Festival of Light in Berlin
The Festival of Lights is one of the largest illumination festivals in the world. Every year for twelve days in October, Berlin’s world-famous landmarks and monuments are dressed in spectacular light. German and international artists and lighting designers present extraordinary illuminations, light art and creative designs.
The festival is accompanied by numerous cultural events, all exploring the theme “Light”. The festival is an admission-free, top artistic event for an audience of millions. It generates massive media interest worldwide, and as a result, promises real
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Festival of Light
‘Girls in the Windows,’ Photograph by Ormond Gigli
‘Girls in the Windows,’ is the signature piece of photographer Ormond Gigli, who shot for such publications as Life,Paris Match, and the Saturday Evening Post. The famous photograph has been sold at Christie’s in New York in the beginning of Oct.
Ormond Gigli says;
“I was inspired to somehow immortalize those buildings. I had the vision of 43 women in formal dress adorning the windows of the skeletal facade,” Gigli writes. “The day before the buildings were razed, the 43 women … climbed the old stairs and took their places in the windows. I was set up on my fire escape across the street, directing the scene, with bullhorn in hand. Of course I was concerned for the models’ safety, as some were daring enough to pose out on the crumbling sills.”
Bookmobile, Stories of Old France
Published in 1902 this little scholarly tome on historical French stories bears many illustrations. Some of these are visible in the loop-work of this sculptural piece, including a portrait of Joan of Arc and a map of France. The decorative cover design is in grey and blue, with a simple signet on the back cover. Read More…
Carved Rolls of Paper by Ana Bidart
Uruguay-based Ana Bidart carves and creates forms out of rolls of paper.
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‘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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‘Soak, Dye in Light,’ Interactive Artwork by Everyware
‘Soak, Dye in light” by Everyware is an empty canvas but when you touch it, its elastic surface causes colour to soak into it, enabling you to create your own multicoloured patterns of virtual dye.
Local materials such as herbs, flowers, rocks, juice of animals or shells have been used through the dying process. Especially in Korea, people have deep affection toward the unique colors and textures of fabric dyed with traditional materials. Now in the age of new media, we tried a whole new way of coloring fabrics with the essential materials of new media, ‘light’ and ‘interactivity’. Also, as a meta-creative interactive installation, ‘Soak’ can be expanded for creating garments with personalized patterns or textile productions using today’s digital fabric printing technologies.
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Watch Sculptures by Dominic Wilcox
Artist Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature sculptures using a range of vintage watches, which have been customized with tiny figures to create unique animated scenes.
“The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario. I altered head and arm angles of found model figures and made objects such as the LCD tv with wire and plug. The glass domes are hand blown to fit each watch exactly.”
Plexus Series by Gabriel Dawe
These massive ribbons of color are made from little more than thread, and from a short distance, the inventive installations seem to be floating. Gabriel Dawe is a young conceptual artist of Mexican origin who currently lives in Dallas – USA – where he is achieving his MFA in Arts and Technology at the University of Texas.
His South American roots give a great influence to his works, colours are bright and vivid, as in the Plexus project, a series of installations that we can define optical, made with threads, nails and wood in a triumph of joy for the eyes.The sewing thread, the main material composing Plexus, is to create garments to protect the body from the weather. Similarly, the architecture responds to that function.Gabriel takes the characteristic of the garment and creates an architecture, a structure that does not repair from the material needs but it makes something not_real that identifies and defines the intangible needs: essential to the survival of humanity. Read More…
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.
A4 Paper Cuts by Peter Callesen
Peter Callesen Copenhagen Danish artist works on installations cut from A4 sheets of 80g and tranform them into 3D form, leaving behind the negative space from which the form is created.
I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.
‘Totems Series,’ Photographs by Alain Delorme
Alain Delorme, photographer from Paris, captures fascinating photos of bicycle carriers in Shanghai, China. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy.
It is not Easy for a Panda to Relax
CubeMe Team wishes you a very good weekend with a very funny video of a panda who does not find its position to relax. It is true that knowing how to relax, is an art.
Lego Photographs by Chris McVeigh
We’ve had a lot of great guest photographers on CubeMe recently. But we are particularly impressed by Chris McVeigh’s photographs and his geek universe. His works shows creating clever, quirky and often comical pictures that employ everything from action figures to backyard wildlife.
I am extremely patient and focused when it comes to my work. I have no problem giving a task all of my attention, and sticking with it until I feel it is complete (or at the very least, I’ve reach a certain threshold in the process). I’m not sure my patient with the creative process necessarily translates into overall patience, though… I’m easily annoyed by bad drivers, for example.
‘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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Airan Kang’s LED Digital Book Installation
Airan Kang composes book-shaped objects and explores the space of reflection. Born in Seoul, was educated there, meanwhile habitually read western philosophy such as Immanuel Kant during her adolescent period. After 1999, she began to use book-shaped object in her works in order to symbolize the knowledge and the individual history.Her book, molded in trasparent resin, into the shape of lifesized book, in which is installed LED light that emits gleams.
Recentry she has transferred her expression into the cyber space, presenting her series of digital book projects that interlace virtual- real worlds .For nearly a decade she has been both personifying and objectifying discourse and our concepts of knowledge by simulating libraries, bookstores, and reading rooms. Made with LED devices that emit colored lights programmed to continually change in brightness, hue and intensity, each “book” in this exhibition conflates material and ephemeral depictions of knowledge to realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination.
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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…
Surfing with Flares
Red Bull Minor Threat comes this cool surf footage of Bruce Irons creating some breathtaking visuals by blazing through tubes with a flare attached to the back of his board in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Nendo Solo Show in Taiwan
Oki Sato from Japanese design firm, Nendo, created unique black and white illustrations within the installations at the Nendo Solo show in Taiwan.The Nendo man is famed for his stripped back approach and, at this new solo show at the government sponsored National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, even the rooms are stripped back into sketch form. The concept was to make visitors feel as if they were walking through an illustration. Read More…
