SINGING IN UNISON PART 10 Loren Munk & James Kalm Curated by Phong Bui and Cal McKeever at RUTTKOWSK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2024
- James Kalm has, from the beginnings of the James Kalm Report, never posted a program on the work of his alter ego, Loren Munk. As a conceptual project the Kalm Report had rules that your correspondent maintained for the nearly twenty years. With no warning or recourse, last year’s “termination” of the Kalm Report from TH-cam, your reporter realized that, whatever his best intentions, the ultimate fate of his and all other content on this platform is tentative at best. So, when Phong Bui, and Cal McKeever and the Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Project proposed to RUTTOWSKI;68 an historic survey of Loren Munk’s map paintings, and the TH-cam videos of James Kalm, the artist decided to make an exception to the rules, and use this rare opportunity, to use his own channel to document, and expose the show.
“SINGING IN UNISON PART 10 Loren Munk & James Kalm (In Loving Memory of Neeli Cherkovski)” presents twelve map paintings, created over the past 25 years depicting various neighborhoods, and creative enclaves that have helped form the New York art world. From a diagram focusing on a single street, East 10th, to a massive map of SoHo containing over 100 galleries and 400 artists and their addresses, these maps capture various aspects of a community’s epic presence in time, and space. Arrays of video monitors play loops of several dozen programs from the massive archive of over 1700 TH-cam videos. Many programs capture images of friends and acquaintances who were essential members of our paint-head tribe who have since passed away. This program was recorded October 17, November 15-16, 2024. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
A discussion panel moderated by Phong H. Bui with Kathrine Bradford, Rico Gatson and Loren Munk, was held at the RUTTKOWSKI;68 gallery November 8, 2024, and was recorded by the Brooklyn Rail. It can be viewed here:
• Loren Munk in conversa...
Thank you! Wonderful work! It is really nice to see these paintings up close and hear you talk about them and the New York art scene. And thank you Kate!
Thank you so much for breaking your rule, and thank you Kate.
Historic work. I would love to see this in book form. If I was a NY artist I would find myself with my nose up close following a timetable of wonderment. I can’t even imagine the intertwining of personalities and talent. What a great job you are doing Loren. 😊❤️
Hey @marilynburke7609 I am currently in discussions with a well respected critic who is interested in writing and publishing a book. He's submitted a proposal and we're moving forward...JK
WOWWOW. Your... Articulate work speecks to my brain.. Blesss You Sir ARTIST! Professor..... Respect.
Thanks so much for the tour of your work! I mean Loren’s work. 😉
These are thoughtful, interesting works. Your sincerity and interest in a broad range of work has been a great gift. My greatest compliment: I wish you were my neighbor! Thank you.
Thanks @dr.adamcox847 for the kind words, and...we are neighbors...JK
Wow! Absolutely incredible. From a distance, the colour and design and up close the density of information. Brilliant paintings, excellent report. Thanks, James. Thanks Loren. Thanks, Kate.
Incredible work. Thank you James, thank you Loren and thank you Kate!
Spectacular
Congrats! There will always be art, and its admirers, and documentaries, and etc. ..
In order to be supportive I was going to say something like, Blown away! but I actually am Blown Away! 👏😍 Thank you 🙏
Wow, wow, wow! Thank you Kate!
Wow, Just so good! 🥂
Great work Mr Munk, I wish you every success in your future endeavours sir.
Yay my best wishes mate so good to see an exhibition of yours . I wish you the Measles ( lots of red dots for sales ) and good hearing You as the artist giving your fans a personal tour. Thank you Kate and James xxm
Great!
A tour de force of scholarship and imagination - a stellar synthesis of textual and visual stimulation. Kudos!
Such incredible talent! I always loved watching your videos, and now this!!! 🎉
Thanks Kate, I always believed that really good work had to possess a underlying "degree of crazy" and that.... along with much more is why your canvases are so terrific. Too cool !!
Very cool, a labor of love for art and artists.
Great work! congratulations on these masterpieces!
As a longtime fan of yours James this certainly is a real treat. Thank you Kate
Absolutely spectacular show, James. I knew you had some impressive maps, but seeing such a quantity of them is just jaw dropping. I wonder about your relationship (is that the right word?) with typography and letter-setting, as that is surely the most painstaking part of your work. To do works such as this by hand instead of using other tools is momentous, and to me, the real crux of their value. There's also this incredible directness - presentation of information as art. The places where, to use a ham-fisted metaphor (heh heh), the sandwich contents start to creep out on the sides is also very interesting. In other words - why use lines to mark text to map points when eventually they become almost indecipherable? That's where it gets hyper-cool. I nearly fell out of my chair when you went to your last piece - the SOHO piece. Wowser-yowsers! I've been re-reading for the third time "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark" by Thompson, and all his talk about auctions... I thought - holy moly - what if JK auctioned his entire video library? Yes, the money could be significant, but also the idea that it would ensure the entire video catalog was carefully preserved, and treasured. Huge congratulations on your show, good sir. You really are a national treasure for all you've done for NY's art scene. Bless you, and thank you Kate!
Yeah Tons,
Nice to hear from you. As a young artist, going to university in Idaho, I was lucky enough to hook a job with the programs department in the basement of the Student Union building, designing posters for upcoming events. For a couple years I, and a friend, would spend hours looking at and thinking about text, fonts and typefaces. I realized that a typeface could evoke emotions and responses like line, shape, color and form.
Your reference to the “sandwich” is close to my own analogy that the paintings are like being hungry and going to an all you can eat buffet. You keep loading stuff on to your plate, until their ain’t no more room…The overlayed lines were just something that happened organically. As I kept adding on info, they kinda took on their own character.
Regarding the Kalm Report archives, there has been zero interest of any kind from individuals or institutions. I of course, have everything backed up on external hard drives, and much on vimeo, but that’s all temporary(?)
Again, thanks Tons, and stay tuned…JK
@@jameskalmroughcut The thanks all goes to you, James. I was sitting in a sweltering apt. in Phnom Penh, at the end of a nomadic career doing animation, video and everything BUT painting. I started tuning in to your videos while drumming up the courage to return to painting. I had your videos, one good friend from art school, and "The War of Art" by Pressfield, and it still was so difficult. I cannot give you credit enough, and I still can't really watch any other art gallery type videos out there. You bring the real, and with such care and tenderness. Many, many thanks!
As Always, thank you, thank you! So AWESOME!
Fascinating work James ❤
amazing work! great palette, composition, energy and blend of abstraction and textual / historical elements.
AMAZING! Congratulations!
I get so annoyed by Jerry Saltz, the way he talks in such way over simplified terms, the way he calls people babies over and over again, and his "kindness" & "caring" really comes off as fake over exaggeration of those emotions. I had to shut him off. NYT is annoying too, so biased and fake a lot of the time, I guess thats the sign of the times.
Congratulations on the show. Such a pleasure to see your work all together and to finally hear you talk about it in more depth. I took a few notes on bits of the history I want to look at in more depth. The Fun Gallery in 1981 and Patty Aster in particular. You are a wonderful cartographer, historian and documentor. I always look forward to your content and no fluff attitude. And the singing! Thank you Kate!
Hey @jazw4649, You might find Jerry Saltz "annoying" but, considering he's written extensively, and very positively, about me and my work, and because I've been bumping into he and, his lovely wife Roberta Smith, for over twenty, I gladly accept his little quirks, and find them endearing (and he's a Pulitzer Prize winner). Here's a link to his piece on my work from VULTURE www.vulture.com/article/loren-munk-maps-of-things-past.html
PAINT! Been waiting for this one. Thanks Kate.
Thank you for sharing. I just need to get my own Art Gallery here in Jamaica. You have to very disciplined and informed to do your kind of art works.
Awsome work. I keep telling everybody you are the best video artist working today, and this piece is your ouroboros.
Heh, just had "Beggar's Banquet" on today. Congratz on the show! A little celebration of the self was overdue.
Thank you Kate! ❤
I hope these can be published in a book. Quite amazing. See "Raw Creation-Outsider Art and Beyond" by John Maizells.
You are the cartographer of New York's creative energy... the archaeologist of the inner art chakras of New York and its neighborhoods where everything that happens is recorded by you like a geographer-anthropologist... your work is splendidly illustrative and educational and strengthens and unites the entire American scene... your generosity towards the arts is written in capital letters
Art. THANK YOU KATE! 👩🙆🙋♀ (Your girlfriend???)
wow
You are brave
Those are AMAZING. Nice job !
Dear James That was a very interesting part of your painting about alfred stieglist being the first artist on one of your maps on the street could you tell me anything more about that?? I met members of Diego Riveras family went to his birthplace... THANK YOU KATE!
Here's more than you'll every want to know: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
Fantastic showing. Curious: do you do the lettering by hand or do you use stencils or...? Very impressed by the consistency and quality of such a persnickety mode as painting text.
Hey @aargourdin, I do the lettering by hand and use a projector. I have a collection of fonts that I use and different typefaces.
Very funny
Kalm on Kalm action
I enjoy the complexity but where does the boundary lie between diagrams and painting, or is there such a boundary? In an odd but perhaps not entirely accurate way they reminded me of Jenny Holzer's work with text and her redacted paintings.
Did you ever go to the Salmagundi Club? They were earlier group in general, but in that neighborhood...
Dear James, how much you want for the hells hundred acres painting??!! plus I just sold the western equivalent to the mona lisa...
THANK YOU KATE!!!!
I'm getting very disappointed with art the days.