Showing posts with label Nick Oberthaler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Oberthaler. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Hanna Hur, Dorothea Rockburne at Ulrik & Nick Oberthaler at Layr

Geometry day down at CAD. Art demands religion be turned secular, into math, "art" which allows belief in higher powers without the pesky god. Angels to origami, optics. Oberthaler too deletes the gods of abstraction, transmutes their capital to symbols, coinage, packaged as Campbell's soup cans. Art is good at performing these transubstantiations, making blood into wine, into something we can taste, connoisseur, if not necessarily need believe. 

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Nick Oberthaler at Emanuel Layr

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The cartoon infects everything, including our signscapes, their assertion, commands that knead the world with stern minimalism. "a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification" and turning us all into vexillologists at their askew version.