more than one glance? What does art mean to you?
The skeleton of a sperm whale is competing with the brain of a cow for this year's Turner Prize, Britain's annual competition of contemporary art that regularly triggers debate about what is art and what is not. But curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas defended the institution, which dates back to 1984...
The first rooms of the show are dedicated to Lucy Skaer, the only woman among the nominees. Her works include tall, black, skittle-like sculptures made with coal dust and arranged in rows and in a pile on the floor.
"Leviathan Edge" (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.
"Lucy Skaer is slowing down the art of looking. You can't just grasp the art in once glance," said Carey-Thomas.
Scottish-based Richard Wright, who specialises in large wall paintings made for specific spaces, has adorned the far wall of a room with symmetrical, intricate gold-leaf patterns.
Italian-born Enrico David presents "Absuction Cardigan" (2009), a collage of sculptures, paintings and papier-mache "eggmen" described by the exhibition as a "parade of unruly characters" that represent the artist himself.
Finally, Richard Hiorns has covered half of a gallery floor with the black and grey metal dust of an atomised passenger aircraft engine, in a work designed to question our faith in technology and remind us of our own mortality.
Further works hanging on the walls contain cows' brains.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20091005/778/tod-whale-skeleton-vs-cow-brain-at-uk-tu.html
The skeleton of a sperm whale is competing with the brain of a cow for this year's Turner Prize, Britain's annual competition of contemporary art that regularly triggers debate about what is art and what is not. But curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas defended the institution, which dates back to 1984...
The first rooms of the show are dedicated to Lucy Skaer, the only woman among the nominees. Her works include tall, black, skittle-like sculptures made with coal dust and arranged in rows and in a pile on the floor.
"Leviathan Edge" (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.
"Lucy Skaer is slowing down the art of looking. You can't just grasp the art in once glance," said Carey-Thomas.
Scottish-based Richard Wright, who specialises in large wall paintings made for specific spaces, has adorned the far wall of a room with symmetrical, intricate gold-leaf patterns.
Italian-born Enrico David presents "Absuction Cardigan" (2009), a collage of sculptures, paintings and papier-mache "eggmen" described by the exhibition as a "parade of unruly characters" that represent the artist himself.
Finally, Richard Hiorns has covered half of a gallery floor with the black and grey metal dust of an atomised passenger aircraft engine, in a work designed to question our faith in technology and remind us of our own mortality.
Further works hanging on the walls contain cows' brains.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20091005/778/tod-whale-skeleton-vs-cow-brain-at-uk-tu.html