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Chris Musina The Wolf of Ansbach (To Our Dearly Departed Burgermëister), 2011, acrylic on canvas 48" x 66" © Chris Musina 6
Chris Musina La Mort et la Béatification de St. Guinefort, 2011, oil and gold leaf on canvas 40" x 30" © Chris Musina This preys on a sense of contemporaneous unease surrounding us, specifically in our relationship to nature, and its seeming break down in the time in which we live: a time increasingly being dubbed the Anthropocene. In an attempt to elicit powerful visceral reactions, I merge the power of spectacle with humor and horror, all the while examining those natural histories and representations, their pasts, presents and possible futures. This chimeric amalgamation elicits a sense of connection and familiarity, unsettled by an uncertainty caused by loaded obscure references. I borrow from places where I see the animal as central, where the viewer will recognize the syntax, even if they are unfamiliar with the specifics. I am calling upon the human-animal relationship by creating new and unpredictable mythologies that draw attention to a culture that is only a product of our animal nature, and a nature that is a notion developed by our place within culture. In uneasy times, we search for certainty in science, stories, histories and myths, places ridden with represented animals. I don’t work to aid this comfort, but to capitalize on it, to appropriate, problematize and exacerbates its representation. I love painting fur, the repetitive mark making and brush strokes, the paint rolls softly, as luxurious as the real thing, guiding your eye, as if your hand, down through a soft silky coat. I want the viewer to feel that desire, that animalistic want to touch that fur, to stroke it gently, running their hand all the way down the animal’s body until they encounter something 7
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Page 5: TOWARDS A NEW ANIMISM Drawing from
Page 9 and 10: Chris Musina Rape of the Taung Chil
Page 11 and 12: A MODERN-MYSTIC LOOK AT ANIMALS Gro
Page 13 and 14: Christopher Reiger Submerged in His
Page 15 and 16: ANIMALS AS WALLPAPER London-based a
Page 17 and 18: Jessica Holmes Hours or even days o
Page 19 and 20: Sunaura Taylor Chicken Truck, oil o
Page 21 and 22: Sunaura Taylor Dead Calves on a Con
Page 23 and 24: Sunaura Taylor Baby Lamb Undergoing
Page 25 and 26: Sunaura Taylor Animals With Arthrog
Page 27 and 28: Sunaura Taylor Lobster Girl, oil pa
Page 29 and 30: Sunaura Taylor No Arms! (Self-Portr
Page 31 and 32: René J. Marquez Aspen, oil on canv
Page 33 and 34: René J. Marquez Untitled (puppies
Page 35 and 36: René J. Marquez Sophia, oil and ac
Page 37 and 38: these histories and identities cons
Page 39 and 40: René J. Marquez Tina, oil on canva
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Page 43 and 44: As Cabinet’s writer Charles Green
Page 45 and 46: Olly and Suzi Bull Moose, Syracuse,
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Page 51 and 52: Olly and Suzi Deer for Beuys, North
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Vanessa Barbay Eruption (Spring Kin
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POSTHUMAN ANIMALS AND THE AVANT-GAR
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avant-garde. Still, for my purposes
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made between the art object and its
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Charles Le Brun’s plates of anima
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the production of distinctions betw
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Daniel Spoerri Fig.1 Carnival of An
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Daniel Spoerri Fig.2 Carnival of An
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Daniel Spoerri Fig.3 Fleischwolfbru
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incongruities, that (by chance) bot
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distinct from an architectural land
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Vroni Schwegler Small Shoal in Linz
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an action and its agents: artist, f
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Petra Schilder Fig.1Smuiger, Dutch
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Petra Schilder Bully (tulip pigment
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gospels, Mass of the Virgin, Hours
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Fig.2 Master of Mary of Burgundy, H
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Fig.3 Master of Mary of Burgundy, H
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from 1500-1700 also points to the e
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Fig.5 Hours of Mary of Burgundy cod
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Fig.7 97 Hours of Mary of Burgundy
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Fig.8 Selected Hunting Scenes, Hour
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from speaking.[41] With the Vienna
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