Rye Dag Holmboe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rye Dag Holmboe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rye Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmboe |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMBOE R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 3 Steeles Studios, 97a Haverstock Hill London United Kingdom NW3 4RN |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond the Barbershop
In 1972, Berger wrote his well-loved essay on Turner. First printed in the Parisian magazine Réalités, it appeared in a number of Berger’s collections, the last of which, Portraits (2015), includes an angry preface from its author. ‘I have always hated being called an art critic’, it begins, linking the job to the art market, and ends with an attack on colour reproductions of paintings, which belong ‘in a luxury brochure for millionaires’ (Portra…
A Line around a Think
Anna Freud’s loom
Anna Freud's Loom' examines Anna Freud's relationship to weaving. Adopting a form of weaverly thinking, I begin by offering an account of Anna Freud's work at the loom as recollected by her friend and colleague Manna Friedmann. I go on to describe how a metaphorics connected to weaving is often employed in psychoanalytic literature, especially in the writings of Sigmund Freud, which I situate in relationship to the Freud family's historical and p…
Lee Ufan, the Hidden Face of the Moon
This article examines Lee Ufan’s Relatum series, works which he started producing in Japan in the late 1960s. It begins by historicising the series, where steel plates and rocks are placed in various configurations, in relation to Mono-ha, or School of Things. The article then explores the theatrical and animistic dimensions of the works, which are contrasted with the fetish character of the commodity and the forms of interpretation it demands. T…
Martin Creed
This essay examines Martin Creed's work through the lens of psychoanalytic theories of neurosis and hypochondria. It considers Creed's performances and installations, arguing that in both seriality functions as an armour or defence against the perceived threat of omnipotent mothers. The essay also thinks about questions of interiority – psychic, corporeal, aesthetic – and argues that, even at their most scatological, Creed's works can be seen as …
Stone Angels, Saintly Hypochondriacs
This essay begins with an examination of Balzac’s “Louis Lambert,” an angelic figure who ends his life in a catatonic state, a condition as inert as a stone. It goes on to examine the intersection of the theological and geological in Balzac’s writings, and thinks about how this might relate to the work of similar figures in stories by authors such as Melville and Nescio, as well as a drawing by Paul Klee. The essay also considers Deleuze’s writin…
LeWitt, in the Shadow of the Object
Rye Dag Holmboe examines previously undocumented wall drawings produced by Sol LeWitt in the Torre Bonomo in Spoleto in 1976. Using a psychoanalytic framework derived in part from the writings of Adrian Stokes, Holmboe argues for the existence of an "architectural unconscious" in LeWitt's practice and for the crucial importance of architecture to our understanding of Conceptual art more broadly. The essay further explores the choreographic dimens…
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Stone Angels, Saintly Hypochondriacs
This essay begins with an examination of Balzac’s “Louis Lambert,” an angelic figure who ends his life in a catatonic state, a condition as inert as a stone. It goes on to examine the intersection of the theological and geological in Balzac’s writings, and thinks about how this might relate to the work of similar figures in stories by authors such as Melville and Nescio, as well as a drawing by Paul Klee. The essay also considers Deleuze’s writin…
LeWitt, in the Shadow of the Object
Rye Dag Holmboe examines previously undocumented wall drawings produced by Sol LeWitt in the Torre Bonomo in Spoleto in 1976. Using a psychoanalytic framework derived in part from the writings of Adrian Stokes, Holmboe argues for the existence of an "architectural unconscious" in LeWitt's practice and for the crucial importance of architecture to our understanding of Conceptual art more broadly. The essay further explores the choreographic dimens…
Martin Creed
This essay examines Martin Creed's work through the lens of psychoanalytic theories of neurosis and hypochondria. It considers Creed's performances and installations, arguing that in both seriality functions as an armour or defence against the perceived threat of omnipotent mothers. The essay also thinks about questions of interiority – psychic, corporeal, aesthetic – and argues that, even at their most scatological, Creed's works can be seen as …
Lee Ufan, the Hidden Face of the Moon
This article examines Lee Ufan’s Relatum series, works which he started producing in Japan in the late 1960s. It begins by historicising the series, where steel plates and rocks are placed in various configurations, in relation to Mono-ha, or School of Things. The article then explores the theatrical and animistic dimensions of the works, which are contrasted with the fetish character of the commodity and the forms of interpretation it demands. T…
A Line around a Think
Anna Freud’s loom
Anna Freud's Loom' examines Anna Freud's relationship to weaving. Adopting a form of weaverly thinking, I begin by offering an account of Anna Freud's work at the loom as recollected by her friend and colleague Manna Friedmann. I go on to describe how a metaphorics connected to weaving is often employed in psychoanalytic literature, especially in the writings of Sigmund Freud, which I situate in relationship to the Freud family's historical and p…
Beyond the Barbershop
In 1972, Berger wrote his well-loved essay on Turner. First printed in the Parisian magazine Réalités, it appeared in a number of Berger’s collections, the last of which, Portraits (2015), includes an angry preface from its author. ‘I have always hated being called an art critic’, it begins, linking the job to the art market, and ends with an attack on colour reproductions of paintings, which belong ‘in a luxury brochure for millionaires’ (Portra…
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works)