We are feeling bubbly

 

‘Pixel Clouds’ – Delicate plastic sculpture work by artist Daniel Arsham. (via colossal)

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We are working late

Surreal photography art by Greek photographer George Christakis

Words from the artist:

I’m 25 years old, born in Crete, Greece. I create images – scenes using digital techniques. Some of them are a bit surreal, some conceptual, some just landscapes with a bit of craziness. Music is a great source of inspiration to me. My work involves photographs and painting elements. www.george-christakis.com

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We need more paper

Incredibly intricate art pieces cut out of paper by artist Rogan Brown who “creates intricate sculptural forms reminiscent of microorganisms, plant life, and topographical charts by deftly cutting patterns in layer after layer of paper. A single work can take upward of five months to complete, and just like the organic forms he seeks to emulate the piece evolves as he works without a preconceived direction or plan.” (via colossal)

words from the artist:

I want to communicate my fascination with the immense complexity and intricacy of natural forms and this is why the process behind my work is so important. Each sculpture is hugely time consuming and labour-intensive and this work is an essential element not only in the construction but also in the meaning of each piece. The finished artefact is really only the ghostly fossilized vestige of this slow, long process of realisation. I have chosen paper as a medium because it captures perfectly that mixture of delicacy and durability that for me characterizes the natural world.

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We are a bit lost

‘Through Hollow Lands’ – a geometric labyrinth of 200 fluorescent lights, is an art installation in 2012 by visual artists Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora of LILENTHAL|ZAMORA at Frye Art Museum in Seattle. /

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Powder Power

From his series ‘Powder’ – fantastic, vibrant and explosive photographs of colored powder by Amsterdam born still life photographer Marcel Christ

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We are freaked out

Series of Hyperrealistic Sculptures by artist Ron Mueck. The works in the realm of the ultra-real where he spends hundreds of hours perfecting the shape of the human form, the appropriate color of skin, and the most realistic hair texture.

Photos by Thomas Salva courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

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We are exhausted

As part of an open air festival – the ‘Big Yellow Rabbit’ of Örebro, Sweden by Rotterdam-based artist Florentijn Hofman / photographs by Lasse Person

 

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Camera Collecting

Fantastic collection of unique, fully functional, refashioned cameras /

“Swiss Photography duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs are known for their contemporary, cutting edge style in photography, sculpture and installation art that often comments on the history of photography and the nature of the medium. Camera Collection is their ingenious, handcrafted collection of cameras refashioned with far-out, unexpected objects. They are part of a two volume publication, As Long As It Photographs It Must Be A Camera—the first volume compiles photos of the cameras and the second features photos taken by the duo. The cameras are an impressive product of imagination alluding to the endless possibilites of photography.” (via pix Grove)

 

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We see clouds everywhere

‘Cloud’ – An anteractive installation made of 6,000 light bulbs by artist Caitlind r.c. Brown. The piece is made from 1,000 working lightbulbs on pullchains and an additional 5,000 made from donated burnt out lights donated by the public. Visitors to the installation could pull the chains causing the cloud to shimmer and flicker. (via colossal)

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We had a break-through

‘Points of Contention’ – art installation by American artist Jonathan Latiano at the School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, Maryland 2011 using wood, plastic, acrylic, styrofoam, glass, plexiglass and salt.

Description from the artist

As the plastics, resins and polymers that we stockpile on a daily basis increase exponentially, how are we changing the long-term geological landscapes of the world around us? Driven by the exploration of time, motion and the physics of the natural world, Jonathan Latiano presents Points of Contention, a site-specific installation sculpture that investigates the increasingly blurred line between the organic and inorganic as well as the spatial boundaries of where the spectacle begins and ends. Convergent forms of crystalline growth and explosive impact reinforce the hundreds of shards of custom cut and painted elements used to create the centerpiece of the exhibition. Through the use of reclaimed and altered wood, plastic, Styrofoam and site-grown salt crystals Latiano explores the question: At what point do the controversies of the present become the “new norms” of the future?

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We tape things together

‘Raumzeichnung‘ / ‘Drawing of a Room’ – an explosive three dimensional installation using black tape by Polish artist Monika Grzymala  The sculpture was installed at Galerie Crone in 2012 and required 3.1 miles / 5km of tape.

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Lightness of Being

The Silk Vortices of Japanese artist Akiko Ikeuchi / delicately crafted string sculptures constructed from extremely delicate silk threads, and despite the chaotic appearance are each based on precise plans blueprinting the complex internal framework.

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We got the goosebumps

/// Series of sculptures made by assembled glass shards glued together carefully. The result is translucent 3 dimensional animal sculptures represented in their real scale. The animal figures are mostly inspired by baroque and romantic paintings of Peter Paul Rubens and Francisco Goya and they are usually displayed next to them. The series is produced by Polish artist Marta Klonowska.

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We detail

‘Macro Reef Dwellers: A Retrospective’ / Beautiful, wonderfully colorful and vibrant macro photography by Felix Salazar who aimed his camera onto small coral formations in his own salt water aquariums. / see more of this great work on his website.

 

 

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We are all over the place

‘Black Cloud’ –  Beautifully delicate and at the same time potentially frightening art installation featuring 30.000 manually attached black paper moths adorning an old converted Church in Spain (Espacio AV) in 2009 by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales

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We pin up

‘Dreaming of Joy’ by Ran Hwang, 2008

This beautiful art installation is the work of Korean artist Ran Hwang, now based in New York City. Hwang is famous for her beautifully detailed and poetic installations and wall sculptures, often made of common every day objects such as pins, buttons and crystals that she applies directly to the walls of each gallery, making her artworks unique from every exhibition to the next. Hereby this methods is reminiscent of the pixels on our computer screens. Hwang’s themes are often inspired by buddhist theories and symbolism and she creations range from murals of birds, trees to chandeliers and more.

We feel empty

photograph by José Javier Serrano

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This is our sunday

Floating Heads by artist Sophie Cave

/// Unnerving or Ennervating? Whatever you may decide, Sophie Cave’s Floating Heads is turning many of them.

Just about the first thing you noticed when you entered the Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow in 2010 were the heads.  So many heads hanging above your own that they can come as something of a shock.  The juxtaposition between the heads and their surroundings an (almost post) Victorian mansion adds to their overall effect. But the reactions to them are just as varied as their expressions.

Certainly the variety of reactions the faces elicit themselves are as diverse as the expressions on the faces. Unusual is certainly a word that springs to mind.  Well, to be honest in this setting one would be unusual – this exhibition by Scottish artist Sophie Cave shows over fifty of the disembodied human faces and they depict a whole gamut of emotions too.

Perhaps the fascination lies in the fact that the faces look like masks worn at carnivals.  Masks have a certain power – they transform those wearing them and they have universality in as much as they appear in every culture (in all sorts of shapes and sizes).  What message do these faces as masks convey to you?

Whatever you may think, one thing is certain.  They add a certain something to the Kelvingrove – which is Glasgow’s favourite museum as well as being the second most visited art gallery in the UK outside of London.

photographs by ‘Son of Groucho’ & ‘chatirygirl’

This should be our sunday

Egg Chair by designer Danish Arne Jacobson

We model

Paper & Cardboard model by Raffinerie AG

We are back to the sandwich

‘I want to skate’ is a series of skates created by Arthur Kings & photographed by Hugues Lawson-Body.

We go back to work

Nha Trang (factory in Vietnam) by Andreas Gursky

/ Photograph of industrious workers weaving cane in a furniture factory in Nha Trang, Vietnam.The photographer’s Rhein II recently sold for £2.7m,making it the most expensive photograph ever auctioned.

We had a weird dream

Photograph of an illusional black and white space materialised as a visual parody called “Abyssal”, by brazilian artist Regina Silveira

It is a constellation of photographic works, installations and objects, always monochromatic (black over white), reverberating with each other, which she considers as “a reflection of projected shadows, materialized as visual parody of the projective codes of the linear perspective, of the theory of shadows, of photography and of the topographic drawings.” In the establishment of visual structures, based on the infraction of laws of the projection system of classical perspective, she was mostly interested in the use of viewpoints and visual angles, as she still is today.

Merry Christmas

Photograph of little boy contemplating the height of the city’s 75-foot Christmas tree in Payrow Plaza, Pennsylvania USA

We are packing

A Bangladeshi labourer pulls a cart full of empty drums during a nationwide strike in Dhaka on December 20, 2012. Twelve like-minded Islamic parties called an eight-hour general strike in the capital Dhaka and a dawn-to-dusk general strike across the country as they seek a ban on left-wing political parties.

A Bangladeshi labourer pulls a cart full of empty drums / photograph by Munir Uz Zaman

Inception

‘Inception Door’ by Architect Armin Blasbichler

We are exhausted

Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov created a wonderful series of skull sculptures out of fruits and vegetables between 2005 and 2008. He has much more food-themed sculpture work on his site.

Photograph from the series ‘Skulls’ – carved out of fruits and vegetables by the Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov

We have a headache

art & photograph by Philip Ramette / found at tanta tralha

Lines

Photographs illustrating a peculiar geometrical composition of human and artificial lines from the series “Unverrückbarkeit”, by artist Frauke Thielking

 

 

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We are under de-construction

Photograph of the breathtaking USS Macon (ZRS-5) , an airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting / unknown photographer

We follow the light

Installation called Ganzfeld exhibited at the Kulturforum Järna in Stockholm by artist James Turrell photographed by Florian Holzherr

Installation from the “Ganzfeld series” exhibited at the Kulturforum Järna in Stockholm,  by light artist James Turrell / photographed by Florian Holzherr

We celebrate

Light Painting by Simon Berger

We are in love

Photograph of 3 adorable ducklings walking in the snow, by C. Eichelberger

We glow in the dark

Beautiful photograph of colorful Japanese paper lanterns

Colorful Japanese Paper Lanterns / unknown photographer

We are confused

Aerial photo of spaghetti  like tangled slides in a colorful theme park, by Alex MacLean

We are full

Domestication of Pyramids by Magdalena Jetelová are pyramid-sculptures, covered by volcanic ashes, and have been shown at the Museum of Applied Arts / Vienna, Martin-Gropius-Bau / Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art / Warsaw, Irish Museum of Modern Art / Dublin, Forum Kunst Rottweil and other art spaces.
“The Viennese Museum of Applied Arts is a typical example of Ringstrasse architecture: an elegant, richly ornamented Neo-Renaissance building with an inner peristyle hall and galleries. Upon entering the building, the visitor finds himself/herself, surprisingly, in a darkened, curved space: soon he/she discovers that he/she is standing under large, slanted scaffolding. He/she instinctively walks to the right, where there is a way out. When he/she returns to the daylight, he/she finds himself/herself in the Museum hall, standing next to a thirteen-meter high tilted wall covered in red silica sand. The wall slices the inner space of the Museum diagonally across two floors, slashing razor-like through pillars and balustrades up to the ceiling. The wall, tilted at a 45° angle and with a base thirty-five meters long, is a fragment of one side of a pyramid which could continue in the exterior of the Museum building. A space on a scale which greatly exceeds the size of the host building is inserted into the museum’s interior. Despite its dimensions, it is only a fragment of a whole known to us, which in an imaginary way continues beyond the borders of the Museum building and which we can mentally reconstruct as a pyramid.
Domestication primarily stems from the fact that we can already imagine it based on the fragment we have at our disposal because we have become well acquainted with its form in our minds. On the entirely specific level, domestication—taming—can be seen in the possibility of walking around the pyramid from all sides, from the inside as well as from the outside; taking a look at its base from the gallery above, experiencing it from a perspective that people were to be denied. This, however, does not change anything about the fact that the essence of the form is mental, not physical. The entire pyramid is only realized through thought.
The intersection of the eastern archetypal monument—the pyramid—and its absolute geometry with‘humanized’ western architecture, its small details and scale, raises questions concerning the nature of our culture, whereby our stable coordinates which anchor us in the world become relative. Other pyramids have been constructed at various locations in Europe, but only in Vienna is the pyramid physically accessible both from the inside and outside; in Warsaw and Berlin the surface of the structure can be observed from the outside, which, because it is covered with volcanic ashes, evokes the feeling of a full compact mass, poured into the form of a heap. The confrontation of the eastern monument and European cultural history takes place differently each time, and yet on the same principle. The domestication of absolute architecture takes place in our minds.”

‘Domestication of Pyramids’ / pyramid-sculptures, made from volcanic ashes by Magdalena Jetelová

We sit tight

“Monobloc” by Bert Loeschner

 

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Happy Friday Everyone

Flatlands by Chelsea Wolfe /  found at tanta tralha

We are a bit stuck

levi van veluw: origin of the beginning
ron mandos gallery, amsterdam, netherlands
on now through june 25th, 2011
in his solo exhibition ‘origin of the beginning’, dutch artist levi van veluw makes use of 30,000 wooden blocks, balls, and slats
to blanket three rooms that recall his childhood bedroom. the life-size installations are accompanied by photographs and videos
that not only bring literally to life the current installation, but also draw up the artist’s often-sombre memories of youth.
known for his self-portraits which involve the layering of diverse materials onto his head, van veluw creates in this exhibition
an entire narrative framework, without neglecting his emphasis on materiality, texture, and aesthetic.
the first of the three rooms contains a desk, a table lamp, and a bookcase, with a figure seated at the table. the table’s edge is burnt,
a reference to van veluw’s childhood obsession with fire; and one of the video pieces of the exhibition recreates within the room
this very act. nothing in the piece is left uncovered by 14,000 16-sq.centimeter wooden blocks, each handmade and individually
glued upon the walls, ceiling, figure, and furniture. the other two rooms of the installation interpret other aspects of van veluw’s
boyhood bedroom, blanketed in wooden slats and small wooden balls respectively.
van veluw notes in his description of the exhibition that between the ages of eight and 14 he spent many solitary hours in his bedroom;
and the dark gradients of the blocks, coupled with the precise but imperfect rhythm of the repetition, lends a strikingly personal
and melancholic feel to the three-dimensional portraits. the gallery description of the works suggests:
‘the repetitive structures seemingly express a ‘horrorvacui’ and recall van veluw the youth and his obsessive attempts to gain control
on his life by gaining control of his surroundings. dimly lit and dark in colour, the overriding tone of these pieces is claustrophobic
and sombre, exuding a sense of loneliness.’

‘Origin of the beginning’ by dutch artist Levi van Veluw / photographs courtesy of Galerie Ron Mandos

We are not alone

Street Art transforms run down urban centres / by Brazilian artist Andre Muniz Gonzaga Dalata

Twisted

Totality of All Spaces
In the exhibition Totality of All Spaces Alicja Kwade is occupied with scientific theories on the physical property of certain materials, which she afterwards repeatedly attempts to circumvent. She is using everyday articles and found objects as her starting point, but in her materially precisely worked out sculptures they undergo a subtle change in meaning; the readymade becomes a minimal sculpture and mirror reflections, repetitions and waves of light generate an atmospheric intensity. Kopenhagen met Alicja Kwade at 44 Møen.
Alicja Kwade (b. 1979 in Poland) is educated from Universität der Künste in Berlin in 2005. In the past Kwade has had solo exhibitions at Oldenburger Kunstverein, 2011, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, 2011, Westfälisher Kunstverein, 2010, Johann König, 2009, Galerie Christina Wilson, 2009, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2008, among others. Kwade lives and works in Berlin.

Alicja Kwade: Reise ohne Ankunft, 2012, Bøjet cykel / photograph by Thomas Gunnar Bagge.

We are on our own

Photography by Enric Adrian Gener

We have a little hangover

‘STRP Mutants’ / Costume art by HEYHEYHEY & Bart Hess

We try not to lose it

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have been collaborating for years in creating artistic photographs. Their work has been displayed in 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows presented worldwide in places such as Japan, Canada, and Italy. In addition, their work can be found in over 20 prestigious art collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the George Eastman House. The ParkeHarrisons also lecture extensively on art and human influences on the environment.
Artist Statement: We create works in response to the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology, and nature. These works feature an ambiguous narrative that offers insight into the dilemma posed by science and technology’s failed promise to fix our problems, provide explanations, and furnish certainty pertaining to the human condition. Strange scenes of hybridizing forces, swarming elements, and bleeding overabundance portray Nature unleashed by technology and the human hand.
Rich colors and surrealistic imagery merge to reveal the poetic roots of the works on display. The use of color is intentional but abstract; proportion and space are compositional rather than natural; movement is blurred; objects and people juxtaposed as if by chance in a visual improvisation that unfolds choreographically. At once formally arresting and immeasurably loaded with sensations—this work attempts to provide powerful impact both visually and viscerally.

Ashen Head by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Moody Mist

Beautiful atmospheric architectural photograph of a large steel crane and bridge construction, photographed by Kim Holtermand

Just Another Day

Korean-born, New York City-based artist Yun-Woo Choi creates the most mind-blowing sculptures I’ve ever seen. He uses things like magazines and newspapers rolled up, along with resin and wire to hold the forms. The dimension created from something that starts out so thin is simply unreal. Just imagine all the time it takes to fold the pages and then to arrange them in such a sculptural way – it’s just astounding

“Just another Day” art sculpture made out of newspaper, resin and stainless wire by Korean-born, New York City-based artist Yun-Woo Choi

Infinity

Art installation called Numen Light membrane creates and infinite reflection of a light grid using “spy glass”, by Numen 

We like saturdays

photograph by Portia Lee

Reaching for the weekend

Large scale sculpture of a hand called “Mano de Desierto” situated in Atacama Desert in Chile, by artist  Mario Irarrázabal

We want to escape

Installation of 101 suspended empty birdcages called “Forgotten Songs”, by Michael Thomas Hill