My favourite work of art BY FAR at abc: The tableau vivant by Donna Huanca at the booth from Brand New Gallery, Milan. Check out more of her installations at her website.
In my new category 'Why this work of art is SO FREAKING COOL', I'm going to explain to you why I think this work of art is SO FREAKING COOL!
1) it contains paintings, sculptural objects and people, PEOPLE!
2) It is somewhat undefinable, which is great in an over defined world. Using people who stand before paintings and sculptures shifts this work somewhere in between an installation, a performance and a theatre play.
3) Which brings back to life the in the 19th century popular phenomenon of the tableau vivant; the living picture, an early form of performance or maybe even film-still one might say. Except this work doesn't represent another, so no feeling of deja-vu.
4) It uses the human body as a canvas and thus as a medium, hence the title; mixed media installation. The nudes hereby become objects, which brings to mind thoughts about the objectifying of the (female) body
5) It is unsellable, which is interesting because it is presented by a commercial gallery at an art fair
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