Juicy Phallus by Caroline Noordijk in collaboration with Kyla Elliott.
This made me smile after a hard day’s work. Finally, someone has put Starck (and the masculinity he represents) back in its place. With thanks to Alastair, who can always make a perceptive comment or two…
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Disturbingly, Lexa Walsh’s objects are very similar to mine. She calls them seductive too, although they embody everything I don’t want mine to be. I think they are closer to a fetish, someone else’s fetish, than to a seductive object. They silence my look somehow, I don’t want to be near them. That revulsion, however, [...]
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From Office
Ambiguous shoes, harmless pumps with ankle straps reminiscent of S&M garments. Not one strap, but two. Angelical, innocent, and slightly perverse; reversible, challenging, weak and weakening.
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Curated by Tom Newell and Penny Whitehead
http://www.objectsinwaiting.co.uk
End Gallery, Psalter Lane Campus, Sheffield Hallam University, S11 8UZ.
Private view Wed 18 Oct 7-9pm, exhibition open to the public 19-26 Oct 2006
10-6 weekdays, 10-5 Saturdays, 1-6 Sundays
The curators in conversation Thu 26 Oct 4pm
An exhibition of objects that were found or bought with the particular thought or intention [...]
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From the John Moores 24 Exhibition of contemporary painting 2006, at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool:
Jeff McMillan, The Seducer, Oil on found painting, 51 x 61.5cm, 2005
Artist Statement
For many years I have collected second-hand oil paintings from boot sales and thrift shops. These form a curious compendium of subjects and styles. ItÄôs only in the last [...]
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My recent 2-week holiday in Spain was mainly taken up by two activities: resting and thinking about shoes. Since talking about the former would probably make me tired again, I will concentrate on the latter. The train of thought started during a day-trip to San Sebastian, where NÄî and I witnessed a wonderfully professional street [...]
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Finally, one of my favorite paintings has returned home to the Munch Museum in Oslo. I have always loved this Madonna: its nudity and, more than anything, its face, which I regard as a combination of Manet’s Olympia and the abandonement of Bernini’s St Teresa.
But Munch’s virgin is a lot more than a mystic in [...]
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It is quite difficult to come by artists that are truly seductive. Doing my usual “seduction + artist” search in Google, I came across a page that related Louise Bourgeois to a Brazilian artist named Nazareth Pacheco. I was stunned by her pieces. It is as if someone has taken the lead from Man Ray’s [...]
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Excellent material for my forthcoming article on shoes: Lee Glendinning (2006) Lust for shoes drives women to bin the bills. The Guardian, Thursday August 10, 2006
Shoes wield a Cinderella-like transformative power - you can go from demure to seductive in under 60 seconds.
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Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture, and her work has been exhibited in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has participated in numerous conferences, including Research into Practice (2008), College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (2007). When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx's footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.
She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project, which investigates psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction within the fields of fine art, consumption studies and material culture. Her research includes an examination of parallels between artistic and analytic practices, a study of Manolo Blahnik's shoes as objects of desire, a disturbing encounter with Marcel Duchamp's last work, and the creation of a psychoanalytically inspired Discourse of the Artefact, a framework enabling the circulation of questions and answers through a relational approach to artworks. She seeks refuge and inspiration in psycho-geography, especially if it takes her to shopping centres, those mysterious places.