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likeafieldmouse: Maurizio Cattelan - Amen (2012-13) “Amen is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:50:26 -0400

Maurizio Cattelan - Amen (2012-13)

“Amen is Cattelan’s first retrospective after a year of silence and retirement from the art world. On view at Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, is a selection of the artist’s most recent works in which he explored the deepest areas of human life.

In front of the castle visitors are captured by the hanging child replacing the flag on the pole (Untitled, 2004), questioning society’s sense of responsibility toward the youngest generation.

Inside, the work Mother, a memento from a famous performance at the Vienna Art Biennale in 1999 recalls the search for spiritual values that is common to religion and art while the dying horse and tormented woman compel us to reflect upon the ethical and anthropological dimension of sacrifice, victim and dying.

The exhibition expands beyond the gallery, a part of which can be seen on 14 Próżna St., a former Warsaw Ghetto, in which Cattelan had (controversially) placed the work Him (2001), a statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees.

In a Warsaw ravaged by the cataclysmic 20th century, Cattelan’s works take on a particular dimension: they become an artistic commentary on the Catholic credo… What does it really mean to love your enemies? What does forgive for those who trespass against us mean? In evoking the traumas of history, his art represents a difficult challenge to the identity of the Poles: to what extent is our national memory a form of forgetfulness? To what degree does that which we wish to forget determine us and constitute a sui generis form of concealed memory?”

bygoneamericana: Central Park, 1948. By Martha Holmes

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:59:46 -0400

bygoneamericana:

Central Park, 1948.

By Martha Holmes

Photo

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:56:23 -0400

anabsence: Yasuzō Nojima : Title Unknown (1931-32)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:52:04 -0400

anabsence:

Yasuzō Nojima : Title Unknown (1931-32)

Photo

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:50:03 -0400

lapetitecole: Erwin Blumenfeld - Junge Frau Im Spiegel,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:44:08 -0400

lapetitecole:

Erwin Blumenfeld - Junge Frau Im Spiegel, Amsterdam, 1934

lapetitecole: Arthur Pollock

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:40:57 -0400

lapetitecole:

Arthur Pollock

climateadaptation: Dramatic video by NYTimes on Chinese...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:13:28 -0400

climateadaptation:

Dramatic video by NYTimes on Chinese government’s heavy handed plan to move 250,000,000 people to cities. That’s pretty close to the size of the entire population of the United States.

lapetitecole: Garry Winogrand, taken on the El Morocco dance...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:37:51 -0400

lapetitecole:

Garry Winogrand, taken on the El Morocco dance floor, 1955

sfmoma: lightershadeof: untitled by Steve Rhodes on...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:30:35 -0400

sfmoma:

lightershadeof:

untitled by Steve Rhodes on Flickr.

Lovely shot of Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field.

lapetitecole: (by Steven_Seagull_13)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:27:19 -0400

lapetitecole:

(by Steven_Seagull_13)

lapetitecole: Wedge.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:26:58 -0400

lapetitecole:

Wedge.

onsomething: onsomething Reima & Raili Pietilä | Dipoli...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:20:33 -0400

onsomething:

onsomething

Reima & Raili Pietilä | Dipoli Conference Center, 1966 Otaniemi

lapetitecole: Munster, Irlande, 1952, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:19:29 -0400

lapetitecole:

Munster, Irlande, 1952, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

yellowrocketship: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:38:35 -0400

yellowrocketship:

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Rob ert Frost’s Handwritten Manuscript

justanothermasterpiece: Robert Rauschenberg.

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:14:29 -0400

justanothermasterpiece:

Robert Rauschenberg.

silfarione: Rio de Janeiro, photo by Gil Prates, 1980.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:15:07 -0400

silfarione:

Rio de Janeiro, photo by Gil Prates, 1980.

fotojournalismus: Istanbul today 1. A pedestrian walks in front...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:58:54 -0400

fotojournalismus:

Istanbul today

1. A pedestrian walks in front of a banner featuring an owl with a gas mask at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

2. A protester sleeps at a bus stop sprayed with graffiti at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

3. A protester holds a placard that reads “Police, How we will forgive you?” during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, early Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

4. Seyfi Yasar, a waiter, pauses while smoking next to barricades outside of a hotel which he works for, near Taksim Square in central Istanbul June 4, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

5. Guy Fawkes masks are seen on the ground as anti-government protesters gather in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on June 4, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

6. Demonstrators stand at a wall with graffities between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

7. A volunteer places food donated by people for protesters at Gezi Park in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

8. A man leaves from clash site between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

9. A couple wearing gas masks walk at a street between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

10. A protester sleeps in Gezi Park in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

likeafieldmouse: Cy Twombly - Ferragosto (1961) - Wax crayon...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:57:29 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Cy Twombly - Ferragosto (1961) - Wax crayon and lead pencil on canvas

fourfooted: blue nudes (1947), henri matisse.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:53:28 -0400

fourfooted:

blue nudes (1947), henri matisse.