9/12/2006

Chie Fueki

28 comments:

Painter said...

Chie Fueki @
Mary Boone
541 W 24
New York, NY 10011

arebours said...

nice quilt designs

youth--less said...

One of the great reasons to get into the arts in the first place is so you can ignore football and all that stupidity. Not for me...

zipthwung said...

I dont know what the football player represents but the last show I saw had birds and stuff. THey were smaller, and it was in a smaller gallery, so I guess they weren't worth as much, but I think they were better.

welcome to the floating world

Is Chie Fueki a football fan? My guess is that its more a bridging of the cultures sort of thing. Multicultural stuff.

One last thing - Im not a fan of pattern and decoration even though I like patterns. Its a trap I dont want to get into. What if all you really do is design paisley patterns?

zipthwung said...

cardboard guitar anyone?

Spectacle.

zipthwung said...

cardboard guitar anyone?

Spectacle.

youth--less said...

same thing

zipthwung said...

Tan.Hibiscus. Cannabus.
Hawaii? Haowlie. Sun Tan.
Ganguro.

SisterRye said...

This looks like something that would hang in a pipe shop in the Haight-Ashbury.

Sven said...

thats not nice.....

Would these same criticisms go for Tomaselli as well?

youth--less said...

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zipthwung said...

Yes, Tomaselli is not immune. He has assistants so no "obsessive" credit like Yayoi kusama or a tibetan/hopi mandala painter. I mena obsessive just doesnt cut it - otherwise every stoner with a trip book would be on the market right?
Thou shall shit it out.

Calvinism.
Hedonism.

I said it once, Ill say it again
I like the quilts
of gees bend.

here is a cool quilt.

In some countries of Europe and in Japan, chrysanthemums are symbolic of death and are only used for funerals or on graves. In the United States, the flower is usually seen as more positive and cheerful.

subversive

zipthwung said...

Arts and Crafts movement was in large part a reaction to industrialization, if looked at on the whole, it was neither anti-industrial nor anti-modern. Some of the European factions believed that machines were in fact necessary, but they should only be used to relieve the tedium of mundane, repetitive tasks.

arts and crafts

is it time?

no-where-man said...

worth seeing in person, there beady ground is highly labor intensive. nice david salle in the back room.

cha said...

She celebrates muscled man... and girlifies [sp?] him......

no-where-man said...

More from the 'teachings of matthew barney' not all muscle men but sports if i recall correctly.

heh thx painter considering my approch to the Artworld the "sneaky" shot is spot on. - flattered ;)

no-where-man said...

Is Chinese art a hot growth a

no-where-man said...

ooops my bad, should read

" Is Chinese art a hot growth area in a superheated art market?"

cha said...

KJ good point about the cultural/ history aspect.
As he's outside the box... maybe he's a gift [wrapping paper patterns et al].
Bodybuilding's not my thing , so I go with "denigration".

youth--less said...

I always felt like P&D was some marketing strategy by Holly Solomon. An excuse for some loud paintings? Didnt seem significant at all.

Miriam SHapiro to James Gobel...that's important work.

zipthwung said...

»Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with cultural commodities, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.«

-Steve Jobs

zipthwung said...

"I felt that by making a large canvas magnificent in color, design, and proportion, filling it with fabrics and quilt blocks, I could raise a housewife's lowered consciousness."

-Martha Stewart

zipthwung said...

Decinlevin. THanks for your interest. Please say something interesting. Otherwise here are a few suggested topics:



1) Is pattern and decoration rigourous?

2) Chevrons- like or dislike?

4) What do the Opium Wars have to do with anything?

5) Does Japan have influences or is she visionary?

jpegCritic said...

forget topics. I'm tellin yall now.
INVEST in China if you have the money.
Japanese art or no japanese art.
Your children will thank you for it.

youth--less said...

peggie--we are all investing in china, whether we want to or not

jpegCritic said...

Closeuup, don't know how to take that,
but for those of you who want not...

You can blame our american finacial complex
for that -- a debt-centric institution that values
speculative investment more than it values
the production and circulation of real goods.

Funny how art mirrors real life.

We are beyond the point, closeuup, of
returning to the time when our production
was greater-to-or-equal-to our debt-spending.
I'm cynical in this view, yes.

In order to get out:
1) Less speculation
2) More institutional value on sweat-equity.

I think this should (or will)
be reflected in our art market
once we realize that our production capacity
(thought as well as material) has been diminished
by the shadow of speculation and it's methodologies.
In essence, we tend to invest on things that
have not been produced yet. We build confidence
in innovation, yet we relegate the physical infrastructures
that can test and build upon ideas to the 3rd world.
Those infrastructures are the key to innovation.
American industry has, in effect, 'forgotton' how
to build and test things cuz the builders and testers
have long been farmed out oversesas.

The masters money may be here (um...really?)
but the masters tools are elsewhere.

Finance -- the financial institution -- with its
speculative values -- is the American Emporer
who will one day have no clothes.

jpegCritic said...

Postscript:
Investing is fine -- I can do that.
But investing in Investing is a recipe for a logical crash.

But please, beefore investing overseas, pay back all your
credit card debt, pllleze, as a gesture of
defiance toward your emporer.

Sven said...

saw this in person, was really astounding up close....
Im still not 100% with the subjects and from far away something becomes too static, perhaps in the composition but all in all nice show