Something kind of like self expression, or more simply, just a matter of taste.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
As part of his first exhibition at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, artist Ai Weiwei(previously) has installed 760 stacked bicycles in a sprawling installation on a raised stage within the gallery. It’s important to note that the bikes are not simply “stacked” but have been physically attached creating a single cohesive structure which can be explored from within, similar to his 2011 work Forever Bicycles. The exhibition is comprised of several sculptures, installations, video and photographs from the Chinese artist who was bestowed last May with the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation. Last year Weiwei was also the subject of the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry directed by American filmmaker Alison Klayman, which follows the artist through several nasty scuffles with Chinese authorities while he creates several new provocative artworks and organized social actions. Easily one of the best documentaries of 2012 and I highly recommend it (stream it on Netflix).
The exhibition at Galleria Continua is on view through February 16th.
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Baptiste Debombourg, Aggravure, 2007-2011 (35,000 staples on wall)
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Gormley describes his work as“an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live.” Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or “the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside.”
Quantum Potentiality of the Manifested Self - Antony Gromley
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Do Ho Suh. Cause & Effect. This giant tornado of piggybacked men is an installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh that is currently on display at Western Washington University (photographs above depict it in alternate configurations). Via Western: “‘Cause & Effect’ evokes a vicious tornado. This vast ceiling installation is a composition of densely hung strands that anchor thousands of figures clad in colors resembling a Doppler reading stacked atop one another,” said Do Ho Suh, adding that the artwork is a “physical realization of existence, suggesting strength in the presence of numerous individuals. The work is an attempt to decipher the boundaries between a single identity and a larger group, and how the two conditions coexist.” Suh has been all over the news lately with his recent Fallen Star Lands installation in San Diego, and his Floor piece in Singapore. See many more views of this piece and other works here. (via the stranger, korea.net, herry lawford) (
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Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
February 16th - March 24th, 2012
Paper insects by Rob Bailey
PVC Pipe Sculptures by Kang Duck-Bong
‘On the Shelf’ (1970) by Michael Craig-Martin
