Monday 13 October 2008

TURBINA FUTURISTA TROPICAL: DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER'S TH2058 AT TATE MODERN












"It has been raining for years now, not a day, not an hour without rain. This continual watering has had a strange effect on urban sculptures. They have started to grow like giant tropical plants, and become even more monumental. To stop this growth it has been decided to store them inside, among the hundreds of bunk beds which, night and day, receive refugees from the rain."


The Sculptures:

Louise Bourgeois
Maman 1999
Tate Collection. Presented by the artist 2008.
Reproduced with permission from the artist

Alexander Calder
Flamingo 1973
Federal Plaza, Chicago
Reproduced with permission from the Calder Foundation, New York

Maurizio Cattelan
Felix 2001
Oil on polyvinyl resin and fibreglass
Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Henry Moore
Sheep Piece 1971–2
Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire
Reproduced with permission from The Henry Moore Foundation

Bruce Nauman
Untitled (Three Large Animals) 1989
Tate Collection
Reproduced with permission from the artist Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Apple Core 1992
Reproduced with the permission of the Oldenburg van Bruggen Foundation
& 2008 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen


The Last Film:
Excerpts from the following:

* Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard
* Carnival of Souls ,Herk Harvey
* Le Chant du styrene, Alain Resnais
* Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB, George Lucas
* Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut
* Gerry, Gus Van Sant
* Un homme qui dort, Georges Perec
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman
* La Jetée, Chris Marker
* The Last Wave, Peter Weir
* The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg
* Mission to Mars, Brian De Palma
* L'Oeil Sauvage, Johanna Vaude
* Outerspace, Peter Tscherkassky
* Planet of the Apes, Franklin J Schaffner
* Region Centrale, Michael Snow
* Repulsion, Roman Polanski
* Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky
* Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer
* Spiral, Jetty Robert Smithson
* Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
* Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Toute la mémoire du monde, Alain Resnais
* The War Game, Peter Watkins
* Zabriskie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni


The Books:

* Dead Cities, Mike Davis
* The Drowned World, JG Ballard
* Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
* Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
* Le Goût de l'immortalité, Catherine Dufour
* Hiroshima mon amour, Marguerite Duras
* Un homme qui dort, Georges Perec
* La Jetée. Ciné-roman, Chris Marker
* The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula Le Guin
* Luftkrieg und Literatur, WG Sebald
* Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison
* El mal de Montano, Enrique Vila-Matas
* The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick
* Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
* The Purple Cloud, MP Shiel
* 2666, Roberto Bolaño
* V for Vendetta, David Lloyd / Alan Moore
* Vurt, Jeff Noon
* The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
* We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

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