http://www.artnet.com/artist/1730/shimon-attie.html
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/attie_shimon.php
I found Attie's work to be different from the other artists that have lectured. I'm not really sure if i would classify his work as political as I would say culturally aware. To be honest I am not even sure that that is the right description. Attie's work to me deals with people and personal experiences. The work above shows projects old east Germany before the war, onto the post- Berlin Wall east Germany. This body of work touches on the idea of collective memories. The images deal with place and time/the new and the old. The lives and history suggested in the projects provides for me an emotional contrast to the seemingly dead and abandoned structures of the present.
Attie's series The Attraction Of Onlookers, was the most profound in my opinion.It is a depiction of the welsh community that lost almost all of its children in a man made avalanche. It isn't a real sentimental view on the town that was so devastated, but a view truly for the people that want to know or travel there. It is a comment on those that feel the need to visit and know the people in the town. I think this piece works much better than his piece with Nascar. It seems more sincere, not so forced.
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