Ed Templeton

Blood:


Asia one:


Michëal Borremans

masks:

thank you so much for posting these images bunbury! i just wish i could watch them all at work.

is Ed Templeton well known nowdays? a good selling artist?
i hope so as i have a tshirt signed by him (also drew some totally craziness on it)

Reena Spaulings is the collective identity thing right? Didn't they right a book as well?

There are a bunch of Italian dudes that write books under the Pseudonym Wu Ming (and Luther Blissett prior to that) that are pretty good. 54 is well worth a read. Not really art per se. Although they have done a bunch of situationist-ish actions before.

www.wumingfoundation.com

Yo, Trasher, Ed Templeton is rad. I remember looking through old skate mags and being so excited seeing Toy Machine ads and shit... I love all his little characters and whatnots.

Oh thanks. I saw that Yayoi Kusama thing ages ago but totally forgot who did it. Thanks for reminding me. I really like it.

Maurizio Cattelan


The Ballad of Trotsky


HOLLYWOOD
Recreating the myth of Hollywood in Sicily, Cattelan displaces multiple meanings, through the use of a few, gigantic letters".


Him
A photorealistic sculpture of a miniature Hitler in prayer ? An icon of fear.


Frank & Jamie

La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour)
The Pope after being hit by a meteorite.


Not Afraid of Love


Hanging children
This caused a stir in Milan where Maurizio Cattelan created a work depicting three children hanging from a tree.


Untitled

saw them on saturday and it made my heart jump a little.

Nice interview I love this thread.

i saw his retrospective in berlin years ago and it had some of the death and dissaster stuff as well as the piss paintings and shadow paintings and lots of brillo boxes. floor to ceiling.

i could have spent a whole day there which is strange because i usually get gallery fatigue after a while.

saw a bit if the gilbert and george thing at the tate as well.

Love Julia Fullerton Batten!

Marina Abramovic


Lips of Thomas, 1973/1994

Interested in the limits of mental and physical endurance, influential performance artist Marina Abramovic has used her body as the subject and medium of her work since the early 1970s. Though not her medium directly, photography has also played an important part in her career, documenting performances and so providing the only extant time-based traces of those temporal acts. The series Performance Edition 1970-75 uses one photograph and one text panel each to represent performances for which there no longer is (or never was) film or video documentation. The text of Lips of Thomas explains that 1973 performance:

LIPS OF THOMAS
Performance

I slowly eat 1 kilo of honey with a silver spoon.
I slowly drink 1 liter of red wine out of a crystal glass.
I break the glass with my right hand.
I cut a five pointed star on my stomach with a razor blade.
I violently whip myself until I no longer feel any pain.
I lay down on a cross made of ice blocks.
The heat of a suspended space heater pointed at my stomach
Causes the cut star to bleed.
The rest of my body begins to freeze
I remain on the ice cross for 30 minutes until the audience interrupts the piece by removing the ice blocks from underneath.
Duration: 2 hours 1975
Krinzinger Gallery
Innsbruck




Balkan Erotic Epic: Women in Rain 3


Virgin Warrior Hearts

To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramovic developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.
Abramovic had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were scissors, a knife, a whip, and, most notoriously, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.
Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) several people began to act quite aggressively. As Abramovic described it later:
“The experience I learned was that…if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed.” ... “I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”


Portrait with Scorpion (Closed Eyes)', 2005





Marina Abramovic Wikipedia

Good to see some Abramovic love. Her work is of superior quality.

Didn't she direct a Rolling Stones video?

More Marina Abramovic

"Would you ask a man to aim an arrow at your face? Or slap you as often as he can in 20 minutes?"

Ulay/Marina Abramovic
Rest Energy, 1980


Name Pickers, 1998, Color photograph, 107 x 97 cm
Collaboration with the photographer Bojan Brecelj and the group Irwin.


The Onion 2005
7 ex.
C-Print
125 x 167 cm
49 3/16 x 65 3/4 in


SPIRIT HOUSE, video installation

http://www.artistsunite-ny.org/issue...w/DSC07609.jpg
Thomas Lips 1975/1999

Marc Quinn


Self, 1990, Saatchi Collection
Replica of his own head in frozen blood.


Marc Quinn, Sphinx, 2005, Edition of 3, Painted bronze, 88x65x50cm
Sphinx, takes a woman of unearthly beauty and transforms her into a contorted figure with her ankles uncomfortably wrapped round her ears.
The work is Quinn's much anticipated sculpture of Kate Moss.




Alison Lapper Pregnant

12,5 Proof (1993)

Portrait of an artist as a young man, 2005, Painted bronze.


Peter Hull, 1999, Marble and plinth, AP I/II (Plinth: 37 x 18 7/8 x 15 in. (94 x 48 x 38 cm), Sculpture: 33 1/16 x 18 7/8 x 15 in. (84 x 48 x 38)


Tom Yendell 2000
marble, 68 x 26 x 5 inches


Rubber Soul