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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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