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Willie Cole, Sole Brother, 2008
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“Given that Larson collects his raw materials from the streets, it’s no surprise that his works have the surface texture of weathered billboards. But by bending, folding and meticulously arranging select scraps, he transforms them into richly hued geometric matrixes whose tonal values and patterns shift according to where you stand. Units of identical measure are his building blocks, but the results vary enormously. A foil-and-paper-based piece created from Marlboro Lights packages (Gold Standard), for example, recalls the minimalist, monochrome grids of Agnes Martin, while a similarly conceived work (Red Honey), rendered in sun-bleached shades of Marlboro red, appears as an Op-ish matrix of hexagonal patterns.” –DAVID M. ROTH
Robert Larson, “Red Honey”, 1995-2011
Erwin Wurm is one of Austria’s most internationally successful artists and his works are often described as bizarre and question everyday ways of looking at the world. Recent examples have gone on display in Bonn’s Kunstmuseum.
MoMA | Rirkrit Tiravanija: Cooking Up an Art Experience…In 1992, Rirkrit Tiravanija created an exhibition entitled Untitled (Free) at 303 Gallery in New York. This landmark piece, in which the artist converted a gallery into a kitchen where he served rice and Thai curry for free, has been recreated at MoMA as part of the installation Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now.
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Diane Jacobs, ‘Tangled Identities’ (2010). Human hair on metal combs, engraving, nails. ”When taken out of context and viewed from a new perspective, what is normally commonplace has the potential to become novel and extraordinary and, most importantly, memorable.
“Knot Home,” 2007. Plastic comb with human hair.
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STREET ART UTOPIA We declare the world as our canvas…
Yarn Bombing By B-Arbeiten
Julie Green, 2010
For many of us, choosing our last supper on Earth is a parlor game. For some, it’s real. Here’s the story of death row prisoners’ final meals, painted one plate at a time, by Oregon artist Julie Green. Over the past decade she has painted over 500 plates and plans to continue until the death penalty is abolished.
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See Julie Green’s Website with more images of her project.
Revital Cohen, Artificial Biological Clock, 2008
The female body clock relies on moonlight to regulate the menstrual cycle. The use of artificial light and contraceptive hormones, along with the growing pressure to develop a career, are distorting the body’s reproductive signals. The artificial biological clock compensates for this increasingly lost instinct.
Hasan Elahi, ongoing project trackingtransienc… After new media professor Hasan Elahi was falsely accused by a neighbor of being a 9/11 terrorist accomplice in 2002, the Bangladesh-born American underwent six months of scrutiny from the FBI. Turning the tables, he personally documented the minutiae of his everyday occurrences now on view in a project called Tracking Transience at the Santa Fe art space SITE. hasan-2.jpg Elahi photographs his meals before he eats them, toilet…
The Army of Trash Figures Slowly Conquering the World By Environmental Graffiti June 1, 2010 German artist HA Schult has created an army of Trash People that travels the world. Photo: dbking There is an army out there, traveling to the most important places around the world. Every year, they target a new city in which to regroup and form their trademark lines. With their bodies made out of crushed cans, electronic trash and other waste products of society, they stand guard, statue-like. We’re talking about the Trash People of course, an army comprised of 1,000 individual soldiers made out of the rubbish we produce. Their intentions? Friendly but firm.
