KVT – Nghệ thuật của Rich Streitmatter Trần

“… where he created Pandora to lure mankind into a trap. And here’s a link to the trap the artist conceptualized.”

and the link gets us this note:

Nội dung này hiện không khả dụng
Trang bạn yêu cầu không thể hiển thị ngay bây giờ. Có thể nội dung này tạm thời không khả dụng, liên kết bạn đã nhấp vào có thể đã hết hạn, hoặc có thể bạn không có quyền xem trang này.

Trở về trang chủ

What does it mean — can someone help?

Hi KVT, Thanks for spending time to write about the work is such a remarkable way! Ilza, sorry about that link, like phm said, maybe it’s a link that’s public to “friends” on facebook.

However, to answer your question Ilza, that particular work speaks about a trap without bait, like Pandora’s box, Hephaestus’ Lure is a trap only a human could become ensnared in. Humans are the only species that apparently puts higher symbolic value on certain elements, and gold is at the top. The gold is the bait. It was a response to the curators challenge to think about the exhibition named “content/content” – where the content is the form. If that makes any sense :)

Thanks everyone and I hope you’ll have the chance to see the work at Manzi. To “lure” you in, Prof. Nora Taylor will be giving a talk there on the evening of the 30th!! :)

Dear phm and Richard Streitmatter-Tran.

Tank you.

Though I do regret not being able to see the photo of the work, I greatly appreciate that you took some of your time in answering and explaining it to me.

All best wishes for the coming year.

@Richard Streitmatter-Tran

ps
… I did give some thought (in a rather superficial way) to ” “content/content” – where the content is the form”… asyou explain…
and it seems to me that it does make perfect sense.

It has to be the rudimental of any object, i.e. any object… where the symbolic value = (but is not > (more than) its utility value & vise versa — say a slab of gold…(?)

…please, do feel free to correct me if I am wrong…

@Richard Streitmatter-Tran

pps

..in which case… I am afraid, that the artist is conned by “the riddle” out of their making art…

…would very much like to know how you resolved this challenge in your artwork, so it will be great if you let the pix be published on the Hanoi Grapevine (?)