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Shocking Advertisements – Part II
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22. Colombian Association of Arterial Hypertension: Home
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23. Concordia Children’s Services: Piglets
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24. Discriminatie.nl: Hide
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25. Domestic Violence: Livingroom
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26. Eagle Print Awards 2009: Cactus
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27. Emirates Arthritis Foundation: Painful
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28. E.N.P.A.: Spray
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29. Family Network Foundation: Dad
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31. Findus Fraich’Frites: Grandchildren
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32. Foundation Abbé Pierre: The Lifeguard
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33. Fur Free: Angry Fox
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34. Glassing Sunglasses: Kiss My Glass
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35. Good Parent: Boy
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36. Government of the State of Santa Catarina: Hamburger
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37. Gringo’s Tequila: El Matador Peligroso
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38. Humans for Animals: Seal
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39. IndyAct: Bobcat
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sebastian errazuriz: american kills
‘american kills’ installation
‘american kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist sebastian errazuriz is a public
installation showcasing the suicide rates of US soldiers. after searching on official
war sites on the internet, he accidentally found out that 2 times more american soldiers
had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed during that same year in the
war in iraq; an alarming comparison that errazuriz had personally never read or
heard about before.
according to the artist, a first google search showed only reports of media alarm about
suicide rates, but the information was always comfortably presented divided into months
and generally separated by statistics from the army, navy or air-force.
‘when I first found the overall statistics summed the 304 suicides by US soldiers during
2009, I was shocked. I tried to find a number to compare that statistic. to my surprise
the suicide statistic doubled the total of 149 US soldiers that had died in the iraq war
during 2009 and equaled the number of soldiers killed in afghanistan.‘ – SR
errazuriz’s first instinct was to post the statistic on facebook, dumbfounded by the lack
of response and interest, he bought can of black paint and decided to ‘post’ the news in
the real world on his own wall outside his studio in brooklyn. equipped with a ladder,
he marked a black strip for every dead soldier, until both the suicide rates and war rates
occupied the entire wall and were registered as a single image.
‘the counting of dead soldiers outside my studio was long and surprisingly eerie; it was
hard to forget that every brush stroke was a soldier who had died the previous year.
a lot of people stopped to read the mural and were immediately impressed by the reality
portrayed. most of them seemed quite shocked and approached me to ask if what I was
painting was real. I tried to explain that I simply wished to create a physical image that
could capture people’s imagination, creating awareness of the current numbers in death,
war and the infinite discrepancy between the resources and energies destined to fight and
protect soldiers at war versus the energies invested in protecting their mental health
and stability.‘- SR
liu bolin: lost in art at eli klein gallery
‘hiding in the city no. 99 – panda’ (2011) by liu bolin
photograph
46 1/2 x 59 inches (118 x 150 cm)
all images courtesy eli klein fine art / liu bolin
new photographs and one of the artist’s debut sculptural works comprise the ‘lost in art’ solo show by chinese portrait artist liu bolin
at new york’s eli klein fine art gallery. the exhibition features new pieces from the artist’s ‘hiding in the city’ and ‘hiding in new york’ series,
with an increased focus on culturally and historically significant locations such as the site of the world trade center, or an information kiosk
in china where hundreds of youth have placed posters seeking employment. together with ‘peony’, bolin’s first sculptural work, the pieces
interrogate commodity culture and the changes that come with time.
about ‘panda’, pictured above, the gallery curators reflect: ‘the work confronts the viewer with a palpable materialism, whereby the viewer
can sense an infatuation with commodity that has recently supplanted many elements of traditional chinese culture. through the numerous
identical stuffed pandas, liu bolin forces us to acknowledge the pull of material objects and the power that they wield in contemporary china.‘
liu bolin, ‘hiding in new york no. 5 – tiles for america’ (2011)
liu bolin, ‘hiding in new york no. 4 – ground zero’ (2011)
liu bolin, ‘hiding in the city no. 98 – info port’ (2011)
liu bolin, ‘jean paul gaultier’ (2011)
