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When Swiss-born artist Thomas Hirschhorn visited the Walker last month to install Cavemanman, he spent a few minutes with me discussing the piece, a massive network of tunnels and caves made from cardboard, mailing tape, aluminum foil, and other everyday materials. In this interview, our first Walker Audio Blog entry, he discusses how his work is a “collage in the third dimension,” the historical and contemporary influences behind the piece, and how a cave is a good metaphor for the mind.
[…] Coming soon: An audio interview with Hirschhorn on Cavemanman. In the meantime, watch Hirschhorn’s artist talk from October 12 at the Walker Channel. […]
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[…] Last week Paul posted the first in what we hope will be a more frequent audio blog series. We’re using the wordpress plugin WP-SingleMP3 to embed a nifty flash audio preview in the blog post, but also linking the mp3 audio so the category RSS feed can function as a working podcast. […]
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[…] Paul Schmelzer over at The Walker Museum’s audio blog has interviewed one of my least favorite artists Thomas Hirschhorn. Currently on display at the museum is Cavemanman, an installation some of you may remember seeing a couple years ago when it was displayed at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. The piece is a series of elaborate tunnels made out of cardboard and packing tape, that displays books and cut out pages of seminal texts by Noam Chomsky, Bataille, Focault etc. […]
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[…] Paul Schmelzer over at The Walker Museum’s audio blog has interviewed one of my least favorite artists Thomas Hirschhorn. Currently on display at the museum is Cavemanman, an installation some of you may remember seeing a couple years ago when it was displayed at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. The piece is a series of elaborate tunnels made out of cardboard and packing tape, that displays books and cut out pages of seminal texts by Noam Chomsky, Bataille, Focault etc. […]
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[…] Schmelzer over at The Walker Museum’s audio blog has interviewed one of my least favorite artists Thomas Hirschhorn. Currently on display at the […]
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[…] path finds, and an art lover, the Walker is Content Paradise. Where else can I say that I’ve interviewed a Swiss guy in a cardboard cave, a taxidermist charged with conserving a fake elephant, a […]
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