Yang Jing ‘s art…
The lucky one, 2004
“…I wanted to make the dolls’ postures look really affected. At that time I was really into lavish European decor, like the pre-revolution French style, just before the collapse – incredibly lavish and decadent.
I was obsessed with their gaudily colored joints. They symbolize innocence, hopelessness, existence without aspirations.”
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A Memory of Matter, by Petroc Dragon Sesti…
Male and female bust with 50mm british army cannon wound
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Angela Singer‘s recycled taxidermy…
(thanks Phantasmaphile!)
Spurts, 2006
” …Angela Singer explores the atavistic notion of the hunt, and its trophies.
… Singer’s animal trophies evince an almost unbearable sense of realism as antlers are sawn from heads, and skin and fur ripped away from flesh….Contemporary mythologies of the animal are somehow fused with this sense of imminent mourning, along with a renewed curiosity in animal alterity.”
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The embroidered silk shantungs by Angelo Filomeno at the 52nd Venice Art Biennale…
My love sings when the flower is near (the philosopher and the woman), 2007
Shitting philosopher, 2007
Other works by Angelo Filomeno here
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