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have seen you in poznan - stary browar - poland few years ago :)
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- http://www.littleartist.co.uk
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- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Photography, Sculpture
- About my artwork
- John Cake & Darren Neave's sculptures and photographs restage icons of contemporary art in Lego.
The sculptural pieces transpose key works, by the likes of Hirst, Beuys and Koons, to the microcosmic scale of the Lego world, forming miniature, fetishistic relics that subvert the grand gestures of these artists. Their large photographs take these works and artists and re-present them as tableaux vivants, confronting the viewer with the once tiny Lego world on a unsettling human scale.
The central theme to their work is an attempt to understand the significance of contemporary art and the consumerist culture in which it is produced. They have always seen a poignancy in Lego as a medium to explore this relationship, and especially the idea of the artist as a brand-name.
The new phase in Cake & Neave's work reconsiders these same icons of modern art as now being over-burdened with meaning, assimilated into the idea of the homogenised progression of Art History. Aiming to monumentalise these works on a small scale, they drain the vitality and anthropomorphic nature of their original Lego sculptures by reinterpreting them in a monochromatic black. Now invested with new levels of signification, the pieces are considered more in sculptural terms and the familiar connotations of the material diminished. The new photographs again shift up in scale, immersing the viewer in scenes that are the antithesis of their previous photographic work, monochrome mausoleums for cultural monuments, devoid of life.
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Comment Wall (15 comments)
- At 12:30pm on November 26, 2010,
seczko said…
- have seen you in poznan - stary browar - poland few years ago :)
- At 9:08pm on May 17, 2009,
Louise Marchal said…
- Paris? woo la la!
I'm making some new work....
Mail art is go! Radio is coming along.....
- At 9:26am on May 17, 2009,
- You still about?! How did Glasgow go?! Saw it online :) but not live :(
- At 3:17pm on December 5, 2008,
BOIGEOL said… - Thanks for the add.
great
- At 9:17am on October 4, 2008,
- Hello hello! Thanks for finding me!! Hope the show has been a success.
L
- At 12:14pm on September 9, 2008,
Phil Illingworth said… - Good luck with the show, best, Phil
- At 4:37pm on August 21, 2008,
BOIGEOL said…
- Welcome The Little Artists.
Richard Boigeol
- At 11:19pm on February 5, 2008,
Georgi Djongarski said… - hello again my little friends(c;
- At 1:31pm on January 15, 2008,
Felix Adelmann said… - so great... i love how viewing these makes me mix up remembrances of my childhood with todays humour..great.
- At 3:16am on January 15, 2008,
Justin Orde said… - Love it.
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