Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
At The MoMA
Detail
Marcel Odenbach, German, born 1953
You Can't See the Forest for the Trees
2003
Cut-an-pasted printed paper, cut-and-pasted colored paper, ink, and pencil on two pieces of paper
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift, 2005
Odenbach's upbringing in postwar Germany was inextricably linked with the country's sociopolitical history, a heritage he addresses in his compositions though the bits of text and images culled from a variety of mass-media sources that often fade into the background of the larger drawings. You Can't See the Forest for the Trees plays on a common expression and is a plea to not only see this particular forest as a forest but also take into account its context: the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was named after the many birch trees surrounding the complex.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Green Porno
Who can resist Isabella Rossellini dressed as an assortment of insects and aquatic life and talking about sex?!
Check out her two seasons of short films on the Sundance Channel