Villain of the piece

[imomus]

It was hard to be a man at the Barbara Kruger installation at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art yesterday. A whole room was covered with text about what monsters of sex and violence men are, and in the information area it was all related to life in Glasgow with a series of chilling facts and figures about wife-beating in the city. It made Glasgow's Argyll Street feel like Elm Street and all men look like potential Freddy Krugers, about to batter their pinch-featured, ruddy-nosed wives or slay the Umbro- and Vodaphone-blazoned wee'uns they dragged behind them through the drizzle. It made Aidan Moffat's bruised, obscene, honest, romantic, depressing, dour lyrics at the Arab Strap acoustic show we saw immediately afterwards all the more apt.

Comments

[evalien.livejournal.com]

Terrific pictures. And a fabulous outfit, you very much look meant for being in the installation...err not meaning that as being the male monster. Just meaning visually.

I've loved Barbara Krugers work for years. I love the graphic power of it. But basically i just have a weakness for a certain way of using text and image together in art. For some reason she's hardly known in the Netherlands.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

and i like your haircut.

[evalien.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's only half a Louise Brooks bob cut. Long with 2 short bits next to my face.