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The Art of Horror [Slide Show]

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Barbara_Kruger_You_Have_Serached_and_destroyed_1982
chapman brothers_
Peter Doig
KUB_Maurizio Cattelan 895
cindy_sherman_Untitled 153
Ed_Kienholz_Five Car Stud
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Marcel Dzama_
Valerie Blass
Makoto_Aida_Blender
Douglas_Gordon,_'Monster',_1996-7
JS_Jabberwocky
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Richard Prince, Nurse of Greenmeadow, 2002

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You have searched and destroyed), 1982

Jake and Dinos Chapman, detail from Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs, 2003. Installation view at Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo by Wurzeltod

Maurizio Cattelan All, 2007. Marble. Installation view Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter © Maurizio Cattelan, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153, 1985. Chromogenic color print. MoMa Collection. Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Fund. © 2012 Cindy Sherman

Ed Kienholz, Five Car Stud, 1969. Installation view at LACMA, San Francisco, 2011. Photo by Tom Vinetz

Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953

Marcel Dzama, Last Winter Here, 2004. Courtesy the artist and Richard Heller Gallery, CA; David Zwirner Gallery, NY

Valérie Blass, Ce nonobstant, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Parisian Laundry, Montreal. Photo by Guy L’Heureux

Makoto Aida, Blender, 2001. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo.

Douglas Gordon, Monster, 1996-7. Colour photo in a painted wood frame. Private collection. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, NY

Jan Švankmajer, Jabberwockey, 1971. Film still. © Jan Švankmajer

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You substantiate our horror), 1983. Courtesy the artist and Skarstedt Gallery, NY.

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It’s Halloween. M-KOS selected some images of contemporary art of horror.

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Review: Maurizio Cattelan – Puppet master pulling “All” the strings

Currently on view: New York
Maurizio Cattelan: All
at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
4 November 2011 – 22 January 2012


Maurizio Cattelan “All” (2011) Installation view. Photo by M-KOS

On the pay-what-you-wish evening we visited Guggenheim Museum, a long queue of people coiled around the block before flocking in to see Maurizio Cattelan’s current retrospective “All”. Precisely 128 works were hung from a ring at the top of the central rotunda, ranging from veristic wax figures, taxidermy animals, witty photographs, paintings and sculptures, spanning the breadth of Cattelan’s productions over the last 20 years. Instead of a predictably chronological order, the works were randomly placed, in an untidy but well mastered balancing act. The Italian artist literally turned the notion of a museum exhibition on its head, bypassing the use of the institution’s cloistered display areas to transform his retrospective into an expansive site-specific installation.
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