Comments on: IMG MGMT: Turbo Sculpture http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/ As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: adam avikainen 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

]]> By: Olof 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.

]]> By: ghostfuk3r 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.

]]> By: Sandra http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-171108 Sandra Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:28:48 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-171108 A very interesting and informative essay with striking and well-documented examples. Within the essay, the artist Milica Tomic is cited, who desires that ways be found to represent the grief, the responsibility and despair of the 90s wars other than through these Hollywood idols or other artists not related to these wars, which may represent more the avoidance of facing up to history. I would be very interested in knowing how the various artists of VVork situate themselves with regard to this comment. Sandra A very interesting and informative essay with striking and well-documented examples. Within the essay, the artist Milica Tomic is cited, who desires that ways be found to represent the grief, the responsibility and despair of the 90s wars other than through these Hollywood idols or other artists not related to these wars, which may represent more the avoidance of facing up to history. I would be very interested in knowing how the various artists of VVork situate themselves with regard to this comment. Sandra

]]> By: Michael Zunenshine http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/24/img-mgmt-turbo-sculpture/comment-page-1/#comment-170941 Michael Zunenshine Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:58:30 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=9005#comment-170941 I am interested in the ambivalence exhibited towards using Hollywood icons as substitutes for local (former) Yugoslav figures. On one hand it is a explicit refusal to recognize soldiers and partisans of the turmoil of the 90s as honourable figures, and Hollywood characters/caricatures index this exaggerated tendency towards hero worship and idolization. On the other hand, it can be interpreted as a display of juvenile ignorance of the distinction between real people with real struggles and sufferings from fictionalized representatives of optimism and idealism--in other words--a repression of traumatic truths for easy narratives and happy endings (Hollywood). What concerns me is not the 'either/or' of both interpretations but the 'both/and.' While the intention and intellectualization of this phenomena lies with the conscious awareness of its parodic devices, the subversive element can all too easily be lost on the very people who need to come to terms with their (lack of) heroes and role models. The danger here is the ever widening gap between history and happy ending. If Turbo-Culture also implies an accelerated rush towards newer and more progressive ideas of societal organization, let's hope it doesn't leave history in the dust, lost in the fog of Hollywood's exhaust fumes. I am interested in the ambivalence exhibited towards using Hollywood icons as substitutes for local (former) Yugoslav figures. On one hand it is a explicit refusal to recognize soldiers and partisans of the turmoil of the 90s as honourable figures, and Hollywood characters/caricatures index this exaggerated tendency towards hero worship and idolization. On the other hand, it can be interpreted as a display of juvenile ignorance of the distinction between real people with real struggles and sufferings from fictionalized representatives of optimism and idealism–in other words–a repression of traumatic truths for easy narratives and happy endings (Hollywood).

What concerns me is not the ‘either/or’ of both interpretations but the ‘both/and.’ While the intention and intellectualization of this phenomena lies with the conscious awareness of its parodic devices, the subversive element can all too easily be lost on the very people who need to come to terms with their (lack of) heroes and role models. The danger here is the ever widening gap between history and happy ending.

If Turbo-Culture also implies an accelerated rush towards newer and more progressive ideas of societal organization, let’s hope it doesn’t leave history in the dust, lost in the fog of Hollywood’s exhaust fumes.

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