Thursday, December 9, 2010
Oscar Wilde
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. "
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. "
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
"Ashes and Snow" by Gregory Colbert
“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.”
“In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here or there, past or present.”
The Ashes and Snow exhibition includes more than 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a one-hour film, and two short film "haikus". None of the images have been digitally collaged or superimposed. They record what the artist himself saw through the lens of his camera. While Colbert uses both still and movie cameras, the images are not stills from the film.
Since he began creating his singular work of Ashes and Snow in 1992, Colbert has undertaken photographic and filming expeditions to locations such as India, Egypt, Burma, Tonga, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Kenya, Antarctica, the Azores, and Borneo.
The show first opened at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. The Nomadic Museum, the travelling home of Ashes and Snow, debuted in New York (March to June 2005) and then travelled to Santa Monica (January to May 2006), Tokyo (March to June 2007) and Mexico City (January to April 2008), and is charted to travel the globe with no final destination.
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