Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Art 21




Theme
Artist
Work
Comments
S1/
2001
Place
Barry McGee&
Margaret Kilgallen
Indian folk art
influenced by graffiti art
like handmade things
S2/
2003
Time
Martin Puryear
Ladder for Book
T. Washington
36 feet long wooden ladder
struggle, progress for the race, long, slow
S3/
2005
Power
Cai Guoqiang
Inopportune
--gunpowder, explosive power,
 destruction, danger
 cut paper, lay down,  explode,poppy flower
-- father, ink painting
 art is not about the things you see,art is about anything you don’t say
--car bomb, stuffed tiger pierced by arrows,imperfection, pain, visual impact
S4/
2007
Ecology
Robert Adams
Turning Back
(1999-2003)
illustrates deforestation in the West,
involved an exhaustion of resources and spirit
S5/
2009
Fantasy
Cao Fei
Hip Hop series video
Fukuoka (2005)
New York (2006)
--see the world with a sense of humor
--street culture, natural, wild,free spontaneous form of expression,make different kind of things together,
music itself becomes a very emotion part of  the work
S6/
2012
Change
Catherine Opie
Lake Erie
spring, summer, fall (4 pictures), winter (5)
during different seasons, same location
sunrise, sunset
work had potential to convey time
S7/
2014
Fiction
Joan Jonas
Mirror Piece I:
Reconfigured (1969)
--mirror, perfect vehicle
--all works, involved dealing with space
--the visual of the mirrors in the space,
how they reflecting and how they look,
to learn how to move in public
audience uneasy, seeing themselves in the mirror, so the mirrors reflecting the audience, space and other performers,
 the artist like the dimensionality of this

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