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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Lawd dem school days - Claes Oldenburg

Oldenburg Soft Drainpipe - Blue Feinin Version 2009

To give this installation weight, I filled the canopy with red sand, then tied it together...I think it is a better version of Claes Oldenburg's sculpture, but I felt it had to do with sex, and Oldenburg' desire for fucking.

This work is so beautiful that I have refused to take it down.

An appropriate question over art that is environmental, such as the Spiral Jetty by Oldenburg and Goldsworthy's biodegradable kinetic works using forms taken from nature, then expanding on it. Unfortunately, to be out there it seem,s your work has to be grand, the bigger the better syndrome with sponsors like Sony, IBM and so forth to build the device. The great thing I have learnt so far is not to place any value on anything. This frees me from it all. A few months ago, I photographed what I deemed public art, is this just as good?

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Richard Bolai lives and works from Trinidad, West Indies. He is a bookbinder,Graphic designer and the author of thebookmann, which from 2004, has written and photographed independently aspects of Trinidad and Tobago's art culture.

In 2008, he began a series of self studies called Feinin which incorporated digital superpositions of artists who have left a mark in art history by using the internet as the core of reference. He also produced parodies relating to anthropological studies of Trinidad and Tobago, for example, folklore or observations of the society via class and stereotypes

The work then expanded by actually creating dimensional replicas, capturing a map over the subjects to explore the underling subconscious in the form of art. This aided the ability to analyze art by producing art parodies to understand the meaning behind it. No money was spent or assistance in producing these compositions from common items found in his home, a chair, a mirror, or old tyre.

The artists lists includes, da Vinci's Last Supper, Koons's dog, Hirst's spin paintings, Andres Serrano's piss Christ to Monet to name a few, over one hundred artists' have been completed, producing one in every 24 hour cycle.

It should be noted that with the feinin studies, you should see that actual work that is been parodied via the link. It makes no sense otherwise.

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