Hyper Hyper

Ed Ruscha Busted Glass, 2007

The most poetic and beautiful work, recently rediscovered in a book shelf in New York. Fruit juice stains on moiré evolved into transparent fractures drawn on grainy paper. Fragile and painstaking.
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Floating/Nothingness

1. Yrjö Edelmann Fundamental Aspects Of Floating Parcel, 2006
2. Yrjö Edelmann Flashlighted Floated Parcel In Stormy Ocean And Sky, 2007
3. Ed Ruscha Blue Bowling Ball, 1972
4. Ed Ruscha Black And Pink Ball, 1972

Yrjö and Ed. Packages and bowling. Photo-realism and photo-realism. Of things that do not exist. Wafting in the surrealist space of fiction projected onto realist landscapes. It is the summary of the world we live in.
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Apples, Cigarettes etc.

Artworks Roe Ethridge

Hunger for photorealism of photos of realism. Realist photos. Naturalist photos. Outdoor food sex. Exhibitionist fruit, nicotine fruit, the slurp of aphrodisiac.
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Death In And Of Painting

Artworks Katharina Ziemke

It is the sugar-glazed psycho terror of the 2000s. A feminine equivalent to Bisky, Borremans and Rauch, Ziemke is adding the hyper-hyper to magic and/or erotic realism. Artificially sweetened with jelly blood and military fetish.
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Triadism

1. Michaël Borremans Hornet, 2008
2. Michaël Borremans The Apron, 2009
3. Michaël Borremans Lakei, 2010
4. Christopher Shannon Spring/Summer 2014
5. Theyskens' Theory Spring/Summer 2014
6. Michaël Borremans A2, 2004
7. Michaël Borremans Red Hand, Green Hand, 2010
8. Michaël Borremans The Mirror, 2001

Building humanity out of fragments. See also Theyskens' Theory and Christopher Shannon for Spring/Summer 2014. Bodies as triptych panels, partly sheer or horizontally colour blocked.
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Amidst Oddity

Alex Franco That In A Crowd, My Eyes Always Search For You, 2013

When the realness of fashion photography and the image of real fashion is shocking, almost extraterrestrial, to real people, we come to understand that those who dare and wear are aliens.
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"Prada Banality", Post-Painterly Art X

or 'Fashion For Intellectuals' (FFI)



1. Neo Rauch Diktat, 2004
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2013

Love is a bourgeois concept and in the end, we like what we see. But we do not fully understand. We are caught in a painting by Neo Rauch. A setting that has no beginning nor ending but an intensely complicated story - with actors pursuing individual objectives mysteriously yet convincingly. We are, in the end, caught in the world of fashion, that we do love... so much.
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A Short History Of The Egg In Popular Culture

1. Hans Finsler Eggs in mirror II, 1929
2. Jeff Koons Cracked Egg, 1995-1997
3. Man Ray Ostrich Egg, 1944
4. Maison Martin Margiela Door-stopper egg, Line 13
5. Josef Sudek Egg and glass, 1952
6. Marjan Pejoski Björk Swan Dress, 2001

When it comes to evolutionary history, artists have taken unanimous position. The egg was first, everything else just follows. The perfect object to be studied, portrayed and decontextualized. Thus, the egg equals David, the icon of (still) life.
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O Du Selige, Epilogue

1. John Chamberlain Hawkfliesagain, 2010
2. John Chamberlain Incidentallyneutered, 2008
3. Eberhard Havekost Selbstgespräch, 2008
4. Eberhard Havekost Glanz, 2008
5. Eberhard Havekost Car Park 4, 2001
6. Dirk Skreber It Rocks Us So Hard - Ho, Ho, Ho 3, 2002
7. Dirk Skreber It Rocks Us So Hard - Ho, Ho, Ho 8, 2002
8. Dirk Skreber It Rocks Us So Hard - Ho, Ho, Ho 2, 2002
9. Wolfgang Tillmans Headlight, 2012

As indicated previously, the 'car crash' metaphor unfolds beautifully as a simulation of destroyed luxury. Polished surfaces are crunched. And icons of hyper-advanced (German) technology become useless formations/decoration.
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Post Graduate III

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Central Saint Martins collections, presenting:
Sophie Lynas B.A. Graduate Collection 2012

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2012
2. Alex Katz Blue Coat, 1993
3. Hans Wegner Daybed

The blue double-breasted pinstripe suit, the shorts, the oversized coat. A fusion of Belgian avantgarde, Danish design and American realism. Who has drunk from this cocktail will be perceiving a pleasant reality.
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