Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has mounted 1200 bicycles in a magnificent floor to ceiling installation as part of a solo exhibition in Taipei. The artist likely has no environmental statement to make with this installation, but these days it is hard to look at so many bicycles without being put in mind of the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Conceptual Art category.
Modernist Autumn – Martin Boyce Wins 2011 Turner Prize
In his winning entry for this year’s Turner Prize, Martin Boyce brings an autumnal park indoors and re-interprets it in classical modernist/constructivist terms. A large room, re-designed in every detail. White columns from which flows a designed ceiling of white shapes – “trees” with “leaves” and branches. The centrepiece is a table covered in graffiti [...]
The Artist and the Land – Richard Long
Richard Long is one of the earliest and best known artists to engage in what has become known as ‘land art’. In an innovative way to engage with the land and the landscape, Long’s work is centred around lengthy walks in the countryside. His walks represent an exploration of the land and his relationship with [...]
Naked With Pigs – Miru Kim
“These industrial environments are so desensitizing in that you, even if you are an animal lover, become complaisantly accepting of the fact that the live beings are only raw materials for mass commodity production. This needs some serious questioning.” These are some of the thoughts of New York Based artist Miru Kim in relation to [...]
Simple or Simplistic – The Works of Sanna Kannisto
I recently visited an exhibition of the work of Sanna Kannisto and bought the recently published book about her work. The work of this young Finnish artist is fascinating. It questions how, in order to understand and describe, science has to simplify and can never hope to capture the true complexity of life. The body [...]
From Vietnam to The Environment: The work of Maya Lin
Maya Lin shot to fame when, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, she won an open competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. An architect, artist and sculptor, Maya Lin has, over the last few years, turned her attention to environmental issues. WHAT IS MISSING? What Is Missing? is the [...]
What is Nature – well, that depends. The work of Kyle Zeto
What’s with the picture of a man with a forest for a head? This is the work of Kyle Zeto, a young artist just completing his art school studies. The aim of his work is to cast “Nature” in a different light, to confuse us as to how we should and can think about “Nature”. [...]
