Word: rawanchaikul
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...creation." And on display are the works of artists both delighted and disturbed by a rapidly changing metropolitan landscape. Among the star pieces are a playhouse-size structure made of plastic Coca-Cola bottles and designed by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban; a taxi deconstructed by Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul and fashioned into furniture; and a mobile made of pieces of trash?a Styrofoam takeout box, a plastic bag, netting that's used to protect fruit?whose dreamy shadows are projected onto a blue-tinged wall by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist...
...Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between art and commerce. American Naomi Fisher photographs herself doggy-style with plant stems transpiercing her underwear, while Japanese artist Jun'ya Yamaide transforms a white wall into an oversized coloring book complete with crayons...
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