Willem de Kooning studio in East Hampton, Archetectual Digest, 1983
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Opens Tonight, Feb 2, 6-8p:
Jon Kessler: “The Blue Period”
Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery, NYC (bt Stanton & Rivington)
an immersive installation featuring kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures. This video-drenched panopticon is the culmination of Kessler’s longtime interest in surveillance, alienation and spectacle. First shown in Berlin in 2007, this is the work’s first installation in the US.
The Blue Period is a spiritual descendant of Society as Spectacle, Guy Debord’s seminal 1967 critique of the ascendant consumer culture, and the general passivity and isolation it engenders. Riffing on Debord and his fellow Situationists, Kessler has constructed a controlled environment in which social relations are mediated through images of a fabricated, inaccessible reality. -thru Mar 10
Tiger Rug Made of 500,000 Cigarettes by Xu Bing
This piece was created by the Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing. He’s sort of a pioneer of mixing up tobacco and art in projects, and has created many pieces trough out the last decade. The weird part is that, seen from afar, thiscigarette tiger skin rug actually does look like something an eccentric millionaire would have in his place, decorating a dark room where he goes to read and spend some alone time. Let’s just hope it’s not too close to a chimney, though, as this looks pretty flammable.
(Source: theartofanimation)
Illustrations by Fab Ciraolo combining modern-day trends with iconic figures.
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