Sangduck Kim

20 04 2015

When I first saw this artist’s work, I was struck by the thought, ‘he/she is on to something’. There are stories here and they all find themselves in the washroom. As if that were a refuge, a church.


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Born a Warrior

20 04 2015

Born a Warrior was a children’s story that dealt with the Tom Sawyer life of a boy and facing one’s fears.

Warrior 1 Warrior 2 Warrior 3 Warrior 4 Warrior 5 Warrior 6 Warrior 7


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whore in her bath

20 04 2015

whore in her bath..by David Halliday

 

Maybe I should change the title. Whore has a derogatory connotation. What I was getting at was volume. Someone who takes in all of life, even things that are taboo.


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Raol Hausmann

20 04 2015

This is one of the origins of collage/montage work. The Dada movement is interesting because it parallels the rise of fascism in Europe. What did they have in common? Prostrate glands for one.

Raoul Hausmann was born in Vienna but moved to Berlin with his parents at the age of 14, in 1901.[1] His earliest art training was from his father, a professional conservator and painter. He met Johannes Baader, an eccentric architect and another future member of Dada, in 1905. At around the same time he met Elfride Schaeffer, a violinist, whom he married in 1908, a year after the birth of their daughter, Vera. That same year Hausmann enrolled at a private Art School in Berlin,[2] where he remained until 1911.

After seeing Expressionist paintings in Herwarth Walden’s gallery Der Sturm in 1912, Hausmann started to produce Expressionist prints in Erich Heckel’s studio, and became a staff writer for Walden’s magazine, also called Der Sturm, which provided a platform for his earliest polemical writings against the art establishment. In keeping with his Expressionist colleagues, he initially welcomed the war, believing it to be a necessary cleansing of a calcified society, although being an Austrian citizen living in Germany he was spared the draft.

Hausmann met Hannah Höch in 1915, and embarked upon an extramarital affair that produced an ‘artistically productive but turbulent bond’[3] that would last until 1922. In 1916 Hausmann met two more people who would become important influences on his subsequent career; the psychoanalyst Otto Gross who believed psychoanalysis to be the preparation for revolution, and the anarchist writer Franz Jung. By now his artistic circle had come to include the writer Salomo Friedlaender, Hans Richter, Emmy Hennings and members of Die Aktion magazine, which, along with Der Sturm and the anarchist paper Die Freie Straße[4] published numerous articles by him in this period.

‘The notion of destruction as an act of creation was the point of departure for Hausmann’s Dadasophy, his theoretical contribution to Berlin Dada.

 


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Luca Rinaldi

20 04 2015

I can’t help myself. I love these pieces that deal with interesting but mundane incidents in life.

Attesa al semaforo rossoIl viaggioStop via CasilinaLuca RinaldiLa fermataCorsa nella notte


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