KATIE YOUNG
Born: Melbourne, Australia in 1985
☁ KATIE YOUNG
Wednesday 30 January 2013
EUGENIO MERINO'S SCULPTURE CREATES CONTROVERSY
Artist Eugenio Merino is being sued for €18,000.
His sculpture "Always Franco" depicts Spain's past dictator Francisco Franco set inside a fridge.
"Merino said his piece is meant to be a comment on how the former dictator, who ruled from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975, continues to make headlines in Spain.
"It represents the idea that in Spain people are keeping the image of Franco alive. We don't stop talking about him, debating about him. A fridge is where things are kept alive and fresh," he said."
Yet know the Francisco Franco National Foundation (FNFF) is claiming €18,000 in compensation for damages to the dictator’s honor while labeling Merino’s work as “artistic rubbish”.
In support to Eugenio Merino and freedom of expression, a manifesto can be signed.
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☁ EUGENIO MERINO PREVIOUSLY ON LE ZÈBRE
Thursday 17 January 2013
CAO HUI
CAO HUI /// I WANT TO PLAY GOD
Artist Statement
People differentiate between artist and non-artist based on degree of mastery in imitating nature, and further differentiate Realism from Hyperrealism based on skill in rendering details. Different motivations on the part of the artist can also be used to make distinctions such as Realism, Symbolism or perhaps other “isms.”
Artworks made in the name of Photorealism, Realism, and even Hyperrealism are all likewise fabricated from piles of mud or with daubs of color on the surface of canvas. Increasingly uneasy and dissatisfied with merely describing surface appearances, artists now attempt to plumb the inner reaches of things; an agenda that apparently moves into science or other fields. It seems artists are no longer happy just being artists, but are driven by their inborn love of performance to try out new roles, such as philosopher, scientist, doctor or perhaps even engineer. I think artists really want to play god more than anything else, and will stop at nothing to construct a truth that validates the self. They first delude themselves, then maybe move on to people around them. I really wonder to what extent these self deceptions and constructed truths can strike a nerve in the knowing onlooker.
Nonetheless, self deception is of primary importance as it permits a belief in understanding the surface as well as the interior. In this way the relationship between the interior and exterior of everything seems to possess a perfect logic, and can be interpreted with established knowledge. In order to deceive others, we explain with theory after theory, but it all ends in laughter and sometimes we even amuse ourselves before god laughs.
☁ CAO HUI @PIFO GALLERY
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Wednesday 16 January 2013
JONNI CHEATWOOD
JONNI CHEATWOOD /// GRACE SERIES
Born in Thousand Oaks, Ca. 1986
Now lives & works in Tempe, Az.
☁ JONNI CHEATWOOD
☁ VIA
