Following on from my post about Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock maybe this single colour bird thing is becoming a fashion ?
In an installation for last year's Liverpool's Biennal in an around its neo-classical Walker Art Gallery an artist uses multi-colour magnitude rather than the monochrome mass used by Fritsch in an attempt to create an aesthetic effect.
Patrick Murphy’s Belonging is 150 ‘brightly coloured guests’ aka Ken Livingston's "rats with wings" aka pigeons painted various garish colours as appose to Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock single, 800kg bird. Murphy argues:
Belonging elevates the familiar site of pigeons [to] welcome, colourful visitors….. [evoking] questions about ownership and feelings of being accepted or marginalised.
I leave you to decide, for me Belonging is shop bought art, kitsch like Fritsch's.
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