UP IN AIR // 20th May 2013
The Sky Whale is a very special hot-air balloon, commissioned for the centenary of canberra and conceived by s Sierra Leonean artist Patricia Piccinini. Instead of wings, the artist has imagined huge udders that might contain the gas of the giant flying sculpture, as well as a huge bulbous body. The project started with a … Read more
TIE THE KNOT // 13th May 2013
Summer is almost here and with it art installation in public spaces. This is the case in New York with “Red, Yellow and Blue” a large-scale installation by the City-based artist Orly Genger. An installation that consists of three wavy walls made from 1.4 million-square-feet of nautical rope. A rope that has been first dyed … Read more
ICE AGE // 6th May 2013
Located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, this ice cave looks surreal. The tunnel measures about one kilometer long and is the result of a hot water spring flowing beneath the ice fields on the flanks of the Mutnovsky volcano. In recent years, the Kamchatka glaciers have been melting. Which has made the roof of … Read more
MORE FUN TO COMPUTE // 15th April 2013
It’s happening in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A facade of a cultural centre has been transformed into a 3000 square meters screen. A screen onto which users can watch and play classic games such as pac-man, tetris and a version of space invaders, all that via iPads. Designed by a group of international digital artists, “play!” … Read more
A PIECE OF AMERICANA // 8th April 2013
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Marc Trujillo is an American painter that has some similarities in the subject he paints with the late Edward Hopper. He depicts places that are omnipresent in American urban and suburban landscapes such as gas stations, shopping malls, big chain stores, and restaurants. The difference with the Master is that Trujillo’s paintings are very contemporary … Read more
FROM GOOGLE WITH LOVE // 1st April 2013
“I collect Google Earth images. I discovered strange moments where the illusion of a seamless representation of the Earth’s surface seems to break down. At first, I thought they were glitches, or errors in the algorithm, but looking closer I realized the situation was actually more interesting — these images are not glitches. They are … Read more
IN LIVING COLORS // 25th March 2013
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This one place is notoriously known for being hard to reach. But when one gets there, it’s worth the effort. The White Pocket is an isolated patch of sandstone located within the desert expanse of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument near the Arizona/Utah border. Covered with a gray layer, the area looks as if covered with … Read more
TICK TOCK // 4th march 2013
A Million Times consists of an installation that features 288 analog clocks and 576 motors – one for each minute and hour hand. Behind this masterpiece is Stockholm design studio Humans Since 1982, a one of a kind studio that has worked with clocks in the past, giving them new functions, celebrating their physical form … Read more
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY // 18th February 2013
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA, gathers half of the world’s geothermal features. Stretching on an area of nearly 9000 square km, the national park is home to 10,000 geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles. What one’s calls “Yellowstone” is a massive volcano that erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two … Read more
BREADCRUMBS // 4th February 2013
Your Love is Like a Chunk of Gold is the title of a series of bread loaves with crystallized growths created by Singaporean Sookoon Ang. Strange, isn’t it? Presented at Art Stage Singapore 2013 by Fost Gallery, the artist’s work explores the idea of comfort and pain, as well as beauty VS ugliness in Art, … Read more
