David Diao, Black and White with Chair, 1984
Top: Black and White with Chair, 1984–88 Bottom: Glissement, 1984 Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas;213 x 274 cm (Black and White with Chair) Acrylic on canvas; 178 x 254 cm (Glissement) Description: “Based on a renowned […]
IRWIN, Retroavantgarde, 1996
Artist: IRWIN [Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik] (collective founded 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; works in Ljubljana). Materials: Mixed media; 120 x 200 cm. Description: A wall diagram that spoofs Alfred H. Barr’s 1936 diagram of modern art. The IRWIN equivalent extents back from its present day (IRWIN) back to the […]
IRWIN, Icons – Retroprincip, 1983 – ongoing
Artist: IRWIN [Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik] (collective 1983 founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia; works in Ljubljana). Description: IRWIN select and remix ideologically specific imagery (rather than the de-hierarchized remixing of forms found in postmodernist architecture, where motifs and styles are divorced from their social and cultural meanings). All imagery can […]
IRWIN and Michael Benson, Black Square on Red Square, 1992
Artist: IRWIN [Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik] (collective founded 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; works in Ljubljana) and Michael Benson (born 1962 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in Brooklyn, USA). Materials: A square of black cloth, 22 meters on each side. Description: Unfurled in Moscow’s Red Square in ironic homage […]
