Like Robert Longo, but with cars
typed for your pleasure on 5 March 2008, at 12.47 pmSdtrk: ‘Thick as thieves’ by the Jam
Remember Cai Guo-Qiang, that artist bloke that I wrote about last year, with his cadre of Synthetik wolves impacting upon glass panes? Well, he did it again last year with another frozen-moments-as-installation-piece, entitled ‘Inopportune’. Nice!
Ford Tauruses… aren’t normally supposed to do that
The centerpiece of Inopportune, titled Inopportune: Stage 1, features a dazzling array of colored light pulsing from hundreds of long transparent rods. These rods thrust out from nine identical white cars which tumble in an arc through the gallery, suspended in mid-air as if by stop-action. Gradually the viewer perceives that an explosive event is unfolding in nine frozen frames. At the end of the sequence the car lands safely, unaltered, implying a closed and repeatable circuit.
taken from this article
I don’t know about you, but I’m looking at that picture above, and seeing album cover.
Cai Guo-Qiang, you’re building up an impressive CV! We’re going to have to keep an eye on you
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March 8th, 2008 at 9.00 pm
Seems like a screenshot from a Burnout game. But that’s the gamer in me speakering.
March 10th, 2008 at 1.08 am
Well, that pic in particular certainly has enough bloom — much like Burnout: Paradise…