http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-326872 Turbo Sculpture – The weird post-historical statues in former Yugoslavia | Ikono Blog Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:02:44 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-326872 [...] Art Fag City: “After the highly publicized Bruce Lee monument was erected in Mostar, a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005, a series of similar ventures were initiated in rural Serbia. Some sociologists describe the glorification of nonpolitical celebrity figures as the result of an identity crisis caused by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, a period when a once functioning multi-ethnic unity collapsed. Serbian artist Milica Tomić, for one, is concerned. She calls the statues “a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and replaced by Mickey Mouse.” [...] [...] Art Fag City: “After the highly publicized Bruce Lee monument was erected in Mostar, a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005, a series of similar ventures were initiated in rural Serbia. Some sociologists describe the glorification of nonpolitical celebrity figures as the result of an identity crisis caused by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, a period when a once functioning multi-ethnic unity collapsed. Serbian artist Milica Tomić, for one, is concerned. She calls the statues “a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and replaced by Mickey Mouse.” [...]

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-240903 sanja Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:58:03 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-240903 the Bruce Lee sculpture is a work by famous Croatian artist Ivan Fijolic http://fijolic.blogspot.com/. He made the golden statue in Mostar first, but after it was destroyed, he made a new pink plastic version from the same mold. the new version is placed on a rotating basis. the Bruce Lee sculpture is a work by famous Croatian artist Ivan Fijolic http://fijolic.blogspot.com/. He made the golden statue in Mostar first, but after it was destroyed, he made a new pink plastic version from the same mold. the new version is placed on a rotating basis.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-317212 sanja Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:58:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-317212 the Bruce Lee sculpture is a work by famous Croatian artist Ivan Fijolic http://fijolic.blogspot.com/. He made the golden statue in Mostar first, but after it was destroyed, he made a new pink plastic version from the same mold. the new version is placed on a rotating basis. the Bruce Lee sculpture is a work by famous Croatian artist Ivan Fijolic http://fijolic.blogspot.com/. He made the golden statue in Mostar first, but after it was destroyed, he made a new pink plastic version from the same mold. the new version is placed on a rotating basis.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-185184 adam avikainen Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:43 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-185184 turbo ground zero turbo ground zero

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-317210 adam avikainen Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-317210 turbo ground zero turbo ground zero

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-317211 adam avikainen Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-317211 turbo ground zero turbo ground zero

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-171649 Olof Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:52:27 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-171649 Great read, thanks. Snapped this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/olofw/2257377117/ in a gallery in berlin feb 2k8. Looks like the exact same mold. Great read, thanks.
Snapped this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olofw/2257377117/
in a gallery in berlin feb 2k8. Looks like the exact same mold.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-317209 Olof Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:52:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-317209 Great read, thanks. Snapped this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/olofw/2257377117/ in a gallery in berlin feb 2k8. Looks like the exact same mold. Great read, thanks.
Snapped this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olofw/2257377117/
in a gallery in berlin feb 2k8. Looks like the exact same mold.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-171123 ghostfuk3r Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:06:32 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-171123 my next project will now be a large sculptural super-collider that will create fusion while sculpting animated copulations of a young Nikola Tesla and Milla Jovovich with hot plasma and light. Thanks VVORK. my next project will now be a large sculptural super-collider that will create fusion while sculpting animated copulations of a young Nikola Tesla and Milla Jovovich with hot plasma and light. Thanks VVORK.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-317208 ghostfuk3r Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:06:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-317208 my next project will now be a large sculptural super-collider that will create fusion while sculpting animated copulations of a young Nikola Tesla and Milla Jovovich with hot plasma and light. Thanks VVORK. my next project will now be a large sculptural super-collider that will create fusion while sculpting animated copulations of a young Nikola Tesla and Milla Jovovich with hot plasma and light. Thanks VVORK.

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