Sunday, October 19, 2014

Travis Bedel

This dude is pretty cool, mixing anatomical imagery with images from science textbooks. I like how busy a lot of his work is, without looking too chaotic:







Thursday, October 16, 2014

Joan Jonas


Marcel Duchamp


Andy Warhol


Clark Beaumont

Clark Beaumont is an artistic duo from Brisbane, made up of Nicole Beaumont (born 1990, Sydney) and Sarah Clarke (born 1991, Brisbane). They began their collaborative practice in 2010, through live performance works as well as mediated works. Their work is focused aound ideas relating to female's subjectivity, the creation of identity, intimacy and personal relationships.
Their current work at MUMA is titled Coexisting, where the girls have to stand and/or sit on a plinth that's slightly too small for two people to fit on comfortably.

Personally I'm really fond of this work. I think it's a very cleverly simple way of presenting a loaded and complex concept, and I hope art critics catch onto it, so that it is featured in as many publications as possible. I think it's quite an important step in the art world, as well as in feminist communities. It's also quite a funny artwork to encounter at firs, walking into two girls on a plinth - but once you think about it a little more you realize just how serious the artwork is.



Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is an American born artist, known as a pioneer of performance art, and one of the most important emerging artists in the late 1960s and 70s.

One of her most famous works is Vertical Role 




Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Sryria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria.Since the late 1980s he's been working on an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures, where he poses himself and/or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects and whatever he has at hand, prompting the viewer to question how to define sculpture.