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Richard Owen

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Rad Hourani ‘Transclassic’ Exhibition @ Galerie Joyce - 2010

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[proustitute]

Luciano Fabro, Il cubo, 1966

[koenvandamme]

#eebic #archdaily #icu_minimalist_bnw #bnw_mnml #tumblr #styfhals&partners #architecture

[vuls]

Andrei Molodkin – In God we trust (2007) video installation and mixed media

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[dromik]

https://www.nicolasmazzei.com

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inspire

[dromik]

AFF architects photo Hans Christian Schink extension of Arndt Gymnasium.

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Giorgia Zanuso, Radiale, 2015 [Private Collection]

[andrewmaxedon]

Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) urn in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

[gnossienne]

A boy gives a raised fist salute in front of the New Haven courthouse during a demonstration by 15,000 people in 1970. Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, and Ericka Huggins were on trial along for murder. Both were acquitted (photo by Stephen Shames)

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Dorota Buczkowska - Infection, 2008