Insect Artwork: Debug by Edhv
Dutch designers of the Edhv team show a series of pictures achieved by tracking the path of tiny insects.
An experimental technology tracking software allows the mapping of the movement patterns of different species of insect. A new medium of artwork coming from life.
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Tablecloth by Ball Nogues Studio
A cloth made from tables. Here is the design of American Ball Nogues Studio. The installation, hanging in the courtyard of Schoenberg Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, gathers 268 tables. Linked together, they form a fabric.
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The showPODs Exhibition, Chicago
Jeremy Ehly has put together an exhibition in Chicago called reamscapes. Six carefully selected teams of up-and-coming designers from the Chicago area working in the field of architecture have been invited to take a standard ream of recycled copy paper and render the banality of 500 sheets of paper into a thought provoking and arresting temporary installation. Participants include Brandon Horn, Team Fold 500, Jeremy Ehly, Pei-San Ng, Thomas Kelley and w| c studio.
What will become of paper? With the advent of the iPad the proverbial death knell has been rung, many hailing the iPad as the final nail in the coffin for printed media. To hail the coming of the end and to tribute the official launching of the iPad, March will be the month when paper makes its triumphant last stand in the heart of the Chicago Arts District taking up a month long residence in the showPODs.
Creatures of Habitat by Sean Kenney
Philadelphia Zoo displays a very special exhibition called ”Creatures of Habitat”, a Gazillion-Piece Animal Adventure” which shows endangered species throughout the work of world-renowned Lego artist Sean Kenney.
It took him over one year to complete the 34 animals, being the largest project he’s undertaken. Indeed the sculptures of birds, frogs, tamarinds, and a polar bear feature together about 95,000 Lego pieces.
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“Gone with the Wind” by Nika Zupanc
Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc presents an exhibition entitled “Gone with the Wind.” The Wind Pavilion stands as an icon evoking a sense for nature. With it, Nika Zupanc embraces the issue of responsibility by introducing the elegance and poetry of creative expression into predominately technical solutions.
Like so many magic pavilions in the past, this one is also outfitted in one of the latest achievements of the industry – the unique modular façade system Qbiss by trimo. Optically smooth surfaces, unique rounded corner elements, and “shadow joints” allow great freedom of expression and enable an optically enchanting combination of an inclined grid and an attractive landscape of 45 restless windmills.
Sophie Cave’s Floating Heads
This exhibition at Museum in Glasgow, Scotland by Scottish artist Sophie Cave shows over fifty of the disembodied human faces and they depict a whole gamut of emotions too. Fifty heads in total make up the bizarre installation piece.
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Stella Crystal Star by Tokujin Yoshioka
Stella Crystal Star, the project created by the Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. has been presented at Swarovski Crystal Palace for the Milan Design Week 2010, . The crystal illuminated sphere descends from the sky lighting the exhibition space with rays of light. Tokujin brings together the explorations made in his previous work with the intention of creating a ‘star’.
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Water Cube Pavillon by MVRDV
Architects from MVRDV are building a Water Cube Pavillon for the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, Korea. The structure filled with sea water acts as a temperature buffer, symbolizing the crucial role of the ocean as temperature modulator for the planet.
“Your Chance Encounter” by Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson presents his work called ‘Your Chance Encounter’ in a large solo exhibition held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
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.
