Dubiel-Exam

=** ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY **=

** Tabaimo **


1. Photo of Tabaimo 2. Her video animation work called "Public Convinence" is a video which takes up an entire room. The viewer watches as characters go in and out of the public restroom each character representing a different problem of point of view of Tabaimo. 3. Another animation of hers called "Japanese Kitchen." This work depicts to Tabaimo how superficial humanity is. The housewife calmly prepares a meal while listening to horrible news on the television. She forgets this news quite quickly, however, as the most important thing is to prepare the meal.
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Tiabaimo was born and raised in Japan (born in 1975). She received a degree in Art and Design from the Kyoto University. Her art often features the interiors of unattractive public places such as public restrooms and subways. She incorporates the unsettling themes of isolation contagion and instability which encompass modern day cities. She also uses a sort of manga/anime style while she’s drawing which gives her artwork a japanese feel. Tabaimo is a perfect example of a 21st century, strong woman artist who uses technology to add to her work.
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Her artwork consists of drawings, video installations and computer generated images which often take up entire rooms. She’s also known for adding other sensory elements into her work using things such as blowing wind or human hair. Her pieces however are almost always a combination of hand drawn material and computerized material. In an interview she once said, “I take parts of different things and put them together to produce my work; I can’t make anything knowing exactly what components need to be used from the beginning.”
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Tiabaimo’s art work can most certainly be related to the pop art of the 20th century. Her use of color is especial relatable to Andy Warhol's. Her use of materials also resembles Marcel Duchamp's readymades.
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I chose Tabaimo because I was really interested in her style of animation. I also had never seen an artist who was so focused on the viewer's experience. As she says, "when I create art I take 50% of the responsibility, the other 50% is given to the viewer." I love the emotional effect her artwork has on me. She depicts characters that are relatable and creepy. The work puts the viewer out of ease in a good way and forces them to question their life.

A Link to Her Videos (P.S. The first link includes multiple parts one is about Tabaimo and one is also about David Altmejd) http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-boundaries

** Allora and Calzadilla **


1. Photograph of Allora and Calzadilla 2. This is a photograph of their piece "Chalk (Lima)" where they placed large pieces of chalk outside of political buildings so that the Peruvians could voice their opinions on the ground. They let the viewer actually create the artwork and only provided them with the media. Chalk, they thought, is something that is manufactured yet natural, something hard yet breakable and they liked this opposition of forces which mirrored the political turmoil that was going on in Peru during 2002. This pieces of chalk, as you can see, were removed by authorities. ” 3. This piece called, "Trumpet on Motorcycle Exhaust" is a living sculpture. They were inspired to create it when a large field of land in South America which was originally used to test nuclear weapons was opened to the public once again. They made the sculpture and had it driven over the natural imperfections of the now freed land to create sort of an accidental ballad.
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Jennifer Allora is American and she received a BA from the University of Richmond in Virginia along with other degrees. Gulillermo Calzadilla is Cuban and he received a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico along with other degrees. Their artwork could more be as political experiments than visual art. They use art to test the cultural boundaries of our consumerist society and Allora claims that, "After this long period of commercially oriented art, it’s nice to bring back other kinds of experimental practices. It is an important reaction to everything else in our so-called contemporary society, where it’s all about texting and instant messaging and everything is so far away from the here and the now and the present. Anything that refocuses the moment is a luxury."
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Allora and Calzadilla often use a unique mix of sculpture, photography, performance, sound, and video. Their work ranges from putting huge pieces of chalk outside of political buildings to allow people to write to welding a trumpet to the tailpipe of a motorcycle and listening to the sound it makes. They are 21st century artists because their work deals with modern day political and social problems.
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The artwork of Allora and Calzadilla can even more be compared to the readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Who would’ve thought to put a motorcycle and a trumpet together to make a living sculpture. Also like Duchamp they love when accidents happen to their artwork. Many people have trouble seeing their work as art because they are so used to paintings from other eras.
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Again I chose these artists because there art was unlike anything I'd ever seen. They simply let art happen and give media to the hands of the public or to the hands of nature. They are, “ironing out the world’s big problems, which are impossible to solve despite scientific knowledge, as if one were trying to iron out the humps of a camel. It’s about the limits of human control on nature and the world.” (Allora) Their artwork reminds me to step back and smell the roses and helps me to see the world in a broader scope.

A Link to their Video

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-allora-calzadilla-in-paradox

1. Photograph of David Altmejd 2. This piece is called "The Healers." While describing his own work David said he was trying to, "explore the boundaries of traditional figuration by embedding his subjects with otherworldly elements and reconceptualizing how to represent the human figure in all its spatial, spiritual and psychological multiplicity." 3. The final statue is called "The Pit." This piece exemplifies Altmejd's love of sensory imagery in this case the hands. We can imagine that this particular body has an advanced sense of touch.
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David Altmejd received a BFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1998) and has exhibited his art in many galleries **. ** His belief in the meaning of art is quite interesting in the fact that he doesn’t begin working on a sculpture with a meaning in mind. The meaning always accidentally finds itself while he’s creating the work. Altmejd also has a fondness for using sensory imagery in his statues -- for example, ears, eyes and hands -- and is always exploring the complexities of the human body.
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David Altmejd makes large multi piece sculptures, often including plasters of body parts such as ears or feet. However, he is very against sketching before he sculpts and tries to let sculptures create themselves. He once said, “Sometimes it feels like there’s brains in my hands.” David is 21st century because of the materials he uses which can include plaster, plastics and the stuff they use at the dentist's office to make impressions of your teeth.
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David is much like the artist who liked things that happened by accident. Artist like Da Vinci, however, would chastise him for not pre-planning. He is also very similar to baroque compositions representing the descent of the cross as well as of 19th-century public bronze sculptures commemorating battle massacres.
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I chose David as my third artist because I was very interested in his creation process and his use of the human body. His mind works in a very interesting way and I feel that each of his pieces offer a glimpse into his creative and unique mind. This, in turn, forces me to expand my mind.

A Link to His Video See Tabaimo's video.

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