Sunday, August 28, 2011

Garbage for a Cause

I usually rail against this kind of stuff
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Found art usually consists of stuff that is randomly discovered them put into an art piece as a medium, hopefully to convey a coherent message or idea to an audience.  I find that the randomness of a lot of it overwhelms the message, and usually that message is the same -- decay of some sort as a statement about society as a whole.
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Tonight, however, the message was the randomness of what nature can do to human lives, and using the artistic talents of many creative hands to lend a hand to a town stricken by a tornado.  The found objects in question was not trash, but was rather the broken remnants of real peoples normal existance found in the debris fields of Joplin Missouri and incorporated into art pieces and auctioned off as a benefit for the victims of the tornado that hit in late May 2011.
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I found myself in conversations about the randomness of nature, and how some of the things that a tornado might do could even be considered bueatiful, if it weren't also tragic.  The way some of the artists built on that, and formed it into a message about human tragedy and need truely did give me pause when I looked at the art objects.
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Many pieces were touching, actually, and many of the ideas conveyed had much more impact than normal.  So often we find artists doing this kind of thing, it almost becomes a cliche.  Tonight however, was different in the spirit, idea, intent and in the final finished products -- many pieces of which were fetching prices in the hundreds, and some that I heard, went for nearly a thousand dollars.
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This was an impressive performance by the artists, and by the Leedy-Volkos gallery.
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