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- Pietmondriaan.com presents:
Opening: Friday March 12, 20:00h.
KOP, Breda (NL)
Zwarte Piet
Johannes Vogl
Johannes Vogl, Ohne Titel (Marmeladenbrotstreichmaschine) / Untitled (Machine to produce jam breads) (2007)
Constant Dullaart
‘Youtube as a sculpture’ (2009) by Constant Dullaart.
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Sam Durant
Sam Durant, ‘Bordeaux statue of liberty’, from the series ‘Defaced monuments’, an ongoing collection of statues, sculptures, memorials, markers and monuments that have been intentionally or unintentionally altered, damaged or destroyed as a political statement or during a political protest.
There are four replicas of the Statue of Liberty (given to the U.S. by the French in 1886) in France. This one, an 8 ft., bronze statue, was erected in 2000 in Bordeaux. The original replica had been erected in 1887 but was dismantled and melted for scrap metal by Nazis in WWII. A plaque honoring the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was added to the second statue later. On the night of March 25, 2003, in what is believed to be an anti-war or perhaps anti-American statement, red paint was poured on the statue. It was lit with gasoline and the face was blackened by fire. The plaque commemorating the victims of September 11th was also cracked.
Interview with Durant below.
GWEI.com
“GWEI (Google will eat itself) generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares. They buy Google via their own advertisement!” Google will eat itself.
Davide Balula
Davide Balula, ‘Heartbeat Exciter (Stimulateur cardiaque)’ (2006)
Recordings of human heartbeats at different speeds sending magnetic charges into the plants.
Aids-3D
‘Oh my God’, by Aids-3D (200?)
Click on ‘Read more’ for a random selection of their fine gallery of randomly found internet images. (Don’t worry, it’s office-friendly. Your boss won’t mind…)
The Crow
On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which Brandon Lee’s character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film’s villains (Fun-boy), was supposed to fire a gun at Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) as he walked into his apartment.
When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen and lodged in his spine. He fell down instantly and the director shouted “Cut!”. When Lee did not respond, the cast and crew rushed to him and found that he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. Lee’s heart stopped once on the set and once in the ambulance. Following a six hour operation to remove the bullet, and despite being given 60 pints (or 28 liters) of blood, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:03 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old.
Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine, ‘Change’ (2005)
Twelve twenty-five cent coins, steel box-cutter blades, solder and rivets.
Stefaan Dheedene – ‘Billy’
Stefaan D’heedene, ‘Billy’ (2006)
Stefaan Dheedene bought a piece of furniture from the Billy series at Ikea. But the day before the exhibition opened, Dheedene took Billy back to Ikea. He received back the money he invested.
In the time before the opening the artist had hired a carpenter who reconstructed the mass-produced Billy as a unique work of art, in a slightly more expensive and nicer type of wood.
Billy’s next buyer must’ve been a happy consumer…
Piero Manzoni
‘Artist’s Shit’ (1961) by Piero Manzoni.
Each 30-gram can was priced by weight based on the current value of gold (around $1.12 a gram in 1961).
Patrick Swayze (RIP)
‘She’s like the wind’ (1987) by Patrick Swayze (*1952 – †14 sept 2009).
See also the post ‘Jack Falanga‘ from a few days ago.
Javier Alberto Morales & John Michael Boling
‘The Church of the Future’ (2006), by Javier Alberto Morales and John Michael Boling.
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Hollywoodoo
Hollywoodoo is a book of African filmposters. I saw it at my brother’s house. You too can buy it at Extrapool’s bookstore!
Roxy Paine
Scumak 2′ (2001) by Roxy Paine. An automated sculpture maker creates an endless series of amorphous sculptural blobs.
Antoine Stemerding
Antoine Stemerding, ‘Wat wil je doen?’ (2006)
An installation/intervention at Stichting KOP, Breda.
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