http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:24:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-10329 Off Center » Walker Top Tens of 2007, part three Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:44:41 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-10329 [...] 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 herpetologist overseeing a reptilian [...] […] 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 herpetologist overseeing a reptilian […]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-7088 Off Center » Hirschhorn's Beauty: Interview in PSWAR book Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:50:31 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-7088 [...] the original Hirschhorn interview, conducted in October 2006 inside his Cavemanman, a cave in the Walker galleries constructed from cardboard, packing tape, aluminum foil, and other [...] […] the original Hirschhorn interview, conducted in October 2006 inside his Cavemanman, a cave in the Walker galleries constructed from cardboard, packing tape, aluminum foil, and other […]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-906 Off Center » Ten Top Tens Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:48:31 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-906 [...] • Top ten to remember: We lost many great creators in ‘06. Let’s not forget them: artist Nam June Paik, reggae/ska legend Desmond Dekker, Egyptian novelist/Nobel prizewinner Mahfouz Naguib, filmmaker Robert Altman, Aeron chair designer Bill Stumpf, installation artist Jason Rhoades, • Favorite Walker acquisition: Dr. Lakra’s flash art Actually acquired in 2005, I learned of our acquisition of seven works on paper by Mexican artist Dr. Lakra from Tyler Green’s blog. Amid our excellent collection of Minimalist works, our wonderful cache of Beuys multiples, and every one of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster films, it’s great to see the earthy, carnivalesque work of this Mexico City-based artist. • Favorite single artwork: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Cavemanman When I met Hirschhorn during the installation of our show Heart of Darkness, I had the gall to tell him I didn’t get his work, especially the huge Swiss Army knife made of cardboard, tape, aluminum foil, and cellophane he showed here in 1998. But walking through the shiny and claustrophobic tunnels of Cavemanman, I was moved by the over-the-top-ness of it and the germaneness of it to current events. Discussing the project with him only underscored my change of, ahem, heart.• Favorite bumpersticker: “Think About Honking If You (Heart) Conceptual Art” [...] […] • Top ten to remember: We lost many great creators in ‘06. Let’s not forget them: artist Nam June Paik, reggae/ska legend Desmond Dekker, Egyptian novelist/Nobel prizewinner Mahfouz Naguib, filmmaker Robert Altman, Aeron chair designer Bill Stumpf, installation artist Jason Rhoades, • Favorite Walker acquisition: Dr. Lakra’s flash art Actually acquired in 2005, I learned of our acquisition of seven works on paper by Mexican artist Dr. Lakra from Tyler Green’s blog. Amid our excellent collection of Minimalist works, our wonderful cache of Beuys multiples, and every one of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster films, it’s great to see the earthy, carnivalesque work of this Mexico City-based artist. • Favorite single artwork: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Cavemanman When I met Hirschhorn during the installation of our show Heart of Darkness, I had the gall to tell him I didn’t get his work, especially the huge Swiss Army knife made of cardboard, tape, aluminum foil, and cellophane he showed here in 1998. But walking through the shiny and claustrophobic tunnels of Cavemanman, I was moved by the over-the-top-ness of it and the germaneness of it to current events. Discussing the project with him only underscored my change of, ahem, heart.• Favorite bumpersticker: “Think About Honking If You (Heart) Conceptual Art” […]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-291 Visual Arts » The Road-Side Giant Book Project Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:30:25 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-291 [...] When you walk through one of Thomas Hirschhorn’s massive installations, like Cavemanman, it’s hard to miss his philosophical influences: Bataille, Foucault, Kant, de Toqueville, Thoreau, Mann, Locke. Less obvious, however, are the decidedly lower-brow influences on his gigantic works–”Road Side Giants” including the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota; Sphinx Realty’s Los Angeles namesake; and the gigantic muskellunge that is Bena, Minnesota’s Big Fish Supper Club. Reveling in the “pointless disproportion” of these characters/structures, Hirschhorn remarked in a letter to curator Philippe Vergne how he loved that one could “enter and confront their disproportion”: I love this ‘pragmatic’ dimension. To enter into the sculpture, into the monument, to enter into the publicity, into an image. To enter the contents, I love that you can enter its meaning. [...] […] When you walk through one of Thomas Hirschhorn’s massive installations, like Cavemanman, it’s hard to miss his philosophical influences: Bataille, Foucault, Kant, de Toqueville, Thoreau, Mann, Locke. Less obvious, however, are the decidedly lower-brow influences on his gigantic works–”Road Side Giants” including the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota; Sphinx Realty’s Los Angeles namesake; and the gigantic muskellunge that is Bena, Minnesota’s Big Fish Supper Club. Reveling in the “pointless disproportion” of these characters/structures, Hirschhorn remarked in a letter to curator Philippe Vergne how he loved that one could “enter and confront their disproportion”: I love this ‘pragmatic’ dimension. To enter into the sculpture, into the monument, to enter into the publicity, into an image. To enter the contents, I love that you can enter its meaning. […]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-271 Off Center » Audio Blog: Thomas Hirschhorn Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:48:04 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2006/10/12/installing-cavemanman/#comment-271 [...] 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 the cave is a good metaphor for the mind. [...] […] 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 the cave is a good metaphor for the mind. […]

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