Contemporary Art Hates You

A blog dedicated to any and all contemporary art. I try to post historically significant artists, but will occasionally post new artists that I like. As an art historian, I find that most people dismiss contemporary art because they don't understand it so I will include some information for the pieces which I have studied. Click on artists' names for a biography and feel free to suggest or submit your favorite artist/work.

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hypna:

New Street Art by BLU

“Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

(via atthecenteroftheworld)

Romuald Hazoume Wax Lolo, 2009 Hazoume creates sculptures from found objects, favoring petrol cans such as this one to create works reminiscent of African masks and sculpture. His work focuses on historical and modern examples of slavery, using petrol as a metaphor for the Western presence in Benin.

Romuald Hazoume

Wax Lolo, 2009

Hazoume creates sculptures from found objects, favoring petrol cans such as this one to create works reminiscent of African masks and sculpture. His work focuses on historical and modern examples of slavery, using petrol as a metaphor for the Western presence in Benin.

iwantmyartnow:

Zilvinas Kempinas, Tube, 2009.  Scuola Grande della Misericordia. 53rd Venice Biennale

Tube is a work that creates a dramatic enclosed walkway over 80 feet long from stretched lengths of videotape. The work is one of the latest in a series employing Kempinas’ signature medium of unspooled magnetic tape, works that have inventively exploited the strength and ultra-lightweight nature of tape to create beguiling and seemingly contradictory physical spectacles that skillfully subvert relationships with architecture, form, and space.

Zilvinas was chosen to represent Lithuania by an independent committee from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and presented this installation at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic building designed by architect Jacopo Sansovino that dates to the 16th century

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago is an icon of feminist art, which represents 1,038 women in history—39 women are represented by place settings and another 999 names are inscribed in the Heritage Floor on which the table rests. This monumental work of art is comprised of a triangular table divided by three wings, each 48 feet long.

(via polytrac)