Visual Art The Next Big Thing
posted by on June 19 at 14:11 PM
As we know, the only sort of sculpture worth showing at the Olympic Sculpture Park is something ordinarily small reproduced several times its normal size.
Also at the park: enormous memos, elephantine push pins, humongous typewriter erasers, and giant chairs. This be trite. But there’s something about this image…
…that makes me quite satisfied. A birdie—or as I prefer to call it, a shuttlecock—actually belongs on the lawn. And the big lawn at the Nelson Art Gallery (thank you, Wikipedia, for the image) deserves the biggest, most massive, hardest steel shuttlecock it can get. [UPDATE: Christopher Frizzelle informs me that a cock/shuttlecock joke is the lamest joke ever on Slog. Dominic takes a bow.] Giant traffic cones and office supplies in bourgeois private parks on the other hand? Snoring.
Thanks for the tip, NaFun!
Those shuttlecocks leave a funny taste in my mouth. I used to suck on them when I was a kid, and just the sight of one--even a digital pic of a giant one elicits that rubbery/plasticy/chemical taste in my mouth. Thanks.
Yeah, what is with all the oversized crap passing as art. No original ideas? Next up: really small versions of things.
That's the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City MO, just down the street from where I live. I pass it every day on my way to work, and it makes me grin every time. Cheesy maybe, but sweet and harmless.
A giant lawn dart is what belongs in a lawn. A giant lawn dart with a pointy tip that can poke a persons eye out.
#2, I saw something on the teevee about a guy that makes painted sculptures out of grains of sand. He works with a microscrope and paints strokes or forms the grain "between breaths". One day he was working on a piece that was a few months in the making, looked up from the microscope for just a second, and when he looked back down it was gone. He said he thinks he inhaled it.
@2 -- Ask and ye shall receive! Voila, my good man -- the toast of London: http://www.willard-wigan.com/
Yeah, that guy.
Damn, when I was nine years-old, this short of stuff would have been DA BOMB when me and all the kids in the neighborhood played "Land Of The Giants".
christopher "OMG anderson cooper 360 is the best TV show EVAR" frizzelle is criticizing someone else's blog post?
Words cannot express my disappointment that Jubilation's link @6 was not a link to the giant Jart as I had hoped.
Check out the work of Robert Theirren--more regular stuff big--in images they look ok but to experience them is pretty incredible...
I agree that there’s nothing to think about them but, Wow, those things are gigantic. So boring, and yet it cost some rich folks a lot of money to get them here. meh.
At least they aren't exposed penises.
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