Some Artfair craziness- SquirrelNinjas and Cake stickers!

[avad]

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@Art Palace room in the Aqua Hotel fair, Miami 2007.
they are infinitely disturbing and I want them. talk about mixed feelings. taxidermied squirrels? in crocheted ninja suits?? help! !! I don't know WhAt I feel! I guess it's not surprising since I still feel that way about Annette Messager's famous piece with the dead baby birds in ponchos.
I particularly love this lil rascal.you don't suppose i could get a live squirrel to wear this for me do you? possibly?


then at David Castillo Gallery in the Wynwood District during ArtWalk:
ok so who is planting these traps for my neurotic obsessive side? art made completly of stickers....in various category areas...like pandas or houses or puppies....this closeup is of a cake section...which as you know...could be my undoing.
Takako Kimura

here's what the full pieces look like. then up close it's just hundreds and hundreds of leeetle stickers. (!!) this is when the brain turns off and you're just in childish bliss.
shiny candy glitter yummyyyy

Comments

[viciated-wilkin.livejournal.com]

:( did the squirrels die naturally?
I liked the squirrels until I realized from your comments that they were real under the suits.

[avad.livejournal.com]

tell me about it. that's what I mean. it's just such a mixed weird thing. I was sooooo drawn to them and then- ack- they're taxidermied!?? but they're so cute! my eyes glaze over...hypnotized by the cuteness...but they're dead!!- how did they die?! agh. I think that's the point of the art...
I asked the gallery owner how they died....and he said that the artist just buys them already taxidermied on ebay from all different places/sellers.(!!??!!)so my guess is that most are from hunters and some died naturally and were taxidermied.it's reallllly disturbing.

[kosher51.livejournal.com]

Hi there! I am simply amazed at your patience and attention to detail. The birthday cake has such a sense of depth and colour balance. Incredible work! K

[avad.livejournal.com]

hi kosher! oh that is not my work- I am just now making posts recounting interesting things I saw at the artfairs in miami by other artists. the art you mention is by Takako Kimura- and it's really just a collection of actual bought stickers which are arranged to form the larger shapes you see in the second (full) photo. I think it's more about obsessive collecting. but of course I enjoy it immensely in a childlike blissful way.