Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Sculptures
The plight of polar bears comes to the streets of New York in Tim Godsall’s art piece-cum-ad.
Via [Wooster Collective]
New Museum of Modern Arab Art by Rafael Viñoly Architects
This new museum is designed by New York based architects Rafael Viñoly for the Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar, will be completed by 2011. It encompasses approximately 33,000 square meters of gallery space, library, public areas, maintenance, dining, storage and support areas.
This building is one of only a few in the world designed using a canvas-like material. This project presented many engineering challenges, including the design of an air conditioning system that can maintain proper temperature and humidity to preserve sensitive artwork and manuscripts.
August 26, 2008 - Category: Architecture, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
Leocadia Jurado’s New Creations
One of our favorite artists, Leocadia Jurado comes with her new creations using a mixed technique based on the art of collage and painting.
Liz Wolfe’s Artworks
The artwork of Liz Wolfe is almost entirely based around a singular concept: What is responsible for the human brain’s basic perception of “beauty” when judging the world around us? When first seen, the first reaction is rather light compared to the stark themes that arise upon further inspection.
Nike Project by Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox was asked by Nike to design a series of works for their ‘Nike 1/1′ and ‘art of football’ projects.
‘Cave’ is a container for your most special football shoes. Instead of just dumping your prized footwear in the bottom of your wardrobe , place them in this bespoke shoe home made from model football players.
Cave’ by Dominic Wilcox
Foam City, Sony’s Latest Advert
Created by the ad agency Fallon London, which also made the three previous iconic Sony advertisements, the new advert, “Foam City”, promotes Sony’s Handycam, Cyber-shot and α, its new digital camera brand. The team flooded the centre of the Florida, south-east United States, city with over 460 million litres of foam, using the world’s largest foam-producing machine, which could fill an Olympic swimming pool in 24 seconds.
Deform House by Thom Faulders
Deform House build by Thom Faulders was brought on to consult on an efficient method for production and to then process and fabricate the individually pieced ceiling patterns.
The variegated ceiling and rear wall lining is composed of a series of milled patterns that modulates throughout the space, wrapping, bulging and aligning in continuously unique ways depending on the viewers position.
April 15, 2008 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Godfather Art Made from the Entire Script
I know. This looks like nothing particular, it’s just Don Corleone holding his cat. But what’s special about this picture is that it’s made from the entire Godfather script in varying shades of black (and a little red). A 24″ x 30″ poster will cost you $14, an unsigned giclee (limited edition of 1,000), $100, and a signed giclee (limited edition of 250), $300. If Marlon Brando is your hero and you’ll always dreamed of being a gangster, this is a must-have collector item.
Link (product page with a super high-res version)
Retrospective of the Work of the Chinese Artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum
Organized by Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexandra Munroe, the museum’s senior curator of Asian art, this exhibition nearly fills the museum and introduces a conceptually inclined impresario best known for works using gunpowder.
7,200 Bananas by Stefan Sagmeister
“Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far”, an interactive exhibition by Stefan Sagmeister revealed on Core77.
Here’s what a curator for the New York Museum of Modern Art had to say regarding the latest exhibition of Stefan Sagmeister, which includes 7,200 stacked bananas rotting along a wall:
The bananas you see here are real, all 7,200 of them on a giant wall - it smelled like 7,200 bananas too, slightly rotting.
The Pink and Blue Project by Jeong-Mee Yoon
The Pink and Blue Project by Korean photographer, Jeong-Mee Yoon, shows boys and girls with a collection of their personal items.
“The Pink and Blue Project” was at first motivated by my daughter. At five years old, she loves pink so much that she wants to wear only pink clothes and use only pink toys or objects.
What if Artworks Could Know How We Were Looking at Them?
“Opto-Isolator” by Golan Levin and Greg Baltus is an art project that subverts the idea of the “spectator” into a reversal of roles for the artwork and viewer. It is design and fabrication by Greg Baltus of Standard Robot Company, Pittsburgh. Opto-Isolator was developed with support from Creative Capital and the Berkman Faculty Development Fund.
Among other forms of feedback, Opto-Isolator looks its viewer directly in the eye; appears to intently study its viewer’s face; looks away coyly if it is stared at for too long; and blinks precisely one second after its visitor blinks.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Storefront for Art and Architecture has followed their announcement of the White House Redux competition, with the launch of a curated micro-bookshop this past Wednesday. This fascinating concept comprises Artists’ book series, published by the Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu in Japan.
It contains three sections: books selected by key figures in the Storefront’s past and present, an artists’ book series published by Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu in Japan, and books and other material related to exhibitions held at the space.
Storefront will be the only retailer in the US of this rare collection.
Link Via [Tropolism] Via [Archidose]
February 4, 2008 - Category: Architecture, Art - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Art Installation Made up of Hundreds of Case Fans by Studio Roosegaarde
Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fans called Flow 5.0. Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of fans which reacts to your sound and motion. By walking and interacting the visitor creates an illusive landscape of transparencies and artificial wind.
Leocadia Jurado
Leocadia Jurado’s nickname could be “fairy fingers”. Educated in Plastic arts, former teacher of drawing and ceramic for children in Sevilla, this Spanish artist lives in Brussels since 17 years, where the passion for fashion led her to work as manager and visual merchandiser in various boutiques, notably Chine Collection.
Given her eagerness for creation, she decides at the same time to go in for painting using a mixed technique based on the art of collage. Her talent will not remain unnoticed and she is asked to decorate with collage and graffiti works a clothing boutique in Sitges, Spain.
After having designed several hats for a theater show “The wizard of Oz”, played in her native city, Leocadia starts to create a very unique and stylish collection of handbags made with crochet-work. Totally handmade, combination of pure geometric shapes and flaming colours, these handbags have a great success in Sitges.
Eager for new challenges, Leocadia chooses to apply this home-made technique to the upholstery of furniture. She makes her first try on a seventies armchair and recovers it using a plenty of wool balls of different colours.
The result is a complete rebirth. Her remarkable skill of creating a “patchwork”, where every color supports and emphasizes the others, gives to this object a fresh contemporary touch.
Her work really deserve to be noticed so if you want to help her to distribute her art, you may contact her at +32 473 80 28 13.
January 17, 2008 - Category: Art, Latest, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Vinyl Sleeve Heads
A FaceBook group has started a new amazing trend called “Sleeveface”. The concept is pretty simple: take a picture of yourself holding a vinyl album cover in front of your face and post it on the web for everyone to see. The result is always funny and very artistic. That made me want to dust off my old vinyls and give them a new life. So if your turntable is broken, you know what’s left to do.
Takashi Murakami retrospective @ MOCA
The most internationally acclaimed artist to emerge from Asia in the postwar era, Takashi Murakami effortlessly navigates between the worlds of fine art and popular culture and is best known for his cartoon-like, “superflat” style. The Takashi Murakami retrospective is the most comprehensive, in-depth look to date, of the artist’s entire career.
Giant Gorilla Sculpture made from Coat Hangers by David Mach
Gorilla’s have fascinated mankind since ages, even now when we are so accustomed to them, they haven’t lost their charm and remain simply mysterious. David Mach is a famous collage artist and is known for his marvelous and huge creations.
Believe it or not, but the whole huge Gorilla has been made from coat hangers.
Link Via [The Design Blog]