Cont'd
This looks like a "real" camel but one "frozen" in time. Though without a harness on its back, it bends its forelegs on a mat and has a long needle stuck across its nose. Is that an image of the ordinary folks in China or those in Mongolia: cowered by power or by religion or by political ideology or by life itself, masochistically displaying to the indifferent gaze of "the public", the needle by which its horrible "life" is artificially re-stitched together?
This looks like a "real" camel but one "frozen" in time. Though without a harness on its back, it bends its forelegs on a mat and has a long needle stuck across its nose. Is that an image of the ordinary folks in China or those in Mongolia: cowered by power or by religion or by political ideology or by life itself, masochistically displaying to the indifferent gaze of "the public", the needle by which its horrible "life" is artificially re-stitched together?
Some beautifully carved wood screen
A close up of some of the characters
A full view of the work, entitled "Crush me" 2013. According to the artist Entang Wiharso, it's a double-dyed wall that explores the question of what is reality and what is perception: walls or fences are pliable tools in my work and their potency is as borders: they keep out, reveal status, maintian privacy and are used for protection, both psychological and physical, He says that this wall is his personal narrative and the two sides depict different presenations of the same story with one side intentionally distorted, presenting a contrasting dichotomy. The work is a public stage which shows how the vulnerabilty of exposure and external conditions without distorting reality.
It seems that nowadays, lovers have to meet wearing a a wet suit and gas mask, as if under water..
Another two masked lovers. Despite the novel "costume", it's still man above, woman below and even love must be treated as if it were "poisonous gas" frozen in the glistening external surface of entirely artificial porcelain or modified plastic material?
The fascinating world of strings, threads, wires and colors..
A bookworm's or an office worker's idea of "art"?
butterflies, birds, trees. leaves etc.or a cat? So delicate, fine-grained and intricate. Must be the work of a woman artist.
Another creative pattern of color tit bits
bouquet and stick
child-like (or childish?) pottery
More child-like pottery
I like its spontaneous feelings, almost without thought
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A collection the artist's works
Two glasses glued together like two hammers meeting at their rim, one transparent one purple-red tinted.
Another two glasses, one more elaborate, the other simpler, one colorless, the other light blue.
Two dimensions into three
White Discharge by Teppie Kaneuji: colorful shapes done with hot melt glue
Another view of the same
flesh/fat hanging on a wall, like a sausage, trying to hang on
shapes in wood, one sitting, one doubled up and one curled up
another wood sculpture
embroidered gun? hinting military violence
The art of cutting
Another one
a third
The "art" of display?
Johnson's Baby soap 2013 by Lee Kit. More "pop" art?
a baby bird in cast bronze 2007 by William Earl Kofmehl
Bass 2007 by the same artist
A kite thinking itself into a bird?
Messaien vase 2013 by Francesca DiMattio
Another view: a twisted blending of East and West, violent, jagged and full of conflict?
Another reformed twin figures by the same artist
Color structures by Tala Madani 2013
The "art" of Trash: conceptual art?
More
Abstract geometric sculpture
More
A photo of human sculptures
carved bark: blend of nature and artifice?
(To be cont'd)
Seeing the "flesh/fat hanging on a wall" display, I thought of Jesus who, having stayed on the crucifix for too long, so long that the vertical bar of the cross has rotten away, and He, having put on weight for having been left idling for too long, is trying desperately to climb down for a break.
回覆刪除Sorry for the disrespect. I just can't help feeling impish all of a sudden.
Thanks for the sharing.
[版主回覆07/18/2013 12:17:42]They're by a Chinese artist name forgotten. He also exhibited last year.
[Peter回覆07/18/2013 10:08:37]Is it one of the works of Botero? It bears his style. I am just curious.
[版主回覆07/18/2013 10:03:36]Art is not science nor mathematics. It aims not primarily at providing narrative "knowledge" in the conventional sense, though it may do that as well. Art is always ambiguous. Art works not by logic, but by sensation, by feeling, by imagination, by suggestion. Hence, to me, there is no single "correct" "explanation" of an artwork. It is always open to all kinds of "interpretation". To me, the image of those unsightly lumps of fat on the wall suggests PRC public officials fattening themselves on what belongs to the people, clinging to the "wall" of their "office" or the wall of their "home" as protection: we see neither their "heart", nor even their "head", just mindless fattening of their obese body.
Thanks for your sharing !
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/19/2013 07:20:29]My pleasure.
很喜歡1,2,3張的作品。
回覆刪除另：兩個作鎚狀的杯給我一種＂未碎已碎＂或＂破碎前的融洽＂感覺。
也很喜歡Francesca DiMattio的作品。
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[版主回覆07/20/2013 21:07:20]Yes, they're good: plenty of very careful work. Must have taken the artist a year. About the glasses, maybe you're right. Perhaps because they look a bit a two hammers meeting?
I don't know how DiMattio did it. Perhaps he had to use very high heat in an oven to make the vase change shape or alternative use some chemical to make the porcelain soft before he works on them.
My pleasure to share what I find gives me pleasure. Glad you like 'em too.
第5及6張的戀人，
回覆刪除愛戀中可能以為看得最清，
誰知大家都是以面具相見。
[版主回覆07/19/2013 10:13:48]isn't that what we find in reality although many who think of themselves as "lovers" do their best to disguise the fact and though some even have succeeded in managing never ever to take off their masks, even at most intimate moments, transforming themselves by dint of long practice into their mask so that it's really difficult to tell themselves from their masks? They may even have forgotten what they truly "are" and wish to remain forever in that that realm of "illusions". But sooner or later, life will catch up with them.