“CHASING MR P”“Chasing MR P” is a term to use to cover aspect of Post

modern art.By extending off each letter you can remember vital clues to

identifying Post modern art works and thus gain a greater appreciation of the artists intention.

Question – Who is Mr P?

Answer – Mr Postmodern.

This unit of work is supported by the artworks of Yasumasa Morimura.

How am I ever going to remember what I

am?The art critics and

historians call me Post modern. I need to

discover who I am for myself but how?

ConceptualChallengingConfrontingCollaborativeCuratorContemporaryHybridHumourAppropriationAudienceSatireShockingIronyInstallationNew technologiesGallery Multi layered Meaning Recontextualise Parody

I know… I’ll simply go

chasing Mr P!

ContemporaryCurrent

ChallengingDemanding

TestingDifficultTricky

CollaborativeCombined

Mutual

ConfrontingConfront

ConceptualAbstract

theoretical

C

C……

HumourWit

FunninessAbsurdity

HybridMixtureFusion

crossbreed

H

CH…Morimura: Psychoborg 22 (1994; computer manipulated color photo with artist as both Jackson and Madonna)

MORIMURA Yasumasa, Slaughter Cabinet II 1991 Photograph; wood, lightbox, gelatin silver photograph; 58.0 x 43.0 x 43.0cm

"I don’t do my painting on a canvas, I do my painting on my face."

Art is basically entertainment. Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun."

AudienceSpectators

viewers

AppropriationSeizure

Requisitioncommandeering

A

CHA……

Yasumasa Morimura, "An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Hand Shaped Earring)", 2001. Colorphotograph, edition 3/3.

The role of the audience when experiencing post modern art varies according to the art work itself. Many works invites the audience to participate in some way, This is called post conceptual.

ShockingScandalousOutrageousDeplorableDreadful

SatireSend up

SpoofLampoon

S

CHAS……

Yasumasa Morimura Portraits Shounen I, II, III, colour photograph and varnish, 1988

Yasumasa Morimura, Self portrait as movie actress, (Black Marilyn) cibachrome print, 1996

InstallationFitting

Setting upPutting in place

IronySarcasmMockery

insincerity

I

CHASI…

Entrance hall with Yasumasa Morimura's A Magnanimous Prayer (two of three), 2003, inkjet print on polythene sheet and Jeong So-Youn's Stairway to Heaven, 2000, white feathers

MORIMURA Yasumasa, Black Marilyn, 2001.

New technology

Digital Film

Sound / lightingComputer

N

CHASIN…

YASUMASA MORIMURA'S Dialogue with Myself (Encounter)

(2001), a DVD installation Video still, Edition of 10Duration approx. 1 hour

Osaka-based Morimura, 47,burst onto the international art scene about 10 years ago with his "Art History" series, computer-aided reconstructions of great Western paintings that featured the artist’s big-nosed face replacing the faces of the works’ original subjects. The high-tech Japanese kitsch was embraced by a Western world passing through a period of growing interest in sushi, economic miracles, and things Japanese in general,

GalleryExhibition spaceRole of Curator

Site specificRedefine exhibition space

G

CHASING…

Stay with Art is one of a growing number of exhibitions which addresses this issue, attempting to bridge the gap between art and life by bringing art back into the spaces of everyday life—of leisure, of work, of love, of sex, of government, of worship. Anything, that is, but the neutral space of the white cube. This exhibition, which took place at the T’Point Hotel in Osaka, was the second experiment in a series of exhibitions organized by Megumi Matsuo, a figure associated with Dumb Type who established one of the first artist-run spaces in Japan—the Voice Gallery in Kyoto. Outside of the museum establishment, this project not only created new relationships between art and the viewing public, but also allowed works previously censored by museums (Morimura’s Black Marilyn and Kuwajima’s The Life) to be shown by finding private sponsors unhampered by nervous boards and city politicians.

For three days, each participating artist was given a room in the T’Point, a hotel whose interior was designed by SAGESHIMA Seiji. They were each given the liberty to create their own site-specific installation—to make a total environment in which the audience could sit, relax, talk to their friends, be a voyeur, steal a kiss, or speculate about what it would be like to do so.

Multi layered Meaning

More than oneOthernessComplex

Deep

M

CHASING…M

Am I simply a funny image of Morimura dressed up or

is there many meanings behind this image of me.

Am I questioning the dominance of Europe in establishing what is fine

art?Am I meant to draw attention to values

themselves?Am I about global

hybridisation of cultures?Am I stating sexual

diversity or child abuse?The audience is keep

guessing.

RecontextualiseChange originaluse, meaning or

intention

R

CHASING…MR

Monna Lisa in its Origin, 1998

from "Self Portrait as Art History"

fMonna Lisa in Pregnancy, 1998from "Self Portrait

as Art History"

Monna Lisa in theThird Place, 1998from "Self Portrait

as Art History"

 

ParodyTake offSpoofInsult

Make fun ofTwist

P

CHASING…MR P

Self Portrait (Actress) Red Marilyn, 1996

Ektacolor Ultra II photograph;86 5/8 x 65 3/4 inches

(220 x 167 cm)

Irony

New TechnologiesAppropriation

Post modern artworks usually contain a number of characteristics in ‘Chasing Mr P ’. Some works have several while others only a few.

Multi layered Meaning

New technology

Parody satire Irony

Recontexturalise, Appropriation

Installation

Shocking ,Confronting

I caught MR P!You can tell by my

face it was hard work but the effort will pay

off!

Good Luck in your HSC Boys

Love from Mrs Broome.