ELEMENTS OF CONTROL - PLURAL MONOLITH

This is the first published image of the artist david K's recent sojourn, which started in Moscow and concluded in Berlin in the fall of 2013.  

The 'triptych' simultaneously depicts three significant elements of control from modern history in a single frame: a closed-circuit surveillance camera mounted to the side of the former Nazi Ministry of Aviation (or Reichsluftfahrtministerium), seen through a hole in the still-extant Berlin Wall standing on Wilhelmstrasse.

The physical and psychological weights of stone elements in this work are reminiscent of the title of Dr. Alexei Monroe's monograph Pluralni monolit (Plural Monolith), which served as the photograph's de facto name during processing.

david K.

TRIPTYCH [ELEMENTS OF CONTROL]

Chromogenic photograph on Fuji Crystal Archive

14 x 11 inches

2013

ANEMIC CINEMA: RETROGARDE ROTORELIEFS

Reworking of the 1926 dadaist film Anémic Cinéma by Marcel Duchamp,

 featuring original rotoreliefs alternating with quotes by the

art / music collective Laibach:

david K

Anemic Cinema (Retrogarde Rotoreliefs)

Electronic film with musical score 'NATO' taken from

the album LAIBACH: Occupied Europe NATO Tour 1994-95

5 minutes 56 seconds

2014

The film has been debuted on Laibach.org under the section Volkskunst.

NSK STATE DACHA

 

27 December 2013

 

 

 

NSK State Dacha

Installation with multimedia performance

Dimensions variable

2013

 

 

Program information to follow.

 

 

 

 

 



INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE MACHINE

This year's New Haven Citywide Open Studios Alternative Space will be held at the New Haven Armory on Goffe Street.  To commemorate the 1930 Armory and the military band that performed there, the slogan of this year's event is Réveillé. Working within this theme (and subsequent size restrictions) was facilitated by cadging and re-assembling many marching band instruments - nationalistic 'instruments' in and of themselves. The artist played Laibach's album of anthems, Volk, continuously for inspiration.  

The result is an impossible, daDa-esque object that celebrates the machine age beauty of repetitive cylindrical forms, embraces the simultaneously unifying and divisive traits of national anthems, and bears a title that lends homage to the LAIBACH exhibition document

INSTRUMENTALNOST DRŽAVNEGA STROJA

(INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE STATE MACHINE)

david K.

Instruments of the State Machine: Nine Valve Rotary Engine

Found objects: brass, wood, and steel

17 x 12 x 9 inches

2013

The work will be on display the entire month of October at:

ArtSPACE

50 Orange Street

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

In an unexpected stroke of good fortune, the work will be displayed in a section of the gallery with yellow painted walls, not unlike the 2011 NSK Folk Art exhibition held at the Galerija Škuc in Ljubljana, Slovenija.

INCIDENTAL IRWIN

Some framed artworks arrived today,

quite unintentionally IRWIN -esque:

Was Ist Kunst (Luftblasenverpackung) 

Found art object, 2013

Concept destroyed immediately following photography

Was Ist Kunst (Luftblasenverpackung)

Found art objects, 2013

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

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

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.

david K

Georg Kolbe from variable series Menschen der Zeit

Silkscreen on found book page

10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

2013

NSK FOLK ART: MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Study after Innenraum by Anselm Kiefer

inspired by University of London Senate House Crush Hall

designed by Charles Holden

david K

Innenraum: Senatshaus (after Anselm Kiefer)

Three color silkscreen on black 300gsm cotton rag paper

14 x 11 inches

2013

GRADITELJI, LEAD HORIZON

Still life study of Silicijev Horizont, 1988

after NSK division Graditelji (The Builders)

david K

Study after Graditelji: Svinec Horizont
Lead type and light rail plan
Dimensions variable
2012