Friday, June 11, 2010

tarty

Long overdue



Hi.
To those who have already seen these photos on facebook I do apologize
but photographs look so much nicer on blogs
so I'll always be cross-posting !

finally we had some sun so we decided to head over to Cockatoo Island for some
touristy pass times




we laughed ourselves funny at the chinese artist names
this is an exploding art piece by Cai Guo Qiang "I want to Believe"
(臭腳強?)haha .
http://www.caiguoqiang.com/

but jokes aside, contemporary Artists from China are packed with the
jaw dropping element
(like the Olympics ceremonies)


above Cai Guo Qiang For BeiJing olympics '08
(how did he get it to spiral so nicely!)

CGQ's art chronology dates back to the year I was born
with cool projects involving suspending large vessels in mid air
field explosions

and also one that I like very much called the Dragon : Explosion on Issey Miyake
for the Cartier Foundation



the Biennale also had Cao Fei, but not Ai wei wei.
shame





on the island it felt like time stood still
heritage elements were preserved in a thick coat of silence


















A lot of themes tried to artificially bring nature into
human habitats
There was one Korean artist who had a plant phobia so she used green old school sieves to
make gigantic grape vines
so how bout that

this installation was totally threatening to collapse










Death




waxed figurines of the great leaders (dictators) of the world
some were attached to a vacuum suction thing
which made the figures seem to breath and flutter their eyelids







Roger Ballen
we saw him at Galerie Kamel Mennour
http://www.rogerballen.com/



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The Yayoi show was so disappointing
thought there was gonna be sculptural stuff but
turns out it's a weird clip of her humming a lullaby



Taliban



This would be so much more effective on water : )












such a lovely space
wish my studio was like this!













Inspired by lightening

























Stella and I were trying to figure out whether these are for lease
rent a space on a scary prison island for your
long awaited holiday getaway? haha




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