{"id":525,"date":"2009-05-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/nole_guilini_the_transformatio\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T11:00:00","slug":"nole_guilini_the_transformatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/nole_guilini_the_transformatio.html","title":{"rendered":"Nole Giulini: the transformation of waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all artists are connected in webs of art-based relationships. When not in their studios, they work day jobs or dig in their garden, drop the kids at
\nschool if they have kids and do yoga if they can bear to bend over. <\/p>\n

There are artists, good artists, who have no idea what anyone in
\nArtforum<\/i> thinks or what’s on view in any particular museum or gallery.
\nThey are so outside the system of having a gallery or being included in
\na museum that years go by without them giving it much thought, and yet,
\nday after day, they’re still working.<\/p>\n

Because at its root art is so frequently about the interplay of ideas arising from a particular time and place, being cut off from other artists as well as curators, dealers and critics is not usually a good thing. For some people, however, it’s necessary. Talk can be depressing noise, and other people’s voices can drain the life from an inspiration that arises from materials at hand.<\/p>\n

Nole Giulini<\/a> is not naive by any stretch, nor is she uninformed or entirely unknown. Her banana peels sewn into a species of Persian slipper were included in an exhibit<\/a> at the New Museum in 1996. Her dessicated Mickey Mouse is in the Surrealist Impulse<\/i><\/a> at the Tacoma Art Museum, which is what made me think of her again.<\/p>\n

It’s a stopper, that little mouse, made of dried fungal membranes joined by coarse thread.<\/p>\n

\"nolegiulinimickeymouse.jpg\"<\/span>Some of her sock puppets bring to mind Louise Bourgeois’ wool figures, heavy with absurdly sexual implications.<\/p>\n

\"noleguiliniwool.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Her fungal puppets might have marched straight out of a William Kentridge video. Brought into their own universe and seen in their own company, however, both wool and fungal objects remind viewers of no other.<\/p>\n

\"nolegiulinipuppet.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Giulini needs what she doesn’t have – a solo show in a respected and well-attended space. Instead, every couple of years, a single piece pops up. Take Unititled (wedding dress)<\/i> from 1994 constructed entirely of used underwear, which I saw half a dozen years ago in Seattle.<\/p>\n

\"noleguiliniwedding.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>A girdle stretches across the shoulders with old
\nlace at the waist. The skirt features a massive Jockey train, each garment
\nsignaling a long lifeline. Get married in this dress, and you’re up front about your back story, which trails behind you, sporting intractable stains.<\/p>\n

Out, out, damn spot! This dress says don’t bother.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This dress says, virginal white is either a fantasy or the person
\nwearing it is too young to make the commitment. Getting married means
\ndressing up, but being married means picking up somebody else’s
\nunderwear.<\/p>\n

Be mine.<\/p>\n

The box with clear glass sides contains rabbit droppings, each wrapped in 22 K gold, Untitled<\/i> from 1991.<\/p>\n

\"NoleGuilinirabbitgold.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>A curator or the right kind of dealer could put it together. Do artists have to make the scene to make anything happen for them, even in a regional context? When does the work speak for itself?<\/p>\n

Giulini made a fascinating video on her process. According to YouTube, it’s been viewed 12 times. People farting get more viewers in an hour. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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