Friday, February 06, 2009

Ubershitheads playing Mr Nice guys

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4 comments:

Mr roT said...

Is Martínez an übershithead?

For many of the artists, like the Californian Daniel Joseph Martinez, this will be the first time their work has entered the museum’s permanent collection. The Whitney recently acquired Mr. Martinez’s “Divine Violence,” a 2007 room installation consisting of 92 wooden panels painted in automotive gold flake, each bearing the name of an international organization that has links to violent or coercive tactics. “They’re beautiful and minimal, and yet what lurks beneath is something which is much more sinister,” Ms. De Salvo said. Mr. Martinez’s work also appeared in the biennial in 1993.

2/06/2009 5:51 PM
Tecumseh said...

He does have a funny head.

2/06/2009 9:20 PM
Tecumseh said...

What a charming guy: For the project, Martinez altered the normal museum admission tags from saying WMAA to I cant imagine ever wanting to be white. Recent exhibitions include the MFAH exhibition Indelible Images (trafficking between Life and Death), and the inaugural solo exhibition Flesh Eating Prosthetic (opium des volks) How I Fell in Love with My Dirty Bomb (phagocitage des prothesis), at LAXART in Los Angeles. Martinez is Professor of Theory, Practice, and Meditation of Contemporary Art at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department.

2/06/2009 9:22 PM
Mr roT said...

Professor Pepplethorpe. You think he's a rear admiral as well?

2/06/2009 9:52 PM

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