Response to a contemporary artist

Art created after World War II.

Andrea Zittel

- American sculptor, installation artist, and realist artist.

- creates functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing. 

-She believes function of art has more to do with facilitating new forms of perception. Art helps you to perceive things in a different way. 

- She sees design as a pursuit to shape the way that these things look and function in a more practical sense... and craft delves into production and the way in which they are made.

- Thinks that all three areas can be components of a single object.

She creates crazy imaginative places that are also functional. They all seem very homey and i kinda just want her to design my bedroom..yeah.

Research of personal interest

lnews.yahoo.com/crazy-sculpture-opens-buenos-aires-art-center-165501606.html


"Knitting furiously with 30 helpers for two months, Neto filled a vast space in a former grain mill with colorful crochet netting, one knot at a time. Then he filled the nets with thousands of plastic balls to create swaying pathways for people to walk through, and suspended it all from the walls and ceiling. The result is a huge organic form that seems to float high above the floor, like vines spreading through the canopy of the Amazon jungle."


- This is crazy! I had never thought of knitting as an artwork until i saw this. A sculpture?! I couldn't imagine walking through this. 


He says that "People fear instability, thinking it's a crisis, but instability is the natural state of things," 
- He accomplished this point by making his sculpture out of something like netting so that you can climb all through it, while it being safe but it feels unsafe. So he is in a way showing them that instability can be good! It can prepare them for what they have to deal with in everyday life.