Interesting. I may need more time to think/look at it. I’m sure it is a different experience if you are there on the sidewalk looking into this chair chaos.
Art can be challenging, I would not agree that it should be challenging, only that it can be. But the problem is seeking out someone to explain it to you. If I wrote the most beautiful sonnet in history, words and images to break your heart, but I wrote it in an obscure Polynesian dialect that was only spoken by a few hundred people then my sonnet would not communicate. Cause at best it could be translated, and probably poorly. And so much ‘modern’ art requires a translator to explain it to you and me.
I like chairs, and these are handsome chairs, but they are not for sitting.
I was torn between the one I chose and the next one with the guy walking by with something on his shoulder. The downward angle is almost dizzying. Very effective.
Is it supposed to be like those piles of shoes at the Auschwitz Museum? The piles of discarded chairs symbolizing people who have been "discarded" by the society?
The crazy pile of chairs, so random, and higgledy-piggledy but still within very ridged boundaries. Not a pile like a bonfire of chairs, but very definitely filling the space- and filling it almost completely. No room in there for anything else. And what do chairs do? They hold us up when we sit. They are so much more likely to be in straight rows in an auditorium, or even in an orderly line around the dinner table. I’m still thinking.
"This work takes reference from conditions of forced displacement and how it equals to a form of incarceration, which artist Doris Salcedo calls a “Topography of War”. For this project, I worked on the design of the supporting structure and the sequence of installation that was undertaken in Istanbul with 1600 chairs on an empty space between two buildings."
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Interesting. I may need more time to think/look at it. I’m sure it is a different experience if you are there on the sidewalk looking into this chair chaos.
Art can be challenging, I would not agree that it should be challenging, only that it can be. But the problem is seeking out someone to explain it to you.
If I wrote the most beautiful sonnet in history, words and images to break your heart, but I wrote it in an obscure Polynesian dialect that was only spoken by a few hundred people then my sonnet would not communicate. Cause at best it could be translated, and probably poorly. And so much ‘modern’ art requires a translator to explain it to you and me.
I like chairs, and these are handsome chairs, but they are not for sitting.
Hmmm, I’m gonna think on this for a while.
Where are all the corresponding ottomans?
"Where all the girls sat. They must be burned!"
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.
The physical reality of a government agency with a continuously ballooning budget.
Jim, I had trouble choosing which picture to highlight.
From another point of view, this could be a message about the stifling culture of bureaucracy.
Boy when they give somebody the chair they don't screw around.
I think it's a statement on the Obama presidency.
"From another point of view, this could be a message about the stifling culture of bureaucracy."
I saw the other pics at the link, I think you picked the best one. I don't disagree, I just don't know.
Just wait until this art project falls apart and kills someone, then a hoard of lawyers will descend... Oh wait. It's Turkey. NVM.
I was torn between the one I chose and the next one with the guy walking by with something on his shoulder. The downward angle is almost dizzying. Very effective.
I'm thinking it's an arson's dream, Meth.
John, do you mean his ME policy :)
Is it supposed to be like those piles of shoes at the Auschwitz Museum? The piles of discarded chairs symbolizing people who have been "discarded" by the society?
No, I mean that Clint may have taken his empty chair shtick on the road. Kind'a got out of hand.
The crazy pile of chairs, so random, and higgledy-piggledy but still within very ridged boundaries. Not a pile like a bonfire of chairs, but very definitely filling the space- and filling it almost completely. No room in there for anything else. And what do chairs do? They hold us up when we sit. They are so much more likely to be in straight rows in an auditorium, or even in an orderly line around the dinner table. I’m still thinking.
Missed your reference, John.
From the link:
"This work takes reference from conditions of forced displacement and how it equals to a form of incarceration, which artist Doris Salcedo calls a “Topography of War”. For this project, I worked on the design of the supporting structure and the sequence of installation that was undertaken in Istanbul with 1600 chairs on an empty space between two buildings."
(Sorry I was wrong when I said job loss.)
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