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Old 09-24-2010, 11:24 PM   #1
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September 25, 2010: Yes, Sir, That's Mueck's Baby ...

But whatever you do, don't put a picture of it on a bus in Calgary.

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Calgary Transit has rejected a Glenbow Museum advertising campaign showing a sculpture of a naked newborn baby.

Senior managers made the decision after reviewing a photo of the sculpture, said spokeswoman Theresa Keddy.

(article from CBC)
Calgary Transit did offer a compromise. You can put a picture of a bloody, naked, pretend baby on a bus, but only above the pupik.

If you don't know what is a pupik, ask richlevy or consult your copy of Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish.

What I thought was particularly interesting about this series of photos is that it's showing what you don't usually see ... the installation of the piece.

Plastic wrap is not a toy.

We've featured Ron Mueck's work before as an IOTD, back in 2004. I don't think that piece is quite as exciting. There's something disturbing about a wrinkly, bloody, just extruded baby girl.

Someday she will be a teenager and will do things like asking for the car keys or going on dates. With boys.
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Old 09-25-2010, 12:56 AM   #2
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The other other white meat.

You reckon they're preparing to slow roast it over a low fire?
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Old 09-25-2010, 04:35 AM   #3
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How is That art?

It's a model of something real. It's not art any more than a photo of a chair or a plastic cow in front of a feed store is.
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Old 09-25-2010, 05:46 AM   #4
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Ummmm.


No.
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Old 09-25-2010, 08:36 AM   #5
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Is that a slice of whole wheat bread under the head in the first picture?
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Old 09-25-2010, 08:50 AM   #6
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How is That art?

It's a model of something real. It's not art any more than a photo of a chair or a plastic cow in front of a feed store is.
OK, let's don't start that discussion again.
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Old 09-25-2010, 09:24 AM   #7
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No let's! This is definitely art and it evokes much emotion and complicated thought.
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Old 09-25-2010, 09:43 AM   #8
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Damn. I just thought it looked amazingly creepy.

Cow orker got these in his email. He's a fine artist, which is great, when a patient challenges his credentials, he shrugs and says, "I have a bachelor of fine arts."
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Old 09-25-2010, 12:52 PM   #9
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Creepy is an excellent description.
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Old 09-25-2010, 06:07 PM   #10
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Is the vagina that came out of part of the exhibit? Cuz THAT would be one scary show!
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Old 09-25-2010, 07:48 PM   #11
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I think as a piece of art, the head of the baby draped in plastic is way more arty than the whole thing assembled. And I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
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Old 09-25-2010, 08:48 PM   #12
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The head wrapped in plastic and the full-body baby are different pieces. Look at the scale difference. The plastic-wrapped head is 7-8 feet tall, the horizontal head is half that...
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Old 09-25-2010, 08:51 PM   #13
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I've found baby heads usually swell when I wrap them in plastic, of course severed heads, not so much.
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Old 09-25-2010, 10:17 PM   #14
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Is the vagina that came out of part of the exhibit? Cuz THAT would be one scary show!
I think they just put some hair around a loading dock door for that.
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Old 09-25-2010, 10:18 PM   #15
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The head wrapped in plastic and the full-body baby are different pieces. Look at the scale difference. The plastic-wrapped head is 7-8 feet tall, the horizontal head is half that...
I completely missed that. I was wondering why the baby's expression looked so different from a different perspective.

Very clever Clodfobble.
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