Author Topic: Black Metal Art in Berlin (Read 7584 times)

chrisola · « **on:** April 20, 2006, 06:18:48 PM »

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Canadian artist Steven Shearer has used well-known fragments from songlyrics and titles by SATYRICON ("Filthgrinder"), CARCASS ("Exhume to Consume"), CADAVER ("Goat Father"), FEAR OF GOD ("Pneumatic Slaughter"), CRYPTOPSY ("Blasphemy Made Flesh") and many more to create a huge (9,253 square feet) poster that is currently being displayed in the center of Berlin, Germany.

According to the Diesel Wall 2006 web site, Shearer has been developing a series of "Poems" (2005) in which the artist "creates a textual mélange out of the lyrics of obscure rock bands and the titles of death metal classics and presents them as white-on-black posters.

The austere layout of the Poems contrasts with the logorrhea of their lyrics, which read like a derailed train of thought, a descent into the maelstrom of paranoia. Through accumulation and reiteration Shearer both embraces and distances himself from the culture he depicts, thus turning the Poems into an uncanny, clinical study of collective hysteria."

3 words: SODOMYTHICAL FROST GOATS

:lol: this guy has distanced himself from reality aswell it seems..

Skybone · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:24:40 PM »

But do the bands whose lyrics feature in this guys "work" get any recognition? Royalties? etc... "Lazy" art, use someone else's creativity to make a fast buck.

EXHAUSTED ORGANIC STENCH

Sounds like the day after the night before (after many pints and a curry (not Sodomythical Frost Goat Curry however)).

38thBeatle · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:03:44 PM »

He should have tried using Kylie's lyrics.

Ratrod · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2006, 05:23:04 PM »

Poems?

Looks like summary of Gray's Anatomy mixed with newspaper headlines.

_tom_ · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2006, 05:44:08 PM »

I dont understand how that is art..

Searcher · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2006, 09:36:27 PM »

I don't like black metal to start with and I don't think this is good art either.

indysmith · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2006, 11:09:45 AM »

that sucks. utter cr@p, just like death metal lyrics :P

froglord · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2006, 11:31:57 AM »

Of course, most Germans won't be able to read or make sense of any of this (unless their English is very good). If he wanted a real reaction he should have put it up outside the offices of the Daily Mail.

Searcher · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2006, 05:35:22 PM »

Quote from: froglord

Of course, most Germans won't be able to read or make sense of any of this (unless their English is very good).

It makes sense?

froglord · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2006, 09:02:25 PM »

Ha ha! I meant the words rather than the meaning.