Pinocchio/The Dark Side June 30, 2009
Posted by leskanturek in 3-D work, Pinocchio, Puppets, Summer Reading Project.Tags: dark side, death, mask, Pinocchio, Pinocchio tattoo, Skeleton, Vampire Slayer
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“Number 3 Chris Slipknot mask is an official licensed mask from Morbid Industries. … (the) mask is a bondage style Pinocchio latex mask, … The nose on this slipknot mask is approximately 4.5 inches long“
A Giant (Pinocchio?) skeleton at The Palazzo Reale in Milan by artist Gino De Dominicus titled “Calamita Cosmica”
Pinocchio’s death- an installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2008) by artist Maurizio Cattelan, (titled Daddy Daddy)
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(above) Zombie Pinocchio Tattoo ( courtesy of BMEzine.com)
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(above) Pinocchio’s Revenge , the 1996 horror film. “…..Evil comes with strings attached”. You can’t beat that as a tagline.
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(above) Pinocchio Vampire Slayer A graphic novel coming September 2009 drawn by Dustin Higgins and written by Van Jensen. Pinoke uses his nose as a wooden stake to kill the undead. If you look closely at the bottom right hand panel the vampire is saying with his dying breath ” Killed by a nose…how humiliating”.
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(above) Geppetto from the DC/Vertigo comic book Fables. The story as written by Bill Willingham paints Pinocchio’s father as an deluded, tyrannical despot. I’ll save you the details of what has befallen the Blue Fairy at the hands of this monster.
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(above) Pinocchio: The Story of a Boy By Ausonia
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Where do I begin? The maggots on the cover should be a tip off of how dark this version of Pinocchio is. Here the story of our hero is turned upside down. The world is inhabited by wooden people , Gepetto is a butcher who sews together a creature that loosely resembles a bag of meat.
I first saw mention of this book on frankensteinia, a wonderful blog of all things related to Frankenstein. Which does raise an interesting point. In many ways Pinocchio and Frankenstein are cousins. Two beings invested with life, yet not quite whole. They both search for their humanity and as they do so provide a sometimes terrible reflection of what and how humanity can act towards the different and outsider. Ausonia tackles these themes with beautifully drawn art, the imagery is shocking and graphic. Ausionia’s site for this particular book of his offers sketches, and finished art with the authors thoughts on pinocchio. The pages can be translated fromm the Italian through your browser. www.ausonia-pinocchio.com/
Another book that explores the connection between Pinoke and Frank (also written up in frankensteinia) is The Cobbler’s Monster by Jeff Amano (writer), Craig Rousseau (pencils) and Wayne Faucher (Inks). This book is more of a blending of the two stories.
Pinocchio-1001 Uses June 30, 2009
Posted by leskanturek in 3-D work, Industrial Design, Pinocchio.1 comment so far
Possibly it’s the material aspect of Pinocchio that has inspired designers to turn our iconic wooden friend into something utilitarian. His nose seems particularly handy for a number of things. I suppose form really does follow function.
A Pinocchio tape measure (Kim and Jason’s Lemonade Stand)
The copy reads: “Add a colorful touch to your bathroom with Pinocchio Toilet Brush. Any kid young or old would like this naughty brush in their bathroom. Cute and practical, Pinocchio’s nose substitutes the handle, while the brush is Pinocchio’s smiling face and his cap is the brush stand. Poor Pinocchio has to do the toilet cleaning also for all the lies he said.” (Gizmodiva.com)
From Italy a plastic Pinoke funnel (by Alessi)
A set of cards available to teachers to be used as measuring exercises in elementary school.
A clothes line by industrial designer Francesco Castiglione Morelli (Outlook Design Italia)
A toothpick dipenser created by David Tsai (davidtsai.net)
A Picture For A Thousand Voices June 22, 2009
Posted by leskanturek in Political and Social Art, Public art, Student work.Tags: A Picture For A Thousand Voices, Evan Turk, Gay Art
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Concepts class alum, Evan Turk has initied a wonderful project titled :
and has posted a call for submissions/participants to the project. A Picture For A Thousand Voices …”is is a project to help create a dialogue about the individual hopes for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equal rights movement through the medium of illustration. ” Artists (and writers) are asked to submit artwork depicting their hopes for equal rights for the LGBT community or a relevant story depicting their experiences and send it to Evan at evan@evanturk.com. If you’re a writer looking for an artist or an artist looking for a story to illustrate Evan might be able to facilitate a collaboration. The project’s address is picturefor1000voices.blogspot.com/ where you can read about the project, see submissions and read the parameters for the project.
Above are two silkscreens by Evan titled “Holding Hands” that are starting off the project. Please pass on info about the projectand check out Even’s blog, or better yet submit something. Also take a look at Evan’s earlier May 6th post on this site about Gay Art.
-Thanks
