Not exact matches
They ended up turning the play dough into
sculptures with shells on top and clothes to
cover their dolls and
animal toys, decorated with the beach themed loose parts.
Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole
covers to brand - new
sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of
animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.
Working with a mixture of cold porcelain and polymer atop a metal wire armature, artist Ellen Jewett (previously) creates wildly intricate
sculptures of
animals covered in a tangle of surreal embellishments.
The
animal travesties duly yanked, it might have included one of Zhang Huan's or Xiao Lu's provocative performances (three weeks naked in a latrine
covered with flies, and shooting an exhibited
sculpture with a pellet gun.)
Towards the rear of the pavilion, the Workplace Gallery (based jointly in Gateshead and London) presented towering
sculptures by Eric Bainbridge,
covered in the sort of fur best suited to stuffed
animals.
The exhibition features new physical pixelated
sculptures («PixCell» s) made out of toys, taxidermied
animals, musical instruments and other everyday objects, new works in his Direction and Ether series that visualize the effects of gravity, and new works in his Villus series that
cover an object's contours and textures with «villi.»
Mike's work has been reviewed in Art Papers, World
Sculpture Magazine, Art F City, and is pictured on the
cover and is the focus of a chapter in a new book, Art,
Animals, and Experience (Routledge Press).
Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed
animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's
sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid
covered wall.