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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Phantom Truck, 2007Mixed mediums
Installation view at Documenta 12, 2007
Photo credit; Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty Images
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thomas SchulteWhen does fiction become reality?
Consider evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s). This sculpture is a recreation based on the images shown and described by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his testimony to the United Nations Security Council, which took place 30 days before the invasion of Iraq. The images he showed and which the sculptor has depicted here were avowed to be mobile biological weapons labs, proof of the threat of Iraq’s WMD’s.
The question of what’s real and what isn’t comes down to this: no evidence was found, anywhere that these mobile units actually existed.
Well, here’s one on exhibit. Not a biological threat to anyone, but a fierce provocation for each of us to think about images we’re shown, actions we take, and realities that we are promised.
Installation view at Documenta 12, 2007
Photo credit; Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty Images
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thomas SchulteWhen does fiction become reality?
Consider evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s). This sculpture is a recreation based on the images shown and described by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his testimony to the United Nations Security Council, which took place 30 days before the invasion of Iraq. The images he showed and which the sculptor has depicted here were avowed to be mobile biological weapons labs, proof of the threat of Iraq’s WMD’s.
The question of what’s real and what isn’t comes down to this: no evidence was found, anywhere that these mobile units actually existed.
Well, here’s one on exhibit. Not a biological threat to anyone, but a fierce provocation for each of us to think about images we’re shown, actions we take, and realities that we are promised.
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dark matterSublimely beautiful...something is cold about this work,except for the wheels...they're plastic.-Ms. PzscybloschkyTrailer ParkIñigo Manglano-Ovalle tackles a form we see everyday, the tractor-trailer. In this piece, what is normally foreign and masked by metal siding is out in the open—marginally. The completely dark space that surrounds the artist's towering metal construction plays with our sense of perception and the ways in which we really 'see' things—art, objects, spaces. The material experience of this piece lets us wonder if seeing can really be counted as believing. Is an image evidence?-BV
Home on the RangeIn a world where "home" is quickly becoming a site of instability, "Home on the Range" explores how a literal "mobile home" could be a space hovering between stability and instability. This particular piece further evokes the vulnerability of humans in the world. While this stationary home on wheels suggests a possible escape any time, the open structure exposes its inhabitants to the elements. We can peer into the interior spaces and imagine ourselves being carried away from a more familiar conception of home to a home that is "on the range," a liminal space, a space of freedom and danger.-Bart Esophagus
Bio-DomeBud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment,but the two friends could care less about saving the Earth. One day,when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact,Bud and Doyle mistakingly become part of the project themselves. The two must then learn how to protect the Earth and help the scientists complete their mission.-AK
China-TCP
Very Big Truck!-IH
