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Gallery > Contemporary Artists (11)
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Chimera By Sarina Brewer
Sarina Brewer's Custom Creatures Taxidermy Using only salvaged bits of roadkill, discarded pieces of livestock, and other donated animal items, Sarina Brewer reimagines the boundaries between species and between myth and concrete form. Her work veers from the beautiful through the eerie to the downright shudder-worthy. You'll find such pieces as two-headed cats, a modern day chimeras composed of three vulture heads and a cat's body, and pickled rats. "I call it art," she writes on her website, "you can call it whatever you want." A founding member of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy. -
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Maurizio Cattelan's Horse
Maurizio Cattelan a maverick Italian contemporary artist known for bizarre scenarios and strange humour. Sometimes describes as a Shakespearian fool, Cattelan's humour is said to reveal darker truths underlying our society. His works included a post-suicidal taxidermied squirrel slumped over a yellow formica table, suspended taxidermied horses, the pope pinned to the ground by a meteorite, and a performance of him dressed as a giant pink phallus. "My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut," he explained to Sophie Arie in an interview for the Guardian [read it +]
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Ophelia by the Idiots
Idiots is a collaborative project by Dutch artists Afke Golsteijn, Ruben Taneja and Floris Bakker. Combining their talents with glass, metal, embroidery, and taxidermy, the artists decorate and adorn real animals, transfiguring them from regular creatures – rabbits, hedgehogs, swans, birds, mice – into the tragic heroes of contemporary fairy tales. In one work the ears of a rabbit, the head mounted on a wall as a traditional hunting trophy, are embroidered with intricate looping flowers. In another, a small hedgehog has been mounted the antique frame of a child’s wheeled toy. Sewing pins blend in with its own quills. The works oscillate between brutality and beauty, melancholy and wonder. Ultimately viewers are left to make meaning of the pieces from their own reservoir of images. [read more +] -
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Børre Sæthre's Bambis
Installations by Børre Sæthre at the Loevenbruck Gallery in Paris in 2005. The work was entitled "Untitled 1, Powdered by Zero (end of the Bambi Cycle)." The gallery describes Sæthre's work as cinemagraphic dream scenes filled with hidden fantasies and secrets:
"At once austere and saturated with concealed fantasies, his spaces (sculptural and reconstructed environments, light, soundscapes and moving images) comprise confessions, secrets, and voyeuristic longings that linger within seemingly impermeable interiors."
I'll let you decide about the ethics of exhibiting dead bambis - does it matter where they came from? See more of Sæthre's work at:
http://www.loevenbruck.com/artist.php?id=saethre&view=gallery
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