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Orignal Sports Angel, The Marbled Plane

Orignal Sports Angel

April 10, 2015 - May 8, 2015

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Artists Involved:
Orignal Sports Angel (Inez Genereux and Cale Weir)

April 10th – May 8th, 2015

Artists Involved:
Orignal Sports Angel (Inez Genereux and Cale Weir)

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The Marbled Plane spans an infinite landscape of esteemed opulence and artificial beauty. Marble imagery has become a popular reoccurring theme in Internet art aesthetics. Classical aesthetics have developed new meaning by being placed in a totally artificial context and shifting their contingency from being reserved for only the elite, to hugely accessible across the Internet. A marble bust is destroyed in order to make space for the New Aesthete, and its material is recycled to create a literal aesthetic simulacra.

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