xenakis scholar Sharon Kanach and critic Carey Lovelace and will travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 – October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 – February 13, 2011). (from: http://contemporarydrawingsalon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/iannis-xenakis.html)






























»Mass Black Implosion (Iannis Xenakis ST/48 – 1, 240162 )«, 2007 by Marco Fusinato.







































Friday, August 17, 2012

images: William Forsythe / Hypothetical Stream choreography (1997)

For the dance company of Daniel Larrieu

















source for both images & great resources: http://sarma.be/oralsite/pages/William_Forsythe_on_Scores/

images: Tiepolo

William Forsythe speaks about Tiepolo's drawings being positioned in space, with no up, no down. Accessible from any direction. I haven't yet found a really suitable example to illustrate his point, but here is a test..


flying cherubs

I can only suspect that William Forsythe could have used any number of artist's drawings as a starting position for his choreography of Hypothetical Stream in 1997. William Forsuthe mentions how the drawings have no up or down and can be entered from any direction. I can not actually find a lot of evidence of Tiepolo drawing in that way specifically. I think it is very likely that a lot of sketches of other artists have this quality, too. But below is a good example of the directionless quality that Forsythe mentioned and used as a starting point to create a choreography for 8 dancer's.













Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
Three Studies of Bacchus
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk
13 x 10 13/16 inches (333 x 275 mm)
Gift of J. P. Morgan, Jr.; IV, 117a



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and then I found this, totally off topic but also by Tiepolo: