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what secrets lie behind us want to discover new or ventures you know 360 degrees. and explore the major world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get to know. the experiencers to be able to see id card will enjoy it and just want to see them go. boys was a fascinating character as a person he was very quick sure to correct on the vehicle for the women didn't wear for subjects for nothing. i think his polarizes on pretty much every issue you know catch and that's why we're still arguing about him today.
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i didn't mention students who choose if boys magical controversial charismatic with his expanded concept to fall out with his materials like felton and fats he turned to the 1960 s. art scene on its head and set out to transform politics and society still to heighten so it was like that you don't snag a guy could transmit omega vacuum i could go on i thought it. was a guy. called all. the good. profit in any case the most famous german artist of his time on these 100th birthday we ask what inspired jersey boys and 2 to see inspired today.
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the artist and teacher was famous for his performances. once he covered his head in honey and gold leaf and guided a dead hare through his exhibition with viewers looking on from outside. profane prophetic or simply provocative. the so i know. this is an art work and it gets to the heart of many things such as the question how does conventional communication function and what happens in that communication is declined that's. always going the term social sculpture for his art his works involved creating structures spatially and in society he developed new forms of expression and a very specific language and conceptions concept his artistic concept begins with
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thought and his skull trip process is about making his thoughts visible and one way of making it visible is language. in the upcoming starting language exhibition at berlin's hamburger bahnhof explores the museum's boyce collection and the themes that are still relevant in the 21st century only slip tallow is a huge wedge of bat both animal and synthetic the work is about unfinished business it also raises concrete questions about spatial change about energetic and transformative processes. for voice everything was art the forming of simple sounds the physical act of speaking scribbling from countless lectures on the expanded concept of art at once hugely complex and strangely basic the man had so much for his own that's half it like when you see a blackboard like this which says show your womb show where your partner ball needs
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to be healed with needs to be improved. and healing are major themes for boys and the 1st question is who was wounded when the victims the perpetrators one that. you teta as adults these are questions i ask myself when i see these language stead of. born in 1921 just a voice was in the hitler youth and during world war 2 he was part of a bomber squadron food for thought. is he deceiving us are there are secrets in the air was he progressive or backward looking a reactionary or an innovator. he was suddenly growing up with national socialist ideology serving as a soldier in the war i'm not sure at that point particularly questioning and he had thought i think that he went through a fairly typical indoctrination at that time so i think that he made it very clear
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when he came out of the war experience that it was essential for people to transform for society to transform and that he conceded a process that he chooses materials that are always changing like flash or felt or i mean it's that's a fix material but it's in gauging it in because it's metallic and i think that all of his works and get that sense of not being finished and that's where he's heading in. all these and often it was really fun. the night little boys broken radically with conventions exploring the boundaries of the doable the space curator a current exhibition at stuttgart starts gallery makes this clear oh i didn't have to start to stomach but he didn't want the small room he said it was because this were quite unfit but of course he felt that he should have a proper space here. and he is still the only living artist to have ever had
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a whole room to himself here in the home. on the 100th anniversary of his birth voices unrestrained creative virtues taking center stage again. dimension of i think he is not only also one of the article it is easy to assume boyce wanted to get rid of the trench concepts and authority he resonated with the younger generation his objection to admission requirements famously last time is teaching post at the door on academy. events. i told him to. voice was a champion of social change but he was also interested in religion and spirituality and in creating his own mythical persona. he wasn't always consistent. you have the boys he said women should have and receive an income for the work that they do at home so that's pretty progressive. and at the same time you say that.
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this kind of. man here in the center of his own discourse always i think that it's as ambivalent on this question as it is on every question with voice and that's probably why he remains interesting as an artist i think he's polarizes on pretty much every issue you look at. even in 2021 voice comes across as larger than life. the k 20 collection and disorder or juxtaposes his works with contemporary art works that question capitalism and the financial system demanding alternatives and radical change. the environment plays an important role. that includes films of several boys performances in 1974 he wrapped himself in belts and locked himself up in
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a new york gallery with a live coyote and copies of the wall street journal. this time around and the main interest is can we get anything out of his thought on democracy on the afraid and on the oppression on the environment and that's obviously the most revealing question we face now the man in the hat was a pioneer of the ecological movement in 1902 he proposed a plan to plant $7000.00 oak trees and cost $4.00 document to 7. he was rooting for a better future. going as you. i don't feel it's going under law. suits let's put. it that. it's that work people can most relate to people who have no idea about are about voice can immediately identify everything that they. start and set them up right with a tree and that's what makes boy so powerful. is that his ability to capture
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people's imaginations because that's where you know that's what transformation comes in when people start to imagine that things could be different. voice demonstrate that the power of a part to change in space is sustainability is social sculptures can be found in new york and history planting project has become a model for artists and artifice all over the world including in mexico. the minute you. go. where you. mexican artist petal hayes we think things down on. his projects that people's united nations provides a forum for discussion is this you political workshop is based on you and assemblies or to me people have their say not politicians or international diplomats should actually demand that the should pay more as women in the hopes
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that maybe at some point something in their heads might shift. boyce's influence in the peoples united nations becomes visible that just such utopian moments. these are utopias of a different social reality and that's. which has made him one of the most popular contemporary artists in mexico. his most famous work is the still us shovels for. what the government support he called on residents to. they didn't done this for grocery vouches in 2008 they slept to 1527 guns being melted down and turned into shovels which a nice used to plot the same number of trains. in place of each gun there's now a tree. i was intrigued by this
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transmutation of the material. it's like a physical transformation of the metal. turning an agent of death into an agent of life and with everything and he's continued the project well why eat you are like a kind of our future forest democrats are like is a voice he initiate processes and creates communities to talk and think about the power of change. every tree planting event is like a catalyst bringing together a community that talks about the problem of weapons. the low side of the atlanta trees are living monuments those rewards. to address ongoing violence in mexico they use has worked with this material again and again and his subsequent project to disarm he turned into musical instruments.
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together with a team of musicians he created a mechanical orchestra but tanya leslie plays she generated compositions. for an exhibition in basel switzerland in 2020. new music boxes made if we purchased parts from a leading gun manufacturer this time in on the worldwide sales and distribution of gun. i wanted to show how the problem of violence begins in the factories where guns are produced. you know many of these guns are from countries that aren't gripped by violence. to go is a broker and yet their products cause pain suffering and death across the globe
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where the water will move the. moon those the whole world would bet. if it from an end to the arms and history. through a lot of momentum. wants to use his role as an artist to change the world. he designed his hands studio in. mexico city's artists district wasn't open house in place of exchange with another los predict those one of the social sculpture projects i'm working on is the opening up of libraries. and i had to start with my own private library. i began by posting my books on instagram every day and people started asking to borrow them. so my personal collection turned into a public one i then managed to persuade other institutions like the cardio human museum to loan out their books to. separate us but i'm not really. a total
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haney's would like to see libraries throughout the city and pinup said find these are ready for neighbor because he'll hear museum this project no jumps from lending out books but even less of a box. if you offend already available. public can come to the museum and sign up like a library of. pick one of the works take it home and live with it and their domestic surroundings. this is where one of. the exhibitions in mexico took place in the early 1990 s. as well. and it has an impact on. voices and i once played a crucial role for me especially as conviction that art has a use. but more through his ideas than his works or with us.
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boys his idea to social sculpture pioneer not only in mexico. have. the japanese city try out as the site of a boy's premier it's the 1st time he's installation curation staff has been exhibited here the other part includes here the 4 metre long poles wrapped in felt . to bring a mouthpiece or wheels the boys are really very like. they think is very. very ours we need to be careful. there are some so i go to the stack is a metaphor for our culture a link the work goes back to performance by boys and the book says composer henning christiansen in vienna in 1967 and not just with bell fact and grand gestures.
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were. idea is a utopian idea try to remove all borders. border between east and the west. as it at the time of. the war and also. europe and asia is a metaphor for your radio but also try to remove the border between you and me so where these border so we moved we become want her. terms have choices performances for decisive the influenced by flux artists above all by the korean artist nam to pick who later became the superstar of radio art. the manager paid art center and soul searching for clues to the connection between these 2 exceptional artists. pixar voice
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folks can even be explored from home using virtual reality suits and. they influence the other together through the whole life from 9 to 61 since their 1st meeting on thier 986 when boys saw boys they had this very deep conscious in understanding their relationship in artistically or personally. there is treasure in the basement over 2000 analog videotapes hand labels by now paid among them this one of the last joint performances with boys will be 3 in tokyo in 1984 on stage were 2 grand pianos but boys had other plans.
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for. some close good music so i bet the bands and traditions are korean and japanese music's always making. screaming sound using his throat. and so on various they already sound using the chalk on the left. like. $99900.00 page created the boys hack installation paying homage to his late friend and his iconic headgear. rather than hero worship the gucci institute is attempting a critical push pull through are to michoud dupes and workshops in seoul and tokyo among other places. a project boy song off is about turning the perspective around so to speak artists from ancient from east to west they take up voices ideas and
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concepts just as he appropriated a cultural sphere in his work namely his concept of eurasia. one of these artists its d.j. staff from tokyo with his project sounds of pure asia the musician not only makes a step it's a boy says voice but also clicks sounds from his own neighborhood he then uses all of these elements to create a vinyl record which he sends to other musicians in asia by post. for you also of boys eurasia was not a real place it was a conceptual entity so for my project when the records travel arrive to new artists it's a physical object and it's something that they could feel and touch and it's a way for me to connect with these artists through not just through the internet but through an actual object. when. they must there was a perk to corey's in for points this trip to japan in $1804.00 he went there to take part in
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a whisky commercial. it enabled him to make various appearances in the japanese economy in the 1980 s. and earned him 650000 german marks boy the critic of capitalism needed the money for his 7000 oaks project in castle. during boyce's time in japan the advertising agency her film team to accompany him. it was directed by photographers oh yeah. who managed to take a snapshot in the botanical garden during the shoot. today as renowned art photographer. has a different few have criticisms of excessive consumption and the environmental destruction of japan. he points to the wounds caused by the 2004 nuclear disaster. there was a kind of froze over his. true
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to this well i'm not sure. that it's not. obvious throughout then it will it's very very quick. just that boys may have been ahead of his time in the 1980 s. says the photographer but the themes he tackled such as environmental protection and a world without borders are more important today than ever. boyce was also good at giving importance to seemingly useless thing. tony cracks greatest because on const beck is arguably this sculpture park which was transformed from an abandoned plot of land and. where the british artist has lived for some time now. boyce he believes that art is always political.
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in a world where everything is becoming impoverished and weaker and destroyed scotcher is one of the only ways of producing new forms new language new ideas new emotions and i think that's a very very important role you know while the industry is dead killing everything around us we as a species will really destroy ourselves but i think that. as a possibility of opening up the sculpture park is a space of energetic exchange. crags own works enter a dialogue with the works of other artists. currently those of joseph boyce. voice and a lot of artists of that generation they were the 1st ones to talk about the environment they were the 1st ones to really start to talk about our relationship to nature they were the 1st ones to talk about our acceptance of political systems
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of of ideas of hierarchy and so when you look at art today and you see how many platforms for protest have opened up. artists like voice set into motion is more relevant than ever the exhibition perpetual motion comprises small works that make for big art replete with symbolism like the rose for democracy more prepared or. * the idea is very simple whereas acid then there has to be a chemical reaction there has to be exchange of electrons could be a source of power and such but this is the images so john was critical study patted physical the absurdity of science the apparent absurdity of science the shift leads the simplicity of the way we use dion's compared to the reality of how complex things are. boyce's complex thoughts compacted into little sculptures
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raise more questions than they answer. indeed there's not so much to see but what the observer is left with is what's known as one's own reflection you find out what you think what you have in your head and poise use that a great deal in the only obviously the starting point the journey you have to make yourself you know who who doesn't think as this has to go says works emanate positive energy according to tony crack. and to all of the convoluted thoughts often conceal a great deal of humor. at what i remember is laughter he is a laugh like almost see all of his t. that everything is a soon as you start to deal with never been there before then you start your daily little bit with. with your reaction is. is is is hysterical is to laugh is to become involved and think there are all sorts of
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things including love. tony cracked 1st met voice in london in 1972. first time actually seeing him in the white shop he stood there with his face and jacket on in his hat and the curious curious figure and not very good english i have to say the people came off the street into the building and they said you are termino you who are you doing you are country you know. boys just had a fantastic way of. he could really get hold of people and pull them in he didn't wear a fish in fact for nothing you know he really starting gauge them on a very human level. so you don't have to understand at all to get voice just be creative and follow your intuition. and he said there's not the use of a complete contrast to get there from. the. river
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kind of power and what he did he was a scout he was an artist you know a poet and so that's really what is left. foot.
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