BAFFLED AND BEWILDERED
I felt like something light but there didn't seem to be much around. Keith Haring maybe "giggly stuff" for children but since seeing it, I was in living in a world of memory. Sad ones at that. You know how much I dislike these kind of reflections.
When reading Beax Arts magazine on my balcony the other night (the first evening this year when it was warm enough to sit outside ,)there was an article on an artist I knew nothing about. Mike Kelley. Apparently an important American artist of the 20th coming after Andy Warhol and pursuing other directions rather than just pop art. He took his life in December 2012, missing out on one of the biggest retrospective exhibition openings of his work, which of course he must of known about. Only 57 and I am sure there is more to it than I have read. What I found drôle and touching at the same time was his recuperation of rag toys found disgarded in garbish dumps and un-loved, turning them into half man-half beast. (A picture in Beaux Art and a short viideo on the Beaubourg home page).
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-b097f66b97c8e0781dc124b363688e3¶m.idSource=FR_E-15be1644d86d5f3bf9a715561475a9 (if it works.....)
He may have been an artist, an actor, a mucisian and more, but I will be quite honest. I did not have a clue (over statement!!) of what he was getting at. With all you read on Internet too it would seem that his different «metiers» influenced his work a lot. That is for sure as there is a lot of hard rock music (in my ears) which greets you, not to mention the many videos. I was at a loss, and still am so want be rushing off to an even bigger exhibition planned this year in Milan.
His bird cages right at the beginning of the exhibition made me think this could be fun.
This intricate work called War State was fascinating especially looking closey at all he had stuck together.
He worked with children and felt that their creativity was blemished at school or through religion....
These kind of rooms I couldn’t understand at all....
But liked the madness of such objects.
Of course his recuperated toys were touching
Then my mind raced back again to my brother. He had a monkey. I think he quite simply called him «Monkey» - is this how he ended. Well better that than in the garbage.....
So what is image for this generation, what is their relationship with it? What is the link in their work between imagie and sculpture or installation.
There was a video with this that showed young people folding it and dancing......
To be quite honest, I still don’t know,
.
but if you think I was going to get down on my stomach as an Asiatic did to see this, you are wrong
When reading Beax Arts magazine on my balcony the other night (the first evening this year when it was warm enough to sit outside ,)there was an article on an artist I knew nothing about. Mike Kelley. Apparently an important American artist of the 20th coming after Andy Warhol and pursuing other directions rather than just pop art. He took his life in December 2012, missing out on one of the biggest retrospective exhibition openings of his work, which of course he must of known about. Only 57 and I am sure there is more to it than I have read. What I found drôle and touching at the same time was his recuperation of rag toys found disgarded in garbish dumps and un-loved, turning them into half man-half beast. (A picture in Beaux Art and a short viideo on the Beaubourg home page).
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-b097f66b97c8e0781dc124b363688e3¶m.idSource=FR_E-15be1644d86d5f3bf9a715561475a9 (if it works.....)
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| Ah Youth 1991 |
He may have been an artist, an actor, a mucisian and more, but I will be quite honest. I did not have a clue (over statement!!) of what he was getting at. With all you read on Internet too it would seem that his different «metiers» influenced his work a lot. That is for sure as there is a lot of hard rock music (in my ears) which greets you, not to mention the many videos. I was at a loss, and still am so want be rushing off to an even bigger exhibition planned this year in Milan.
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| for a bird that is near and a bird that is far |
His bird cages right at the beginning of the exhibition made me think this could be fun.
This intricate work called War State was fascinating especially looking closey at all he had stuck together.
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He worked with children and felt that their creativity was blemished at school or through religion....
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These kind of rooms I couldn’t understand at all....
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But liked the madness of such objects.
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| Free Gesture |
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| 1989 Ascending Hosts Descending Order |
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| SS Cuttlebon 2000 |
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| SS Cuttlebon 2000 |
Of course his recuperated toys were touching
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Then my mind raced back again to my brother. He had a monkey. I think he quite simply called him «Monkey» - is this how he ended. Well better that than in the garbage.....
Right next to it, there was a further exhibition entitled,
«Image into scupture». Now this could be intesresting.
Four young artists; Danish, a New Zelander and two Greeks
«that share a way of treating the image and medium that situated them in a kind of impurity» Baffling...
So what is image for this generation, what is their relationship with it? What is the link in their work between imagie and sculpture or installation.
There was a video with this that showed young people folding it and dancing......
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To be quite honest, I still don’t know,
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but if you think I was going to get down on my stomach as an Asiatic did to see this, you are wrong
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