2011 - Ontological Museum Acquisitions

Friday, November 30, 2012

OM.2011.231-233 - Marco Giovenale - Italy

OM.2011.231-233 - Marco Giovenale - Italy - Three Asemic Sibyls - 5.5 x 4 inches

Thursday, November 29, 2012

OM.2011.230 - Jeff Berner - France

OM.2011.230 - Jeff Berner - France - April 7, 2011 correspondence with a copy of the article by Jeff Berner: Astronauts of Inner Space (1967) related to Fluxus events in Prague.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

OM.2011.229 - Stan Askew - USA

OM.2011.229 - Stan Askew - USA - postcard - Archives of the Eternal Network

om.2011.228 - Matthew Rose - France

om.2011.228 - Matthew Rose - France - My Aintings - altered postcard

Saturday, August 25, 2012

OM.2011.227 - Luc Fierens - Belgium

OM.2011.227 - Luc Fierens - Belgium - chapbook (20 pages) by Luc Fierens from Reed Altemus's Tonerworks - edition of 75 - gift of Reed Altemus

buy a copy http://www.reedaltemus.org/publications/

Saturday, August 18, 2012

OM.2011.223-226 - Bill DiMichele - USA

OM.2011.223-226 - Bill DiMichele - USA - Netherworld 1 through 4 - collage

I read Lord of the Rings when I was 12 or 13, and to me it was incredible, but it didn’t fulfill my wishes for a complete magical setting .Then the movie was released, and as amazing as it was, once again, it was missing something, the same kind of magical feel that the books were missing. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. My son had a ‘Lord of the Rings’ calendar, the kind with one small image per day. Out of this I first cut positive images, people, caverns, landscapes, warriors, etc. After that I began using the negative spaces, cut up heads, rivers, weapons, etc. The final results reach the edge of surrealism, with aleatoric wunderkinds and extraordinary creatures moving through the unknowable landscape. This is the magic I was searching for, and I’d like to share it with all with you.

Collage Statement:
Collage plugs us into the world beyond the world, a cut-up/arrangement of surfaces that point to the magical, the frightening universe of Surrealism. From the ink writers of Japan to Picasso, to Britain's Richard Hamilton, to Max Ernst, collage has been a way through the door of Surrealism, toward the space of the fantastic. This is where we find ourselves, at the doorstep of the interstellar, at the ladder of the mind. And this space cannot be tarnished, cannot be ruined, because it belongs to and only to those who use it.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

OM.2011.222 - Jon Nelson - USA

Jon Nelson - USA - collage

Gift of the artist

Jon Nelson is a collage/assemblage artist who hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Some Assembly Required from 1999-2011. Jon also donated a complete collection of CDs of his shows to the museum. listen here while you check out this blog: http://www.blog.some-assembly-required.net/
You can see some of Jon's visual work at: http://www.mnartists.org/jonathan_nelson
and for information about his sound collage work, go to: http://www.escape-mechanism.com/

Some Assembly Required features work by a variety of artists working with bits and pieces of their media environments, giving something back to the cultural landscape from which they so enthusiastically appropriate.

The genre is still young, despite examples dating as far back as 1961, when James Tenney constructed a tape collage borrowing heavily from cut-up fragments of a recording by Elvis Presley. Both provocative and surreal, this style continues to evolve and to challenge.

Since its inception in 1999, host Jon Nelson produced over thirty artist features, interviewing everyone from John Oswald and The Evolution Control Committee, to Christian Marclay and DJ Spooky - providing a variety of unique perspectives on the nature of this daring and creative style of expression.

Each Interview Episode is freely available to download HERE. Also check out the SAR Q&A, featuring profiles on over 175 of the sound collage artists played each week on Some Assembly Required.

Friday, July 27, 2012

om.2011.221 David Burton - United Kingdom

om.2011.221 David Burton - United Kingdom - collage - 3.5 x 3.25 inches

Sunday, March 4, 2012

OM.2011.220 - Jonathan Johnson - USA

OM.2011.220 - Jonathan Johnson - collage on paper - 6.25 x 4.5 inches 2010

jonathanjohnsonphotography.com

OM.2011.219 - Tok Eng Voon - Malaysia

OM.2011.219 - Tok Eng Voon - Pattern - mixed media collage on paper - 8.25 x 11.75 inches

OM.2011.218 - Suzlee Ibrahim - Malaysia

OM.2011.218 - Suzlee Ibrahim - A Red Story - mixed media collage on paper - 8.25 x 11.75 inches

http://suzleefinearts.paint.at

om.2011.217 - Yus Hamyus bin Hashim - Malaysia

om.2011.217 - Yus Hamyus bin Hashim - Malaysia - collage on paper

OM.2011.216 - Muhammad Rasfan B Hj Abu Bakar - Malaysia

OM.2011.216 - Muhammad Rasfan B Hj Abu Bakar - Malaysia - Field - collage on paper

OM.2011.215 - Predrag Caranovic - Belgrade, Serbia

OM.2011.215 - Predrag.Caranovic - Belgrade, Serbia - Photo of Gypsies

"I bought this picture of Gypsies in the market. At that moment I was reminded of a work-a Man Ray. A few years later I realized it's probably a manufactory for the production bamboo hat. But I do not care. For me, this like exhibition for nothing. This is a picture in a frame collage. This is the story of the photograph."

Monday, January 30, 2012

OM.2011.214 - Diane Schapira - USA

OM.2011.214 - Diane Schapira - USA - Box Assemblage

Friday, January 27, 2012

OM.2011.213 - Katrien De Blauwer - Begium - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.213 - Katrien De Blauwer - Begium
Four collages each postcard sized work is roughly 4x6 inches

Poetic Noise (2009-2011) Documents, photographs, leaves and other relics from the Republic of Georgia

Born in 1969 in Ronse, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium
www.katriendeblauwer.com

Saturday, January 21, 2012

OM.2011.208 &209 - Reed Altemus - USA - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.208 - Reed Altemus - USA - 'Recyclopedia V' from Encyclopedia Fluxanica - digital collage, 1/1 - giclee print - 11.75x12.75 framed

OM.2011.209 - Reed Altemus - USA - paper collage - 8.75x11.25 framed

http://www.reedaltemus.org/