Monday, August 10, 2009

• How many of you knew that Damien Hirst really lives in Slovenia, and that he has a new blog? (hirstdamien.blogspot.com) (via Art News Blog)
• The fine art of art speak as quoted by Art Baloney Blog,

However, whereas the fires (like many of the subtler constructions created for this commission) function as allegories – representing the metamorphosis that each and every reality undergoes every time it is observed (could this be another Romantic appropriation of Heisenberg’s UP?) – the doubling/mirroring of certain images serves another function. Reality is fragmented, repeated and polarized. The doppelganger is introduced.