Kind mit Pudeln
Originally uploaded by beancounter
My highlight of SFMOMA was a sculpture by Katharina Fritsch called Kind mit Pudeln. [Click on this pic and see others in my Flickr pool.] Over 200 hand-painted black poodles stand in formation, staring inward at one baby. According to the plaque, the artist is saying that babies are born innocent but must soon journey outward through a world that is both humorous and potentially corrupt. When I saw this sculpture, I immediately knew the poodles were were wondering what they could get for a kid on eBay.
'K, whatever Heather. Wouldn't Rottweilers be a more post-modern/post-mortem horse-floggingly appropriate canine comment? And really, why is the baby WHITE and the dogs BLACK? Surely even in liberal, hip, tolerant to a seismic fault SF we might not be dealing with some not-terribly-well self-examined pre-suppositions about the relationship between "recieved" notions of color and emotional response?
And what's with the naked midget on display? (In Flicker!) Leave it to the French to come up with something like that...
Posted by: Anthony | April 21, 2009 at 08:25 AM
sometimes a naked baby is a naked baby....
Posted by: jon f edelbaum | May 30, 2009 at 01:06 PM