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Simon Starling in Palermo during Manifesta 12 with the project ‘La Decollazione (The Decollation)’

Very Studio Ghibli #SimonStarling (at The Common Guild)

Art in the afternoon! Had a great visit with our gracious and indispensible docent Jacky. Thank you for your guidance! #simonstarling #milkovicharch (at Rennie Museum)

Simon Starling Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), 2010 The main figure in Simon Starling’s Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) is Henry Moore’s sculpture, Nuclear Energy. This work went through a vigorous and dubious process of disguise and reinvention during Henry Moore’s life. The mushroom cloud-shaped sculpture was envisioned and made into a plaster model in 1964, and then commissioned by the University of Chicago in 1966 to be cast as a large bronze monument. The commission commemorated the site of the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction overseen by Enrico Fermi. Later in 1970, Henry Moore invited photographer Errol Jackson to record him working on the already finished maquette in front of a formally similar elephant skull, which came into his possession well after completing the sculpture.* Years later, during the 1980s, Henry Moore was dissatisfied with the various connotations of his sculpture and possible complicity with the entire nuclear project. So he insisted a working model for Nuclear Energy be sold and displayed at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, under a new name Atom Piece. #simonstarling #henrymoore (at Rennie Museum)

Simon Starling “At Twilight (After W. B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation)” at Japan Society Gallery. #exhibition #SimonStarling #juxtaposing #noh #AtTwilight #hawk #mask #debut #YukieKamiya #congratulation (at Japan Society)

Radical Seafaring @parrishart now, an exhibit of intentional acts on the water. #simonstarling sailing his little steamboat while consuming parts of the boat in its own firebox...#mother_earth... #art #boats #messingaroundinboats #scotland #artist #consumptionsociety (at Parrish Art Museum)

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