Monday Modern Art Madness #10: Towards a Postmodern Heaven-scape in Lee Bul’s “Civitas Solis”.

It is exceedingly rare in the contemporary art world to find a piece with such magnitude that actually has a deep, and some would say even a spiritual, meaning behind it. Only the most daring (and the most lucrative) of modern artists can pull off installations of such dizzying magnanimity and scale, and actually make it work (unlike a Sarra-esque curved wall). Here we have another situation where, despite being tainted with the never-ceasing march of globalization, and the global art world being dictated in large part by the colonization of euro and American art elites, a different perspective leads to a very provocative and dare I say, meaningful style of expression; Enter the South Korean art giant Lee Bul, who’s works have led her to a global respect and recognition in the art world. One must not exoticize or fetishize the “great Oriental other” in terms of art perspectives, but one cannot help but conclude that a bit of a distance from the west can immunize the artist from the decadence, drab and chic nihilism, and purposeful malaise that characterizes a lions share of current art trends.

Meme Exegesis #2: The enigma of C A L M P O S T E R.

Deep inside the darkest reaches of Frog-twitter, out from under the despair of blackpilling, sorrow-posting, and generally cynical and jaded obsessions over all things that are decaying and profane in the modern world, lies one account that provides a reprieve from the endless streams of dissonance and frustration, CALMPOSTER.