Dan Curtis at FORUM 2010
Posted: 18 September 2010 Filed under: UCCF | Tags: sculpture, time 4 Comments »
Last week was FORUM, the annual conference for CU leaders run by uccf:thechristianunions. This year, Dan Curtis was our artist-in-residence for the week. As well as generally helping us all to think about the arts from a Christian point of view, Dan was also given the task of producing a piece of work over the course of the week. I really liked what he came up with, and here are a few photos (although they don’t really do it justice)…
“Condition Report” by Glenn Ligon
Posted: 25 August 2010 Filed under: Exhibitions | Tags: exhibition, history, identity, tate modern, time 10 Comments »
"Condition Report" (2000) by Glenn Ligon. Iris print and iris print with serigraph.
On a recent trip to Tate Modern, I spotted this: “Condition Report” (2000) by Glenn Ligon. If you aren’t careful, you could easily miss it. It’s right outside a room full of Andy Warhol – big, bold, bright work which sucks you in and shouts in your face. And then you get to this…
“Self” (2006) by Marc Quinn
Posted: 21 August 2010 Filed under: Exhibitions | Tags: exhibition, life, portrait, time Leave a comment »
"Self" (2006) by Marc Quinn. Frozen blood in refrigerated case.
Another “portrait” from the National Portrait Gallery – Self by Marc Quinn. Quinn has built a reputation for producing controversial sculptures – his most public being his statue Alison Lapper Pregnant, depicting a disabled woman, which occupied Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth for 2 years. He also often uses unexpected materials in his work – Siren, his solid gold statue of Kate Moss generated a lot of interest, as much for its material value as for its artistic merit.
Self is both controversial and unusual in the materials it uses. It’s a sculpture of Quinn’s own head, made from 4.5 litres of his own frozen blood. The sculpture has to be kept frozen and encased in silicone to prevent deterioration. The artist has described it as, “a frozen moment on life support.“ He first made the work in 1991, but makes a new one every 5 years. The National Portrait Gallery bought this one in 2006 for £300,000.
What do you think?
