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Artist: Carl Warner - Foodscapes

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A peapod boat sails away from a land made of bread and potatoes, over a sea of salmon

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Coralscape: an underwater scene with coral made of broccoli, tropical fish made of various fruits and vegetables, and a pineapple island

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Autumn Flakes: an autumnal landscape made enirely out of breakfast cereals

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Bread and cheese: an edible landscape

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Parmesan cliffs with sweet potato boulders and cress and savoy cabbage foliage under a red cabbage sky

Picture: CARL WARNER

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He spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets, which can make him seem a little odd. However, finding the right shaped broccoli to use for a tree is an all-important task

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Fishscape: with rocks made of oyster shells and crab claws, boats made of marrows and asparagus, and a shining, slivery, slippery sea of fish

Picture: CARL WARNER

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A landscape pr0duced for Sacla

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Garlicshire: a village for lovers of garlic and cabbage

Picture: CARL WARNER

Marilyn Manson and David Lynch Open Exhibition at Kunsthalle in Vienna Earlier this Year

US musician and artist Marilyn Manson poses in front of his artwork, entitled Elizabeth Short as Snow White, You're sure you will be comfortable? (2006), during a press preview of the Marilyn Manson/David Lynch exhibition 'Genealogies Of Pain' at the Kunsthalle wien project space in Vienna, Austria. The exhibtion opens to the public from 30 June to 25 July. EPA/HANS KLAUS TECHT.

VIENNA.- It was in the nineties when Marilyn Manson (born in 1969) became well known as a shock rocker combining brutally hammering industrial sounds with thick theater make-up and controversial texts about serial killers and Satanism to a garish spectacle. His extreme personality, which incited the hatred of parent associations and representatives of the religious right, was soon pushing beyond the boundaries of pop music. Marilyn Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, played numerous minor parts in feature films like David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” and became the unofficial mascot of the MTV serial “Celebrity Deathmatch.” It was less well known that Marilyn Manson had been painting pictures for quite some time. “I just don’t think the world is worth putting music into right now,” Manson told the Rolling Stone magazine in 2005, “I no longer want to make art that other people – particularly record companies – are turning into a product. I just want to make art.” Marilyn Manson’s career as an artist started in 1999 when he produced conceptual five-minute watercolors which he sold to drug dealers. The 21 watercolors of this exhibition seem to be in accord with his image and the themes that made him a famous/notorious figure: horror, pain, blood, tears, mutilated bodies, wounded souls. Yet a frequently delicate pastel coloring and blurred contours subtly subvert his works’ “explicit” contents, exposing the dichotomy of emotion and toughness, aggression and sensibility as an unresolved ambivalence. Manson’s interest is focused on the analysis of both the extremities and the cavities of the human body, i.e. exactly those parts of it which are most delicate, such as mouth, fingertips, eyes, or genitals, whose injury arouses our primeval fears. “Outside it was raining cats and barking dogs. / Like an egg-born offspring of collective humanity, in / sauntered Marilyn Manson,” writes David Lynch (born in 1946) in his introduction to Manson’s biography of 2000. The exhibition also comprises four of his short films from between 1967 and 1973 as a counterpart to and historical reference for Manson’s aesthetics. As suggested by the works’ titles – Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee (1973) – Lynch is also concerned with the reflection of pain and its aestheticization, as well as with the deformation and vulnerability of the human body. The filmmaker’s probably most impressive early work is the short The Alphabet (1968), a mixture of real film and animation, which visualizes the creation of the alphabet as a painful and traumatic act of birth: we see the head of a woman made up in white who staggers through a room against a black background and spits out letters that assemble to forms and fleeting shapes of meaning. The Cartesian “Cogito ergo sum” is translated into the concreteness of letters, the signifying and the signified turned into material for a fantastic filmic experimental arrangement. “Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.” (David Lynch)

Artist: Humberto Castro

Golden Cages
1998, oil on canvas

Like Fish
1998, oil on canvas, private collection

Sea Horse
1998, oil on canvas, Collection: Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Humberto Castro was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana.

He works in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and installations. In his early years, he also delved into performance art, especially using it as a vehicle for social criticism in his country.

He is one of the most active members of the group widely recognized as the "Generation of the 80s"in Cuba, which generated changes in the aesthetic and conceptual art scene of the island.

In 1983 he founded the team Hexagon in which, alongside other artists, he mounted installations aimed at provoking public participation in the work. Between 1980 and 1984 he produces an extensive body of graphics, particularly innovating in the intaglio technique. He has designed sets for theater and film in Cuba.

In 1989 he emigrated to Paris, France, where he lived for ten years and became active in the Parisian intellectual scene, holding exhibitions and giving conferences across Europe. In 1999 he moved to the United States, where he lives and works.

Artist: Alexander Calder - Sprial Images

ABSTRACT COMPOSITION WITH SPIRAL

By Alexander Calder

Dimensions: 30x22 inches

Medium: Color lithograph on BFK Rives paper

Signed

Edition number: 36 of 90

Sale information

American Art and Contemporary Art

at Swann Auction Galleries

Nov. 18, 2010

Artist: Alexander Calder

Dimensions: 673 x 975mm (26 1/2 x 38 3/8in)

Medium: Lithograph in colours

Creation Date: circa 1965

Artwork is signed

Edition number: artist's proof

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