Conceptual art can be hit or miss, but this hot homo duo from Denmark and Norway have good aim. Their work is emotive, multi layered and beautifully executed.
Take for example Prada Marfa, Texas, 2005: by a desert highway the duo have constructed a Prada boutique. The building juts out of the baron landscape like a first tooth. It is much like any urban Prada boutique with clean lines, aqua glass fronatge and embellished awanings. Only this boutique is never to be open, it's shoes and handbags are never to be tried on or purchased, despite being picked by Muiccia Prada herself. Instead the shop is left to degrade in the desert over time, hence monumetalising an institution that is otherwise obsessed with the new.
More on Elmgreen and Dragset later...
Take for example Prada Marfa, Texas, 2005: by a desert highway the duo have constructed a Prada boutique. The building juts out of the baron landscape like a first tooth. It is much like any urban Prada boutique with clean lines, aqua glass fronatge and embellished awanings. Only this boutique is never to be open, it's shoes and handbags are never to be tried on or purchased, despite being picked by Muiccia Prada herself. Instead the shop is left to degrade in the desert over time, hence monumetalising an institution that is otherwise obsessed with the new.
More on Elmgreen and Dragset later...
Prada Marfa, Texas 2005
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