VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: 2013/04

20130427

APELLES ZYABLOV: THE LOST WORKS ON PAPER

Following the 'discovery' of the world's first abstract art by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid - the gold-framed black canvases of eighteenth century artist Apelles Zyablov, here is a series of previously unseen works on paper attributed to the same elusive source:

david K after Komar and Melamid

Apelles Zyablov - Lost Works on Paper

Repro Black etching ink, black gouache, oil, acrylic, black chalk,

graphite, and casein on found object (book page)

Variable edition of 50 sheets

Dimensions variable

2010 - 2013

20130421

ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM LEONARDO CHALLENGE

Annually the Eli Whitney Museum celebrates invention and innovation with a fundraiser named for Leonardo da Vinci.

This year, the theme of 'the brush' inspired this entry - noting the role of the brush in the work of another great inventor of all time, Nikola Tesla. Here, Tesla is immortalized in Byzantium Icon style with a halo engineered from a brushless polyphase AC induction motor armature:

david K

Brushless Byzantium: Nikola Tesla Icon

Mixed media: mylar, paper and rubber stamp

11 x 8 1/2 inches

2013

20130406

WE ARE TIME: MENSCHEN DER ZEIT

Series of 37 serigraphs experimenting with occupation symbolism employed in Slovenia during WWII, culled from overprinted postage stamps recirculated in Yugoslav territories:

The eagle motif used during the Italio-German occupation of Ljubljana / Laibach has been

re-appropriated and printed on pages from the 1931 book Menschen Der Zeit, featuring photogravure portraits of German literary and artistic notables, including

oft - NSK quoted artist Georg Kolbe.