Shrine

tutorial sugestions - looking at adolesence Helen Van Meen and Rineke Dijkstra

Riflemaker Exhibtion

AEF+S

Olaf Martens

Steven Klein - the Fashion Religion

Mythologies @ Haunch of Venison

Bill Viola - Small Saints

Hew Locke - After the Gold Rush

Ed & Nancy Kienholz


Sophie Calle - Tranche a la hache

Found Image

Caravaggio

Theo Van Gogh

- still from the highly offensive film that it resulted in a fatwah calling for his death. On 2 November 2004 he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist.

Mark Wallinger Curates - The Russain Linesman @ The Hayward

Joseph Beuys - Cosmos and Damien

Durer - St John Devouring the Book

Andres Serrano - Piss Christ

Joel Peter Witkin - Venus Prefered To Christ

Annette Messager - The Messager

Mounir Fatmi - Tête dure

Holy Mountain

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Forgive Me Father For I Have Sinned

Damian Hurst

La Nona Ora

'The Ninth Hour' - Maurizio Cattelano

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1082690.stm

Alexander Kosolapov ::: Icon-Caviar

Gustav Klimt

klimt may not have used religois imagery, but his paintings are as adorned as much as some of the icon paintings i have looked at, and the swirling ritch colours elevate the sacred-ness of his paintings. his female subjects could easly be taken for maddonas.

i love david.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwoUFXWKSBo

Voodoo Symbols

- money
- ciggerettes
- crusifixs
- bottles (perfume and booze)
- sequins
- skulls
- toys (dolls)
- silks
- dirt
- bones
- pills
- jewles
- bright dyed silks

Horniman Museum

I decided to visit The Horniman Museum to look at the voodoo shrines, it was amazing i am very inspired by the way they collected old 'usless' things and elevated the ordianary everyday to the sacred.