Farangis Yegane: florae Obscurae, visit page a florae Obscurae, by Farangis Yegane, 1996 The subject of ‘florae Obscurae’ is flowers – though, not in their relation to the culture of ornament or decoration, not as metaphorical entities like for example as vehicles of some unattributable malevolent purposes of fate, like in Baudelaire’s poetical thought-image of…Continue readingFarangis Yegane: florae Obscurae
The elitist attitude of the “arts industry” has so far tended to ignore so called public sentiment, unless it fits their interest. I just learned about the case of the starving dog who was being exhibited, and I just signed the petition linked on this blog: http://guillermohabacucvargas.blogspot.com/ The nutcase artist who brought the dog into…Continue readingMore than 2 million signatures
Arts and Necrophilia: CATERINA PURDY MOHN, exhibited a (amongst others) by the Transition Gallery, East London and StuArt Gallery, Siantiago Chile, accordning to Saatchi and Saatchi http://www.transbuddha.com/content/caterina-purdy/ http://www.last.fm/music/Purdy+Rocks Purdy Rocks (her techono type of music) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=109868701 http://www.portaldearte.cl/autores/purdy1.htm It’s pretty easy to impress anybody or maybe especially the mainstream arts scene with anything super necrophile. This…Continue readingVive la Biophilia — They can by no means negate the dignity of life!!
a sequence of computer drawings from the series Philozoe by Farangis Yegane, 1997 Oviraptors.) They hunt birds for their eggs.) And seek to control them in the air too.) They domesticate them; especially the birds that don’t fly.) Next, they hunt the deer.) Domesticate big mammals.) 7.)Continue readingOviraptors, computer drawings by Farangis Yegane
Pesi Girsch aestheticises the corpses of dead animals on some of her photography. http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/stillalife.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ) On her bio she portrays herself with a baby kitten nevertheless: http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/bio.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ), so one can assume that she sees some qualitative difference between being amongst the living or being amongst the…Continue readingPesi Girsch’s “Nature Morte”