Subject: Luciano Fabro
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.stone
Date: 2006-03-10 01:26:21 GMT (3 years, 16 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours and 3 minutes ago)
A small, poorly illustrated look into the mind of Luciano Fabro, b. 1936 Turin. http://public.fotki.com/abknight/luciano_fabro/ His "Birth of Venus" made the current standard Art History 101 survey textbook, which duly labelled it an oddity. I wish I had found a better photo of it. I quote: "Traditional sculpture has been of little significance in postmodernism, because the emphasis on form in recent architecture has usurped its function. In fact, sculpture seems almost out of place when it does make an appearance. A rare example is...(Birth of Venus)... Although some would deny it, TBOV is clearly a Post-modern work. What makes it so is the improbable juxtaposition, which is a knowing misquotation of the past. Yet the ironic takeoff is accomplished with all the gravity of an artist for whom sculpture is both a living tradition and a dead language needing to be revived. It is a serious business that does not, however, rule out a certain irrevernce for this vestifial relic. The real suprise is that the piece is so effective, for in its muteness it contains a spellbinding mystery." Nice to see something in stone make the cut to be in the book but they're "surprised" it works! Why I oughta...