Weird artworks you've seen

[Ludovic]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

I can’t decide if this is weird or incredibly cool. I saw this in person when it was at Hains Point (D.C.).

“The Awakening”

[Google some of the images for a better view.]

A little of both IMO. This, on the other hand, in downtown Orlando, is more weird but less cool: weird because she doesn’t express any emotion or thoughts: she’s just there, which simultaneously makes it less cool.

[jasg]

Womanhouse - Los Angeles 1972

[adhemar]

@Dung_Beetle

One that stuck with me (although not to the extent of remembering its name or the name of the artist) was something I saw at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was just a pile of wrapped hard candies on the floor in the corner with an invitation to take one. The placard said it was meant to represent the body of the artist’s lover, who had AIDS, as it diminished and disappeared.
I didn’t take one, but still… Candy!

I saw that one. It was…odd

[adhemar]

@Omar_Little

I went to the Jeff Koons, exhibit when it was in Whitney Museum in NYC several years ago. Jeff holds the record for the highest paid for a work of art for a living artist, $91MM.

He is a very broad artist, paintings, sculptures, photographs mostly in the pop culture vein.

The Whitney exhibit IIRC, covered a few floors of the building. There was one section that was walled off with warning signs, that contained photographs, that he took of he and his former wife, Cicciolina, an Italian porn star. The photos were massive, approximately 10’x30’ or larger of close-ups of their genitalia before, during and after them having sex.

It was me and a few of our co-workers of both sexes that happened to be visiting the exhibit that day. Needless to say the dinner conversation was different that evening.

This was my strangest one I have seen. . I thought I really don’t. “get” modern art.

I also saw one with thousands of little people under a plexiglass floor for you to walk on.

[Melbourne]

Museum of Modern Art here in Melbourne. There is a sign out in front – for a funeral parlour (and a fairly well known brand here). It was only after I checked the map a couple of times and turned into the carpark that I realized it wasn’t a funeral parlour sign — it’s a sculpture of a funeral parlour sign.

Not famous. Because it’s not actually really inovative in this day and age. But it had me going for a while.

Much better (but not nearly as weird) was something I saw today – a female nude implemented as a transparent film with kind of random black-and white plane behind which you could see through her. From the front, an interesting picture: the pattern made her look sort of dressed or sort of tatooed. Walking past, a striking element of 3d as the depth made it look like she was moving or following you with her face. And then when you noticed and stop to examine her up close, the stand! It was sort of tan, nearly flesh coloured. When you stood close to her to examine her closely, looking down through the film she had a flesh coloured naked bottom beneath the white/black patterned top she was apparently wearing. The magic element was that I saw three different things as I approached and examined the art. Color me impressed: the artist had achieved something interesting and unique.