Tag: violence

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Confession

A collection of eight confessions, hand written and court transcripts, of convicted criminals. It is then reduced to only those sentences were the criminal is talking about his or hers own emotions. The perpetrators personal landscape of guilt is revealed with no descriptions about the actual criminal act. The most extreme act of violence contains something that we can all recognize in ourselves; the inner psychological patterns of reasoning and justification, remorse and/or the lack of it.

Ignas Krunglevičius

Source: euo

The Flagellation of Christ Artist: Paulus Pontius After: Peter Paul Rubens Date: 17th century Location: Not on display Century: 17th Century AD Media: Engraving Dimensions: 37.8 x 28.8 cm (image) Department: Achenbach Foundation Object Type: Print Country: Flanders Continent: Europe Accession Number: 1963.30.10159 Acquisition Date: 1963-04-09

“My 1st action [Versumpfung einer Venus , 1963] was based on the idea of integrating the human body in a

sculpture. Instead of the bulky material used to make the junk sculptures I now mainly worked with soft materials

such as cooking oil, margarine, tomatoes, raspberry juice, milk, whipped cream, eggs sunny side up, raw eggs,

flour, semolina, meat, vegetables, cacao, oranges, ground chocolate, marmalade, cream, peas, cucumbers, fish,

insulating bands, strings, towels, skin cream, dust paint, paste and water. The creative process became increasingly

foregrounded, there was no more final point. The picture and the sculpture had become superfluous. I called

these staging’s with bodies and materials ‘material actions’.”

– Otto Muehl, in: Aktionismus – Aktionsmalerei 1960-65, exhibition catalogue, ed. Peter Noever / MAK, Vienna

1989, p. 26

Source: galerie-krinzinger.at

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Woman with Her Throat Cut 1932 [WSJ 5/11/17]

Ana Mendieta, Energy Charge, 1975, Galerie Lelong & Co.

Anne Carson from The Glass Essay