Posts tagged destruction

Mike Nelson, To The Memory of H.P Lovecraft 1999, 2008

Mike Nelson, To The Memory of H.P Lovecraft 1999, 2008

Geert Goiris, Liepaja, 2004

Geert Goiris, Liepaja, 2004

owlforeigner: via nequest)

owlforeigner: via nequest)

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Julian Hoeber, Untitled, 2008Polished bronze with stainless steel posts, MDF, wood, acrylic mirror and spray enamel

Julian Hoeber, Untitled, 2008
Polished bronze with stainless steel posts, MDF, wood, acrylic mirror and spray enamel

Valerie Hegarty, Driftwood Painting, 2006Foamcore, paper, paint, glue, gel medium, plastic buckets, wood

Valerie Hegarty, Driftwood Painting, 2006
Foamcore, paper, paint, glue, gel medium, plastic buckets, wood

Valerie Hegarty, Rothko Sunset, 2007Foamcore, canvas, paper, paint, glue, wire, tape, sand, gel medium

Valerie Hegarty, Rothko Sunset, 2007
Foamcore, canvas, paper, paint, glue, wire, tape, sand, gel medium

art-related:

The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers was put into motion during the opening of the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, last Friday. It will keep rotating slowly till February 28th 2010.

(via today and tomorrow)

art-related

The Buddhas of Bamyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan. They were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were “idols” (which are forbidden under Sharia law)…..more here.

The Buddhas of Bamyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan. They were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were “idols” (which are forbidden under Sharia law)…..more here.

Bo Christian Larsson, Reinvention of Allan Kaprows original happening “Household” from 1964, as part of the exhibition “Allan Kaprow, Art as life” in Haus der Kunst. Kieswerk Maechler, Munich, Germany, October 28th, 2006

Bo Christian Larsson, Reinvention of Allan Kaprows original happening “Household” from 1964, as part of the exhibition “Allan Kaprow, Art as life” in Haus der Kunst. Kieswerk Maechler, Munich, Germany, October 28th, 2006

Bye Bye Brueghel If you want to see your old master work soar in value, get it “reworked” by the Chapman brothers—having defaced works by Goya, Hogarth and Hitler, the plucky Brit siblings have now painted over a 1607 painting by Brueghel the Younger,Calvary, the centrepiece of a new show at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (“Die Dada Die”, until 22 August, in collaboration with Moscow’s Triumph Gallery and RS&A Ltd of London). “The price on the original painting was £220,000 and the selling price is £750,000,” said a project spokesman. via The Art Newspaper —- What do you think about this repurposing? 

Bye Bye Brueghel

If you want to see your old master work soar in value, get it “reworked” by the Chapman brothers—having defaced works by Goya, Hogarth and Hitler, the plucky Brit siblings have now painted over a 1607 painting by Brueghel the Younger,Calvary, the centrepiece of a new show at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (“Die Dada Die”, until 22 August, in collaboration with Moscow’s Triumph Gallery and RS&A Ltd of London). “The price on the original painting was £220,000 and the selling price is £750,000,” said a project spokesman.

via The Art Newspaper

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What do you think about this repurposing?