Martin Gantman

Tag: Appropriation

  • On Civilization 5

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

    Loewenmensch – Hohle Fels Egypt

    I want to take a moment to skip ahead several thousand years, only temporarily, just to make a point about the spread of culture, and its impact on civilization.

    It appears that in the 2nd to 3rd millennia BC, the Loewenmensch-Hohle Fels family continued to have prominent visibility and wielded immense leverage in places of power, particularly, at this point, in the royal halls of Egypt. These cousins, direct descendants of Loewenmensch and Venus: Loewenmensch (known as Sphinx of Giza), Loewenmensch (Sphinx of Senrusret III, and Loewenmensch.Hohle Fels, attained near-divine stature in Egypt during this time.

    Of course, there were kings, and emperors, and pharaohs who exerted pragmatic control over the populace – even priests who seconded these rulers and ran fiefdoms of their own. But, as the above family portrait shows, there are families who continue through time, like the Capetians, the Kahns, and the Rothschilds in different eras, who, behind the scenes, have had, and continue to have, significant impact and influence on the trajectories of civilizations.

  • On Civilization 4

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

    Over the next 20,000 years the descendants of Leowenmensch and Venus, seeing off the last of their Neanderthal friends, and the ending of the Ice Age, expanded west and east, conjoining with other groups in the fertile valleys of Europe and along the flowing rivers of the middle East, as well as in northern Africa.

    They lived, sometimes, in huts made from the bones of the carcasses of the mammoths, their early brethren, who were also becoming extinct due to the extreme change in climate. The women shared coequally with the men in accomplishing the food gathering and preparation, if maybe not the child rearing; and the families did not reside as individual units, but coexisted in groups, giving question to the assumed timing and the previously accepted application of the designation, civil(ization).

    They did not war, as had occurred hundreds of thousands of years before, as there was plenty; though there became signs of the beginnings of individual accumulation and, perhaps, greed.

  • On Civilization 3

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

    The Honeymoon

    They honeymooned in the black forest, along the banks of the rivers; the Enz, the Kinzig, the Nagold, and the Murg. They were watched over by the vogelherd, thus safeguarding the continuation of the saga of homo sapiens.

  • On Civilization 2

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of Loewenmensch and

    Venus of Hohle Fels

    The Wedding Party

    The wedding party consisted of the bride attended by her friends from Willendorf; Dolni Vestonice, Moravia; and Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey. Also in attendance, from Turkey, was their mother goddess from Catal Huyuk.

    Loewenmensch was seconded by his coterie of friends from the Vogelherd.

  • On Civilization 1

    On Civilization:

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

    The Wedding Ceremony

    The marriage of Loewenmensch (born 38,000 BCE) and Venus of Hohle Fels (born 35,000 BCE), and officiated by Hammurabi, King of the Babylonians.

     

    The inception of a new project by Martin Gantman

     

  • First Downtown L.A. Tricycle Rental

  • American Gothic, 2018

    American Gothic 2018

  • Book Launch

    Book Launch Party

     Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman

     The Abbey

    692 N. Robertson Boulevard

    West Hollywood, California 90069

    Tuesday, April 17, 2018,  6 to 8PM

     

     

    Martin Gantman is very pleased to announce the launch of his new book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, published in association with the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) and ICI Press.

    In 10 individual books, each focusing on a theoretical or practical interest that has compelled him, the artist describes the background, influences, history, and development of his almost 40 years of artistic output.

    The deluxe version shown above is a signed and numbered limited edition of 50 books. Each book has a slipcase containing 10 separate volumes.

    The book is also available in Print-on-Demand and Ebook versions, which are available through book stores and online booksellers. Copies of the Print-on-Demand paperback version, as well as the limited edition, will be available for sale at the book launch on April 17.

    Martin Gantman is a Los Angeles based artist and writer who has exhibited internationally. His published work includes, “See you when we get home.” a project for Art Journal magazine, as well as “DuSable Park: An archeology,” “Notes on the Oddness of Things,” and “Mapping the Lost Idea.” He also co-edited “Benjamin’s Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura” for the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, distributed by DAP Publications in 2001.

    For more information, contact Martin@Gantman.com or the Institute of Cultural Inquiry at info@culturalinquiry.org.

  • Every (ongoing) Day

    ARENA 1 Gallery
    3026 Airport Avenue
    Santa Monica, California 90405
    www.SantaMonicaArtStudios.com
    310.397.7449
    Exhibition: March 17 to April 14, 2018
    Reception: Saturday, March 17, 2018
    5:00 to 7:00 PM

    Every (ongoing) Day is an exhibition about daily practices.It showcases durational projects – those undertaken by artists on a daily basis as a ritual, to track changes, or to mark the day. The exhibition presents a fragment of these ongoing artworks as a way to glean an understanding into an artist’s process and methods of working. 

     

  • Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman

    Martin Gantman is very pleased to announce the release of his new book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, published in association with the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) and ICI Press.
    In 10 individual volumes, each focusing on a theoretical or practical interest that has compelled him, he describes the background, influences, history, and development of his almost 40 years of artistic output. The book includes a foreword by Dr Lise Patt, Executive Director of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry.
    Numbered and Signed Slipcase Edition
    The deluxe version shown above is a signed and numbered limited edition of 50 books. Each book has a slipcase containing the 10 separate volumes.
    The book is also available in Print-on-Demand and Ebook versions, which are available through bookstores and online booksellers.
    Information on future book signings to be announced.
    For more information, contact Martin@Gantman.com or the Institute of Cultural Inquiry at info@culturalinquiry.org.