Matt Blake at Motor City
Well, another wonderful night at Motor City with Matt Blake. I will tell you again...this is the place to be if you are an artist (any kind) in Detroit. Where else can you go to have a drink, look at art, chat with artists/writers/musicians...and possibly make some connections? And what else do I love? The bargain prices! I am always a sucker for a deal and it is even better when it comes to art collecting.
Blake is known for his modern take on the classical frieze (remember the show he was in at Susanne Hilberry) but he went outside the box in this exhibit. I personally wasn't as keen on the saw blade country landscapes. I felt the idea wasn't fully there, maybe because the painting seemed a little underdeveloped. I think that his sculpture was right on! Blake has an eye for the the 3rd dimension which he demonstrated with his mini environments. I ended up taking home a beauty too!
Blake is known for his modern take on the classical frieze (remember the show he was in at Susanne Hilberry) but he went outside the box in this exhibit. I personally wasn't as keen on the saw blade country landscapes. I felt the idea wasn't fully there, maybe because the painting seemed a little underdeveloped. I think that his sculpture was right on! Blake has an eye for the the 3rd dimension which he demonstrated with his mini environments. I ended up taking home a beauty too!
posted by art blogs are fun at 7:36 PM
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couldn't find any images online -- but wim delvoye became famous with his painted saw blades -- matt's in good company (description below):
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965. Named for the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, including a life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, a wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes, and a herd of pigs that have been tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men.
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