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SARAH MISKA

High Stakes

JULY 8 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

BALSE NEWSLETTER 011

Charles A. Balse July 16, 2023

MILAN KUNDERA: From the Joke to Insignificance (2021) Trailer ENG

Trying to make this better.

Since I can’t let go.

Give me a chance.

So the song goes

POPFUJI and Prosecco.

Kundera.

Bougainvillea.

4:09 pm,

time to dance

we should dance more

Wishing you a good one, see you back in two weeks -Charles Balse


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Words of Wisdom

  • Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review in 1983: “My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with utmost lightness of form. The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas (those that occur in our beds as well as those that we play out on the great stage of History) and their awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable lightness of being. “ - Daniel Lewis, The New York Times, Thursday, July 2023 on MILAN KUNDERA, 1929 - 2023

  • Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic, the son of Milada Janosikova and Ludvik Kundera. His father, a noted concert pianist and and musicologist, taught him piano, and he considered a career in music before his interests shifted to literature, particularly French.
    “From an early age ,” he told an interviewer for the literary journal Salmagundi in 1987, “I read Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Breton, Cocteau, Bataille, Ionesco, and admired French surrealism.” - Daniel Lewis, The New York Times, Thursday, July 2023 on MILAN KUNDERA, 1929 - 2023

  • The art critic Clement Greenberg divided the abstract Expressionist Painters into two groups (1961,1962): the gestural painters de Kooning and Pollock, and the color-filed painter Rothko, Morris Louis, and Barnett Newman. However, as the art historian Robert Rosenblum points out, this distinction is less important than the artist’s common pursuit of the sublime (1961) - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 87, Zettel 116

  • Two of de Kooning’s paintings were of seminal importance in this period: Excavation and Woman I. Excavation, painted in 1950, is generally considered one of the most important paintings of the twentieth century….In Excavation, de Kooning achieved a magical synthesis of these two modern claims of truth. His powerful, poised style integrated the rigorous detachment of Cubist structure with the personal drive and spontaneity of the moment. - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 90 & 91, Zettel 117

  • Despite the abstract nature of these paintings, de Kooning later insisted that he was not interested in “abstracting” - taking things out and reducing his paintings to form line, or color. Rather he often painted in what appeared to others to be an abstract form because the reduction of figuration allowed him to put more emotional and conceptual components into the painting: anger, pain, love, his ideas about space. - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 99, Zettel 118

  • ..it was Pollock who, according to even to de Kooning, “really broke the ice.” Pollock proved to be by far, the strongest personality of his generation. As de Kooning put it: “Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne dd it. Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. (Galenson 2009) - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 101, Zettel 120

  • IN his essay “American Action Painters”, Rosenberg write that Pollock, by turning painting into a series of actions, had “eliminated the separation between art and life.” - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 108, Zettel 121

  • “Each day I am a better friend to myself.” - Seneca, to the question “how do you know that you’re doing it right? - Ryan Holiday, Interview Youtube, Stoicism’s lessons for a disciplined life - Ryan Holiday Modern Wisdom Podcast 541

YOOYUN YANG

Stranger

JULY 8 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2023


Main Studies

  • SARAH MISKA - Night Gallery

  • YOOYUN YANG Stranger

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  • STERLING WELLS - A New Flood

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Other Studies

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  • Lola Young - Stream Of Consciousness (Lyric Video)

    • coming back to this one weekly, atmospheric

  • Page 3 feat. K15 Steven Julien - Topic

    • wonderful, beautiful, stylish track, perfect Sunday afternoon in the shade

    • 5 stars

  • Karenn - Happy Birthday [VOAM011]

    • trippy, dancy, in your own worldly pleasure, type of tune

    • 5 stars, for sure

  • Expressionism in 8 Minutes: The Most Disturbing Art Ever?

  • Joachim Spieth - Luciferin (Original Mix)

    • techno - ride, universe, mindset

  • Rebekah // Daria Kolosova // Marcel Fengler - TXL Berlin Recordings Chapter 6 - ARTE Concert

    • techno live DJ mix, hard, solid, magnificent

  • Drum & Bass On The Bike - LONDON

    • lovely, just simply fun and happiness

  • Flora and Fauna : Documentary

  • This Underground Economy Exists in a Secret Fungi Kingdom

  • Vincenzo Agnetti, Tempo e Memoria

  • OUER | Stingray Nebula | Dirt Crew Recordings

  • Lessons In Good Taste | MR PORTER

  • Why Fashion Brands Are Doubling Down on Sustainability | The Business of Fashion Show

    • documentary

  • How De Petrillo Perfected The Recipe Of The Suit | MR PORTER

  • H&M and Zara: Can fast fashion be eco-friendly?

    • more documentary

  • Inside radical architect-designer Paola Navone’s rooftop Milan home and collector’s instinct

  • Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life - Ryan Holiday | Modern Wisdom Podcast 541

  • Tycho - Time To Run (Official Video)

  • Give Me a Chance

  • Hiroko Yamamura | Boiler Room x Slingshot Festival

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