Artwork Made of Real Blood by Jordan Eagles
NYC artist, Jordan Eagles, works solely with gallons upon gallons of blood obtained from a slaughterhouse. By manipulating the blood through heating, burning, aging, mixing with copper, adding foreign materials, and then encasing it in plexiglass and UV resin, Jordan is able to capture an array of organic designs.
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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s Album at Vitra Design Museum Gallery
We are pleased to share images of the new edition of Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec‘s exhibition album that is currently presented at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery in Weil am Rhein. For the first time, album features formal studies, freehand drawings and sketches that are originals.
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‘The Obliteration Room,’ Installation by Yayoi Kusama
The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now. Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, serving as a giant white canvas.
The white room is gradually obliterated over the course of the exhibition, the space changing measurably with the passage of time as the dots accumulate as a result of thousands and thousands of collaborators.
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Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei
The installation will be part of “Ai Weiwei, Absent,” a collection of 21 works presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition contains 21 works from the dissident Chinese artist including photographs, sculptures, and installations.The exhibition is scheduled to run from October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and features 21sets of Ai’s works.
‘Cloud Cities,’ Exhibition at Hamburger by Tomás Saraceno
Argentina-born artist Tomas Saraceno’s installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs.
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Pool Installation by Leandro Erlich
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this illusion of people walking underwater called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
‘The Vandenberg Life Below the Surface,’ Exhibition by Andrea Franke
Photographs mounted on the shipwrecked Vandenberg are part of the underwater art gallery set up by Andreas Franke. The digitally layered photographs are attached to the ship’s weather deck with strong magnets. Franke, an avid diver and professional photographer, explored the Vandenberg last year and took several photos of the wreck, which rests in 120 feet of water and rises to 55 feet below the surface. When he returned to Austria and examined his photos, Franke wanted to add life to what he saw as a dead ship, which was sunk as an artificial reef.
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‘Cartier Time Art’ Exhibition Directed by Tokujin Yoshioka
“Cartier Time Art” is the newest project from Tokujin Yoshioka, in which the renowned Japanese artist/designer will act as Art Director for this magnificent exhibition which will be held at Bellerive Museum in Zürich starting Friday, August 26 to Sunday, November 6, 2011.
In “Cartier Time Art,” Tokujin intends to highlight Cartier’s unique beauty by merging two essential components; its tradition of the history, and the avant-garde ideas for the future. The pieces on display, by means of an original 3D setting will implant Cartier’s new time beat in each heart of visitors.
With this exhibition Yoshioka attempts to highlight Cartier’s unique appeal by merging two key essential elements of Cartier’s watchmaking; its history and avant-garde ideas for the future via 3D films depicting the mechanism of the watch. Read More…
Tony Orrico’s Drawing Performance
Tony Orrico is an artist and dancer who has been called the human spirograph, performing for up to 4 hours continuously. Tony Orrico takes this concept to the next level by using his entire body in the drawing process.
Orrico says:
“I marvel at the composition of nature and cycles. I am not versed in the convergence of art and mathematics or sciences, but find myself instinctually attracted to this relationship. I try to dilute my efforts and find an experiential point of entrance. I like to experiment with both embodied and cognitive systems that yield beauty. my favorite art is somewhat accidental and overwhelmingly concise.”
Stupid Orchestra by Michael Petermann
Michael Petermann, a classically trained musician and conductor, has put together an ingenious musical ‘orchestra’ made entirely out of vintage electric appliances. ‘The Stupid Orchestra‘ is made out of mixers, vacuum cleaners and washing machines, all built between 1940 and 1975. Performing every hour on the hour at the MKG Hamburg until April 30th, the orchestra runs on an electronic control system of Petermann’s design, meaning Petermann doesn’t have to conduct his electrical orchestra himself.
Blödes Orchester from white tube on Vimeo.
“Mylar,” Installation by Tara Donovan at Pace Gallery, New York
The installation Untitled (Mylar), 2011 by Tara Donovan is on display until April 9th at the Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street. It is a large-scale installation for which she uses sheets of Mylar.
The Mylar sheets with their metallic surfaces are bent into blooming balls and arranged into organic structures of varying heights. The installation relates to Untitled (Mylar) 2010, a work that was part of her 2010 exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers
It’s fantastic, a kitchen that turns on itself designed by the German artist Zeger Reyers. Everything breaks… And people instead of complaining enjoy it. How important it is, the way we present things?
Hummingbird Faces off with a Pit Viper
Photographer Bence Máté snapped this amazing shot in Costa Rica. He writes:
I was photographing hummingbirds when I heard the sharp, alarming noise of the birds reacting to the presence of a predator. Sixty feet away from me this green-crowned brilliant was fearlessly attacking a small viper. The long shutter speed and shallow depth of field made it difficult to make an image with both animals sharp. This encounter was one of the most interesting ones I had ever seen, and I quickly set up two flashes to increase the light and shutter speed, using one flash fired from the background and another from the camera.
“Fire with Fire,” Projection by Isabelle Hayeur
Montreal-based artist Isabelle Hayeur has created “fire with fire”, a site-specific video project in Vancouver, Canada. Consisting of 3 Blu-ray players and video projectors, the piece is a 15 minute video loop that simulates a fire in a four-storey heritage building in the downtown eastside. The area is the city’s oldest neighborhood and one of the most run-down; many lives have been consumed due to years of homelessness, drug abuse, prostitution and violence. “Fire with Fire” is intended to bring attention to the derelict history of the sector while recalling the destructive event of the great Vancouver fire in 1886.
Isabelle Hayeur
“Ma Bulle, Ma Plante & Moi,” Exhibition by Amaury Gallon
Designer Amaury Gallon was sponsored by the Dutch Flower Council to create unique bubble gardens that offer passersby a bit of respite from their concrete environments. The designer created four bubble sanctuaries, each with a different environmental inspiration. One of the gardens hosts a jungle, while the other features hundreds of orchids woven into metal structure that wraps around the igloo-shaped structures. Serving as walk-in greenhouses, the structures were part of an exhibition called the “Ma Bulle, Ma Plante, & Moi.”
Ivy Noise by Daniela di Maro & Roberto Pugliese
Ivy Noise is an ongoing series of interactive sounds installations by the Italian artists Daniela di Maro and Roberto Pugliese.
Electric wires climb the white walls, following not a casual pattern, but a defined one, after an accurate study of the growth of the ivy. Black lines design organic forms; branches form which unusual flowers blossom: conical speakers of various dimensions. A previously defined sound scape is given forth by some of these peculiar buds which acts as a background to the acoustic improvisation, determined instead by the human presence. Every noise is being captured by a series of microphones and random samples are taken in real time by a custom designed software, and rendered back through the speakers. Voices, steps, movements, nourish the installation. The totally synthetic sound, generated by this technological parasite creates however the illusion of being in a natural environment. A psycho acoustic journey, in which nothing stands still; everything is being transformed in an unstoppable and impromptu process of metamorphism. An experience which through multisensory stimulation creates a relation between man and technology, hypothesizing not only a peaceful coexistence of the two elements, but even an Eco-sustainable hybridization, reinforced by the use of recycled materials.
Milan’s Light Exhibition Design (LED) Festival
The installation was created by Italian designer Fabio Novembre, Karim Rashid, and Matteo and it is meant to create “dialogue between tradition and modernity” by being a celebration of the “century-old” practice of hanging garments from clotheslines. From the city center to the districts that are lost in the suburbs, the metropolis has meanwhile turned over 80 miles of lights.
Its second year of what is hoped to be an annual event, the Milan LED light festival. It is organized by the council of Milan. Over 600,000 LED lights were used for this year’s exhibition, and the sixty projects sited throughout the city will remain on display until January 2011.
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Kubik Light Room Installation, Vienna
For the very first time in Austria & the very first time in winter, Balestra Berlin in co-operation with Festakt Eventagentur, present the latest kubik light room installation set against the back-drop of one of the most well known landmarks in Vienna – the Votivkirche. The kubik light room installation was created by Balestra Berlin as a club concept designed to energize disused urban spaces around the world by creating a unique fusion between water tanks, light shows and electronic beats.
Stacked up tank-walls illuminated in different colors are composed to a piece of stunning architecture, which interact with the beats of music. This unique object of design generates a vibrant sensation for audiences and has been celebrated in 22 times in different cities around the world.
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