GALLERIES — BROOKLYN RENATE ALLER This German photographer's large-scale seascapes are all taken from the same location on Westhampton Beach, but they range from minimalist studies to dramatic views of storm clouds and glistening water.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet GALLERIES — BROOKLYN RENATE ALLER This German photographer's large-scale seascapes are all taken from the same location on Westhampton Beach, but they range from minimalist studies to dramatic views of storm clouds and glistening water.
No surprise that his Portofino summer house, built in the 16th century, was made over by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti, or that his mountaintop chalet in St. Moritz is a minimalist study in stone and wood with inimitable Alpine views.
The film, directed by Paz Encina, is a minimalist study of a middle-aged peasant couple who pass a long, hot day dawdling in the comfort of a hammock while nature buzzes around them.
I left the horns, in turn, to hear the final hour of Simeon ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" (1979), an attractive Minimalist study in shifting textures, density and volume, performed by Jed Distler, Marija Ilic, Sachiko Kato and Jung Lin on four grand pianos under greenmarket tents on Cornelia Street.
On the program is a new work from the indefatigable Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo Christopher Brucee's cutesy "Hush"; and, most interesting, Jiri Kylian's 1989 "Falling Angels," a minimalist study for eight women set to ceremonial Ghanaian music and part of Steve Reich's "Drumming".
Before "Gra Agus Bas," the pianist Lisa Moore played "Stainless Staining" (2007), a post-Minimalist study in which a dense, rhythmically steady electronic score surrounded a piano line that began as a straightforward pulse and eventually drew on rollicking figures that evoked Jerry Lee Lewis and other 1950s rockers.
Among her masterworks are "Magnolia Blossom" (1925), which closes in on the crystalline eroticism in a flower; "Triangles" (1928), a minimalist nude study; and "The Unmade Bed" (1957), its rumpled sheets and a few hairpins semaphoring memory and desire.
In his spare time, he rides and works on his vintage motorcycle, mixes music, studies minimalist industrial design and volunteers for two non-profits.
Michael Rowe exerted a more rigorous grip over Año bisiesto (Leap Year), a minimalist but lusty study in sexual abandon and urban loneliness.
While RoomAlive demo games are still just prototypes, there's never been a better reason to study minimalist decor more room for gaming.
