Knitted Slogans - Whitney 2014

Lisa Anne Auerbach

knitted painting

 wool

"do not think do not worry"

Whitney Biennial 

2014

New York

We Are All Pussy Riot - Whitney 2014

Lisa Anne Auerbach

knitted sweater

 wool

"we are in the age of intuiton"

Whitney Biennial 

2014

New York

Sewn Painting - Whitney 2014

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

Notley

painting on sewn canvas

details

latex house paint, enamel, silver spray paint on sewn drop cloth

Notley

218x335 cm

disobedience with the language 

of

zigzaggy lines versus circular gestures, 

feminine roundness versus masculine angularity

on sewing

Whitney Biennial

2014

New York

Battle of Letters - Rammellzee

Rammellzee by Iris van Gelder

Rammellzee, the New York based artist who died this June was rarely photographed without wearing one of his elaborate science-fiction-inspired masks and costumes - a way of deconstructing the clothing code of modern society.

In his theory of Gothic Futurism he aimed to liberate the mystical power of letters from modern alphabetical standardization. He also had an anarchic plan to revise the role of language in society. In his statement he describes the "academic language" and its verbal absurdity as an exclusion of masses from culture and stacking them into slums and ghettos. For these masses writing=graffiti, and to be able to understand its means one have to communicate with people in poor quarters.

Graffiti artist's symbolic warfare of letters in Budapest

Embroidery language

This Hungarian folklore pattern speaks of love with an archaic sign language using the beauty of the tulip and the peacock as symbols of male and female sex, fertility, sun and heaven. The reversed heart form is the symbol of male sex, the open tulips are for female fertility, and the plum-like shape between is for female genitals. The tulip opens up to the sky and offers herself to heaven. All this activity is catalysed on the warmth of the sun symbolised by the peacock-eye pattern.