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Sam Durant

Public Protest

This week’s art post features the work of Sam Durant. Durant is a multi media artist whose works focus on hierarchies of power, referencing historical moments and social acts of resistance or response. Durant’s works are often made for public display outside of art institutions and attempt a larger public discourse.

Hebron, 2007, c-print, 158 x 140 cm. (62.2 x 55.1 in.)

If You Are Not Angry You Are Not Paying Attention, 2017, Light Box, 176 x 166 x 15 cm. (69.3 x 65.4 x 5.9 in.), Unit London

Public Engagement 3, 2013, Sadie Coles HQ, London

Proposal for Public Fountain (detail), 2013; Public Engagement 1, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Public Engagement 2, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Public Engagement, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Sam Durant, Civil Rights March, Wash. DC, 1963, 2002, LACMA

Like Man I'm Tired of Waiting, 2002

Sam Durant, *Untitled* (drone), 2016-2021

Sam Durant, *Proposal for Public Fountain, 2021, Sadie Coles HQ, London*

Sam Durant, Like, Man, I’m Tired (of Waiting), 2021

“Since the 1990s, Sam Durant has developed a research-driven artistic practice in which he dissects and reframes both dominant historical narratives and forgotten facets of our collective past...

(L)ight boxes are based on hand-drawn protest signs that the artist found in photos of street protests. By giving the personal phrases and slogans from protest movements an existence as a colourful light box, Sam Durant emphasises their necessity, and often also the humorous or utopian character of the messages.”

— Art Lead

Photo Sources:

ArtNet, Unit London

Mousse Magazine, Sam Durant, Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles HQ, London

Unframed, Sam Durant, Like Man I’m Tired of Waiting, LACMA

ArtLead, Billboard Series #21, Sam Durant and the Art of Dialogue

Toward Freedom, Untitled (Drone), 2021

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Matias Faldbakken

creative vandalism

This week’s art post features the work of Matias Faldbakken. Faldbakken’s sculptures/ combines have an absurdity to them, a dark comic theatricality and resonant gestalt. He is represented by Standard Oslo. In addition to his visual art he has written several novels and a collection of short stories.

Matias Faldbakken POE, 2021

“Intervention #21” at Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam

Screen Chair (Tenggren Green), 2017

Fuel Sculpture Green 2017, Fear of Property Installation

Effects of Good Government in the Pit, 2017 Astrup Fearnley Museum Oslo, Norway

THE SHAPE, 2020 Charcoal on paper mounted on plaster, lackered bricks 165.5 x 109 x 45 cm 65 3/16 x 42 15/16 x 17 11/16 inches Drawing: 40.5 x 30 x 2 cm | 16 x 11 6/8...

Never Come Down, 2017. Photo: Christian Øen / Astrup Fearnley Museet.

Untitled (Shine), 2015 Newspaper print on steel 50.3 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm (19 3/4 x 15 x 1/8 in.)

“Faldbakken... (has an) ability to bite his own tail by making works that unite vandalism and creativity, while both celebrating and lamenting the constant commodification of rebellious acts.

More than anyone, he understands that frontal critique only reinforces the classic master-slave dialectic, and that true radicality consists of infiltrating and perverting the system from within. ”

— Sinziana Ravini

Photo credits:

Simon Lee Gallery, London, Hong Kong

Occula, Gallery Chant Grousel, Paris

Renaissance Society, “Fear of Property” Installation, University of Chicago

Mousse Magazine, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam

kunstkritikk, Nordic Art Review, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo