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Gustave Dorè (Strasburgo, 1832 - Parigi, 1883) - Paolo e Francesca all’Inferno, 1861
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Cildo Meireles, Mission/Missions (How to Build Cathedrals), 1987
The finest piece from the post-1984 period is Mission/Missions (How to Build Cathedrals) (1987), which was shown at the ICA in London in 1990. This is the most visually spectacular of all his installations, and the most explicitly religious. It was made for an exhibition exploring the Jesuit missions to South America between 1610 and 1767, when the Jesuits were themselves suppressed by the papacy. Around 600,000 coins are laid out like a square carpet on the gallery floor, and from the mid-point, a thin column of communion wafers rises around eight feet into the air where it meets a matching suspended square canopy made from 2,000 bones. Meireles has explained: “I wanted to construct something that would be a kind of mathematical equation, very simple and direct, connecting three elements: material power, spiritual power, and a kind of unavoidable, historically repeated consequence of this conjunction, which was tragedy. I wanted a sky of bones, a floor of money, and a column of communion wafers to unite these two elements.” Here, as so often in Meireles’s work, mathematics is moralised and given a troublingly tangible architecture. (via)
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hey señorita. Oscar dress, photo by @_FromMeToYou & @kevinburg, styled by @theglamourai
1 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from thesignaturething with 1,518 notes
Fleetwood Cat - Groomers
attn: amandalyn ferri and john mulaney
31 May 2012 / Reblogged from annamarie with 1,256 notes
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001
Dress, VOSS Red and black ostrich feathers and glass medical slides painted red
Photographed by Sølve Sundsbø for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
“There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.”
30 May 2012 / Reblogged from bohemea with 1,639 notes
The Ashleys were the original Plastics.
30 May 2012 / Reblogged from ruinedchildhood with 6,558 notes