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Art & Nonsense
Art
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Red District
Exhibition
& residency in Kokkola
Finland, February 2014
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The last trigger
for this exhibition was HOLLAND COTTER’s article in the New York Times on
Jan. 17, 2014. I took the liberty of printing the first few lines here:
Money — the grotesque amounts spent,
the inequitable distribution — has dominated talk about art in the 21st
century so far. It’s a basic fact of art history.
Emperors, popes and robber barons set the model for the billionaire buyers
of today.
Of course, it is today that matters to the thousands
of artists who live and work in this punitively
expensive city, where the art industry is often confused with the art world.
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Credits
(in alphabetical order)
A.S.+ Co. NKS — my generous hosts
Anders (NKS)
Sir Francis Bacon
Brian, who donated the Money Train
John Cage
Dalilah's escort
Paul Gaugin
Édouard Manet
Piet Mondrian
Anonymous Rubbish donors
In cooperation with The White House
and The Chinese Republic of the People.
Credits
(in alphabetical order)
A.S.+ Co. NKS — my generous hosts
Anders (NKS)
Sir Francis Bacon
Brian, who donated the Money Train
John Cage
Dalilah's escort
Paul Gaugin
Édouard Manet
Piet Mondrian
Anonymous Rubbish donors
In cooperation with The White House
and The Chinese Republic of the People.
Installation view
Contemplating over The
wall of Chaos
You know it is near
Sunset when short men cast long shadows
— Direct painting on wall —
650 x 280 cm
HoWell Place
— 190 x 113 x 8 cm
Acrylic paint on board, wood, Zinc plate, safety tape, wall paper, news
paper, plastic straw
Olympia has been raising her prices lately
— Made possible by the late
Édouard Manet — 157 x 138 x 79 cm
Wood, plywood, paper, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, acrylic paint,
Original watercolor painted by the R'tist
White cat
on snow (Is an interval music?) — Homage a
John Cage — 183 x 140 x 7 cm
Acrylic paint on board, Gesso, wood, Zinc plate, cardboard
The Chinese
Wall Gallery — 183 x 140 x 3 cm — Acrylic paint on
board, Gesso, wood, plastic plate.
Courtesy The White House & The Chinese Republic of the People
Francis is auctioning Bacon in Assissi — 183 x 140 x 3 cm
Enabled by Sir Francis Bacon — Acrylic paint on board,
cardboard, plastic bag
Pieta
—
in memory of
Piet Mondrian
—
Wood, plywood, acrylic paint — 171 x 78 x 93 cm
South Specific birds are
sold to tourists by Paul Gaugin
(Noa Noa's ark) —
183 x 140 x 3 cm
Nature Morte
(Is
Still life passé?)
— Hospital gurney, paper,
masking tapes, cardboard, paint, snow — 193 x 87 x 117 cm
The
Red Square
— 4 sides of the cube —
wood, plywood,
masking tapes, cardboard, paint, cotton, book, glove — 90 x 90 x 90 cm
Sam Sung his Sum
— TV screen packaging, paper,
squeezed beer can, Fazer's wrap, paint — 134 x 77 x 15 cm
The Red District
— 190 x 113 x 4 cm — Acrylic
paint on board, masking tape, wood
The Wall of Chaos
(detail)
— 500 x 280 cm
Non authorized nonsense on drawing paper, charcoal, masking tape,
gambling chips courtesy Brian, paint
The Corner of Remorse
— Painted cardboard boxes —
180 x 85 x 85 cm
At the opening night
Investigation might lead to
revelation — Curious student at opening night
Searching for the white cat — Curious visitor on opening
Running away from it all
Myself. contemplating about it
all — Photo: Johan, Keskipohjanmaa daily newspaper, Kokkola, Finland 18.2.2014
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