{"id":4335,"date":"2011-10-19T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:21:26","slug":"general-idea-mondo-cane-kama-sutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=4335","title":{"rendered":"General Idea: Mondo Cane Kama Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MG_6182-A.jpg-Mondo-Cano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4336\" title=\"_MG_6182 A.jpg Mondo Cano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MG_6182-A.jpg-Mondo-Cano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><em>Mondo Cane Kama Sutra<\/em> (installation view) 1984, acrylic on canvas. 10 canvases, 245 x 305 cm each. Image courtesy the Estate of General Idea; \u00a9 Pierre Antoine, Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;art moderne de la Ville de Paris \/ ARC, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<br \/>\nJuly 30, 2011\u2013January 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaute Culture\u201d is a preeminent opus of the collective General Idea that features approximately 300 pieces of artwork, consisting of paintings, magazines, sculptures and video. \u00a0Being an extremely unconventional trio, General Idea&#8217;s artwork reflects this by the materials and sometimes colours used which often vary from loud neon shades to whites and blues all intricately corresponding to various themes presented.<\/p>\n<p>One piece that highly stands out, however, is the <em>Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, 1984<\/em>. This features a running theme of three poodles each on ten panels, carrying out various sexual positions.\u00a0What makes\u00a0this piece\u00a0so remarkable\u00a0is the neon colour of the poodles presented on the canvases and\u00a0the scale of the panels,\u00a0creating a gigantic eye-capturing fa\u00e7ade. The fact that this artwork brings out a taboo in human society, homosexuality, makes the artwork all the more appealing in light of its daring attempt to depict an often misunderstood subject. The lines used in this piece are undoubtedly straight and perhaps unyielding and this may be a subtle allusion to the rigidness and \u2018straightness\u2019 of society in the 1980&#8217;s \u00a0juxtaposing the general theme of the artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Haafiz Karim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Haafiz Karim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 30, 2011&ndash;January 1, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What makes this piece so remarkable is the neon colour of the poodles presented on the canvases and the scale of the panels  creating a gigantic eye-capturing fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=4335\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-haafiz-karim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39070,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/39070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}