Flowers

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Rachel Youn Gather, 2020
‘Rachel Youn’s installation of kinetic found sculptures gyrates between a lively church gathering and a disco floor. Youn conflates these two spaces, trying to find an intersection between opposing worlds and to reconcile a queer body in space.’

 

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Joe Brainard Various, 1968 – 1974
Cut and pasted printed and painted papers, fabric, pen, brush, India ink and colored inks on paper.

 

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Kim Chang Kyum Water Shadow Four Seasons, 2006-2007
Multichannel video, sound, beam projector

 

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Lee Mingwei The Moving Garden, 2009
Mixed media interactive installation. Granite, fresh flowers.

 

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Jennifer Steinkamp Orbit 2, 2008
video installation

 

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Yayoi Kusama Flowers that Bloom at Midnight, 2009
‘These triffid-like flowers, which measure from four to sixteen feet in height, are cast in highly durable fiberglass-reinforced plastic, then hand-painted in urethane to jazzy perfection. Arranged in the gallery like an artificial garden, the flowers tower and sprawl about in their psychedelic glory, offering the viewer multiple vantages while reaching outward into the surrounding space in all directions.’

 

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Rebecca Louise Law The Beauty of Decay, 2016
Large-scale, site-specific installation made of 8,000 decaying flowers.

 

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Jeong-Hwa Choi Flower Tree, 2003
‘The colossal work consists of 85 individual plastic flowers, each as large as a car door, grouped together as though grown like a tree.’

 

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blo que Dialogo, 2020
‘Juxtaposing natural elements and mechanics, “Dialogo” harnesses the frenetic, indiscernible components of language into a synesthetic experience. A mix of stop-motion and live-action, the short film features entirely hand-crafted sculptures by the Madrid-based design studio blo que. Each motorized work translates human utterings into movement through oscillating florals, generating new associations in a conversation between the senses.’

 

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Ignacio Canales Aracil Various, 2013 – 2015
‘Ignacio created these flower sculptures in collaboration with some famous European landscape designers, who allowed him to hand-pick every flower from their private and public gardens and then place those bouquets in big molds until they’re dried. They also had to use some varnish spray to protect the pieces from humidity. Although the finished sculptures look rigid, in fact, they are so fragile that they can be easily crushed with the lightest touch.’

 

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Min Jeong Seo To Live On, 2005
‘Composed of the dried stalks of roses and medical infusion bags, Seo’s rose blooms are kept alive with the aid of the bags. As Seo states, the installation comments on the “progress of medicine and the prolongation of human life.” However, with the aid of the infusion bags, the life sustained by the rose blooms here is essentially artificial and codependent. If Seo were to remove the bags the blooms would shrivel up the same way their stems have. This begs the question, in all our attempts to prolong our lives, has contemporary medicine succeeded in also increasing quality of life? Suspended in time, the blooms invite us to observe conservation at work as the installation persuades us to confront our fears concerning sickness and death and our constant pursuit of youth. ‘

 

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Dike Blair Various, 2001 – 2018
‘I love Dutch still life painting, especially Pieter Claesz — I’ve done a couple of paintings of his paintings. I don’t think about sociopolitical implications, but I do think about what the subject should or could be. For the most part, I look at what’s in front of me, and then I might take a picture and paint it, which sometimes complicates the thinking. The way I might consider and snap a picture of a window, for example, certainly involves formal thoughts about framing the image. My subject matter has usually divided between things that are centered in a painting, like a cup of coffee, and vistas that are more like fields, windows, and footprints in snow, for example.’

 

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Behind the Hype The Hysteria of Murakami’s Flowers Explained,2020
‘From Kanye West album covers, Kid Cud’s chains, Drake’s hoodies and art pieces with Pharrell, Takashi Murakami’s beaming multi-colored flowers are everywhere. On the surface, Murakami’s flowers seem unconditionally happy and joyful. But there are deeper and darker undertones within these works.’

 

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Tiffanie Turner What Befell Us, 2019
‘Tiffanie Turner individually cuts thousands of segments of paper to piece together her often 5-foot-wide flower compositions, works that can take up to 400 hours to complete by hand.’

 

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Marc Quinn Stealth Desire (Etymology), 2013
‘Although full of sensuality, by immortalising the flowers in bronze and reproducing them drained of colour, the vitality and life-blood of the flower is lost, whilst its form is forever preserved. The paradox of the sculpture is that through the human desire to transcend the flesh and become eternal, the flower is destroyed.’

 

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Fernand Léger Walking Flower, 1952
Bronze and marble

 

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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg A Journey Through Mud and Confusion with Small Glimpses of Air, 2018
‘Nathalie Djurberg (*1978) and Hans Berg (*1978) create worlds with objects, music and moving images – dreamlike realms where we might lose ourselves. Their playfully told fables hold both humour and darkness, putting any moral laws of gravity out of action.’

 

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Kapwani Kiwanga Faillable witnesses. Flowers for Africa., 2014
Flowers, porcelain, paper, water

 

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Quỳnh Lâm History of Colour, 2019
site-specific installation at Vincom Contemporary Center Hanoi

 

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Azuma Makoto Pop-up Flower Shop, 2016
‘Designed in collaboration between Fendi and botanical-wizard Azuma Makoto, the display also functions as an actual vendor for floral arrangements. The installation was built on an “Ape,” a vehicle produced by the Italian carmaker Piaggio and designed by the inventor of the Vespa. Originally it was created to aid the struggling citizens in post-war Italy. Today, it stands in the Ginza Flagship store, completely covered in flora.’

 

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Zadok Ben David Blackfield, 2021
‘Black on one side, colorful on the other side, from two-dimensional still life drawing into three-dimensional landscape in a sophisticated marriage of scale and color, Zadok Ben David‘s Blackfield installation contains more than 12,000 petite steel cut plant sculptures arise out of a thin layer of sand. Perfectly rectangular, the installation allots a path for the viewer to circulate the room. With one complete pass, what initially appears to be all black reveals a double life of rebellious color.’

 

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Ross Bleckner Various, 2019 – 2022
Oil on linen

 

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Karen Kilimnik Who is killing the great chefs of Europe, 2008
wood, paint

 

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Elisabeth Peyton Various, 1997 – 2011
oil on canvas

Prince Harry (with Flowers)

Flower Ben

Acteon, Justin Bieber, and Grey Roses

 

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Jorden Blue and David James Doody The Grovulous, 2013
mixed media

 

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Anna Ridler Mosaic Virus, 2018
‘Mosaic Virus is a multi-screen video installation, each screen showing a single tulip. In both pieces the tulips are controlled by the price of bitcoin, changing over time to show how the market fluctuates and making this connection explicit. The title of these works, Mosaic Virus, comes from the name of the disease that causes the distinctive stripes, or flocking, in tulip petals. It is caused by aphids laying eggs in the bulbs meaning that a tulip could produce a pure white flower one year, but a heavily striped one the next. This element of chance and rarity increased the desirability at the height of tulipmania and helped drive speculative buying and selling of the bulbs. In the models that I created it is Bitcoin that behaves like the virus, controlling this aspect of the flower: the generated tulip petals have more of a stripe as the price of Bitcoin goes up and a single colour as it falls. But the disease was only discovered in the 1920s and before then there was no clear understanding of how the stripes occurred. Human attempts to recreate its effects during the mania seem comical today – painting the ground with stripes, splicing two different bulbs together – but they were driven by a desire to create wealth without understanding the mechanics of what was creating value. This knowledge gap was also evident in the first blockchain boom when huge amounts of money were thrown into the system, often by non-expert investors who wanted to make money quickly.’

 

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Joana Vasconcelos Giardino dell’eden, 2015
‘The installation is composed by posies of artificial flowers, made with textile and optical fibers woven together. Such incessant chromatic change produces a sensation of movement, like the entire garden being swept by a gentle breeze. The sounds produced by the mechanism inside the cylinders, resembling insects, blend with an electronic music composition by Jonas Runa to form a complex soundscape.’

 

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Ori Gersht Blow Up: Untitled 4, 2007
‘Artist Ori Gersht has been inspired by a 19th-century painting by Henri Fantin-Latour. He has recreated the ancient painting by taking large-scale photographs of elaborate floral arrangements. In this relationship between past and present, painting and photograph, Ori Gersht captures the exact moment at which beautiful flowers are violently blown up.’

 

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Choi Jeong Hwa Breathing Flower, 2019
‘Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa is mostly known for his large lotus blossoms. With motorized fabric leaves opening and closing, simulating the movement of a live lotus flower, his sculptures are often installed in public space and create a link between the modern world and one of the most important cosmological symbols in Asia.’

 

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Kenny Scharf Flores Pink Sculpture, 2021
Shaped aluminum with pink flock

 

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Taryn Simon Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2018
‘As the starting points of “Paperwork and the Will of Capital”, Taryn Simon drew inspiration from the work of George Sinclair, a British imperial gardener of the 19th century that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and historical photographs of the signings of political accords between leaders of the 44 countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Taryn Simon has recreated the floral centrepieces arranged on the tables where 36 international agreements were signed, between 1968 and 2014.

‘For the recreations, the artist worked with a botanist to identify all the flowers from archival records. She imported more than 4000 floral and plant specimens from the Aalsmeer Flower Auction to her studio, where she remade, as far as possible, the floral arrangements from each signing, then photographed them against striking duochromatic fields that reproduce the contrasting foreground and background color schemes visible in the historical records. The recreated centerpieces were photographed and custom framed in mahogany to emulate the style of boardroom furniture. The corresponding floral specimens were subsequently dried, pressed, and sewn into sheets of archival herbarium paper, which Simon displays alongside the photographs.’

 

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Graham Fudger Quantum Field Ω3, 2021
‘The mechanism of adaptation allows the visual cortex to recognise previously seen colours under different lighting conditions. Quantum Field Ω3 uses additive RGB light to cycle a graduated transitional hue through 360 degrees whilst maintaining a complementary ( 180-degree ) opposition between the two elements.’

 

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Mika Rottenberg NoNoseKnows, 2017
video

 

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Rob and Nick Carter Sunflowers, 2013
‘Rob and Nick Carter have created a paradox with Sunflowers, a three-dimensional bronze representation of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1881). Sunflowers was made with digital 3D modeling. To start, the team at MPC created what’s called a Base Mesh, this is a 3D model with little detail, but is the first step in modelling the painting’s volume. Building on this mesh, it took thousands of hours of botanical study to flesh out the sunflowers and some creative license to sculpt what was “hidden”. Actual strokes from the original painting were recreated in 3D using ZBrush, a digital sculpting and painting program. The 3D printing process was done using a variety of methods and printers. For testing, MPC used a Z Corp 510 printer, the test print highlighted where further adjustments were needed. The final drawing was then printed in a resin material using the high-end Projet 3500 printer, which prints to a tolerance of 16 Microns. The final sculpture was cast in silicon bronze.’

 

 

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