Pol Rosenthal

Month: April 2011

  • Art Idea: Instant Tableaux

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    1. Find a beautiful pile of rubbish that is in a public area (filthy lot or illegal dump). 2. Lifting an object… 3. …place a brightly colored cloth beneath it. 4. Return it to its origin. 5. Repeat until all objects have been re-based. Voila. Instant tableaux.  

  • On Transgression In Art

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    [I’d like to say all the things I’m going to point to here, but I didn’t. I thought them, but Mike Barthel wrote them.] Reading The Awl today and came across this wonderful meditation on transgression in art by Mike Barthel. ‘In Defense of Offensive Art…‘ Why should, Mister Barthel questions, offensive art be judged…