Best Link Ever! AFC Hot on the Taxidermy Trail!

by Karen Archey on July 17, 2009 · 10 comments Best Link Ever! + Events

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY

UPDATE: Image crappytaxidermy.com, via Beth Dean

Yeehaw! This week’s Best Link Ever goes to the Livejournal community WTF? Taxidermy, a group of online journalists who gather stunning images of taxidermy gone wrong. Who knew pumping rodents full of chemicals could be so much fun? Well, some artists apparently figured it out: WTF? Taxidermy members already posted the memorable Peter Friedl giraffe from documenta 12 (the image isn’t marked but you can see the unmistakable orange glow of Inigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Phantom Truck coming from the nearby door), a Robert Rauschenberg combine, and a couple Maurizio Cattelans. Below, we offer up a few submissions from our European tour to WTF? Taxidermy for their review.

Karen Archey, Taxidermy, Best Link Ever, Art Fag City, Via Lewandowsky, Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof
Via Lewandowsky, “Berliner Zimmer (Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Elend),” 2002 from the Hamburger Bahnhof’s summer exhibition “Works from the Collections”

Karen Archey, Taxidermy, Best Link Ever, Art Fag City, Liam Gillick, Venice Biennale
Liam Gillick, How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks, The German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Karen Archey, Taxidermy, Best Link Ever, Art Fag City, Gosha Ostretsov, Venice Biennale
Gosha Ostretsov, “Art Life or The Torments of Creation,” The Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

A furry friend from an unknown pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Readers, help us identify this!

Best Link Ever is a weekly column posted on Fridays culling the best gems of the Internet, maintained by AFC Associate Editor Karen Archey.

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Ashley C. July 17, 2009 at 8:02 pm: Hungarian Pavilion.
Ashley C. July 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm: Hungarian Pavilion.
L.M. July 17, 2009 at 9:33 pm: This is the first Cattelan image I ever saw and I went bonkers over it.
L.M. July 17, 2009 at 4:33 pm: This is the first Cattelan image I ever saw and I went bonkers over it.
Leah Sandals July 22, 2009 at 8:39 pm: Is that lead image from Torrington, Alberta, and its infamous Gopher Museum?

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/gopher.htm

Go Canada!
Leah Sandals July 23, 2009 at 1:39 am: Is that lead image from Torrington, Alberta, and its infamous Gopher Museum?

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/gopher.htm

Go Canada!
Loba North July 25, 2009 at 2:47 am: Thank you kindly for the feature! I’ll post these and see what our WTF connoisseurs have to say…
Loba North July 24, 2009 at 9:47 pm: Thank you kindly for the feature! I’ll post these and see what our WTF connoisseurs have to say…
nokitty July 26, 2009 at 9:26 am: This taxidermy art is sick and not art it is about money. i would rather look at real taxidermy subverted by activist angela singer http://www.angelasinger.com/?page_id=33
nokitty July 26, 2009 at 4:26 am: This taxidermy art is sick and not art it is about money. i would rather look at real taxidermy subverted by activist angela singer http://www.angelasinger.com/?page_id=33