Three months in Bilbao painting Conquistadores in ox blood.
There is a color that Basques used to paint their houses with, rouge Basque, that originally was made out of cattle blood. When I started working on images of the Conquistadores coming on land and encountering Natives, I decided to use ‘exotic fruit juice mix’ [...]
icehouse movie
icehouse interior walk-through
Kasper Kovitz – icehouse [Nova Scotia, Canada] 2010
Pecher; pine sap on paper; 2009; 11 1/14″ x 17 5/8″
sap cabins; pine sap on paper; 2008; 26 1/2″ x 19 3/4″
Heimsuche [Das Red River Thal]; pine sap on paper; 2007; 39 3/4” x 26”
small sap; pine sap on paper; 2009; 9 1/2″ x 12 3/8″
fox and pine; fox urine and pine sap; 2009; 18 [...]
1) install cameras on the island.
2) tear off the landings and piers and close the island to the public – forever.
3) put the cameras online. Now everybody can verify the island is really vacated.
4) go back to calling the island “Nutten”.
160-acre vacated island, cameras connected to free-access TV and web.
Kasper Kovitz 2009
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untitled [map], 2009, painted plywood, lacquer, 30 1/8″ x 35 1/4″, 76.5×89.5cm
…nor did I want to leave; lead in bamboo ; 2009; 57 1/2″ to 66 3/4″
lead pour, Malibu
I was just notified that the Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded me a grant. Needless to say I am very happy. Thank you Pollock-Krasner Foundation!
www.pkf.org
photos: Kasuhiro Saiki
Kasper Kovitz – Rate Your Progress [Schoharie County, NY] 2009
25′ x 10′ x 12′ 8 x 3 x 4 m – six walls total
at International Studio & Curatorial Program, NYC, 1040 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211
One more note:
rate your progress…
When I started to work on Rate Your Progress, I thought of a clearing [...]