Contemporary artists have found all kinds of ways to express a caustic wit.
Onlookers are not always sure whether what they see is in fact either caustic or witty, and whether they ought to laugh or snarl. Claes Oldenburg dug a grave and refilled it, calling it "an underground sculpture." Paul Thek displayed a lifelike sculpture of himself as a cadaver. Christo Javacheff, 33, a be spectacled Bulgarian-born artist, expresses his wit by wrapping thingsĀearth, hay, nudes, wheelbarrows and bottles.
He wraps these items in canvas or poly ethylene, then ropes them up...
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