Fontana Mix for February 2012
Fontana Mix is a semi-regular column that is made up of tid bits and miscellaneous ephemera that by itself is more than a tweet, but less than a whole blog post. I’m sure you know where the title comes from so I wont bother to explain.
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Fontana Mix for February 2012
Fontana Mix is a semi-regular column that is made up of tid bits and miscellaneous ephemera that by itself is more than a tweet, but less than a whole blog post. I’m sure you know where the title comes from so I wont bother to explain.
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Ai Weiwei and “The Peoples Sunflower Seeds”
Ai Weiwei has brought his sunflower seeds installation to the Mary Boone Gallery. To be quite honest I really don’t know what to make of it. Originally planned and executed for the Tate London, the seeds are meant to be walked over as well as allowing people to rest or lie on the artwork thereby adding a number of contextual layers to the experience of the work. However, with many things that are made in China a funny thing happened on the way to the gallery.
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Ai Weiwei and “The Peoples Sunflower Seeds”
Ai Weiwei has brought his sunflower seeds installation to the Mary Boone Gallery. To be quite honest I really don’t know what to make of it. Originally planned and executed for the Tate London, the seeds are meant to be walked over as well as allowing people to rest or lie on the artwork thereby adding a number of contextual layers to the experience of the work. However, with many things that are made in China a funny thing happened on the way to the gallery.
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The Physical Impossibility of Spots in the Mind of Someone Living to View Them
I’m going to ignore the current drama around the personalities and macro economics of the current Damien Hirst exhibitions currently on display at Gagosian. Instead I’m going to focus on the work itself, I know it’s an odd choice for an art review.
Anytime you develop a show (even a show in a single gallery space) there are going to be great artworks and lesser artworks. The shows at the two downtown Gagosians don’t change this fact in the least.
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The Physical Impossibility of Spots in the Mind of Someone Living to View Them
I’m going to ignore the current drama around the personalities and macro economics of the current Damien Hirst exhibitions currently on display at Gagosian. Instead I’m going to focus on the work itself, I know it’s an odd choice for an art review.
Anytime you develop a show (even a show in a single gallery space) there are going to be great artworks and lesser artworks. The shows at the two downtown Gagosians don’t change this fact in the least.
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The “Hirst” Problem
For part of the morning I’ve been participating in a conversation facilitated by Matthew Collings facebook page about Damian Hirst and the critical thought (or should I say lack of critical thought) around the current show by Damian Hirst at every Gagosian Gallery worldwide. It’s an audacious thing – to have a show in 11 galleries around the world at once, it is even more so to have 11 shows worldwide showing only one type of artwork from one artist. And, to be frank about it, there are very few artists that would be able to hold up to the spotlight and criticisms that would come from such an event.
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The “Hirst” Problem
For part of the morning I’ve been participating in a conversation facilitated by Matthew Collings facebook page about Damian Hirst and the critical thought (or should I say lack of critical thought) around the current show by Damian Hirst at every Gagosian Gallery worldwide. It’s an audacious thing – to have a show in 11 galleries around the world at once, it is even more so to have 11 shows worldwide showing only one type of artwork from one artist. And, to be frank about it, there are very few artists that would be able to hold up to the spotlight and criticisms that would come from such an event.
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