Regine September 1, 2006 art

Image of the day

‘Head On’ by Cai Guo-Qiang at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The installation consists of 99 life-sized wolves, fabricated from painted sheepskins and stuffed with hay and metal wires, barreling in a continous stream towards – and into – a glass wall. Only the first ones crash into it, but the pack chases after the leader.

Via The Telegraph (images of the week). Press Release. More information about the installation and its preparation.

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Antonio on September 2, 2006 at 5:19 pm

I just can say: WOW.
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thug life soldier riding for pac on September 2, 2006 at 5:23 pm

what the fuck
3

sanjoon on September 2, 2006 at 5:29 pm

that’s beautiful :::tear:::
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James on September 2, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Now that, is art.
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Patrick on September 2, 2006 at 6:19 pm

Haha wolves in sheeps clothing
thats pretty sweet though.
i digg it.
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mathew baldwin on September 2, 2006 at 6:30 pm

unbelievable.. very cool.
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raza on September 2, 2006 at 6:31 pm

someone find a high res link….
-r
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Mazmum on September 2, 2006 at 6:36 pm

I guess we are running out of ideas for art…..
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Eric on September 2, 2006 at 6:43 pm

lets look at the combination we have here, Based on the name it’s an East asian (looks chinese) “artist”, in Berlin, creating a display of 99 wolves crashing into a glass wall… props for teh variety?
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Warptera on September 2, 2006 at 7:06 pm

“I guess we are running out of ideas for art….”
How so? I don’t think it’s possible to ever run out of artistic ideas.
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Al on September 2, 2006 at 7:19 pm

Very interesting. I normally hate the “modern art”, but I love it when i find a message in it. And I find a very interesting message in the wolfs wearing sheepskins and crashing into the wall. I think it is a desire of what he wants to happen to the many wolves we have in our society wearing sheepskins.
Very good.
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Lex10 on September 2, 2006 at 7:38 pm

Was he wearing my favorite belt while creating it?
http://tinyurl.com/e7z6e
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Saif on September 2, 2006 at 8:09 pm

Such pain is unbearable. Perhaps they should have the wolves jump into a pile of yummy sheep.
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chad on September 2, 2006 at 8:13 pm

“I guess we are running out of ideas for art…..”
..yeah, and there you were, right at the very end of it all.
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Erick V on September 2, 2006 at 8:22 pm

I looove it =D
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John on September 2, 2006 at 8:24 pm

Gay.
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wolfman bob on September 2, 2006 at 8:26 pm

and the point is?????
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Erick V on September 2, 2006 at 8:26 pm

Looks like “thug life soldier riding for pac” just didn’t “get it”. Pity.
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US Citizen #217756869 on September 2, 2006 at 8:50 pm

One of the best depictions of the GOP I have ever seen.
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cornelius on September 2, 2006 at 8:59 pm

These are rather sheep in wolves clothing.
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mieses on September 2, 2006 at 9:00 pm

artist has a childish and cruel sense of humour.
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chaaaarleee on September 2, 2006 at 9:30 pm

The wolves are interpretations of humans. Wolves dressed in sheeps clothing are world leaders or power people leading us to the destined self desruction of mankind……FIGHT THE POWER hence us hence destined self detruction.
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Justin on September 2, 2006 at 11:47 pm

Is that where you guys stop with art? You think everything is some gigantic allegory, or a puzzle that you’re supposed to figure out? Fuck – Art education is shit these days. This, or any other exhibit, is something that you’re supposed to experience. Don’t get so wrapped up in the symbolism.
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gopherdabills on September 3, 2006 at 12:51 am

99 wolves leaping into a wall,
99 into a wall.
One falls down, a pile on the ground.
98 wolves leaping into a wall.
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Jesse on September 3, 2006 at 3:55 am

this thing is so totally cool, it is not at all a symbol that we are running out of ideas for art, but exactly the opposite
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itomato on September 3, 2006 at 4:53 am

An illustration of the mindless tendency to ‘follow’.
Not even one wolf thinks for itself and steps out of the stream.
—
@ all who’s reaction is “WTF?” or “WTP?”:
Don’t be a wolf.
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Outlander on September 3, 2006 at 12:47 pm

Hey itomato,
Nice comment :)
I wish I could zip over to Berlin to check this out, but alas….Australia is too far away and costs too much $$$ for me currently.
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Piem@n on September 3, 2006 at 1:02 pm

This only just got into the paper at where i live!!!!! LOL!
And it is quite amazing.
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ibob on September 3, 2006 at 5:59 pm

This is an advertisement for a firewall…
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charrlleeee on September 3, 2006 at 6:45 pm

Justin you are a fucking wiener! Of course i dont think every piece of art is a puzzle. Why is it when people react angrily they generalise. Your emotions are clouding your judgements.
Yeh experience art but the symbols are there to provoke thought!
Wolves, sheeps clothing what the fuck do you think this could mean? Nothing much! lets just stroke their fur and experience their balls in our mouths.
I have an extension of my interpretation, i think war is the underlying subject. Also one of the hurt or dead wolves on the floor at the front is smiling i think hes a suicde bomber hes happy to sacrifice himself because hes been mind fucked by a sheep in wolves clothing.
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Disenfranchised Voter on September 3, 2006 at 6:51 pm

Join the Army! Be all you can be!
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charrlleeee on September 3, 2006 at 6:51 pm

And if you think my comments are whack why dont you look at the article on the subconcious art of graffiti removal!
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jp on September 3, 2006 at 9:48 pm

Apply directly to the forehead. Reminds me of Santa’s reindeer taking off.
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Jon on September 3, 2006 at 11:48 pm

Does this remind anyone else of the Bush administration? The leader does something stupid, and everyone else keeps running along behind him doing the same stupid things not trying to improve our situation/government/economy? Truly it is a work of art…a reminder of Government…
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Luchog on September 4, 2006 at 2:04 am

reply to Justin:
There’s not need to be so sanctimonious about your definition of how “art” should be experienced. Part of what art is is the search for deeper meanings in life, a way of expressing what cannot be adequately expressed in words. Symbolism is just as much a part of art as aesthetics. I agree that assertions of a concrete allegorical meaning is reading a bit too much into it, but good art should make people think and feel. The meanings that people find are more often in themselves than the art.
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realist on September 4, 2006 at 7:37 pm

I think it’s funny how everybody sees what they want to see. There isn’t anything in the article saying that the artist is alluding to war or Bush or anything else. The wolf in sheep’s clothing could be a metaphor, or it could be that WOLVES ARE ENDANGERED AND SHEEP ARE DOMESTICATED LIVESTOCK so the artist was using the materials that were simply available. Ultimately, this piece is about 99 wolves, crashing into a wall. Whether it has any subliminal meaning, ask the artist.
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Joris on September 4, 2006 at 9:05 pm

Very impressive!
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Luan on September 5, 2006 at 5:39 am

I was thinking if it were arranged differently it could show a single wolf (but it would look like 99 different frames) crashing into a glass wall. However this just looks like 99 wolves crashing into a glass wall simultaneously, which will also do.
“99 wolves, crashing into a wall”
Snakes, on a plane.
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rek on September 5, 2006 at 3:59 pm

I think this is brilliant.
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little matty on September 7, 2006 at 1:19 am

99 wolft balloons
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Thomas on September 8, 2006 at 6:06 pm

Are the 3 little pigs on the other side of the window?
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Vahnatai on October 5, 2006 at 7:54 pm

I like the symbolism that can be derived from it. Whether “wolves in sheep clothing” was itself had meaning to the artist, I wouldnt base my interpretation around that so much. Regardless, some pretty entertaining comments on here. Structuralist or non.
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Monika on February 5, 2007 at 11:27 pm

I like being able to read several interpretations into this.
I am sad for the loss of the lives of the animals to produce this, but hopefully, they will be the sacrificial lambs necessary to get us to look at ourselves in the style of Aesop.
Monika

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