sunday newsletter
a designboom.com publication
September 2010, 26
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every sunday we choose a topic from the vaste archive of designboom
today: gwangju art biennale 2010
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stan vanderbeek at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.25.10
stan vaderbeek was once a major figure of the new york avant-garde, associating with luminaries like claes oldenburg, jim dine, robert morris, allan kaprow, and yvonne rainer.
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haegue yang at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.24.10
haegue yang's work consists of delicate, purposeful arrangements of everyday objects and devices - venetian blinds, light bulbs, fans, heaters, air conditioners, electric wires - which envelope the senses and create abstract narratives.
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zhang enli at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.22.10
a combination of painting and installation, the work features the shadowy outlines of furniture and objects from zhang's former apartment in shanghai. the sense of absence and nostalgia hinted in other works is brought to the fore.
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gustav metzger at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.21.10
oh show at this year's gwangju art biennale is metzger's ongoing series, 'historic photographs' which combines images related to various historical traumas with sculptural elements that force the viewer to engage physically with the images.
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rupprecht geiger at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.19.10
an installation that takes the form of a massive funnel of red fabric. when viewed from below, the work presents an all encompassing field of red, allowing the viewer to meditate on the essence of geiger's idiosyncratic visual obsession.
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franco vaccari at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.16.10
vaccari has been invited to re-stage his work from the 1972 venice biennale, 'leave on the walls a photographic trace of your fleeting visit', where the viewing public donates a photobooth image of themselves to the gallery walls.
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james castle at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.14.10
having no access to traditional art making materials, deaf and mute artist james castle often used salvaged supplies to create his art.
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hans-peter feldmann at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.12.10
'9/12 front page' puts on display a collection of front pages from numerous international newspapers the day after the september 11 attacks on the world trade center towers.
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pawel althamer at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.10.10
'brodno people', which was made with the help of people from a working class neighborhood in warsaw, emphasizes the social and political circumstances of the work's production by foregrounding collective practice over individual authorship.
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tehching hsieh at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.09.10
for a whole year, artist tehching hsieh has documented himself punching in a time card for every hour of every day in photographs. the resulting body of work illustrates the passage of time, becoming a single, large portrait of a year.
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'partners - the teddy bear project' by ydessa hendeles at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.08.10
exhibiting a collection of more than 3,000 photographs of teddy bears dating back from roughly 1900-1940, the exhibition explores the elements of the symbolic childhood object.
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byungsoo choi at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.07.10
designboom reports from asia's most interesting art biennale.
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rent collection courtyard at gwangju art biennale 2010
published 09.06.10
in 1965, a group of students and teachers at the sichuan fine arts institute in chongqing were commissioned by the provincial government of sichuan to create a series of 103 life-sized sculptures depicting the exploitation of peasant farmers at the hands of a wealthy landowner, liu wen-tsai.
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