Some Work By Kadar Brock
Month: November 2012
Thirsty?
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is the subject of a mid career retrospective that in 2011 made stopovers at MoMA, the Tate and the Pompidou and he’s chosen to mark the occasion with… 400 commemorative bottles of tequila. Orozco has lent his famous checkerboard skull motif (from his 1997 work ‘Black Kites’) to limited edition bottles of Casa Dragones, the tour’s official beverage. Available just in time for the holidays, the Orozco-branded luxury tequila is selling for US$1,850 a pop.
If that’s a little out of your price range, you can always crack open a Lemon Fizz, the American soft drink featuring (rather revolting) new branding by Richard Prince. The artist is a big fan of the AriZona product, stating: “My latest work has embodied the use of tangible items, such as cans, to create installations. As a fan of AriZona’s Arnold Palmer line, it felt natural to collaborate. The outcome is Lemon Fizz, which is a fantastic beverage and one that I can employ in my own craft.” Lemon Fizz will be launched at this year’s Art Basel Miami. Classy.
Hot Photo Friday – Stephen Collier
Sydney Bound
Leg of Lamb’s off to Sydney to check out the new Francis Bacon show at the AGNSW amongst other things, so no posts until mid-next week. Expect some tweets though…
More Chapmans
Jake and Dinos Chapman discuss ‘Jake or Dinos Chapman’, their 2012 exhibition at White Cube and also offer Tracey Emin some sound advice.
Dinos Makes Music
Dinos Chapman is releasing his first album. He’s been making DIY music for over a decade and recorded the material for Luftbobler in his East London basement. The album features thirteen tracks of ‘schlampige musik’ (which roughly translates as ‘sloppy’ or, er, ‘slutty music’) and a cover designed by the artist. And if you want to know what it sounds like, Chapman says it’s “… like a naked mole-rat plucked untimely from its snuggly basement-burrow, on its back, all squirmy, exposed to the suns dissecting rays.” Luftbobler will be launched by The Vinyl Factory in February 2012.
Ed Ruscha, Woody and the World’s Hottest Pepper
The short video you see here was made by Lance Acord for LACMA’s second annual Art+Film Gala, a fundraising initiative to make film more central to the institution’s programming. This year’s gala paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick and self described ‘linguistic kleptomaniac’ Ed Ruscha (above).
(And for those of you who missed it, last year’s Art+Film Gala video commission was the little Baldessari beauty I posted here).
Hot Photo Friday – Sophie Bannan
What’s Franco up to now?
Art world darling James Franco recently uploaded the above snaps of his paint spattered face and bed to WhoSay (an invite only social media site for celebs). Maybe he was playing on Rauschenberg’s famous ‘Bed’ assemblage, or not. Anyone else tired of this guy yet?
The World Turns Arrives at GoMA
Two years ago Michael Parekowhai won the Queensland Premier’s Sculpture commission (run by the former State Government) and a cool million dollars for his design ‘The World Turns’, an enormous bronze sculpture of an upturned elephant eyeballing a water rat. The 5.5 tonne work was delivered by barge this morning and installed on the eastern corner of the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Embarrassingly, it was unveiled by current Queensland Arts Minister Ros Bates who last month described the work as an “appalling waste” and questioned why the commission hadn’t gone to an Australian artist. She’s changed her tune however, recently stating “I never criticised the sculpture itself or the artistic benefit of it or the artist. In fact I’m very proud of GoMA and I’m very proud that we have wonderful facilities here in Brisbane, that everyone can appreciate the artwork.” Awkward.
Leg of Lamb 