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INTERVIEW: designboom spoke with artist hajime sorayama and the exhibition's co-curator alessio ascari to hear more about their take on technology, dystopia, beauty and humanity today.
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the honeybees were invited to build their beeswax honeycombs around a 3D model of the original portrait of nefertiti.
azuma makoto is studying the changing life of flowers by taking them to frozen landscapes.
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described as 'a restlessly inventive artist', nauman has employed a wide range of media including sculpture, sound, film, video and neon.
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He has been obsessed with wrapping for his entire career. First he began with smaller object. I think this obsession coins with this massive global capitalism that’s threatening the entire planet. He also curtains. Even the horizon. His work make me claustrophotic. Take down the curtains!!! I need my horizon to breathe.
25,000 square meters of silver blue polypropylene fabric. A project of this kind must have some impact on the environment!
Let’s see … This amount of fabric can dress 50,000 people visiting Paris during the exhibition, supposedly already sensitized on the subject.
What B.S. Recyclable? Not WILL be recycled. And how much energy and waste goes into these ego-driven projects? After a day or two of gee-whiz factor, this will create an unconscionable pile of plastic waste. Just what our society needs.