- Video: Steve and Alex Olson Make Art
- Posted 11 months ago by Jack Lowe · Art & Design · art · 2125 Views
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The LA Weekly have created a video documenting father-and-son skateboarding duo Steve and Alex Olson creating art at the opening of a Venice Biennale show entitled "Venice in Venice", which featured work by forty "Venice, California" artists. Their art piece, "Works in Motion" is a "wallride skateboard painting" made by tacking canvases on a ramp and riding on it with black paint on your wheels. "We were skating on basic acrylic, it was like skating on a slick surface, whether it be algae or oil or ice, or just grease. It was extremely slick. So then your skateboard skills kind of came into effect." said Steve.
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- it seems to me that conventional art has too many boundaries to be interesting to any degree anymore, seeing things like this and like Cai Guo-Qiangs gun powder drawings is much more invigorating and caters to the philosophies of Kline and Pollock, speaking to gesture and moment rather than formality. It opens up the spectrum to include those who haven't been trained with an art background. I would much rather look at this than at most "object" art that's around today.
- rhab
- 26 June 11
- i realise 'art' has more definitions than i care to imagine, but i really wouldn't use it to describe whats going on here, both very talented skateboarders, but this isn't art (in my opinion)
- Mark
- 25 June 11
- second that
- akonomous
- 25 June 11
- handsome family
- anne
- 25 June 11
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