Seriously my favorite curating I have seen in the last 10 years was the exhibit In The Making… at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, which I saw last Summer in Berlin. Although I couldn’t find installation images to share – the main reason why I loved it so much: These two were exhibited side by side^
Chris Ofili’s installation of paintings “Upper Room” Each painting is an icon of a monkey repeated in a rainbow of colors, with a central multicolored monkey as a kind of alter piece. The room is a modern wooden temple which was designed with a collaborating architect. Andy Warhol’s Last Supper which informed Ofili’s work. One
Iscariot Blues (Chris Ofili, 2006) …”it belongs to a suite of paintings called Blue Rider, an echo of Kandinsky’s Blaue Reiter, now a century old.” der blaue reiter “Now, like Picasso’s, Ofili’s Black Period has given way to a Blue one – to a suite of pictures whose almost monochrome palette turns against the reds
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you know you should…
Here is another resource which I am considering toward further discussion on “blasphemous” art. See previous post HERE with texts on Andres Serrano. I find the idea that Christina Valentine puts forth in the presentation below to be extremely relevant to my generation within my practice and sub-sub-culture: The idea that we should be wary
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Neuschwanstein, The Schlossgeist Series Taken from Chris Anderson’s URL For over a decade American artist Chris Anderson has devoted her art to the theme of the domestic landscape. At first glance the work conjures up paired images: architecture and nature, interior and exterior. In Anderson’s fragmented visual world, however, they unfold into dualistic topographies: random