YOU SAY INSTALLATION, I SAY ...When is an installation not an installation? Why, when it's a large sculpture, intervention, assemblage or 3-D piece, site-specific, space-led, or room-based. Or even just a display. Writers beware: Artists are often picky pick·y adj. pick·i·er, pick·i·est Informal Excessively meticulous; fussy. picky Adjective [pickier, pickiest] Brit, Austral & NZ about the terminology. For example, between October 29, 1999, and January 3, 2000, the Hamburg Deichtorhallen will be crammed with what we might risk calling a very big "thing" by Jason Rhoades Jason Rhoades (b. July 9 1965 in Newcastle, California - d. August 1, 2006 in Los Angeles) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death,[1] - not an installation, he insists, but an awe-inspiring 6,500-foot-long sculpture that, given the artist's recent output, is likely to initiate a whole body of subsequent work. Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn Thomas Hirschhorn (born in Bern, 1957) is a Swiss instalations artist. In the 1980s he worked in Paris as a graphic artist. He was part of the group of communist graphic designers called Grapus. , meanwhile, rejects the I-word in favor of "displays." His extensive improvisations (hope that's OK, Thomas) act dumb in the face of consumerism, conjuring gold bars Gold bars Bars with a minimum content of 99.5% gold, which may be held by central banks or traded by investors. and monster Swiss watches out of tinfoil tinfoil, n See foil, tin. tinfoil substitute, n See substitute, tinfoil. and tat. At the Musee d'Art Moderne mo·derne adj. Striving to be modern in appearance or style but lacking taste or refinement; pretentious. [French, modern, from Old French; see modern.] Adj. 1. de Saint Etienne, France, Hirschhorn's World Corners will be on display between October 8 and late November. Richard Tuttle, another fan of mundane materials - chicken wire, corrugated cardboard, bits and bobs - is best known for delicate work that's almost self-effacing in scale. However, at the Kunsthaus Zug between November 20, 1999, and January 16, 2000, "Replace the Abstract Picture Plane" may change his reputation. Among a range of works representing Tuttle's four-year association with Zug will be a textile-and-wood piece measuring a stonking 150 feet. ("And where is Zug?" I hear you cry. Answer: about one inch down from Zurich, and slightly to the left.) |
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