Rough and elegant artworks from traditional aesthetic boundaries. Meta-narratives, pop, science, subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references from Therapeutic nihilism to anti Anti art with the will to Nothingness…Tumblr (3.0; @antonunai)http://antonunai.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bce6b02e85f8b0b2f5409c806a98dfc5/tumblr_mmzwr2POC81r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="photoCaption"> <p><strong>WISE OLD BIRD, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption">A wise old owl sat in an oak.</div> <div class="photoCaption">The longer he sat, the less he spoke.</div> <div class="photoCaption">The less he spoke, the more he heard.</div> <div class="photoCaption"></div> <div class="photoCaption">Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?</div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/51068096375http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/51068096375Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:34 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/308876ad1a28245ae0f5a694e495c0df/tumblr_mmzwo9zX7u1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>THE GENERAL PUBLIC EYE, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st"></span></span><span><span class="st">The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it. </span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: Magazine, Etching, drawing, burning<br/><p>Size: <strong>A4<br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50987668635http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50987668635Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:23 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a10cf710916e2a9ff5dc0727ea759cf1/tumblr_mmzwna7K0W1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="photoCaption"> <p><strong>SERIOUS ACTIVITY, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st"><strong>It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities. </strong></span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: Magazine cut out, photocopy, glue<br/><p>Size: <strong>A4<br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50905456192http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50905456192Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:33 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/eec179ee56c5f8951d44d3f3295a7d78/tumblr_mmzwibckxE1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><em>Marilyn: Say Goodbye To The President</em> , 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><br/><span><span class="st">The toxicology report shows high levels of <strong>Nembutal</strong> (38–66 capsules) and <strong>chloral hydrate</strong> (14–23 tablets) in Monroe’s blood. The level found was enough to kill more than 10 people. </span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: Found plank of wood, photocopy, pens, acrylics, <br/><p>Size: Irregular<strong> <br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50817689885http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50817689885Sun, 19 May 2013 15:30:16 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9db0948bcba998c0e097fd0fd4090fc3/tumblr_mmzw63BbFp1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I PAINT IT, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st"><strong>John Cage</strong> (Sept 1912 – August1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.</span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: Paper on drawing<br/><p>Size: 50 cm X 70 cm<strong> <br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50725045474http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/50725045474Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:15 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/77f36c81835cad2cd6bcc4948975b47f/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/05db08e66a8ac843a2a257eadb274c3c/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7077c90f931f6f16e5af3fdb44c97b38/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3df6acd6a33d14afa55223f20fe56a1e/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a7b1bccba0f63c59f07a178cd064ef5d/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4304308fafc1677e559a55dffbd8efa4/tumblr_mivz7zBVDZ1rqprfqo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://allgirlsstreetartcollective.tumblr.com/post/44144216798" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">allgirlsstreetartcollective</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://antonunai.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Anton Unai</a></p></blockquote> <p>Do the right thang</p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49930510237http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49930510237Wed, 08 May 2013 14:54:56 +0200anton unai<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d02471e29809b9e1e4ee728211b39eac/tumblr_mkwgicaPMB1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><span class="body"><span class="s1">Can we make sense of this turbulent period in Russian history?</span></span></strong></p> <p><span class="body"><span class="s1"> If you’re interested in the Gorbachev-to-Yeltsin-to-Putin era, many talented “historians and painters of the moment”—can explain how Russia moved from <em>glasnost</em> and <em>perestroika</em> to gangsterism and Pussy Riot over the past two decades. </span></span></p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49438019586http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49438019586Thu, 02 May 2013 16:30:32 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f0849a11da00ade461f97a14844e6d06/tumblr_mkwghq8Eeb1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>The ANTONUNAI Manuscript, a small and strange book, has for a century attracted scholars eager to decipher its contents. All failed.</strong></p> <p><span class="newWindow">Most of the pages also bear illustrations: large-leafed plants, long tubes, astrological charts, a few goats, and many, many naked ladies bathing in pools and holding hands. Compared to the careful and sophisticated nature of the calligraphy, the drawings are primitive.</span></p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49360082768http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49360082768Wed, 01 May 2013 16:30:27 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5450f65671f15c00ca26f95e7f9ba4c/tumblr_mkwggpcFwv1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War.  The Poetry is in the pity.  Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.</p> <p><strong>Greatest of the war poets who have written in the English language  WILFRED OWEN.</strong></p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49259305471http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49259305471Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:29 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5541b80f693c96da3c3458cd7ce0f3ee/tumblr_mkwgfxIyIO1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft='{"type":1,"tn":"K"}'><span class="messageBody" data-ft='{"type":3}'><span class="userContent">From ohlala, “rendezvous,” “tête-à-tête,” and “ménage à trois” , risqué to femme fatale, the language of love is French. The explanation is simple: the French invented Love.</span></span></h5></p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49179155852http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49179155852Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:30:00 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b4e48e588d12deabf2db0ec5f6246da2/tumblr_mkwgdxj4pw1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49007625600http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/49007625600Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:30:19 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/25555f3f2d2c15fa9d5a2d499eedaf80/tumblr_mkwgatt49H1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>“Desert Rose” by Sting<br/></strong></p> <p>I dream of rain<br/> I dream of gardens in the desert sand<br/> I wake in vain<br/> I dream of love as time runs through my hand<br/><br/> I dream of fire<br/> Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire<br/> And in the flames<br/> Her shadows play in the shape of a man’s desire<br/><br/> This desert rose<br/> Each of her veils, a secret promise<br/> This desert flower<br/> No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this<br/><br/> And as she turns<br/> This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams<br/> This fire burns<br/> I realize that nothing’s as it seems.</p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48930045796http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48930045796Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:30:38 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/644fb67a0ecc450ba43a4692b889606a/tumblr_mkp3xfzWwG1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Daisies, Bluebells, joined in Prayer<br/> One Summer’s windswept Day,<br/> Knowing God and all his Blessings,<br/> While with the Wind they Sway.<br/><span class="main">-<em>Dave Vahlberg </em>6-26-2002</span></p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48854095716http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48854095716Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:30:22 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9fec5879bed3af69752e95b2a1aac07b/tumblr_mkp3vpxPFO1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>JOHN KAAGs HAM SANDWICH, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st">John Kaag was the kind of kid who worried about the bus crashing, or about getting hit by it, or about his ham sandwich. Naturally, he became a philosopher… <br/></span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: Paper, photocopy, pens, ninja stars<br/><p>Size: <strong>A4 <br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48774828019http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48774828019Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:30:23 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/62a5ff3b3c807664162abe13b7d8ad00/tumblr_mlo79pakgO1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/546a965ed7c44ca8d5e25f0dd979f633/tumblr_mlo79pakgO1r1tq5no2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/38d42bf829a406396b24e98498f4ab5d/tumblr_mlo79pakgO1r1tq5no3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b4e695e156bbb8b39b99949f0fe10d73/tumblr_mlo79pakgO1r1tq5no4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>                   THE BRANDY OF THE DAMNED, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"><span>This <span class="mw-redirect">three-dimensional</span> installation made specifically for the band Chvrches, is site-specific for the </span><span>The club BERGHAIN  located in a former power plant and designed to transform the perception of music. </span></div> <div class="photoCaption"><span>If you look deep enough you will see music in the paintings. ————————————</span><span></span></div> <div class="photoCaption"></div> <div class="photoCaption"><strong>Technique</strong>: Wood plates found in the street, fast painting, lights, arrows, sticks, old books, gadgets, paper.<br/><p>Size: <strong>20 sqm2<br/><br/></strong></p> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48694225322http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48694225322Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:30:00 +0200berghainberlinBelieveKreuzbergbeautifulberlin wallbestiayoutubecanvascrashfashionfastpleaseideastrash<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/76bd12160848907f5a51457c64cabaa0/tumblr_mld7r2qiHn1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>AFRICA S ..REAMS…, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><br/><span><em><strong>Africa Screams</strong></em> is a 1949 comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodied the safari genre. ————————————</span><span></span></p> <strong>Technique: </strong>Photocopy, acrylics, acetone, glue, fixers on PHOTO paper. <p><strong>Size:</strong> 40 cm x 50 cm.<strong><br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed, signed and available.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48613106162http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48613106162Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:30:26 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2228d512a8ce0f4bda7e898545744ae2/tumblr_mld70bEMyJ1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tigers are also incorrigibly competitive - they simply cannot pass up a challenge, especially when honor is at stake, or they are protecting those they love. Tigers are unpredictable and it would be unwise to underestimate their reactions. They may appear cool, but they have the Big Cat’s instincts to pounce at a moment’s warning.</p>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48525283744http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48525283744Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:30:35 +0200tigerassemblebeastcastelldefelscanvascrashideassplashvintagepaperworksspanishberlinartart collectorarteartistartists on tumblrearthheartpartystreet art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/968370fdb353ad9ae30fb592014e0aee/tumblr_mkp3s2ojDn1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>LA FORNARINA…</strong><strong><em><strong>Portrait of a Young Woman</strong></em>, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"><span>For love of women and art. Was Raphael a chaste saint who sublimated his passion into his work? Or was he a womanizer who died in the arms of his mistress?.  </span>It is probable that the picture was in the painter’s studio at his death in 1520. Remarkable remake by Anton UNAI.<br/><p><span>————————————</span><span></span></p> <strong>Technique: </strong>Photocopy, acrylics, acetone, glue, fixers on PHOTO paper. <p><strong>Size:</strong> 40 cm x 50 cm.<strong><br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed, signed and available.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48438623806http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48438623806Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:30:28 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/72b0ea2e08a982b4dcde9fad448f362e/tumblr_mkp3etOnqw1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="photoCaption"> <p><strong>TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st">What’s neo about neoliberalism? Coined by British philosophers, the label is a staple of academic prose and left-wing polemics. But what does it mean?</span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> Technique: FOUND ON A POST IN THE STREET TODAY<br/><p>Size: <strong>A4 BITTEN<br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed and signed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48357019803http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48357019803Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:30:20 +0200CasioSuperblastassemblebeastcastelldefelsgipstrassefastpleaseideastrashinstallationinvestigationkunstcamplost causeposterstaatbadstagestreetstreet artstudiostockholmArtists on Tumblr<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e6470a7ac1c4ca5df1c5c945e410b54d/tumblr_mkp329zP6S1r1tq5no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>ANTI DARWINIST…, 2013</strong></p> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <div class="photoCaption"> <p><span><span class="st">Robin ODIN was a charismatic lecturer, craven racist, staunch anti-Darwinist. He was also brilliant. Harvard didn’t give him a job; it built him a sculpture.</span><br/>————————————</span><span></span></p> <strong>Technique:</strong>Photocopy, acrylics, acetone, glue, fixers on PHOTO paper. <p><strong>Size:</strong> 40 cm x 50 cm.<strong><br/><br/></strong></p> <p>unframed, signed and available.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48278450567http://antonunai.tumblr.com/post/48278450567Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:30:24 +0200