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Antigone Kourakou (GR, 1979)

Tsepelovo, December 2011. From "Short stories about loss"

https://www.antigonekourakou.com/short-stories-about-loss/

Photography of Antigone Kourakou

#Antigone Kourakou #photography #portrait #eye #glass #mourning

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eucanthos · 2 days

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Dieter Roth (DE-CH, 1930 - 1998)

P.O.TH.A.A.VFB (Portrait of the Artist as a Vogelfutterbüste [Birdseed Bust]) 1968

The title is a reference to the 1916 novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, but the work is a portrait of Roth as an old man, cast in a mixture of chocolate and birdseed. It is intended to be mounted on a post in the open air and consumed by birds until nothing remains. Unlike a traditional marble portrait bust, meant to endure through the ages, this work is a testament to Roth’s belief in impermanence and the inevitability of aging and bodily decay.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/164482

Dieter Roth has an interest in 'the impermanence of art and life'. His late 60's piece, Portrait Of The Artist As Vogelfutterbust, is pictured above. Cast from chocolate and birdseed, this work was a reference to James Joyce's novel 'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' which Roth deemed sentimental, cloying and kitsch.

#Dieter Roth #efemeral #sculpture #bust #age #birds #food #chocolate

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Dieter Roth (DE-CH, 1930 - 1998)

Dieter Roth, untitled object, 1959 (installation view in 2012)

#Dieter Roth #installation #thread #web #sculpture #Fluxus

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eucanthos · 3 days

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Acropolis in Orange Sahara dust haze, April 23 2024, ©Eurokinissi [shortly after floods in the United Arab Emirates, 16th April]

German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of an extensive sandstorm, punctuated by the white clouds of thunderstorms over the Sahara desert while aboard the International Space Station in 2014.

A general view of Homs, Syria, during a sandstorm on September 7 2015

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/the-strange-beauty-of-sandstorms/556607/

https://tvxs.gr/news/ellada/afrikaniki-skoni-skiniko-blade-runner-stin-athina/

#acropolis #Athens #Sahara #cloud #orange #desert #sandstorm #space #climate change

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eucanthos · 4 days

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Dieter Roth (DE-CH, 1930 - 1998)

Untitled 2 x 5 Schlager (Bats) portfolio, 1978. Color lithograph on yellow card

Also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot

https://collections.artsmia.org/search/artist:%22Dieter%20Roth%22

Dieter Roth. Untitled from Two Times Five Bats

#Dieter Roth #green #print #paper #series #fluxus #hand #collage

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eucanthos · 5 days

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Arnulf Rainer (AT, 1929)

Christus, 1985 [missing full title]

https://www.cultweek.com/arnulf-rainer/

https://www.meer.com/it/15531-arnulf-rainer-la-croce-e-la-notte

#Arnulf Rainer #collage #overpaint #colour #crucifix #raster

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Shusaku Takaoka (JP, 1977)

[For Earth Day special] Michelangelo's Adam series, 2019

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByZqIvZnvJH/?hl=en&img_index=1

https://www.collater.al/en/shusaku-takaoka-graphic-design/

#Shusaku Takaoka #collage #mix #parody #iconic #humour #God #Michelangelo #pop

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eucanthos · 6 days

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The brain of Leon Trotsky after his assassination, 1940

A doctor examines the brain of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader with an ice axe. (Photo by Enrique Diaz/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/doctor-examines-the-brain-of-assassinated-russian-news-photo/88920171

Masa encefálica de Leon Trotsky, 1940 via

#history #anatomy #brain #Trotsky #photo #medical #crime #hands #surgery

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eucanthos · 6 days

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Joan Fontcuberta (ES, 1955)

The Miracle of Levitation, 2002 [false negatives]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jul/08/unicorns-mermaids-joan-fontcuberta-photography-hoax-in-pictures

#Joan Fontcuberta #photography #collage #manipulation #religious #temple #fake

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Barbara Kruger (US, 1945)

Untitled (Tradition), 1980. Mixed media 65.4 x 152.4 cm (25 3/4 x 60 in)

https://www.cristintierney.com/art-fairs/12/works/artworks-2430-barbara-kruger-untitled-tradition-1980/

#Barbara Kruger #collage #visual communication #typography #women #protest #fear #abuse #violence

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eucanthos · 6 days

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Matt Dunne (AU, - )

The Killing Sink photobook cover

Each photograph in Dunne’s book depicts a place where eagles have been killed, the animals themselves or the tools of their destruction. The images are black and white, echoing the detachment and impartiality of crime scene photography. The title of the book is drawn from the term ‘killing sink’, which is an area created when a territorial animal is killed and as a result, others of the same species are drawn to the location.

The newcomers are subsequently killed and a cycle of killing is established. Collectively, the photographs in Dunne’s book intertwine the birds with the intention, psychology and history of the act of their demise creating a visual testimony.

https://www.ideabooks.nl/9786185479213-matt-dunne-the-killing-sink

https://void.photo/the-killing-sink