Olafur Eliasson

One-way colour tunnel, 2007


Multiple Grotto, 2004

A series of short takes on situating the works of Eliasson, who had always incorporated an element of the larger natural environment, in an interesting justaposition against an ealrier art historical context.
Part 1 - Olafur Eliasson meets... art history
Part 2 - Olafur Eliasson meets... Pieter de Hooch
Part 3 - Olafur Eliasson meets... Richard Serra
Part 4 - Olafur Eliasson meets... Vija Celmins
Part 5 - Olafur Eliasson meets... Ellsworth Kelly
Part 6 - Olafur Eliasson meets... Larry Bell

Also see San Francisco Museum of Modern Art site.

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Kent Rogowski

Untitled #3, 2006

Mixing and matching mass-produced and kitschy puzzle pieces, resulting in a poignant comment on the pervasiveness of commercial mass production, which strangely lends itself with ease to declarations of individuality.

Also the artist's latest project "Bear", which:

"is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal's appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process."

Bear #33, 2003 -- 16x20"; 48x60" -- C-Print

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Cal Lane

5 Shovels, 2005 -- Plasma cut steel shovels

Perhaps, a sardonic take on "turning swords to ploughshares" ... to (literally, useless) art pieces? Nevertheless, the detailing is obsessively mind-boggling, to say the least.

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Lori Nix

Great Hall, 2006 -- from "The City" -- Chromogenic Print

A nice interplay between the underlying assumption of photography as a "truthful" medium, and the act of staging as an essential process of photography.



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