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“To see takes time,” writes Georgia O’Keeffe. As spring unfolds to summer, we are marrying the pleasures of slow revelation, luxuriant leisures, and diligent ongoingness.
This month in Findings: reflections on saturation, Noguchi in Greece, and summer entanglements…
Color Studies
“I love it when I become interested in something that I have always hated – a color or a shape – and become willing to work with it. I tend to work against my own taste.” — Miuccia Prada, 2003
And a lesson in blissonance and saturated hues in this photo series of California’s spring wildflowers, captured by Arianna Lago.
A Dialectical Study of Place
What we’re reading — “Noguchi and Greece, Greece, and Noguchi” (Atelier Éditions and D.A.P.), a continuation of a project and exhibition between the design studio, Objects of Common Interest and the Noguchi Museum in New York.
The two-volume archive features collected essays, letters, photographs, sketches and writings exploring Isamu Noguchi's relationship with Greece.
“What I’ll always remember is in a chapter by Katerina Koskina [the art historian who organized the First International Meeting of Fine Arts in Delphi, in 1988]. She invited really important artists. Noguchi arrived first, and she sent him to visit [Greek painter] Yannis Tsarouchis at his beautiful house. Tsarouchis only spoke Greek and French, and Noguchi only spoke Japanese and English, but they spent the day drawing together—discussing things through art. I found it mind-blowing, especially in an era where we don’t have time to spare for anyone.”
On View
Los Angeles, CA – “ENTANGLEMENTS: LOUISE BONNET AND ADAM SILVERMAN” at Hollyhock House: February 15 – June 24, 2023.
The dialogue between Bonnet’s paintings and drawing and Silverman’s ceramics engage the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s 100-year history as a platform for artists and experimentation.
New York, NY: Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time at The Museum of Modern Art: April 9 – August 12, 2023
Georgia O’Keefe invites us to slow down and take in the “wideness and wonder of the world” through the latest exhibition on her resplendent works on paper.
Maryland, Virginia: Ellsworth Kelly at 100 at the Glenstone Museum: May 4, 2023 – March, 2024 marks the first wave of centennial exhibitions showcasing the American artist, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923, d. 2015). The exhibit is a major survey of his career and contributions to American abstraction.
Go Your Own Way
“She took me on a mountain and told me to go down it on my own. I said, ‘No, I will not do it’, took off my skis and walked down,” writes Pernette Perriand-Barsac of an early encounter with her mother, the iconic French designer Charlotte Perriand.
More on shared tenacities, work-life equations, and the legacy of the Perriands, here.
Admiring From Afar
From Japanese potter, Kansai Noguchi, a modern classics:
Summer Destinations
A rural farm worth visiting (more here):
