Happy weekend, Hive...
What are you doing this Christmas? Do you choose to gather at home because it is safer in the covid-19 season, or do you hold a meeting with your colleagues outside? The important thing is to stay healthy!
Anyway, this is my first time posting in this community.
So, yesterday, I visited the Gandaria city shopping center. Initially, I just wanted to eat, but, after entering and walking around for a while I found a lot of sculptures on display sporadically all over the floor in this mall.
In that instant, my eating intention became number two. My top priority thus turned to enjoying the artist's sculptures and finding them on every floor. LOL
But, yeah... I'm very enthusiastic and excited. My feeling is not like walking into a mall, but like an art gallery. I really like the Art Gallery.
The sculpture that caught my attention the first time was, a large sculpture 2.5 meters tall and brilliant purple in color. At first, I just guessed it was a butterfly, but for some reason it only had one tentacle.
After approaching and reading the description in the bottom corner of the sculpture, it turned out to be a; ELEPHANT!
I took a few more steps back and saw if the sculpture in front of me was really an elephant?
and, yes... What I thought was the tentacle was the trunk, the two indentations on the left and the right side being the ears, hands, and feet of an elephant. Is this a circus elephant? share an explanation from the artist named JEFF KOONS.
ELEPHANT (VIOLET)
Elephant (Violet) encapsulates the aesthetic exuberance, artistic ambition, and searing individuality which characterize the singular work of Jeff Koons.
Executed in stainless steel flawlessly finished wici prismatic, jewel-like clarity, Elephant (Violet) is a unique work from a series of five, painstakingly rendered versions, each executed in its own saturated hue. In its grand scale and intoxicating, mirror-polished surface, Elephant (Violet) is powerfully emblematic of Koons's output, offering a seemingly whimsical, even playful archetype while demonstrating extraordinary technical virtuosity in the rendering of exquisitely perfected forms at staggering proportions.
Well, I understand better after reading this explanation about Koons' work. unique, ambitious, witty, and full of artificiality.
Satisfied with Koons' work, I proceeded further and found a very familiar sculpture to my eyes. Two dark brown sculptures and looks like a pair of mother and child holding the feet of the mother (or father), which is clearly a sculpture of the child and the adult.
I've seen the characters in the sculptures in Uniqlo products. And from then on I knew better it was a Uniqlo statue. As it turned out, I just found out that it was the work of a KAWS artist.
GOOD INTENTIONS
Partly hiding behind and clutching at the right leg is a child for whom the parent figure is protp-tor against the vagaries of life - perhaps of the playground or nursery. The adult figure of GOOD INTENTIONS adopts the attitude of classical ancient Greek sculptures of men (kouros), free-standing with arms by his sides and one foot slightly forward. This sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences. It embodies a popular visual vocabulary that connects to the past and to art history, linked to the present in their ability to seem empathize with us.
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After I found out about KAWS artists, he also frequently collaborates with many big and well-known companies. And what is characteristic of Kaws' works is that he always makes an X as the shape of the eye in his works.
Is my journey over? of course not!
I found even more unique sculptures! An antique scooter that is carved lengthwise and resembles a road full of twists and turns and ups and downs. Blue vintage scooter by artist EDDI PRABANDONO!
At a glance, I immediately remembered Sonic cartoon, a hedgehog that is bright blue and runs very fast. Maybe, if Sonic the hedgehog rode a scooter, maybe his scooter would look like this. LOL.
Let's read the description of the blue scooter from EDDI PRABANDONO:
AFTER PARTY#3: LIVING THE HIGH LIFE
"Living The High Life" is inspired by motion and the drive behind it. While this goes specifically to the scooter as a vehicle, it also particularly describes the perennial sense of movement that comes with life.
"When we live life, we constantly have to be on the move, as things can change day by day, hour after hour and even every second. If we just stop and stay still, life will overrun us.
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I love the philosophy that the artist describes about life. "If We Just stop and stay still, life will overrun us" That's right!
For today, enough of my blog about the artworks in the Gnadaria City mall. Hopefully, I can show you more of the sculptures and other works of sculpture here.
thanks for reading, and looking forward to my next blog...!
All pictures are mine taken with oppo reno 5f
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