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Richard Serra, Triple Rift #2, (paintstick on four (4) sheets of handmade paper), 2018 [David Zwirner, London. © Richard Serra]

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Richard Serra: Six Large Drawings, David Zwirner, London, 2024 [Art Books & Ephemera]

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Guerrilla Girls, Times Square

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Gomi Pit

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"Ordinary Miracle", From the Series Glory of the Artifice by Christto & Andrew

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nacitopak, Andres Aguirre...

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Rebecca Horn, Parrot Wings Blue, sculpture 2009. Photo Karin Weyich

Biennale 2009 eventi collaterali, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia

“[Horn’s work] it’s an observation on fantasy, vulnerability, the body and the slippery slope of identity. (…) Like her work she is an elusive creature who slips between alternate states of mind: films, performances, poetry, installations, objects (…) At the end of the sixties, Horn was hospitalized for most of a year. Nursing herself back to health, alone and distraught, she discovered the obsessions that pulse through her work now. She sewed masks, prosthetic limbs and bizarre sculptural bandages. (…) In the seventies, Horn began constructing her irrational machines. These act with the maniacal perversity of living creatures. “I’m interested in the soul of a thing”, she says. The souls of her machines sink into the states that all souls are heir to: disorder, disease, ecstasy, fear and electrified anxiety, a willful self-destruction. They, like us, are performers. They strive. They hesitate. They have breakdowns. The machines, in other words, are icons of crazy motivation - like us. (…) Some spray ink on the walls (…). Others carve holes in the plaster (…). Many flap feathered wings in a simulation of the longing for flight, for escape.“ Kay Larson The mind-body problem, New York Magazine 20 sept 1993, pages 60-61

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Jan De Cock at Office Baroque February 26, 2015

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Danh Vo ‘Autoerotic Asphyxiation’ 15 September – 19 November 2010 Artists Space 38 Greene St, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10013 http://www.artistsspace.org “Elegiac in their preoccupying calm, the images and objects inhabiting Autoerotic Asphyxiation coyly recall the past, fashioning a peculiar nostalgia. (…) The most immediately visible works in the room – the sheer curtains concealing both windows and walls – reveal, upon closer inspection, flowers embroidered in some of the fabric. These, in turn, are all species discovered throughout China and Tibet by French missionary and botanist Jean-Andre Soulie, who exported them to Europe. (…) Concealed behind the fabrics and tucked between windows are several sets of black and white photographs of Vietnamese men and boys. The intimate pictures exude an air of homoeroticism and evidence a keen fascination with masculine relationships in Vietnam. Images of men working or eating are accompanied by photos of men holding hands and embracing. Moving through the gallery becomes an active search as one parts the curtains along each wall to locate the photographs”. More info… via http://idiommag.com