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Samakimoto Graphics
10-09-2007, 06:50 AM
This sculpture totally encupsulates the state of humanity so far ... absolutely brilliant.
... Sculptor Doris Salcedo has unveiled a hole at the Tate Modern - the latest installation in the art gallery's Turbine Hall.
The work, entitled Shibboleth 2007, runs the full 167 metres of the cavernous hall on London's South Bank.
It begins as a crack then widens and deepens as it snakes across the room.
Colombian artist Salcedo said the work - on display to the public until April next year - symbolised racial hatred and division in society.
"I always try to relate my work to tragedy," she said. Salcedo added: "It represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred. "It is the experience of a Third World person coming into the heart of Europe." ...
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7033619.stm
Linked to this story; I remember the account from a friend who went to study medicine in Russia. She had harrowing stories of African student assaulted and left for dead simply for looking different. She eventually transferred to complete her studies in Germany.
captain spanky
10-09-2007, 07:24 AM
i like it a lot. i like that it has such a wide variety of interpretations for something so simple.
i can't help thinking that it's 'preaching to the converted' a little? The people who understand what it represents are the ones who are intelligent enough to realise that the segregation it symbolises is a horrible thing. if you know what i mean?
Samakimoto Graphics
10-09-2007, 08:26 AM
i like it a lot. i like that it has such a wide variety of interpretations for something so simple.
i can't help thinking that it's 'preaching to the converted' a little?...
I agree. I was also struck by the simplicity of the interpretation more than the representation. :)
captain spanky
10-09-2007, 10:07 AM
I'm also wondering how she did it... i've been there and the floor was well settled and hardened concrete! Can't have been easy!
Samakimoto Graphics
10-09-2007, 12:10 PM
Me too. I suppose that is the art part of it; you need not know the how, but understand the why...
WannaBrie
10-09-2007, 01:56 PM
that's deep.
Broacher
10-09-2007, 03:02 PM
WannaBrie-- you crack me up.
Ever notice that in the world of the plastic (sculpting) arts, that the ones that make the news anymore tend to be big. Size matters--at least if you want your sculpture to be noticed.
In another way, it's almost like the world of sculpture is trying to take 'back' what was stolen from it in contemporary architectural design. Is 'scale' the only real primary creative difference between sculpture and architecture?
captain spanky
10-09-2007, 03:10 PM
yeah broach, check this out... 'Maman 1999' is certainly going to take something back from St Paul's Cathedral! :D lol
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44153000/jpg/_44153994_maman_416_ap.jpg
WannaBrie
10-09-2007, 04:10 PM
whoa! cap'n...big and scary! I agree, though, guys...size does matter! Seriously, though, in order to create some of these massive sculptures an artist would have to have a good deal of knowledge of architecture and engineering.
Red Kittie Kat
10-09-2007, 04:44 PM
That is pretty kewl ... but I wonder how many will fall into it ;)
Broacher
10-09-2007, 04:46 PM
To answer your question Kittie, my first guess would be Barnacle Bill.
Red Kittie Kat
10-09-2007, 05:06 PM
lmaoo :D
oh man you crack me up :p
budafist
10-10-2007, 12:52 AM
Looks cool. Size does matter. Sometimes after doing a painting I am proud of, I wish I'd done it 3 times larger so it becomes "epic".
AlexNJ210
10-10-2007, 02:24 AM
seems like a lot of work for a very veiled message. Its a big deliberate crack in the ground. She could have just drawn a big black line right accross the floor and done the same thing. The crack is just more menacing. Its a clever idea, but someone entering the exhibit would be like "whats with the crack in the ground?" if they weren't at least breifed on the piece. Sometimes i get a little contemptuous at works that are so vague that they could be interpreted a million ways.
I don't even think it is that good. The art supported by the Tate Modern doesn't really do anything for me, except anger me normally. The Lambanana is an exception. Now that's deep...
I went to a Peter Blake exhibition in the Tate though, and it was great. But then I made the mistake of looking at the other works on the other floors and wanted to leave.
seamas
10-10-2007, 04:49 PM
I was afraid to click.
Was't sure if it was filled with a hole or an A-hole.
Red Kittie Kat
10-11-2007, 02:59 AM
Well it didn't take long ;)
Just heard this on the BBC World News and I found a link.
Two women have been hurt by falling into the Tate gallery's latest object of art - a crack in the floor.
But two female visitors to the London gallery had to be rescued after accidentally putting their feet in the crack, one of them thinking it was simply painted on the floor.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/11Oct2007_news32.php
budafist
10-11-2007, 03:02 AM
Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Red Kittie Kat
10-11-2007, 03:10 AM
how true buda :D
captain spanky
10-11-2007, 07:05 AM
can i quote you on that buda? (ie in my sig) :)
budafist
10-11-2007, 07:46 AM
For sure, though I'm sure I've heard it from elsewhere. It's probably a good idea to warn the others though :)
Samakimoto Graphics
10-12-2007, 06:14 AM
I was afraid to click.
Was't sure if it was filled with a hole or an A-hole.
:D heh!
jolly_br
10-12-2007, 06:55 AM
i like it a lot. i like that it has such a wide variety of interpretations for something so simple.
i can't help thinking that it's 'preaching to the converted' a little? The people who understand what it represents are the ones who are intelligent enough to realise that the segregation it symbolises is a horrible thing. if you know what i mean?
Great ! i really too like it ....
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