Patrick Brown in Black Market
Sally:Art Link, art history: go figure Volume 26 No. 1 2006, pg 15.
Patrick Brown likes his work to be an educational, visual expreience which reveals issues happening in the now. The photograph featured, which i discovered in Art Link taken by Brown, shows us the horrors of pan-Asian trafficking of endangered species. Browns exhibition "Black Market" was held at Fremantle Prison, which included more of his arresting art works. Artist's like Brown make art more powerful in the bringing of awareness into our, sometimes, selfish self obsessed little lives.
posted by Polly Dance at 1:19 PM
3 Comments:
sylvia: to know that these things are happening in the world make me very sad. this kind of art which exposes the horror of the world... i really like it. its nothing that should be hidden or kept away, because its the truth. its powerful stuff indeed.
p.s and i totally agree with the selfish obessesed little lives comment. i love art which makes you forget your own menial problems and makes you think on a wider scale. of the world we forget we are in.
jimmy: this artist has played on a funny kind of selective sympathy the audience has 4 certain creatures, an elephant in this case. it makes me wonder if a photo of a blue heeler chained up to a hills hoist would generate the same emotion. i suspect not but i makes you wonder why.
Benjamin:
Jimmy kinda beat me to the punch, but I was thinking a similar thing. Though, does having an image that does that lead to that thinking and therefore achieve its purpose? Am I going round in circles?
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