STUFF I LIKE
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Julia Randall
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Birkbeck College Surface Architects
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This book sculpture of baby birds in a nest is by a mysterious, unknown artist who has been sending anonymous creations to libraries, bookshops...
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Jeff Depner - Reconfigured Grid Paintings (2012)
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Emma McNally (2011-13)
1. Clearing
2. I. L. (ii) D 1
3. Hybrid 5
4. Carbon Sound Field
5. Pulsefield 3
6. Signal/Noise
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Damien Gilley - Axis Index (2013) and Fortress (2008)
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Skeletal Light Paintings by Darren Pearson.
ATOMIC FULL OF LOVE FULL OF WONDER BY NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas Lives and works London, UK and Sydney, Australia - The room installation “Atomic: full of love, full of wonder” (ARC ONE Gallery - Melbourne 2012) is comprised of a shimmering haze of vibrating coloured balls, suggesting the very atoms that are the fundamental structural units of all things. This mesmerising work has an extraordinary optical effect as the 1000s of suspended balls oscillate gently within a breeze created by large fans within the gallery space.
FRACTURED SPACE BY MONIKA GOETZE
Berlin-based Artist Monika Goetz - “All four walls, ceiling and floor of the space have been covered with cut pieces of mirror glass. The space and the viewers within appear to disintegrate into infinitely fragmented reflections of themselves.” (Installation in Georg Kolbe Museum, 2010)
SHITTING DOVES OF PEACE AND FLYING RATS
Jan Fabre is a graduate of the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He is well known both at home and abroad as one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his day. Over the past 30 years, he has produced works as a visual artist, theatre maker and author. Jan Fabre is renowned for expanding the horizons of every genre to which he applies his artistic vision.
(Photo: Markus Tretter)
HANGARBICOCCA BY THOMAS SARACENO
Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno (born 1973) - installation view at HangarBicocca, Milan. (previously)
For On Space Time Foam, his new installation at the HangarBicocca, Saraceno conceived a large transparent membrane (which he amusingly calls la lasagna) that visitors can get into. Folded in three layers, it is suspended at 25-metres above the ground, providing a radical bodily experience. (An interview from Milan by Filipa Ramos)
YARN BOMBING
Melissa Maddonni Haims (facebook) a fiber artist based in Philadelphia. she uses alternative materials (mostly recycled, reclaimed + rescued), specifically vintage fabrics and yarn, to create large scale crochet + knit installations. while the majority of her work shows in gallery settings, ms. Haims has a passion for public art and graffiti. she has been yarn bombing since early 2010.
- “Cold Comfort” | 1,2 and 3 images - Thirty separate installations made from yarns, Madagascar grasses and “plarn” (plastic bags made into yarn) appear along the center’s Widener Trail and main driveway, inviting winter travelers to stroll the woods and see them anew.
- “Atlantic City” at the end of the Atlantic City expressway
- “Miami | art basel 2011”
- “Yarn bombed piano”
- “April fools”
ROA - “CARRION” in Backwoods Gallery
The Beligum-based ROA, who was recently featured on MOCAtv, has a new exhibition in Melbourne at the Backwoods Gallery entitled Carrion. Fans down under may remember his last showing in Oz in 2010 (covered), but this time the street artist took it up a notch with his installations. Along with his anatomical dissections of native species with his brushstrokes, the art was surrounded by tanks filled with decaying creatures and skeletal remains. [Via]
RUNE GUNERIUSSEN
Rune Guneriussen, born 1977, in Norway. Education from Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England. Live and work in eastern Norway. Is an artist working in the transition between installation and photography. As a conceptual artist he works site specific, primarily in nature.The work on objects started in 2005, and has been photographed on locations all over Norway.
GUN SCULPTURE INSTALLATION
Artists Wallis Kendal and Sandra Bromley (facebook) took guns of all kinds, from small handguns to rocket launchers, and fused them into a monolith called The Gun Sculpture.
“The purpose of the Gun Sculpture is to provoke thought and discussion on the culture of violence. The active participation of the viewer is an essential part of the sculpture installation. To date over 150,000 visitor contributions (comments, drawings, poems etc) have been collected and over one and a half million people, on three continents, have viewed the Gun Sculpture.”
NEW GROWTH | STRATUM MODEL
Sculptor Kendall Buster - New Growth: Stratum Model reflects a merging of the natural and the built environment. Designed to operate at once as landscape and architecture, the schematic of stacked planes seen from a bird’s eye view toggles between topography map and building in plan.
(New Growth/Stratum Model, 2009, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA)
POP POP BANG
A collaboration between creative director Anna Burns and the photographer Thomas Brown (on tumblr). Through the use of various mediums the pair have curated an exhibition that explores the masculine world of B-Movies and juxtaposed it with the traditional British landscape. Using the themes of said movies – girls, guns and explosives – and twisting it against a very British backdrop these two challenge not only the premise of each subject but also the use of their chosen medias. The duo created a wall of umbrellas displaying elements of the classic B-Movie and located them within three landscapes.
HUT “Hermitage” by Ethan Hayes-Chute
Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute lives and works in Freeport, Maine & Berlin, Germany. Through paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations and artist’s books, he explores the ideas of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self-exclusion as models for living. Hayes-Chute’s hut is an accumulation of stuff, the ephemera of the every day. Its materials are found, stitched together, hand-assembled – chair, desk, table, shaving mirror, and coffee mug furnish the cabin’s primary function to house and sustain.
THE POOL BY JEN LEWIN STUDIO
Jen Lewin Studio - Each Pad in The Pool senses the movements of a person. User inputs such as foot location, foot pressure, and speed are sensed by the pad surface. As a person moves, light ripples out to the surrounding pads. For example, by leaning left, a ripple of varying intensity starts in that direction. A stronger more deliberate lean could cause a ripple to jump rings and fill the entire Pool. Ripples vary in light strength, length (the number of pads this message propagates to), and color. Each person’s ripple is unique. As ripples interact with other ripples, an infinite variety of colorful patterns emerge.
INTERACTIVE CLOUD
CLOUD was instigated by Calgary-based artist Caitlind r.c. Brown for Nuit Blanche Calgary on September 15, 2012. Over the course of creating the sculpture, the project evolved into a collaboration with Wayne Garrett, a local musician, machinist, and artist. Brown and Garrett have worked together on numerous installations and films, most notably The House Project, a group installation re-imagining a home scheduled for demolition and transforming the space into a series of interactive art rooms.
DMD Europa. Interactive Installation by Marcel·li Antunez Roca
Spain, Barcelona-based artist Marcel·li Antunez Roca - Dynamic Mural consists of a 1/1 scale projection of a black and white painting made up of five pictures representing several of the artist’s creative themes. The film synthesizes a week’s work and weaves together biological elements, illness, burocracy, lonliness and orgies. DMD was produced by the Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna de Gallarate, Lombardy, Italy and was created especially for the exhibition Interattività Furiosa, pre-interactividad and Sistematurgia.
