Bike-Chair Concoction
I don’t know the purpose of this concoction (as in “a curious mixture of things”). Hulpwheels for biking maybe?
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Chairs!
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Category: chair installation
Bucket with Eggs on Chair by Hans-Peter Feldman
Bucket with Eggs on Chair by Hans-Peter Feldman
Found it recently at Museum Voorlinden
Hans-Peter Feldmann (17 January 1941 – 24 May 2023) was a German visual artist. Feldmann’s approach to art-making was one of collecting, ordering, and re-presenting.
Biography
Feldmann was born on 17 January 1941. In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz in Austria. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bild (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type—knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.–their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions. In 1979 Feldmann decided to pull out of the art world and just make books and pictures for himself. In 1989 the curator Kasper König persuaded Feldmann to exhibit in a gallery again.Feldmann died on 24 May 2023, at the age of 82.[3]
Via Wikipedia.
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Un-Interrupted Voice by Zhen Chen
Un-Interrupted Voice by Zhen Chen
Above photo I took in the Voorlinden Museum, but there are probably more alike installations by Zhen Chen like this one from Histoire Immigration:
Born in 1955 into a family of doctors, Chen Zhen went into exile in France in 1986. A true citizen of the world, he worked in New York as well as in Shanghai and Paris, his adopted city, before dying prematurely in 2000. In Paris, he “meets” other cultural contexts and confronts them. From then on, he continued to combine his own experiences in a work combining traditional and contemporary elements borrowed from Chinese and Western cultures. Strongly metaphorical, his work reflects “his vision of the world forged over almost thirty years by very nomadic personal experiences and extremely varied environments: ten years of cultural revolution, ten years of Chinese reform, ten years in the West” (Chen Zhen , Sonorous Silence, exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Oct. 1, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004, Paris). So many experiments which will lead him to question the notion of cultural identity and his own transcended identity.
Un-interrupted Voice, created in 1998, transforms chairs into drums. Through this metamorphosis of ordinary objects into a new type of musical instrument, the artist composes a hybrid work, made not of collages, but of a fusion of experiences and lifestyles.
For Chen Zhen, art has the same function as medicine, it is about “treating oneself by beating the drums…, massaging oneself, cleansing oneself, eliminating stress, and regaining psychological balance and emotional “. But, beyond its therapeutic dimension, Un-interrupted Voice finds its full meaning in its interaction with others, with the public invited to come and beat the heads of the drums. The piece expresses a desire for dialogue; it embodies and translates the meeting of musical, plastic, historical, political cultures…Work presented in the exhibition J’ai deux amours (November 16, 2011 – June 24, 2011)
Another one was on auction at Christie’s and fetched USD 50,400 in 2022.
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Installation “In Place” by Anna Maria Maiolino (with Chair)
I had shared earlier work by Anna Maria Tumblrd aand found this on her site
In Atto is rendered by two women: the young performer, Sandra Lessa, and the elder, Anna Maria Maiolino. The artist’s participation in this work exudes metaphoric and symbolic aspects, as a support for bringing the youngster back to life.
The work shows life-affirming aspects of rituals related to pain, repression and death. Sandra, the young performer, composes a language of voiced sounds associated to the dramatization of her body. The soundscape works with a language of its own, with an extra-grammatical sense, and without losing the feeling of the dimensions of the creative act in the making. The corporal dramatization in IN ATTO, compared to a shamanic rite with its shouts and movements, stirs the self-restoration of life over death. The body, initially inert and wrapped in bandages, as the performance unfolds feeds on itself, is regenerated and returns to life.
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Bench Installation by Juan Muñoz
Bench Installation by Juan Muñoz. Also laughing pals.