Erwin Wurm's "Wear Me Out" expo in the Middleheimmuseum park is amazing! Pick a sunny day to see it - a blue sky makes the fairytale-like experience even more real.
And in case Antwerp's too far, here are the photos.
Erwin Wurm's Wonderland @ Middelheim
Erwin Wurm's "Wear Me Out" expo in the Middleheimmuseum park is amazing! Pick a sunny day to see it - a blue sky makes the fairytale-like experience even more real.
And in case Antwerp's too far, here are the photos.
The Mid-Year Tune-Up
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| Painting by Leslie Saeta |
"Art As A Business ... The Mid-Year Tune-Up"
Join artists Leslie Saeta and Dreama Tolle Perry as they discuss ways to sell your art on-line. Today's show addresses the fact that 2011 is now half over ... So let's all stop and take a look at where we are, what we've accomplished so far and where we would like to be. So pull out those goals you created in December and let's figure out what we all need to stay on tract for a very successful rest of 2011!
Click here to listen to today's show.
Gardar Eide Einarsson: ab-fab in Basel & in general
After seeing "Another Modern Moment Completed" by Gardar Eide Einarsson (*1976, Norway; lives in N.Y ) at Team Gallery last year, we checked his work in detail and haven't regretted it. A variety of amazing kick-ass pieces, dealing with investigations into various forms of social transgression and arguments for political subversion, emerged to us in all its black & white glory.
Einarsson is attracted to the extreme, tragic versions of rebellion, exploring how such rebels transform themselves into tragic figures, causing their own downfall. He's called by some the most unpopular young artist in Norway (always a good sign...) for his big public art project in which he tried to turn a public square in Bergen - the second-largest city in Norway - into a fairy tale land of Cockaigne. In this imaginary land nobody has to work, laziness is rewarded, landscape consists of mashed potatoes' mountains and pigs walk around already barbecued. The reactions were extreme: people got mad, destroying the works, with one 80-year-old stating that it was the worst thing she had ever seen, including the World War II.
At Art Basel Unlimited he showed an installation called Barricade, inspired by a specific event, namely the Bangkok politically motivated street fights in spring 2010. The installation is a reconstruction of similar barricade from Bangkok, but the car tires were collected from the streets of the City of Basel - by the artist himself. Nice touch!
David Zink Yi's Architeuthis @ Art Basel Unlimited
David Zink Yi (*1973, Peru) is a Berlin-based artist who works primarily in video, photography, and sculpture. His work often deals with the idea of the body and shows Peruvian, Chinese as well as German cultural influences. We were intrigued ever since we saw his amazing steel palm tree sculptures two years ago @ MUDAM (more info about this work available through This Is Tomorrow). At Art Basel Unlimited, David Zink Yi exhibited a recent sculpture of a mythical giant octopus specie Architeuthis. Enormous by scale, realistic in its details and lying in a shiny dark liquid, as if just washed ashore, it drew all the crowd attention.
Artwork Description by John Rasmussen:
‘Over the past few years, David Zink Yi has worked within the ceramic tradition to create a series of sculptures modeled on Architeuthis, the deep-sea-dwelling giant squid, an elusive creature prominent in myth and legend. Until only a few years ago, the giant squid had never been encountered alive; human experience of this life form was limited to corpses we discovered washed up on beaches. In his largest ceramic sculpture to date, Zink Yi uses the transformative power of heat and pressure to create a handcrafted creature that we understand only through the knowledge of its surface – a body without depth or animus. Lead and copper glazes play off each other to create variation within its metallic surface. The 16-foot deflated form rests in a blackened pool of liquid, provoking the viewer into a power full encounter with the grotesque.’
David Zink Yi is represented by Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York and Johann König Gallery, Berlin.
Blogs we like: Gordon Holden
Sometimes, awesomeness arrives by email. Out of the blue we got mail from Gordon Holden telling us how much he loves reading our blog. We checked out his work and were instantly attracted . We're not sure who he really is and what he is up to, but he's got great taste with the right level of absurdity. Pleased to meet you Gordon!