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Look!: Art as a Headboard

9-15-08limn.jpgA long time ago (maybe a year?) we were wandering around LIMN and we came across this interesting piece of art that had been placed behind a bed as some type of makeshift headboard. Although we know the look isn't for everyone, we certainly appreciate the creativity behind it. What do you think? Is a piece of art a suitable replacement for a traditional headboard?

 
 

And being that LIMN is something like 48,000 square feet, it's hard not to find inspiration in it. We go there regularly to get our gears going.

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The only reason I would say no to it being used as a headboard is because of the angry mood/colors that are used in it. It IS a beautiful piece of art I just dont know that it is the kind of soothing art you want to wake up to.

posted by Sam Kraus on September 15th 2008 at 1:58pm
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Maybe, but with a more peaceful color pallette.

posted by SWEET CHOCOLATE on September 15th 2008 at 1:58pm
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No!!!! This is a terrible conservation problem for the painting! Leaning back against the painting (and potentially puncturing the canvas), having oily hair touching it.... disastrous for the art.

posted by Lisa (Montreal) on September 15th 2008 at 2:07pm
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why not just mural the wall?

posted by kimg924 on September 15th 2008 at 2:13pm
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i agree, it has an angry mood, high energy -not good for the bedroom. and i also agree, it could easily be damaged therem and you'd have to be was too careful of everything you did in bed. no fun.

posted by dM on September 15th 2008 at 2:16pm
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Don't think I could handle that one eyeball watching me sleep, but a less edgy mural could be neat.

posted by LilyC on September 15th 2008 at 2:23pm
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I recall seeing in a magazine (that I've since lost) a photograph, blown up and mounted on some sort of board and used as a headboard. It was gorgeous.

posted by catspajamas on September 15th 2008 at 2:37pm
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i would have nightmares in that ed.

posted by misslyss on September 15th 2008 at 2:42pm
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Interesting. I Really dig the night stands though.

posted by MoJonson on September 15th 2008 at 2:42pm
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Disturbing

posted by bepsf on September 15th 2008 at 2:47pm
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There's something kinky and menacing about the nightstands.

That combined with that particular headboard must make for some intersting times.

posted by btoddster on September 15th 2008 at 2:53pm
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We have a huge stretched canvas printed with a B&W photo of the Brooklyn Bridge as our headboard - I love it, and it's not real art, so we don't have to worry about conserving it - and it's light, so we don't have to worry if it falls on our heads in an earthquake. I agree with everyone else about the art in this photo though - it's so violent, not at all what I would want in my bedroom (or anywhere in my house, to be honest).

posted by Emily the Cat on September 15th 2008 at 2:56pm
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ugly....very ugly

posted by hdtex on September 15th 2008 at 3:43pm
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At what point does Marilyn Manson enter the room and tuck you into bed?

posted by Seaside on September 15th 2008 at 5:45pm
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1980...Family reunion. My older brother gave me a hit of mushrooms....twice the normal dose just to see what would happen....Hour 12 looked alot like this image.

posted by hdtex on September 15th 2008 at 6:07pm
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nIGHT TABLES ARE ... uFFF... LIKe I'M in THE hOSPiTAL...

vERY DIsTurBiNG AND nOT rELAXiNG BEDrOOM..

posted by Zika on September 15th 2008 at 10:16pm
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i agree that this is not the kind of painting to share a bedroom with, but in general i like the idea. sure, paintings are not getting better when used as headboards, but then not every painting is meant to stay around forever, are they? or if yu want to use something that shuld be preserved - you can scan or photograph it, print it on canvas and have it as a headboard without damaging the original.

posted by maike on September 15th 2008 at 11:25pm
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The idea of a painting as head board is good but not this one.

posted by hrhprincessfiona on September 15th 2008 at 11:40pm
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LOVE the tables. Where can I find them?

posted by grngodes on September 16th 2008 at 6:15am
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This looks bloody. Like a killer butcher sleeps here. The side tables are clever but they look like they contain rusty scalpels. The whole ensemble creeps me out.

posted by melanee on September 16th 2008 at 8:50am
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I love the hospital tables. However, the combination of those with the montage of butchery directly behind the place where I will be sleeping will produce nightmares probably involving limb amputation.

posted by decrappy on September 16th 2008 at 5:15pm
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By the way the artist who painted this piece is Jyrki Riekki, a young finnish artist who had a solo exhibition at Limn gallery 2006. I think that painting or any of his works are not made to be a backpiece to a bed but maby 50 inches higher so you can see the whole work..then why not! Check more of the artist`s work: www.jyrkiriekki.com
Nice installation though!! Something about blood...beautiful & very much alive..

posted by passing on May 4th 2009 at 8:03pm
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Jyrki Riekki’s paintings are terrifically loud, energetic and furious. They are filled with critical power, alloyed with a genuine talent for painting. It is obvious that Riekki also works with performance, movements, exclamations and script. And beneath that script there lies a carnality that can be reminiscent of baroque painting. But cut and shaken up for our own brutal, frightening age; an age that Riekki ruthlessly continues to lambast in his three-dimensional objects, often with a streak of scorching black humour.

Måns Holst-Ekström,
Art critic

posted by passing on May 4th 2009 at 8:04pm
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