TRANS GENRE

INSTALLATION ART
VIDEO ART
DIGITAL ART

By: Len
DAMIEN HIRST
BORN: JUNE 7, 1965
MEMBER YOUNG BRITISH ARTIST (YBA)
THEME: DEATH
PRESERVE DEAD ANIMALS DISSECTED IN FORMALHYDE
British conceptual artist Damien Hirst's installations of
animals preserved in formaldehyde stirred controversy
when they were created in the 1990s, but made his
reputation. Here he is posing in front of some of them: "The
Incredible Journey" (top), "The Physical Impossibility of
Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (center), and "In His
Infinite Wisdom" (bottom). Hirst has since done a series of
medicine cabinets, one of which sold for
9.65 million pounds, making him the most expensive living
European artist (and what some consider one of the most
over-valued). From the news reports, Hirst can be a bit
touchy. He ended his relationship with long-time collector
Charles Saatchi in 2003 and sold a complete show at
auction in 2008 rather than through his long-standing
galleries - a move that garnered him a record-breaking $198
million.
Jim Riswold, Make Believe Damien
Hirst For Te Love Of God, 2007
Eugenio Merino, 4 the love of go(l)d,
2008-09
JEFF KOONS
BORN: JANUARY 21, 1955
THEME: REPRODUCTION OF BANAL OBJECTS – SUCH
AS BALLON ANIMALS PRODUCED IN STAINLESS STEEL
WITH MIRROR FINISH SURFACE
Balloon animals and cartoon characters are fun childhood
memories for most, but for artist Jeff Koons, they are
monuments! The Pennsylvania-born painter and
sculptor's larger than life sculptures are kitsch writ large.
Koons' latest show, "Jeff Koons
on the Roof" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC,
which opened last week, is this year's must-see exhibit in
the Big Apple, and his public sculptures are permanent
fixtures at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and Papal
Palace in Avignon, France.
A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art in
Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Koon has won numerous awards and honors, some of
which include the BZ Cultural Award from the City of
Berlin, induction into the Signet Society for Arts and
Letters at Harvard University, and the Chevalier de la
L̩gion d۪Honneur. Despite his acclaim, his work
receives mixed reactions: some criticize it as tacky, while
others praise his determination to create art as
entertainment, maintaining that viewers can admire and
appreciate it without searching for a hidden or abstract
meaning.
Koons tries to avoid being categorized into a specific style,
though "Neo-Pop" and "Post-Pop" seem to take hold
among critics and admirers alike. But no matter which
side you're on, you can't help but stare in awe at the
sheer awesomeness of it all.
Michael Jackson and Bubbles by Jeff
Koons
November 14 – Sotheby’s New York
Jeff Koons, Hanging Heart (Magenta
and Gold), 1994-2006
Estimate: $15 to 20 million
JOSEPH BEUYS
BORN: May 12, 1921 – JAN. 23, 1986
THEME: HIS CONCEPT OF HUMANISM, SOCIALISM AND
ANTHROPOSOPHY. IT CULMINATES IN HIS “ECTENDED
DEFENITION OF ART” AND THE IDEA OF SOCIAL SCULPTURE
AS GESAMTKUNSTWERK
Beuys was a charismatic, controversial figure who
energetically championed the healing, transformative
power of art and the power of universal human
creativity—he was also one of 500 founding members
of the Green Party in Germany (he saw the Greens as a
reservoir for grassroots initiatives and a platform for
social revolution). Josef passed on 22 years ago this
week, but his works still pull, and his voice still
persuades….
Joseph Beuys Early works on paper from
the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs
TITLE:  Capri Batterie ARTIST: 
Joseph Beuys WORK DATE:  1985
PERIOD:  20th century CATEGORY: 
Sculptures MATERIALS:  Yellow light
bulb in black socket, lemon
EDITION/SET OF:  200
WIM DELVOYE
BORN: 1965
THEME: A NEOCONCEPTUAL ARTIST KNOWN FOR
INVENTIVE AND SHOCKING PROJECT. LINKS
ATTRACTIVE WITH THE REPULSIVE
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Belgian artist
Wim Delvoye’s latest creation, ‘Torre’: a laser-cut
cortensteell tower, with ogival windows, tracery and
turrets in the international Gothic style, on the terrace of
Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal in
Venice. The tower measures 232 x 232 x 983 cm and will
be on show until November 22, 2009.
Both architecture and ornament, ‘Torre’ by Wim Delvoye
demonstrates not only ethereal majesty and vision but
forceful material presence, drawing inspiration from
masterpieces of Gothic architecture such as Notre Dame,
Paris, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New
York.
Wim Delvoye’s artistic practice draws on the notion of the
attraction of binary opposites: the sacred and the profane,
the past and the present, the triumph of ornamentation
over functionality.
His art thrives on such paradoxes, that also form the basis
of surrealist artistic practice, combining these components
of difference, not always manifest but ever present in his
aesthetic.
The placement of a gothic tower from the high middles
ages in the vicinity of Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni’s 18th
century classicism creates just such a forceful and
provocative paradox.
For Wim Delvoye: ‘While the renaissance was a world
view, the Gothic was a state of mind.The renaissance was a
finite epoch lasting half a century before being succeeded
by mannerism.
WIM DELVOYE
"Wim Delvoye's Art Farm, Beijing (China)" 2004
WIM DELVOYE
"Chapelle" 2007
Stainless steel, stained glass / Inox, vitraux
(2 x )10 x 3 x 4,4 feet / 307 x 110 x 135 cm (x 2)
Unique
INSTALLATION ART

Type of modern art in which the artist uses, as part of the

composition, the specific setting (such as walls, floor, lights,
and fittings) along with various materials. Typically the
chosen materials more or less fill the space, and the viewer
is often able to move around or otherwise interact with the
work, so that they become part of that work in that specific
moment in time. There are various precedents for this kind
of art, but it was not until the 1980s that artists began to
specialize in installations. Works are usually intended to be
impermanent, but some have been purchased and
preserved
a colorful LED installation on the streets of
Paris by American artist Leo Villareal that
features approximately 41,000 LED nodes that
run through a 200-foot-long tunnel in the
National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..
Artist Leon Lim's putting the final touches to
his public installation art "The Last Chairs"
which is located at the junction of Union
Street and Penang Street.
Video art is a type of art which relies on
moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio
data. (It should not however be confused with
television or experimental cinema). Video art came
into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still
widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread
use of video installations.
Video Art of Dov Lederberg - The Twelve
Tribes of Israel
“In the Loop: Contemporary Video
Art from the European Union”
Digital art is an umbrella term for a range of artistic
works and practices that use digital technology.
Since the 1970s, various names have been used to
describe what is now called digital art including
computer art and multimedia art but digital art is
itself placed under the larger umbrella term
new media art.
The impact of digital technology has transformed
traditional activities such as painting, drawing and
sculpture, while new forms, such as net art, digital
installation art, and virtual reality, have become
recognized artistic practices.[3] More generally the
term digital artist is used to describe an artist who
makes use of digital technologies in the production
of art. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is a term
applied to contemporary art that uses the methods
of mass production or digital media.
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Comparisonof Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait and his Mona Lisa,
based on speculation
Artist (David R. Tribble)
visionary abstract digital art by Jack Haas: Aquarian
Awakening- The Perfection