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In Art on February 21, 2012 at 23:46
For Bataille, a dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words but their tasks, as in the case of the artistic vocabulary of the exhibition Memento Mori, hosted by the retail design office Sherman&Co. among plenty of m2 of white Corian. The dead man’s patterns once serving as a base for the construction of his bespoke suits are transformed into paper skulls and the leftovers of this process take their ordered places, abstractly, on a black canvas. Savile Row clients are donating their unique patterns to Art as an outcome of remembering their mortality. Memento Mori, as additional pieces -made of brown card- to the biography of a bon vivant.
Helen: I will not speak to you ’til you put your head on straight.
Death Becomes Her, 1992
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In Art on February 19, 2012 at 23:17
And nothing is more distinctive, more distinguished, than the capacity to confer aesthetic status on objects that are banal or even ‘common’ – because the common people make them their own, especially for aesthetic purposes. (Bourdieu, 1979)
In the case of the objects galore, in Waste Not of Song Dong, the personages of the story make them their own especially for vital purposes. Potent to soothe the bonds of a family, this universe of bric-à-brac narrates a cultural snapshot, while reconstructing a lifetime. A Life in Pictures.
Why throw it away? It might come handy in the future.
Dong lost his father, after a severe heart attack that carried him away in minutes/ his mother entered a phase of depression with uncertain boundaries/ she started collecting the eternal minutiae of an ephemeral life/ matter against life/ 1-0.
The artist convinced her of participating in the creative process of the exhibition/ a ray of light on her viscous darkness/ she was mainly responsible for the first installation in Beijing/ unfurling her memories within the gallery space/ organizing the items in terms of purpose/
recovering.
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In Art on February 19, 2012 at 23:11
Julien Quentin: T’as peur?
Jean Bonnet: Tout le temps.
Au Revoir Les Enfants | Louis Malle | 1987
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In Art on February 19, 2012 at 23:07
Houses live and die; there is a time for building/ And a time for living and generation/ And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane. (T. S. Eliot)
Reminiscent of the ‘Patient Toothbrushes’ of Christofer Payne, the manic organization of Tobias Madörin and the ‘Final Home’ overalls of Kosuke Tsumura, the work of Dong prevails over art in terms of emotionality. For all the moments that objects substitute presence, may lead to a delirium of preservation – why to throw it/ it might prove itself useful in the future/ reconstructing a memory/ illustrating a family portrait. Until the wind comes, to bring the sorrow down.
Every interior expresses, in its own language, the present and even the past state of its occupants, bespeaking the elegant self-assurance of inherited wealth, the flashy arrogance of the nouveaux riches, the discreet shabbiness of the poor and the gilded shabbiness of ‘poor relations’ striving to live beyond their means. (Bourdieu, 1979)
_ Trivia |Over 10,000 household possessions/ one part of the family home/ collected in > 5 years/ wu jin qi yong: activity of saving & re-using objects of all kinds/ a prerequisite for survival.
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In Art on October 14, 2011 at 00:04On the way to the gym,
a group of people was staring at a house,
speaking in spanish. A girl showed something to a boy,
I turned my head along.
So sad, she said, it has no roof.
And there it was. A house with a piece of fabric for a ceiling
and wooden planks behind its broken windows.
Cladded with cotton. Clothed.
Sometimes houses can be as vulnerable as dresses,
and in some cases as the inhabitants themselves.
Balzac has described it thoroughly in the Human Comedy;
as in the Old Maid and the grey house of Mademoiselle Cormon
that was a perfect portrait of her emotional life.
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In Art on November 11, 2009 at 21:46Sometimes
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you are in loss of words.
And other similarities.
Sources: MOMA.com, Edward Ruscha.
Modern Illusion
In Art on October 21, 2009 at 19:18Expanded Ecologies Expo
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Igitur statuenda est primum ratio
Symmetriarum, a qua sumatur sine
dubitatione commutatio.
[Vitruvius]
Sometimes, the primitive law
is that
- undoubtedly -
each symmetry
must keep into consideration
a possible change.
Sources: MOMA Athens, I. Gyparakis for Expanded Ecologies, Perspectives in a time of Emergency.
Another Bed On the Wall
In Art, I on October 16, 2009 at 21:59*
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* She was in bed by three.
Sources: Merci, MACBA.
