Nathan,
I showed this link to a few friends tonight and we all thought the same
thing you did. This guy is an incredible sculptor. Nobody today has that
kind of skill at rendering the naturalistic human form. I guess the world
has too many Greek god statues, so he's doing something else, lol.
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On 11/8/10 2:00 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> One person's art is another person's trash, of course. But in this case the
> guy clearly has the technique, something which is often lacking in modern art,
> and he chooses to put it to use to depict things which, as I warned, will
> clearly offend and disgust some viewers.
>
> As for photography, this particular gallery generally allows photography of
> all its exhibits, regardless of whether they are controversial or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Indeed! I don't think that I should bother with the effort of opening the
>> door to the place.
>>
>> But I'm surprised that Nathan was allowed to photograph any exhibits; or was
>> it because they were worried that not many people would come to exhibition
>> and hoped that photography would publicise the "work".
>>
>> I suspect that, in that part of the world, viewers are less likely to be
>> shocked so the authors have to be more shocking than the last; but it doesn't
>> work for me as art, for the most part.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 7 Nov 2010, at 22:35, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>
>>> Yup - that qualifies as shock art alright.
>>> Guaranteed to offend almost everybody.
>>
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