Jeanne Quinn
You Are The Palace, You Are The Forest, 2011
porcelain, wire, paint, electrical hardware
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Untitled - Doris Salcedo, 2012.
The somber work hails from an important series representing the Columbian artist’s interest in memorializing her home country’s strife, which was cresting as the work was made. The neat pile of crisp white shirts is meant to evoke men in a funeral procession; the rebar lances that penetrate them are an obvious but potent signifier of violence.
Currently on view at Art Basel - Alexander and Bonin.
(via artinfo.com)
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Francis Alÿs, The Nightwatch, 2004 [x]
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
How to Explain Pictures to a Live Fox.
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Cinderella Story by Min Jeong Seo
Ah so much good gender-roles themed art on my dash today. This is amazing.
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Catherine Bertola Unseen by all but me alone (2009)
This exhibition reveals a constant theme within Bertola’s work by drawing on the historic role of women and craft production. Bertola celebrates the skill and beauty prevalent to historical genres of craft and the decorative arts, and draws upon a legacy of collective struggle of women; and the presence of personal triumph and liberation that is often overlooked by history.
Unseen by all but me alone consists of a series of delicate handmade golden cobwebs that infiltrate the nooks and crannies of the bare and empty gallery space. With its roots in the origins of female labour the title is taken from a song, sung by Habetrot (a mythological figure in Anglo-Celtic folklore associated with spinning and healing and symbolised by the spinning wheel, wool, and the spiders web) in the story of Habetrot and the Scantlie Mab, a pagan tale that uses spinning as a metaphor and measure for a woman’s virtue. Bertola’s delicately spun webs reclaim space from the absence of human activity, and through their material value announce both a relationship with organic creation associated with neglect and the passing of time, and a
celebration of luxury and silent splendour.;___; I love this.
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Henrique Oliveira has fantastic installations.
I think that what impresses me most is how fluid his wood pieces appear. They seem more like paint or rubber than wood.
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Sculpture Group Symbolizing World’s Communication in the Atomic Age, Harry Bertoia, 1959 (originally commissioned for the Chicago showroom of the Zenith Radio Corporation)
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Jenny Holzer, Protect Me From What I Want, 1983-85
Raise your hand if the Placebo song is now stuck in your head.
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Brian Jungen, Shapeshifter, 2000.
Jungen is a British Columbian artist of mixed European and Aboriginal background. He created a series of monumental whale skeleton sculptures made of cheap acrylic lawn chairs. Apparently the whale represented, to Jungen, museums’ fascination with Native art as being exotic and Other. He saw some parallel between the treatment of whale skeletons and the displays of native culture - treated as something that is otherworldly and beautiful but something that is segregated away from what is designated ‘normal’. It underlines issues of race and culture in museum displays and the ways in which we fetishize Native art.
(Submitted by icanseethecntower)
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London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this awesome installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. Upon first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear to be completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color. We would love to encounter this first-hand. A circular version of Blackfield is currently on display at Artclub 1563 in Seoul through February 2012.
[via Colossal]
