can’t help but L.O.V.E. maurizio cattelan

‘officially it’s name is L.O.V. E. – so it stands for love – but everyone can read between the lines and take away the message they see for themselves.‘ says prankster art-star maurizio cattelan.

 

his most recent work resides in milan’s piazza affari, in front of the italian stock exchange building. made of marble, about 4 meters high and on a 7 meter base brings the sculpture to a total height of 11 meters. it was originally titled ‘omnia munda mundis’, literally meaning ‘to the pure [men], all things [are] pure’, a latin sentence that has entered a relatively common usage in many countries – but sometimes simplicity speaks louder.  by kl

CATEGORIES: art, musings

quote of the day

“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who

are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive.

The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes;

only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things.

The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.”

 

– Yevgeny Zamyatin,

“On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”

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A.S.S. presents Open Sesame

i went to this opening last night, it’s small but refreshing for our steamy new york summer evenings, even though the cops busted it up for innocent hipsters drinking out of paper bags on the sidewalk (comeon boys, aren’t you supposed to be fighting crime?). anyways i feel like it’s been a while since some art crew summer fun but maybe i’ve just been MIA. you should check it out, it’s currated by tim barber of tiny vices, showing works by some of the staples, oh and it’s at terrence koh‘s Asian Song Society gallery space.  by kl

CATEGORIES: art, ny places