After some extreme heavy lifting, Jorge Rodriquez Gerada created a massive sand portrait of Barack Obama (2.5 acres in all). The portrait was created during the 2008 US presidential election using a large-scale vector graphic, a GPS topography system and approximately 650 tons of sand.
The technique of sand painting was used by the artist as a metaphor for the healing that needs to take place in order to improve our future and to secure a safer world for future generations.
My fascination with poly-urethane resin art continues with Dipsticks, a sculpture series by Brooklyn based artist Nick van Woert. These mutated, warted, deformed figures are anything but vile. Check his Dipsticks (the humans) series here.
A la frontière entre le réel et le surnaturel, les clichés de Chris Scarborough nous projettent dans un monde où ses personnages ont des yeux de mangas. Poétique. La suite en images.
What do a clutch of stunning Mondrian canvases, a 4th-century Egyptian sarcophagus cover, an Eileen Gray fauteuil adorned with dragons, and an adorable patinated bronze Boston terrier have in common? All will go on the block in Paris later this month when Christie’s holds its much-anticipated sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection. Beginning on February 23 at the Grand Palais, 691 lots worth of extraordinary paintings, drawings, sculptures, furniture, and decorative objects (from ostrich eggs to Ottoman jade-hilted daggers) will be auctioned over three days. The jaw-dropping collection, laid out in five—count them, five—sumptuous catalogues, is estimated to bring in between 200 million and 300 million euros (approximately $250 million to $400 million, at current exchange rates).
Sure, the Picassos are impressive, and who doesn’t love a perfume bottle concocted by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray (and featuring Duchamp’s female alter ego)? But we’re plotting to acquire the François-Xavier Lalanne-designed “Bar ‘YSL’” (pictured at right) for UnBeige HQ. Saint Laurent and Bergé’s first Lalanne commission, the two-tiered 1965 piece consists of “an ovoid bottle-rack in metal set in motion by a counterweight mechanism, with a horn-form shaker, a spherical ice bucket and a cylindrical crystal glass vase by the Cristalleries de Choisy-le-Roi, the vase passing through the two tiers, supported by four steel feet cut with a blowtorch.”
We stumbled upon this wonderful documentary of Keith Haring in what looks to be the entire film. We made a mention of a film by Christina Clausen called “The Universe of Keith Haring” that was in theaters a few months back. Is this the same film! What’s the word.
In artist and designer Chris O’Shea’s latest project, an array of emergency beacon lights interacts with visitors, tracking their movements through a Dublin gallery
O’Shea explains how it works: “As soon as someone enters the space, all the lights point at that person. When more than one person enters the space, the lights share their interest. Only the lights nearest to you will look at you, with the brightness based on proximity.”
The installation uses industrial beacon lights that have been completely modified with new circuits. The position, rotation speed and light brightness of each beacon can be individually controlled.
Also, says O’Shea, “There are four thermal cameras in the ceiling that track where people are walking: these cameras are normally used for people counting in supermarkets.”
The Lightwave show features a host of other interactive installations, including Balint Bolygó’s laser theramin, Ursula Lavrencic and Auke Touwslager’s Cell Phone Disco, a surface that visualises the electromagnetic field of a mobile phone, and AVIO! by Andrew Bucksbarg, in which users pick up small spheres which change light and sound as they are held.
Lightwave is on until February 20. At the end of February, Beacon will be coming to London for the Kinetica Art Fair.
Le portfolio de l’artiste portugais Joao Oliveira sobrement intitulé On Repeat. Des magnifiques illustrations et compositions, pour la plupart en noir et blanc. Des oeuvres à découvrir dans la suite et sur son site web.
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