An artist is, beyond all of its transcendental and inventive impulses, a body–a physical statement, a functioning machine. Furthermore, a work of art, same as its creator, is a corpse–the kind that is compact, variant and mythical, waiting to be decoded and configured for its true meaning. Continue reading
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Stone Cold or Warm Flesh: Bodies in Galleries These Days
Since artists started to travel at full speed through the paths of experimenting with every genre and material possible, the idea of the body has fallen into a constant shift in its form. Marisol’s carved wood robust humans, Willem de Kooning’s highly abstracted Woman series, and more recently John Currin’s ode to Mannerism era with … Continue reading