EROTICS OF ARCHITECTURE: PINKY: Artists research –

Rirkrit Tiravanij.

ø Thai contemporary artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961 and raised in many countries.

ø His famous installations were based on familiarity, which included Thai common lifestyle (communal gathering).

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-->He rejects common art materials. Instead he cooked. -->ø His art takes the participation of the audience as part of it.

--> ø His work is about gathering people together; make the audiences interact with his work and each other as part of the art.

ø Prizes: winner of Hugo Boss Prize (2004) and Absolut Art Award (2010), awarded in the Benesse Prize, Lucelia Artist Award.

Untitled (Free). MoMA. 2011

Rirkrit's remarkable and renaming installation series begun in 1990; Pad Thai. Instead of using traditional art elements, he cooked and served Thai simple curry with rice to the visitors. The series continued and renamed. His latest exhibition was set in MoMA in 2011.

Rirkrit was raised in many countries, according to his diplomat father. He was raised in different cultural contexts that has become his virtue of art. His art represent the confrontation of familiarity.

Untitled (Free). MoMA. 1992

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Visitors of MoMA enjoying vegetarian Thai curry with rice and interacting with each other.

Free. Rirkrit Tiravanij. 2011

Rirkrit said that his work is a platform for visitors to interact with the given curry and with other visitors.

Visitors claims that they have never experienced this type of art when it comes to visiting art galleries.

Henrique Oliveira

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ø Brazilian artist , born in São Paulo and studied Arts at University of São Paulo.

ø ''I believe that the message is never art itself, but instead, the lack of a message is a characteristic that makes some creations interesting to me”

ø His art pieces were results of life experience, culture, language and exchange between people

Oliveira installations are in series. The large amoebic shapes installation can be easily recognized. As these installations usually devouring and invading the sites.

Most of his works were made of broken plywood that can commonly be found in the street in São Paulo. Plywood is used as an isolation for construction site. Its brokenness resembles the shape of brush stroke. These works are the representation of painting that use common materials; the representation of a new language of painting.

Plywood is a material that represent the world/ the context. Because of the size of the material, the installation needs to be large as it complying to the material.

His art is explained by himself that it does not have a specific message to the audiances. The lack of message gives the art more character and interest.