Untitled (Desk), 2004Desk, Stool (missing one leg), lumber, TV, doily, extension cord, jacket, cigarettes and coins
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8/31/09
Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Untitled (Desk), 2004Desk, Stool (missing one leg), lumber, TV, doily, extension cord, jacket, cigarettes and coins
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8/28/09
8/27/09
Francine Spiegel
Get Out of My House, 2008
acrylic on canvas
66 x 44 in
Terror Tales, 2007oil on canvas
72 x 48 in
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8/26/09
8/25/09
8/24/09
Paul Eachus
Light crowds approaching (from the West), 2004
Mixed media, TV monitors, DVD players
Plants and found materials
299 x 244 x 140cm
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Anne Wenzel
Silent Landscape, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
8/20/09
Beatrice Morabito
via Happy Famous Artists
go here and here for the aug-sept edition of 'avantoure' featuring a sensual shoot of her oyster dolls.
8/18/09
Gillian Wearing
2 into 1, 1997
duration 4:40
The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her two sons, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other. It is hypnotically disturbing to watch a pair of 10-year-old twins take turns speaking their mother's exasperated love for them. "I think Lawrence is absolutely adorable, he's gorgeous, I love every inch of him," Lawrence says, in a slightly raspy woman's voice. "But he's got a terrible temper." Halfhearted affirmations of self-esteem also figure in the mother's monologue, along with deep fatigue, all sounding precociously sympathetic--if not a touch demonic--coming from her children's lips. Equally unnerving is the mother's mimed recitation, heard in the soft, clear voices of clever preadolescent boys, of her sons' accounts of her. We hear their criticism of her driving ("too slow") and clothes ("she doesn't dress too well"), and their complaint that she goes out to clubs too much (slightly disheveled and obviously anxious, she looks like she could use the break). For their part, the boys, baby-faced and natty but incipiently loutish, are hardly ingratiating. A dazzlingly deft expression of the complex pushes and pulls in the mother-son relationship, 2 into 1 is an even more concise articulation of the triangulated relationship between artist, subject and viewer. Treating emotional truth as if it were the coin under the three fast-shuffled cups of a sidewalk con artist, this video pictures the circulation of meaning as a kind of vaudeville act, fast, funny and a little cruel.
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8/14/09
Hayley Newman
Index, from the project 'Connotations II'
This forefinger was used to record the city by touching everything it came into contact with on a single day.
Appropriated poster of the work, exhibited in Melbourne 2002.
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[ Photo: Claire Morales ]8/12/09
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8/10/09
Francis Alys
The Nightwatch, 2004
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
Sometimes Doing Something Leads To Nothing, 1997
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8/6/09
Santiago Sierra
160cm Line Tattooed on 4 People, 2000
Four prostitutes addicted to heroin were hired for the price of a shot of heroin to give their consent to be tattooed. Normally they charge 2,000 or 3,000 pesetas, between $15 and $17, for fellatio, while the price of a shot of heroin is around $67.
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8/5/09
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