~OLEK HITS NORTHSIDE . . . SPLAT, BABY !!
OR: ABE LINCOLN, Jr VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING – move over.
. . . AND, LET OLEK TAKE OVER !!
OR: CREST FEST VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING – TAKE ONE: OLEK.
and . . . CREST WINS.
in fact . . .
CREST FEST VS. BASEL ART FAIR – TAKE ONE: OLEK CROCHET-TAGS A SHOPPING CART.
duh. CREST WINS.
CREST FEST HAS A SUPER TIGHT – OLEK STREET CROCHET – SHOPPING CART – commissioned, I guess.
bicycle-locked to a traffic meter right in front of their CREST FEST headquarters/hardware store !!
CREST HARDWARD – 588 METROPOLITAN AVE – BTWN UNION & LORIMER – ON THE NORTHSIDE. WILLIAMSBURG.
BROOKLYN.
NEW YORK FRIGGIN’ CITY
. . . yep.
it seems Williamsburg had got so big,its own little nation. it had to split into two: NORTHSIDE VS. SOUTHSIDE.
it been a long time acomin.
candy-wrapper colored camo, pink & green and yellow and purple, wow how’d he, as in ANDY WARHOL !! – know those would be the synthetic yarn colors of choice of the 2011 decade . . . florescent synthetic – acrylic fab.
I guess everybody is crocheting baby blankets, that can’t be real wool – yo, allergies – or something . . .
IN BRIEF: ANDY WARHOL AND HIS COTTON -CANDY COLORED – late 1980s – CAMOUFLAGE SCREEN PRINTS – MOVE OVER . . .
see: WARHOL CAMO PRINTS
yeah, but what REALLY sets it apart – is it’s message YO: DON’T STEAL FROM THE PUBLIC.
amen. dedicated to all the aunt piggys and uncle banksys and corporate charlies – out there.
p.s. its damn hard, technically, to ‘write’ in crochet – esp free form !!
the view from the other side.
sooooo dimensional. cool, or what ?
define: almost a stationary un-human street performance – by an object ?
whoa. check out the bottom . . .
CREST FEST PRESENTS OLEK – VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING. and VS. BASEL.
CREST FEST – WINS !!
see: CREST HARDWARE SHOW
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
AFTERWORD:
yep, looks like I was right, in my dreams, BASEL ART FAIR 2011 was, almost – ALL about Warhol !!
and yo, JEFF KOONS, ANDY WARHOL, and PICASSO ? do NOT constitute, or define the word: contemporary art ?
unless you realize ‘contemporary’ is gonna become like ‘modern’, a definition of a past era, (modern) the 50s, (contemporary) the 60s, the 80s ? and, not what’s happening now.
ANDY WARHOL’S 1964 – !! – CAMPBELL’S CARTOONS at ART BASEL 2011.
PHOTO: ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS/COURTESY: THE NEW YORK TIMES
wow. the silver-wrapped installation – almost photographs – like a JACK GOLDSTEIN ‘LIGHTNING ‘ PAINTING.
see: CAROL VOGEL/ART BASEL/NEW YORK TIMES – JUNE 17, 2011