The exhibit is a continuation in the development of Saraceno’s work from the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009: Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.
Along with the new work the exhibition includes a number of photos, drawings, and texts which describe Saraceno’s work and process.
14 Billions is on display at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden through June 20, 2010.

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Featured above: Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic), Chongqing Municipality from his work Yangtze, The Long River.

Below: advertisement from his series of photos for Absolut.

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May 23, 2008

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Kiki Smith is a sculptor, printmaker, photographer, and installation artist. Her subjects range from anatomy, art history, mythology, science and feminism. She’s known for her provocative sculptures of the body and its anatomical parts. Typically they express vulnerability through potentially humiliating yet natural functions, such as urination and menstruation. She works in a variety of mediums including wax, ceramic, plaster, paper, glass, and bronze, to name a few.

A few weeks ago Smith gave a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum on Origins. To Smith, Origins is about not having control of how she stays inspired. Being an artist is about sitting, waiting, and listening. Smith presented slides of her work at random, as she explained the origins of her ideas. She talked about how she accumulates “convoluted configurations” of her resources, and often “cannibalizes” her subjects. “Cannibalized” was her way of describing rehashing, or investigating of work.

Kiki Smith chose not to discuss certain slides, claiming they were “secret.” However, her other slides were presented with small anecdotes.
For her sculpture Untitled (1995), the figure is half man/half woman, as her male neighbor had to go home before she finished.

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Another slide she showed was that of a terra cotta rib cage. The piece is actually glued together, breaking after her return from Germany.

With a mass adoration for her work, prints are consistently sold out.
I recently received her Mizuame (seahorse) print (above), as well as a Gelaskin of Odaijini.

Her work is often featured in lowbrow art publications, and she participates in a number of shows. In a past show at Subtext she painted a Kokeshi doll:

And artist Mike Leavitt sculpted an Audrey Kawasaki action figure, for his Art Army exhibition at CoproNason:

For more info, check out her livejournal and myspace.

My favorite spaces are Body-Inner and Memory/Data:
Body-Inner Space features Cosmic Wonder’s Magic Village 2004, Hussein Chalayan’s LED dress from his Readings collection 2007,

and Ernesto Neto’s Humanoids 2001.

Memory/Data space features Sanaa’s Flower House 2007, French architectural firm R & Sie(n)’s Olzweg 2006,

and Demakervan’s Lace Fence 2005.
Space For Your Future closes January 20, 2008, for more information visit http://www.sfyf.jp/

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