Self Portrait

artist review

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born Buenos Aires in 1961, living in New York City this artist/curator creates installation rooms that forum both living and socializing spaces on a minimal bases. These spaces question themselves while being inhabited. By encouraging audience engagement the space is used to generate a real time experience with the work. This helps to convey a sense of undermining consumerism. He creates new work based on  past work, as Rirkrit puts it he thinks in “layers” this lets him see a progression from the past to the future.

Another type of work he created in1999 at the Venice Biennale, was to plant a tree in the Giardini to represent the lack of a Thailand pavilion. This act of subversion was meant to show that even in events as large and prestige’s as the Venice Biennale that money talks and the poor get to plant a tree instead getting there own pavilion. And after the tree gets (in the operators opinion) to big, as a final insult it is cut down. The next adventure was in Vietnam attempting to work thought the ins and outs of a politically complex state to create a Biennial. There was a lot of adversity and a lack of funding. Combined with censorship of the works this proved to much and the event was canceled.

Not to be discouraged, in 1998 Rickrit takes on another role as artist/curator in Thailand the homeland of his parents. This is more of an experiment where the artist try’s to develop and maintain a self-sustainable social environment. The idea being that you come to learn, you stay for awhile, you teach the next shift and you move on. The whole thing based on the idea that working and living together free of outside influences develops a more pure culture.

Education:

1986:Whitney Independent Studies Program, New York.

1985: School of Art Institute of Chicago.

1984: Banff Center School of Fine Art, Banff, Canada.

1981; Ontario Collage of Art, Toronto, Canada.

Solo Exhibition:

1995: 303 Gallery, N.Y.

1994: “Untitled,1994” Koln, Germany.

1993: “Untitled,1993” Randolph St Gallery Chicago, IL

1992; “Untitled,1992” 303 Gallery, N.Y.

1990: “Pad Thai” Paula Allan Gallery, N.Y.

Group Exhibitions:

1995: Whitney Biennal Whitney, N.Y.

1994: “Drawing on Sculpture”, Cohen Gallery, N.Y.

1993: “Sleepless Nights”, curetted by Zdenka Gabalova, PS1 Museum, Queens, N.Y.

1992: “Insignificant”, cureter Gavin Brown, 10 E39th St, Suite 525, New York, N.Y.

1991: “Brooklyn”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1990: “Work on Paper” Paula Allen Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1989: “Caught In A Revolving Door”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.

                

Artist Reveiw

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born Buenos Aires in 1961, living in New York City this artist/curator creates installation rooms that forum both living and socializing spaces on a minimal bases. These spaces question themselves while being inhabited. By encouraging audience engagement the space is used to generate a real time experience with the work. This helps to convey a sense of undermining consumerism. He creates his work based on the past, as Rirkrit puts it he thinks in “layers” this lets him see a progression from the past to the future.

Another work he created in1999 at the Venice Biennale, was to plant a tree in the Giardini to represent the lack of a Thailand pavilion. This act of subversion was meant to show that even in events as large and prestige’s as the Venice Biennale that money talks and the poor get to plant a tree instead getting there own pavilion. And after the tree gets (in the operators opinion) to big, as a final insult it is cut down. The next adventure was in Vietnam attempting to work thought the ins and outs of a politically complex state to create a Biennial. There was a lot of adversity and a lack of funding. Combined with censorship of the works this proved to much and the event was canceled.

Not to be discouraged, in 1998 Rickrit takes on another role as artist/curator in Thailand the homeland of his parents. This is more of an experiment where the artist try’s to develop and maintain a self-sustainable social environment. The idea being that you come to learn, you stay for awhile, you teach the next shift and you move on. The whole thing based on the idea that working and living together free of outside influences develops a more pure culture.  

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Self Portrait

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This is a response to the work of Vlatko Ceric. Born in Zagreb, Croatin, he now resides there as well. He has a background in physics and years of experience in computer molding. He was also Professor of computing at the Zagreb University. He started to exhibit his work in 2005 in Europe, America and Australia. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artist and the ARTROM Gallery Guild in Rome, Italy. He has done a number of solo and group shows all over the world. The work that Vlatko makes is computer generated. The idea that the artist comes up with is then worked thought programs that use mathematics to generate the images. These images are abstract and mostly geometrical. They have a powerful presents and a captivating look to them. I like the patterns and the way they set. The patterns are not at all random. There seems to be a very free yet organized way about them. I guess that has to do with the mathematics the artist uses in the development of his work. The works also have a great visual power and are crafted with great precision.