Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York
The void… a scientific concept brought into fiction through art. “Contemplating the Void” is an amazing exhibition gathering 200 creative projects from both emerging and world-renowned artists, in celebration of 50 years of the NY Guggenheim museum. Ways how the central void of the building was filled without restrictions to realism and practicality are explored with the original works of Anish Kapoor, designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).
“Rainbow Church” by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the exhibition of Tokujin Yoshioka, which opens from May 1st, he will present his dream project “Rainbow Church”, a large scale straw installation for the first time in Aisa, and many more.
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when Tokujin wan in early 20s.
Tokujin visited the Chapelle du Rosaire located in Venice. He was impressed to see the world of Matisse being expressed by the sunlight of the Provence.
Since then, he had been dreaming of designing an architecture were people can feel the light with all senses.
Approximately 8-meter-high stained glass made with 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colours as the light shines on it.
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Ivan Navarro, “Die”
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Iván Navarro. An exhibition of Navarro’s new sculpture “Die,” (2009) will take place from December 10-December 23, 2009 at 511 W. 27th Street.
Iván Navarro’s work, constructed mainly out of fluorescent tubing and electrical materials, transmits social and political commentary in a functional, complex and visually stunning sculptural format.
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Button and Pin Art by Ran Hwang
Ran Hwang created amazing button and pin art by sticking pins through buttons thousands of times, and then organizes them into the shape of a massive bird on a wall. Each image requires the hammering of thousands of pins with buttons into a wall. No glue is used. The buttons can move or fall at any time. However, the work is only completed after the bird is surrounded, naturally, by a cage.
“My immense wall installations are extremely time consuming and repetitive manual work,” says Hwang. “This is a form of meditative practice that helps me find my inner peace. Pins are used to hold buttons onto the surface to form a silhouetted image, or to disintegrate such image. No adhesive is used so the buttons are free to stay and move, which implies the genetic human tendency to be irresolute. I use buttons because they are common and ordinary, like the existence of human beings”.
Message to the Universe, Engravings by Maya Tarachand
We just discover this new fantastic work from Maya Tarachand, Indian from origin and British nationality, born and raised in Gibraltar. She settles in Brussels and finally finds what she is looking for: ART.
Cosmic dance
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
We love the spacial appearance of those copper-plate engravings.
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Thousand Ice Sculptures Melt in the Sun to Highlight Global Warming
Ice sculptures in the shape of humans are placed on the steps of the music hall in Gendarmenmarkt public square in Berlin. Hosted by the German World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 1,000 ice sculptures were positioned on the steps in the German capital at noon, to highlight climate change in the Arctic region.
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Radical Nature Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery
The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects for centuries. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses. Radical Nature is the first exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
“Sciame di Dirigibili” by Héctor Zamora
Hector Zamora’s work is alive. It is animated by its surroundings, often by the actual air in which it exists. The use of air, or wind, as a material creates a direct interaction between the work and its site; a wind-powered piece is ultimately site-specific. Further, it forms a specific relationship between the viewer and the piece.
The installation “Sciame di Dirigibili” Héctor Zamora is jump-starting the exciting kickoff of the six-month-long 53rd Venice Biennale. Zamora wedged a life-size zeppelin between buildings at the Arsenale—where a majority of the events take place—saluting the former era of air balloon festivals that captivated Venice in the 1900s.
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“The Wind Brought Us the Crisis” by Luzinterruptus
Luzinterruptus’s focus is on the global economic crisis and the appropriate venue is the steps of the Madrid Stock Exchange. The group used the financial pages from influential newspapers to create a light installation at a spot they believe the virus began to spread, as though borne by the wind.
“Naked Faces,” Portraits by Oleg Duryagin
The “Naked Faces” project is devoted to relationship between human’s inner world with human’s behaviour in society. The society still restricts behaviour and thought of a human being.
This project is a kind of a protest that is to show that a person should remain who he is and that people should perceive him in the way he is. The persons presented in my works lack individuality: the eyebrowes and the eyelashes are removed, the skin is smoothed.
I have always been trying to make observers to be not indifferent to my pictures but it does not mean that emotions should only be positive – they can express both alarm, and fear, and tearing away.
Visially I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock peple. I try to create the my personal aesthetics of the works, I try to combine reality with artificiality.
Pigeon Feather Art by Kate MccGwire
The London-based artist graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works of art.
Boundaries of Desire, Exhibition by Terry Rodgers
The Scheringa Museum will organise the first solo European museum exhibition of American painter Terry Rodgers (1947). With 20 large paintings and a number of sketches, the museum will present an overview of Rodgers’ unique oeuvre as it has developed over the past 10 years.
Rodgers, who exhibits his work around the world, is as talented as he is controversial. His very realistic and dynamic figurative pieces depict a world in which the ‘young and beautiful’ occupy a prominent place. However, the wealth, beauty and promiscuity cannot conceal the emptiness of their lives.
Body Worlds by Professor Gunther von Hagens
All the bodies belonged to people who authorised the use of their bodies after their deaths for the educational benefit of medical professionals and non-professionals alike.
The specimens are preserved by plastination – an impregnational technique carried out in a vacuum where the body tissue is saturated with special plastics.
This technique was invented by the exhibition’s creator, Professor Gunther von Hagens. Plastination lends a high degree of rigidity to the tissue, enabling bodies to be displayed in upright, lifelike poses.
The Water Hole by Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger
Collaborators since 1997, Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger bring together found and made objects for their extravagant installations. They have brought their fairy-tale world to Australia to create The Water Hole in Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Steiner and Lenzlinger create site-specific fantasias and interactive wonderlands that are an adaptation of nature through synthesis.
Called The Water Hole, it begins as a winding, arched corridor. With its proverbial silver lining, the passage is a shimmering cavern, an underground river decked in spacesuit material that rustles with the air currents of your movement. The slithery texture is supported by sticks, but you can almost imagine that they’re the roots of heavy trees above.
At the end of this quivering canal you come to a spooky rainforest with old plumbing and dangling debris — buckets and spiders, matted wire and drink bottles. Hanging items drop downward like stalactites. You walk around the trashy plastic cave with a sense of awe, as if inspecting the natural marvels of speleology.
Sculpture of a Polar Bear on an Iceberg Along the Thames
A 16ft sculpture of a polar bear and cub stranded on an iceberg has been pulled along the Thames to raise awareness of climate change.
The structure was launched in Greenwich, south-east London, before being pulled by a tug to Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.
The stunt is to highlight the plight of the Arctic mammal which is facing extinction due to global warming.
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The Manifest Hope: DC, Photo Exhibition
The MANIFEST HOPE: DC Gallery is an art exhibition produced by EMG. It celebrates that role and shines a spotlight on artists who use their voices to amplify and motivate the grassroots movement that carried President-Elect Barack Obama to victory.
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“Exposure” Exhibition by Tierney Gearon
American artist Tierney Gearon will be showing a series of large-scale photography at Phillips de Pury auction house employing a new process for the artist. Each photograph, contrived through the classic mechanism of double exposure in camera, has been composed by carefully combining two of the artist’s images whose compositions and themes act as counterpoints to each other: interior space and wilderness; youth and old age; solitude and companionship. The result is a powerful exploration of psychological terrain.
“Systematic Landscapes Exhibition de Young Museum, San Francisco at Maya Lin
“Systematic Landscapes” is a show of sculpture and installation by Maya Lin. Lin has focused on a reconsideration of landscape in a time of ecological tension and change. This body of work engages the issue of our fragile connection to the environment in timely and poetic ways.
The exhibition, which explores notions of landscape and geologic phenomena, is scheduled to run from October 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
