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The story follows a Medjay named Bayek, and explores the origins of the centuries-long conflict between the Brotherhood of Assassins, who fight for peace by promoting liberty, and The Order of the Ancients—forerunners to the Templar Order—who desire peace through the forced imposition of order.
ഒരു ചായ അടിച്ചു വരാം….മലയാളികള് ഓഫീസിലും വീട്ടിലും ഒക്കെ എന്തിന് ജോലിചെയ്യാതെ മടി കാണിക്കുന്നതിനടക്കം പറയുന്ന ഈ വാചകം സുപരിചിതം. എന്നാല് ചായയുടെ ചരിത്രം ഒന്ന് നോക്കാം.
ചായയുടെ ചരിത്രം ആരംഭിക്കുന്നതു ഏകദേശം 5000 വര്ഷങ്ങള്ക്കു മുന്പ് പുരാതന ചൈനയിലാണ്. ഐതിഹ്യങ്ങളനുസരിച്ച് ചൈനീസ് ചക്രവര്ത്തിയായിരുന്ന ഷെന് നുങ് (Shen Nung) ഒരു വേനല്ക്കാലത്ത് കാട്ടില് വേട്ടക്കു പോയ സമയത്തു കുറച്ചു വെള്ളം ചൂടാക്കാനായി വെയ്ക്കുകയും തിളച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരുന്ന അവസരത്തില് കുറച്ച് ഉണങ്ങിയ ഇലകള് ഈ വെള്ളത്തില് വീഴുകയും ആ വെള്ളം തവിട്ടുനിറത്തിലാകുകയും ചെയ്തു. ഈ വെള്ളംകുടിച്ച അദ്ദേഹത്തിനു ഉന്മേഷം തോന്നുകയും അങ്ങനെ തേയിലയും ചായയും കണ്ടെത്തി എന്നുമാണ് ഐതിഹ്യം. ചായയുടെ പാനീയമൂല്യം തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞത് ചൈനാക്കാരാണ്.
ഹൊ…. നമ്മള് കുടിക്കുന്ന ചായയുടെ ഒരു ചരിത്രമേ… ചായ കോപ്പയിലെ കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ് എന്നുളള പ്രയോഗം മാറ്റണമോ എന്നാലോചിച്ചാല് നന്ന്.
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Car, cigarettes, glue
‘I’d always had it in mind to do something about the fact of smoking. I wanted to make something about the heart and lungs in real size. Then, I needed something with some scale for an exhibition, I thought of using cars. I liked the idea of the cars being burnt out because of the parallel with lungs. And because of people’s idea of lungs as something insulated from the outside. Cars insulate you from the outside – like a home does. It’s a shock to see it violated.’
Cigarettes have featured in Lucas’s work since her 1997 exhibition The Law, and she has gone on to create several series of cigarette-coated objects. In the final room of the exhibition, we see the climax of this theme in This Jaguar’s Going to Heaven 2018. A Jaguar car, covered in cigarettes, is split in two. The action of cutting the car in half is a destructive act. Lucas said, ‘when I first started using cigarettes in art it was because I was wondering why people are self-destructive. But it’s often destructive things that makes us feel most alive’. Self-portraits of the artist such as Red Sky 2018, displayed as wallpaper here, show her surrounded in an almost ethereal or ghostly cloud of smoke. In her Muses series, she places phallic cigarettes in the orifices of body casts of her friends.
We might also relate cigarettes to the title of the show,
HAPPY GAS. Sarah has described her choice of exhibition title as ‘funny and uplifting and a bit sinister too – ambiguous I suppose’. In typical Lucas style, however, she also insists it is merely because she ‘fancied a two-word title’.*
From the exhibition
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
(September 2023 – January 2024)
A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human
Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery.
Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.
This exhibition presents her practice in all its diversity across sculpture, installation and photography, narrated in her voice, and looking well beyond the 1990s Young British Art world.
Breaking boundaries with humour and daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it means to be human.
...Since 1990, Sarah Lucas has been making art that distorts everyday life. The expressiveness of ordinary things is coaxed out, or just noticed and pointed at. In this exhibition, a banana, lightbulbs, concrete, fish, a car, tights, chairs, tabloid newspapers and cigarettes are used to explore the human condition. Mischievously and honestly, Lucas asks universal questions about our origins, sex, class, happiness and mortality.
Lucas’s strange, familiar and funny forms are deeply personal. HAPPY GAS is also narrated entirely in her own voice. Yet the familiar themes and images in her work could be about any of us. The exhibition tells a fuller story than the 1990s Young British Art scene that Lucas is so often associated with. Through self-portraits, a young Lucas and the now 60-year-old artist look at each other’s work. We see reminiscence, social comment, family, childhood and collaborative friendship running through almost 35 years of making art.
Lucas has always challenged the conventions of photography, sculpture and collage through her choice of subjects and materials. What might appear rough or casual is in fact a careful manipulation of materials, words and her own image.
In the exhibition, she creates a mood of grit, shock and play, regularly punctuated by the darkness and pleasure of sex, smoking and food. Lucas’s subversion of social realism points to what is both laughable and demeaning about class and gender stereotypes. Too many limbs, no heads, explicit metaphors and huge food give this realism a magical quality, creating a defiant, joyful and vital atmosphere.
[*Tate Britain]
Taken in Tate Britain
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What: A gigantic smoking jacket. See confession.
Origin: Thrift-store madness.
Usage: I sincerely hope not.
How long kept: Since the early/mid-80s.
Why kept: Other than the fact that I clearly have "issues", mostly Out of Sight, Out of Mind. And, Storage Boxes Are Evil.
Destination: Since I don't know LeBron James or other man large enough to wear it, Housing Works.
Confession: This goes way beyond any sort of reasonable "Big Jacket" style of the 80s. I measured it, it's 36 inches long. I don't stand far north of 60 inches, so I sincerely apologize to anyone who ever even saw me try this on. Hopefully I never sported it.
Confession, part deux: It smells musty, yet retains a dry cleaning tag. So I imagine that it may still harbor smoke from, well, not exactly Cromwell's time. Eew.
Confession, continued: While I did find the dress for "S" (or if she doesn't love it, someone else), and pulled out a couple more items to blog...there is still a storage box containing vintage clothing I'm not ready to release. But that I'm highly unlikely to ever wear again.
Aargh.
A plaque in the old town of Zurich. Translation:
In this house lived, between 1508 to 1514 and 1520 to 1525, Conrad Grebel who, together with Felix Manz, founded the Anabaptist movement.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale: "Tota Italia - Alle Origini di Una Nazione" V secolo a.C. – I secolo d.C. (14/05 - 25/07/2021). Foto di 1-39: Gianni de Dominicis, Roma/ Facebook (21-23/06/2021). S.v., Corriere Della Sera (12/05/2021) & Anche foto: "Detto e Fumetto" / Instagram (29/05/2021). wp.me/pbMWvy-1E7
ROMA - Scuderie del Quirinale: "Tota Italia - Alle Origini di Una Nazione" V secolo a.C. – I secolo d.C. (14/05 - 25/07/2021). Foto: Gianni de Dominicis, Roma/ Facebook (21-23/06/2021).
Nota: Un'altra meravigliosa serie di fotografie da Roma, per gentile concessione di Gianni de Dominicis, Roma/ Fb. Mille Grazie M&M.
Roma - "Dalla mostra 'Tota Italia alle origini di una nazione' alle scuderie del quirinale. Un primo invio in attesa di preparare le altre
saluti anche a muppet...Ecco un secondo invio...manca l'ultimo & questo è l'ultimo invio, ce ne sarebbero altre, ma penso che queste siano sufficienti per avere un panorama...saluti a M-M.
--- Foto di: Gianni de Dominicis, Roma/ Facebook (21-23/06/2021).
Roma - Tota Italia. Alle origini di una nazione. Scuderie del Quirinale (06/2021).
Le Scuderie del Quirinale riaprono con una mostra di grande rilievo culturale e simbolico “Tota Italia. Alle origini di una nazione”, realizzata con la Direzione Generale Musei del Ministero della Cultura, e curata da Massimo Osanna e Stéphane Verger.
La mostra nel titolo riprende la famosa formula del giuramento di Augusto, l’uomo che per la prima volta unificò l’Italia in un territorio omogeneo. Un’unificazione sotto il segno di Roma, ma che al tempo stesso manteneva quella divisione in regioni che ancora oggi testimonia la ricchezza e la varietà delle nostre tradizioni.
La mostra racconterà questo complesso processo di unificazione - che fu scontro, incontro e ibridazione tra culture - attraverso i reperti e gli oggetti più significativi, partendo dalla straordinaria ricchezza dell’Italia preromana, affascinante mosaico di genti e di tradizioni, e ripercorrendo le tappe che, dal IV secolo all’età giulio-claudia, la condussero a essere unica sotto le insegne di Roma. Con una narrazione coerente e unitaria, libera sia dall’assoluta centralità di Roma sia dal rischio di una visione regionale, sarà possibile ammirare nella stessa sede espositiva le opere più significative di quella varietà espressiva che concorse alla formazione dell’Italia augustea e dell’Impero.
Gli eccellenti prestiti che costituiscono il corpus della mostra testimoniano l’importante patrimonio dei Musei Nazionali presenti sul territorio e racconteranno il costituirsi della nostra identità culturale, le radici del nostro Paese rievocandone anche la ricca pluralità sociale, etnica e culturale.
Fonte/ source:
--- Scuderie del Quirinale (06/2021).
www.scuderiequirinale.it/mostra/tota-italia-alle-origini-...
Fonte / source, foto:
--- Gianni de Dominicis, Roma/ Facebook (21-23/06/2021).
S.v.,
www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51212768359
— ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. Museo Nazionale Romano «Tota Italia», tesori d’archeologia raccontano la nascita di una Nazione. Corriere Della Sera (12/05/2021). Foto: Detto e Fumetto / Instagram (29/05/2021). wp.me/pbMWvy-1vS
Mission photos. Origins of the Iconian precursors. Last of the Iconians and their past.
Iconians in this story are not tied to STO. This is what the BluShock version would look like.
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