What do you imagine when you think of “shadow“? Anything scary or deep? Whenever this word comes to my mind I only see two art pieces which I have seen in the International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy and I have a good laugh.
Imagine. You are walking around, listening to all the posh talks about art and then you see another mound of junk which is supposed to be art. Great! But wait and come closer!!! That junk is lightened and makes a wonderful picture on the opposite wall. Loads of scrap at the end of its life is turning into something new: a pair of rats in the middle of copulation. Tim Noble and Sue Webster are turning the space into a plane, death to life and useless into fun and art of course. Good job! Fucking rats. Even better is the placement. The artwork is located in the beautiful nearly collapsed old palace.
Another visual artist fascinated by shadow is German Hans-Peter Feldmann. You can stare for hours and hours at his Shadow Play. Feldmann is well known for his collector's passion. He locates various types of toys, souvenirs, cookware and kitsch (Barbie doll, the crocodile, the beater, the palm tree, etc.) on a slowly rotated platform and lights it up by a strong source of light. All together it creates an amazing and ingenious spectacular completed with the screechy sound of the machines. What do you imagine now?
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| Hans - Peter Feldman. Shadow Play. 2002 - 2009 |
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| Tim Noble, Sue Webster. Metal Fucking Rats. 2006 |
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