ART 343, Final Class unit – where we are now

UNSTILL ARCHITECTURE

Groninger Mustum, Groningen, Netherlands, 1994

Exterior by Alessandro Mendini, interior by Michele de Lucchi & Philippe Starck

http://users.bart.nl/~wywhhm/photo/groningen/04.html

(exterior shot over water)

http://www.team4.nl/team4nl/projects/18.html

(informative shot by night)

http://theochem.chem.rug.nl/~heijnen/Museum/Museumframes.html

(multiple shots of exterior, including Fine Art Pavilion by Coop Himmelb(l)au)

http://community.webshots.com/photo/4094023/4094263OyXshKbIdf

(back of the Himmelb(l)au pavilion – with bicycles)

http://www.j-g-steinmann.de/a-gron04.htm

(close-ups of the Himmelb(l)au pavilion – great pics)

http://www.archimagazine.com/gmendi.htm

(funiture design by Mendini, got to see this!)

Interior

http://www.users.skynet.be/d.sign/starck/groninger.html

(interior part by Philippe Starck, amazing)

http://www.archimagazine.com/gstarc.htm

(furniture design by Philippe Starck, incredible)

http://sznbws01.ar1.kagu.sut.ac.jp/kikuchi/trip2/0319/index1.html

(odd collection includes interior shots)

http://www.orangeturtle.com/thumbnail_index/scrapbook/schooltrip_i.asp

(record of school trip, grey shots but some good ones of the interior)

Zaha Hadid, Vitra Fire Station, Weil Am Rhein, Germany, 1993

(Iraqi woman architect, trained & living in UK)

http://www.idca.org/99/speakers/hadid.html (info about her)

http://www.beton-info.de/contents/inhalte/04design/feuerwache01.html

(one dramatic b/w shot of exterior)

http://www.skewarch.com/architects/hadid/project.htm

(several projects, inc a fuller view of the fire station)

http://www.spiral.org/architects/hadid.html

(several projects, inc three informative pics of the fire station)

http://www.archimagazine.com/ghadid.htm

(series of shots of the fire station – quite useful)

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/2729/bilbao.html

(BIG buildings, 2 pages of great shots)

Yet another floating city

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/special/utopia/index_e.html

Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam, Holland, opened 1996

http://glasssteelandstone.home.att.net/NL-Rotterdam.html#Erasmusbrug

(from Glass, Steel and Stone – good starting point. A new kind of tension bridge – got to see this)

UNSETTLING SCULPTURE AND BODY ART

Rebecca Horn

http://www.uic.edu/classes/ah/ah111/29-94.htm

("High Moon", installation, 1991)

http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/horn.html

("River of the Moon, Room of Lovers", 1992)

http://www.castellodirivoli.torino.it/collezione/opere/horn1_op.htm

("Cutting Through the Past", installation, Turin, 1992-3)

http://www.artnet.com/GalHome/FineArtThumbnails.asp?AID=1365&AILETTER=H&FromLoc=ArtHome

(Artnet.com, two pages of her works – wide variety, good pics)

http://www.castellodirivoli.torino.it/collezione/opere/horn2_op.htm

("Warlock's Memorial", installation, unspecified location, 1995)

http://www.labiennale.com/visual_a/xlvii/mostre_it/Rebecca_Horn/rebecca.htm

(Three of Horn's works at the Venice Bienniale, 1994 - including Turtle Sighing Tree)

Louise Bourgeois

http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Bourgeois_L/SSII.html

("Observer", sculpture, 1947-49 – to give her some context)

http://mfah.org/garden/artists/bourgeois.html

(One work and some bio)

http://members.aol.com/mindwebart2/page150.htm

(Interview & picof "Spider", 1996; and "Blind Man's Buff", 1984)

http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/bourgeois.html

("Cell (Eyes and Mirrors)", installation, 1989-93)

http://www.artnet.com/GalHome/FineArtThumbnails.asp?AID=1022&AILETTER=B&FromLoc=ArtHome

(Artnet.com, five pages of her works)

http://www.sfmoma.org/collections/recent_acquisitions/ma_coll_bourgeois.html

("The Nest", sculpture, 1994)

Damien Hirst

http://homestead.juno.com/damienhirst/files/

(Excellent site with his works sorted by date; "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (the shark one) is 1991)

http://www.artseensoho.com/Art/GAGOSIAN/Hirst96/xhirstinfo.html

(Some bio & several quick-loading works)

http://www.apple.com/applemasters/dhirst/

(A pithy commentary with no pics)

http://www.fadmag.com/nufad/brainleft/items/hirst/hirst.html

(more blurb and some pics)

http://www.af-moma.no/english/kunstnere/hirst.html

(Two expandable pics, "Mother and Child Divided", 1993; "I feel Love", 1994-95)

http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/27/f.html

(Alternative view and arrangement of "Mother and Child Divided")

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/finch/finch10-4-2.asp

("The History of Pain", c.2000)

The Sensation Exhibition, Brooklyn

http://www.artnewsroom.com/flash/Giuliani-ny.htm

(Vandal "purifying" Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary", 1996 - "Elephant Dung Madonna")

http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/d/exhibition/sensation/harvey.html

(Marcus Harvey, "Myra", 1995 – Myra Hindley was one of the "Moors Murderers', serial child torture & murderers, now jailed for life)

Orlan

French "Carnal Artist" – plastic surgery to alter & disfigure her own body, as performance

http://www.cicv.fr/creation_artistique/online/orlan/index1.html

(This is quite sick-making, and she's been doing it since, perhaps, the 1960s, so it is probably out of context to put her into the 1990s. The site is less gruesome than you might imagine because the images are small and there's lots of text. Still.)

Cindy Jackson

Much less pretentious, Cindy Jackson is "the Human Barbie Doll". For her, plastic surgery was a means to an end – a look she considered beautiful.)

http://www.cindyjackson.com/

(This is her own site. It shows before and after shots, newspaper articles, copycats advised by her, but NO SURGERY!)

Conclusion

Remember that prime purpose of art? To make us think about what we would otherwise avoid, deny, ignore, forget, fail to notice, or fail to realise - to awaken us and pull or push our consciousness into greater functionality, greater alertness, greater integrity.

Remember also – QUALITY ASSESSMENT IS IRRELEVANT TO QUIETIST ART! You do not have to find reasons to justify this stuff. It is OK to find it sick, disgusting, morbid, or whatever. The only thing is: do so moderately. Do not get uptight – that too is irrelevant! What you are challenged to do is to "see straight". This is you (potentially). This is me. This is all of us. Now, without getting uptight, religious, political, social, personal, or anything else – what are we going to do about it? Answer thoughtfully and quietly: the future is yours to build.