Mike Kelley Horizontal Tracking Shots at GAGOSIAN.wmv

[LiamColeTIM]

Thanks for this video. Great to see the show for those of us who don't live close enough to see it in the flesh.

[jpapare]

Jerry Saltz described "Day is Done" as a pioneering example of "clusterfuck aesthetics," the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art.

I'm so glad I found this quote from the ...Voice via Wikipedia. Actually this quote really helps me understand this work. Thank you James and Jerry.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Thank you. Happy New Year james.

Best -

[spawnofdawnacle]

As long as others paint like this, I will paint for myself. Setting aside primitive concepts of addition and subtraction, I can mix all of my paints together and produce white -- we would simply need to apply care to what we hit it with and how long we sample the response. God bless and keep you Brother Kalm. Thanks for a great year. Best of the New.

[claureic]

The idea of consciousness as a readymade would certainly please Breton and the Surrealists. I like Johns's definition of art: "take an object; do sth to it; do sth else to it."This could work for colors too.

[hankjunior]

I like these paintings. Is larry running a Daycare Center on the side? whats with the kids screaming,

Thanks James!

[jameskalm]

The screaming kids are on the multi channel video piece.

JK

[4ureally]

Worst sense of Color.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Thank you.

[claureic]

In many of his works, Kelley shows a great sense of color. Does he consider himself a colorist? Your comment, James, seems to point to the contrary. I'd appreciate an insight on that.

[claureic]

I didn't know Mike Kelley painted. Interesting show; it adds a new aspect to his art. Yet I don't think these are the best works he's ever made. The large color panels at the beginning, they are kind of arbitrary, gimmicky. Thanks James.

[MrWowforever]

mike kelly has been painting for a while...and drawing a lot too. nice garbage dump drawings. his early installations and constructions with adjusted stuffed animals show off his love of kinky and kitschy color. he's all over the place and can be really good, not so much here in my opinion:)

[jameskalm]

When I first started looking at Kelley's work, he was doing mainly black and white drawings and black and white photos. His constructions used the natural colors of the materials, and the stuffed animals have their own color, so it's not like he has to make coloristic desisions. Though I'm not crazy about them, I think the large "sets" are a very painterly approach and represent a new intriguing development.

[MrWowforever]

the stuffed animal installations on various quilts and blankets with hanging polygon sculptures are deeply involved with found color. The same way Rauschenbergs choices of objects in the Combines were involved with found color. Stella bought and used house paints for the arbitrary quality of found color.Mike Kelly takes from the bedroom and the bathroom, while Rauschenberg takes from the street :) just my opinion

[jameskalm]

Hey Wow,

I still think there's a different intention when you use found color and when you have to choose what color you're going to paint a 12 x 12 foot hunk of wall, and what you're going to put next to it. Painter's choices.

[MrWowforever]

painters are free :)

[claureic]

Yes, but when the artist uses found colors, he still chooses what he's going to put next to it, doesn't he? Rauschenberg: the combines are great color pieces, and it's not by chance; just like Kelley's stuffed animals. If you move the animals one from the other, the piece dies (shape, but also colorwise), if I may state an opinion.

[jameskalm]

I think it's the difference between starting out with colored pieces of a puzzle, or a white sheet (although white is a color).

[MrWowforever]

white is all colors at once, the other colors are degrees of less white, or less light. paint tubes are puzzle pieces until they are 'used'. isn't paint a readymade, same as a urinal or a goat.

[jameskalm]

Wow,

I defy you to take all your tubes of paint, mix them together, and make white.

Is consciousness a readymade?

[MrWowforever]

well, we get mud. light refracted through a prism functions as all white. Science not paint. you are correct about the 'mud'. I was using Duchamps cloying point, he would say yes to the readymade conscious. I am a painter because in practice I disagree with not only Duchamp, but so many others. here's mud in your eye. :)

[pomod]

Thanks James.

Tough times I guess, even conceptual artists art painting now.

[oneu778]

i dont know why.. but pornography and art dont really do anything for me, i can understand why an artist would want to - comment on modern themes but for me it just seems meaningless and tacky

[rybgpo]

"Of course we've got to have our penises in there."

Yeah, of course; it's a Kelley show.

Both Hirst and Kelley want to paint now: an admission of defeat?

You may be way too kind in admiring Kelley's formal qualities. It seems pretty clear that this work was made to fill up Gagosian's cavernous space, with hopes that it will wind up in European museum collections.

I like some of Kelley's work, but this is obvious, cynical, soulless crap. And it doesn't hold a candle to Kippenberger.

[hankx32]

you are the man, i like the grouping of frogs and women best.

[MrWowforever]

i like how you were thrown out of the last show and you immediately go to Gagosian! You are fearless mr Kalm. Kudos! :) thanks!

[RonSchira]

five starz ! Excellent !

thanks...