Book Of The Week - 2666 by Roberto Bolañol

The choice for this week is 2666 (2004) and was the last novel written by Chilean-born novelist Roberto Bolaño.

Depicting the unsolved and still ongoing serial murders of Ciudad Juarez (Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers, the apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories, influenced by the imagery and surrealist imagination of Arcimboldo's paintings.

The novel is substantially concerned with violence and death. According to Levi Stahl, it "is another iteration of Bolaño's increasingly baroque, cryptic, and mystical personal vision of the world, revealed obliquely by his recurrent symbols, images, and tropes", and within the novel "There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in Amulet as well). We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong."

Anna Pantchev

http://annapantchev.blogspot.com/

Post-it stop frame

Aqua Art

Amazing images made by photographing paint dropping into water.

http://www.markmawson.com/

Rob Matthews - T-shirts

Rob Matthews: T-shirts and posters that wrap around your head to make you become his friend ‘Trevor Burks’ (who he misses). niiice !

Kristine Moran

So good - so so so good !

merry go round broke down. 60" X 72" 2009. oil on canvas on panel.

after the last dance. 66" X 48" 2009. oil on canvas.

pullback. 66" X 48" 2009. oil on canvas.

you used to be alright, what happened. 78" x 66" 2008. oil on panel.


http://www.kristinemoran.com/paintings.shtml

Vexations

Vexations is a 3,360 page book of photographs that serves as the interpretation of the piece for piano of the same name, composed by erik satie in 1893. it features work by aurelien arbet, jeremie egry, marco barrera and nicholas poillot

Translated with babelfish and is at points understandable - VEXATIONS is the plastic interpretation of work for piano of the same name, composed by Erik Satie in 1893. Original work consists of a musical fragment of 4 sections to carry out 840 times of continuation without stop. According to the tempo adopted by the interpreter, the complete execution of work can last between fourteen and twenty four hours. This musical text is a repetition of a single reason has and of its harmonizations A1 and A2 in the form has - A1 - has - A2. The single edition created by collective JSBJ is based in its form on the few rules imposed by the type-setter. This work thus constitutes a deliver-sculpture of 3360 pages made up of a succession of 4 photographs each one repeated 840 times. The contents as for him, were thought in agreement with the few mentions indicated by Erik Satie. The tempo is read “Very slow”, the photocopied images return thus to a feeling of depth, disproportion, trouble and vacuum. At the head of partition, the type-setter also writes this note: “To play 840 times of continuation this reason, it will be good to prepare as a preliminary, and in greatest silence, by serious immobilities”. The consultation of this work will thus plunge the regardor in an impression of torpor, illusion, frustration and infinite. Vexations is an enigmatic work which cannot be included/understood and to test itself better only in the duration. That supposes to traverse it a time at least, “at will, not more”, as Satie wrote it.

see it here...