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In the basement of the Saatchi Gallery is Richard Wilson's 20:50,
a special room. Looking down, it looks like you're looking deep into a
pool with a mirrored bottom, but you're not! It's actually some sort of
reflective metal liquid that's perfectly smooth, and the colors in the
rest of the room seem chosen so that when they reflect through the pool,
it plays another trick on the eyes.
You have to see it to
understand.
| I like the feel of the paint in this row by Ansel Krut. I ignore the
content.
| Swarm of hung, dessicated insects by Tessa Farmer, many with tiny
skeletal riders.
| Close-up. A dragonfly bus?
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| Close-up. The figures look like their astronauts doing tricks on their
first spacewalk.
| Close-up. Hanging on for dear life! Makes me think of Avatar, where one
rider tries to assert dominance over the creature and any others people
get thrown off.
| A video of the swarm, an attempt to capture the three-dimensionality of
it.
| Cipher by Anne Hardy could be a game clue. Look at all the
numbers.
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| Toby Ziegler's giant piece, Designated for Leisure, is made
entirely of six-sided shapes (and implicitly of the six-pointed stars
created where they meet).
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Clarisse D'Arcimoles had an interesting idea. Take a picture of a
family member as a child and mount that picture next to the same person
grown up, but in the same setting and dressed in clothes with an
identical pattern. In short, make it look like the person changed but
nothing else.
| A series of paintings of porcelain. It feels to me as if the artist,
Josefina Guilisasti, is making a statement about museums and
collections. I can't imagine the patience it must've taken to paint all
these.
| An art critic's interpretation of the series.
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Finn Magee's flat lights.
Yes, they really are flat, but they give
off light and have the same feel, the same warm glow, as a real lamp.
| Side-view, to prove they're flat.
| Intriguing math/geometry cards, and perhaps more game clue fodder.
| The explanation accompanying the cards.
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Large glass balls that serve as piggy-banks. Think about it.
Poetic. (See the next picture.) break the
bank
| The accompanying label.
| A video of a digital clock made from twenty-four analog clocks. Wait
for the hands to stop rotating and you'll see what I mean. It goes
through a dance like this every minute.
| The accompanying label.
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