PATRICIA PICCININI

Patricia Piccinini Le terme «monstrueux» qualifie quelque chose qui effraie, qui fait sortir l’ordinaire de ses gonds, en s’écartant d’une norme établie. Le Petit Robert nous renseigne et définit le terme comme suit : «qui choque extrêmement la raison, la morale». Mais le monstre c’est également cet être choquant que l’on exhibe, que l’on montre. De monstruosité et de monstration, il en est question dans l’oeuvre de la plasticienne australienne Patricia Piccinini, née à Freetown (Sierra Leone) en 1965. Les sculptures hyperréalistes, faites de silicone, de matériaux plastiques ou organiques — poils d’humains ou d’animaux — rendent une forme de vie différente de celle proposée par Ron Mueck ou Duane Hanson. Le travail de l’artiste, qui n’a de cesse de questionner le vivant et sa représentation, fait partie de la collection de Thomas Olbricht dont un échantillon est actuellement visible dans les espaces d’expositions de la Maison Rouge. Patricia Piccinini, The Comforter, 2010 ©

LARRY CLARK | Marfa Girl (2012) | LARRYCLARK.COM barf Les monstres de Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini est une artiste australienne qui réalise des sculptures de monstres à l’aspect réel. [Via] Larry Clark's photographs This site is dedicated to the photographic work of Larry Clark. It attempts to collect comprehensively photographs and collages by Larry Clark and books devoted to him or where his work is treated, explained. The photobooks by Larry Clark are: Tulsa, Teenage Lust, 1992, The Perfect Childhood, Punk Picasso. You can contact the team by sending an email to contact@larry-clark.net. The idea of this site is to be a place of exchange: If you have photos, texts, links to complete the site, you can send them by email. For all the photos reproductions : Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London Updates :

Doom Forever Forever Doomed - View topic - MS Paint your fav album covers... For those who will be bored during the holiday season. Here's a fun game i pinched from another forum.MS Paint some of you fav album artwork and let other guess what they are, or use one as stencil. Here's some i prepared earlier hence the avatar Newcastle Art Gallery - LIKE US: Patricia Piccinini LIKE US: Patricia Piccinini 29 November 2014 - 22 February 2015 Principal partner: Exhibition partners: Like Us is an substantial exhibition that highlights the key themes of my practice. Like Us invites the viewer to enter a world that is clearly different from the one we live in. Connection and empathy are at the heart of my practice, and at the heart of this exhibition. This process of connection is led to a certain degree by the other inhabitants of the exhibition, which tend to be children. Like Us is comprised of sculptures, paintings, drawings and video works that approach these issues, and others, from numerous different angles. Exhibition text by Patricia Piccinini EXHIBITION LAUNCHFriday 28 November 2014 Laman Street and Civic Park, Newcastle from 5:30pm until dark Free event, festivities until dark, call 02 4974 5100 for more information Come and celebrate the opening of Like Us: Patricia Piccinini with a family event in Laman Street and Civic Park.

Transhumanism Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies. They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] History[edit] According to Nick Bostrom,[1] transcendentalist impulses have been expressed at least as far back as in the quest for immortality in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as historical quests for the Fountain of Youth, Elixir of Life, and other efforts to stave off aging and death. First transhumanist proposals[edit]