An issue of Claims Department about Public Art and Benny Bufano
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SUMMARY KEYWORDS work, jeff koons, anish kapoor, various backgrounds, magnificent, stunning, piece, chicago skyline, war memorial, frank gehry, magnificently, aforementioned, millennium park, issue, multifocal, morphed, balloon, skyline, amphitheatre, funhouse mirror SPEAKERS Christopher Garcia Christopher Garcia My recent trip to Chicago I had one must-see, and that was Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, better known as 'The Bean.' And it's a stunning work, it really is, as much as Anish Kapoor is the most troubling artist working today. He's kinda like Jeff Koons was in 1989. He put out a piece that is just magnificent. It's a piece that speaks of its time and its place, and the viewer. Because this is what is so amazing. When you look at this work, in particular, its position in Millennium Park, you can walk all the way around it, you're reflected in it. At the same time, you're morphed like a multifocal funhouse mirror, and you can walk under it and look up and this beautiful sort of divot, which gives this very different form of distortion to everything you see, it's magnificently beautiful. It is a stunning work. Of course, it was over budget and delayed, but let's not go there. One of the things that makes it so impressive is the ability to take a picture of it. With the various backgrounds. Taken from one angle, you see much of the Chicago skyline from another you catch the Frank Gehry-designed amphitheatre from another you get skyline and I believe it's a war memorial of some sort. Another way and its trees. But what will be in all of those photos is the photographer, you will always see yourself in the work. This is far from the first work that managed that. Jeff Koons, the aforementioned, f course with his balloon dogs, for example, but as a piece of public art, it does magnificent things to draw you in, as well as encapsulate you within this work. It's a masterpiece. It's a masterpiece of public art, and I'm so glad I got to see it in person. Finally,
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ThreeMinuteModernist2022-UntitledDancingGirls-ErnestBriggs Mon, 8/15 10:50AM • 3:05 SUMMARY KEYWORDS figures, work, abstract, museum, fascinating, dynamic, british museum, inhabiting, dancing, sensation, briggs, bish, entire, representational, poses, women, canvas, garcia, indications, ernest SPEAKERS Christopher Garcia Christopher Garcia Ernest Briggs is an artist I've been aware of mostly for his association with the abstract expressionists. The 1960s, work, Untitled dancing girls is fantastic. In that sort of way that Richard Diebenkorn or Elmer Bischoff, we're in their representational phases, Phil Gusman, to a degree as well. Here, it's eight figures, all nude dancing. And they're both women and men. And it's fascinating because, first off, there is a genuine sexuality to the entire thing. The men all have erections, the women are all exceptionally sexy. In a way, it seems to be referencing a lot of the works that we were beginning to see filter into museums from Thailand from India that were hyper-sexualized as they were presented. In those museum settings. You can still see it today at the British Museum for very good example. The poses are incredibly dynamic. But what's fascinating is the level of abstraction. Because while pretty much the entire anatomy is evident, the faces are abstracted greatly. And well, the surrounding portions of them have various paint indications. It's really just as if that is indicating where the figure is in front of as if they are not in the same scene. They are just being placed together with some of their evidence, I guess. It's a beautiful dynamic piece. But the sensation I get from it is what's interesting, because it is the sensation of poking through not necessarily of inhabiting a canvas but being inserted into the Canvas from something else. And the distortion of the face. It seems to indicate not that the figures are indistinct, but that they are not whole. That we are only catching a glimpse. That's powerful, powerful, artistic work. And it's one of the reasons why I'm going to be looking a lot more into earnest briggs
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