Freudian Instinct - island6 Arts Center : You might speculate that the vase is just a vase. Magritte excited the Freudian instinct to see objects as ciphers when he painted The Treachery of Images with its bold injunction Ceci nest pas une pipe. A pipe was after all, not a pipe, but its representation. Does the vase stand for something else? Is it a metaphor for rebirth, of delivery from darkness into light? Does it invoke the history and rebirth of China? Or perhaps it is something literal. In matters of aesthetics, form does not always follow function. Those sinuous curves and the fluted neck - is it actually the remembrance of a warm naked body? Or is it a reliquary perhaps, for the ashes of a loved one. ARTIST Liu Dao 六岛 MEDIA RGB LED display, acrylic painting, paper collage, teakwood frame EDITION Unique DATE Made in island6, Shanghai 2014 EXPOSURE “Silk to Bitcoin” at island6 Shanghai CREDITS Xu Yihan 徐义涵 (painting) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction & technical guidance) • Anto Lau (art direction & animation) • Jean Le Guyader (documentation) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Daniel Browning (author) Learn more: ift.tt/1uvA4w6 --- Live feed powered by Yoku Cloud Services
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:50:39 +0000
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