PatrickSeabird
After Ostojić 2
This painting is based on the famous work called "After Courbet" from Tanja Ostojić. The original painting by Ostojić showed a woman wearing panties.
From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanja_Ostojić):
"In December 2005, Ostojić became well-known in Europe as a result of the "EU Panties" poster, a satire of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde. Ostojić's version displayed her own crotch, clothed in blue underwear complete with EU stars. The image was meant as an ironic suggestion that foreign women are only welcome in Europe when they drop their underwear.
Along with other works from an ongoing art exhibition, this poster was selected to publicly promote Austria's presidency of the Council of the European Union. Vienna's Kronen Zeitung newspaper turned this selection into something of a scandal, expressing its outrage over state-funded pornography and its concern for Austria's world image. Anxious politicians of all parties quickly joined in, resulting in the poster being taken down. Since then, the picture - which had already been shown several times without a title in 2005 - has been informally known as the "EU Panties" (German: EU-Unterhose)."
I've chosen to take the next step in the dialogue and to satirize her work. Ostojić's work was a good example of how financial interests and looking for a good reputation both corrupt and how they lead to censorship of art.
That's why the picture is in a cage, together with a tree. The question remains: Why are they putting trees into cages? Are we in the cage, and art and nature are somewhere else?
The place is also interesting. Right behind the picture you can see the old building of the Austrian Stock exchange. And next to this building is a new building, which is called "House of the European Union". Nobody knows, what it is for.
But all the factors together: The location near the stock exchange and the House of the European Union, the caged nature and art and the message of the image itself are together a symbol for the entanglement of politics, the European Union, the financial market, censorship, the blindness for natural processes and our own limited freedom.
Oh, and if you are fast: At the back of the picture it says "CP - Common property! Do not sell!" and uses my CP licence to boost a gift economy. Feel free to take this picture at home, but do not sell it! For more info on this license please see here: patrickseabird.blogspot.com/2010/12/common-property-licen...
After Ostojić 2
This painting is based on the famous work called "After Courbet" from Tanja Ostojić. The original painting by Ostojić showed a woman wearing panties.
From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanja_Ostojić):
"In December 2005, Ostojić became well-known in Europe as a result of the "EU Panties" poster, a satire of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde. Ostojić's version displayed her own crotch, clothed in blue underwear complete with EU stars. The image was meant as an ironic suggestion that foreign women are only welcome in Europe when they drop their underwear.
Along with other works from an ongoing art exhibition, this poster was selected to publicly promote Austria's presidency of the Council of the European Union. Vienna's Kronen Zeitung newspaper turned this selection into something of a scandal, expressing its outrage over state-funded pornography and its concern for Austria's world image. Anxious politicians of all parties quickly joined in, resulting in the poster being taken down. Since then, the picture - which had already been shown several times without a title in 2005 - has been informally known as the "EU Panties" (German: EU-Unterhose)."
I've chosen to take the next step in the dialogue and to satirize her work. Ostojić's work was a good example of how financial interests and looking for a good reputation both corrupt and how they lead to censorship of art.
That's why the picture is in a cage, together with a tree. The question remains: Why are they putting trees into cages? Are we in the cage, and art and nature are somewhere else?
The place is also interesting. Right behind the picture you can see the old building of the Austrian Stock exchange. And next to this building is a new building, which is called "House of the European Union". Nobody knows, what it is for.
But all the factors together: The location near the stock exchange and the House of the European Union, the caged nature and art and the message of the image itself are together a symbol for the entanglement of politics, the European Union, the financial market, censorship, the blindness for natural processes and our own limited freedom.
Oh, and if you are fast: At the back of the picture it says "CP - Common property! Do not sell!" and uses my CP licence to boost a gift economy. Feel free to take this picture at home, but do not sell it! For more info on this license please see here: patrickseabird.blogspot.com/2010/12/common-property-licen...