Artist:
Lisa Kellner
“Almost Perfect”
Hand Formed and Painted Silk, Thread,
Resin, Embroidered Text, Monofilament.
2008
Source: lisakellner.com
Artist:
Daniel Firman
“Nasutamanus”
Part of the “The Circus as a Parallel Universe” at the
Source: danielfirman.com
Artist:
Jea-Hyo Lee
Title: “0121-1110=1080620”
Material / Stone
Size / 151 cm x 410 cm x 280 cm
Year / 2006
Title: “0121-1110=1080815”
Material / Stone
Size / 95 cm x 95 cm x 600 cm
Year / 2008
Source: leeart.name
Artist:
Jacob Hashimoto
“Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness”
“MACRO inaugurates the entrance to its new wing with a site specific installation by Jacob Hashimoto. Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness creates a floating realm which anticipates the journey from MACRO’s present to its future. Hashimoto conceived this “cloud of 7000 kites” specifically for MACRO’s new exhibition gallery. The work fills the room like a “diaphanous canopy” evoking in its spectators the sensation of being “surrounded by a mist filled forest of kites and strings - a quiet, meditative, sculptural environment.” The piece synthesizes nature and technology to yield a fluid and organic landscape. This encourages meditation and evokes new readings of the gallery: as a void, as space, or as time.”
Source: jacobhashimoto.com
“100,000 LED lights float down the Sumida River”
“The inaugural Tokyo Hotaru festival was held last weekend. And kicking off the festivities were an impressive display of 100,000 LED lights – made to resemble hotaru (fireflies) – that floated down the Sumida River through central Tokyo. Dubbed “prayer stars,” the LEDs were provided by Panasonic, who claims that the balls, which were designed to light up upon contact with water, were 100% powered by solar energy. After illuminating a large stretch of the river, which also hosts a popular fireworks festival in the summer, the LEDs were all caught in a large net.”
From:
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/05/10/tokyo-hotaru-led-lights-sumida-river/
Artist:
Ana Soler
“Causa-Efecto” (“Cause and Effect”)
“Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes. In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully aligned in suspended trajectories that appear to bounce off walls, floors, and other surfaces providing an uncanny sense of motion similar to a photograph taken with a strobe light. See much more on Soler’s fancy Flash website. (via collabcubed)”
From:
Source: anasoler.es
Artist:
Mika Aoki
“北海道近代美術館”
“Her Songs Are Floating”
2008
“北海道近代美術館30周年記念展示「BORN IN HOKKAIDO」2007年
インスタレーション
高橋コレクション所蔵真っ暗な空間の中、古い車が青い光に照らされてぼうっと浮かび上がって見える。
フロントガラスやドアミラー、ボンネットの中、錆びてめくれてしまった傷など、
いたるところから増殖する菌類のようないきもの。
ルーフから上空へ、また根を車中に下ろしはびこるいきもの。
列をなして歩いている透明な虫のようないきもの。
後部座席に乗り込むと、海底に沈んでいるかのような感覚に陥る。
月明かりに照らされたいきものが静かにきらめいている。滅びゆくものに宿る様々な感情、記憶、時間が、ひそやかに育ち、
目に見えない胞子のようなものを散布する。
その営みは空間全体を包みこむ。
まるでそこで彼女が歌っているかのように。
すべてを受け取った生命は、自己の体内で接合と分裂を繰り返し、
吸収し、成長していく。”“In the midst of pitch-dark space, an old car, shone by blue light, is to be seen dimly as if it is floating in the air. On the windshield, rearview mirrors, on the hood, in scratches on the body which are rust-eaten and turned up, and everywhere, forms like spores or fungi are growing and propagating. Creatures like transparent worms are creeping in a row. From the surface of the roof to the air above it, plants are growing, and their roots are spreading downward from the ceiling of the car. When you sit on the rear seat, you feel as if you and the car are sunk at the bottom of the sea.”
Source: sing-g.net
Artist:
Herb Williams
UNIQUE ART INSTALLATION RAISES WILDFIRE AWARENESS
“Sculptor Herb Williams creates wildfire crayon sculpture at the National Ranching Heritage Center”
“Lubbock, TEXAS (September 2011) - The National Heritage Center (NRHC)
is proud to announce its newest exhibit “Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of
Wildfire” opening October 7. THe outdoor art installation is the work of
internationally-known sculptor Herb Williams of Nashville, TN. Williams
will use Crayola crayons to create multiple freestanding, three-
dimensional sculptures representing wildfires that are then meant to melt
in the Texas weather conditions.”
This is a new type of exhibition for the NRHC that will raise awareness
about a serious environmental ranching concern in a very unique way,
and hopefully, continue to bring more attention to the current wildfire crisis
in Texas. The exhibit opens on October 7 and will run through the end of
the year at NRHC.”
“A variety of educational programs for children and adults will occur
throughout the exhibit,” said Emily Arellano, project coordinator and
manager of education at the NRHC. “The focus will include raising
awareness about the causes of wildfire both environmental and human,
the effects of wildfire on the environment, wildfire prevention, and the
purpose of prescribed burning.”
Source: herbwilliamsart.com
Artist:
Anu Tuominen
“This colorful installation is a collection of crocheted potholders by artist Anu Tuominen. In much of her work, the Finland-based artist redefines the function of basic, everyday stuff. She finds neglected and unloved goods, and by reworking these things, she gives them new life as conceptual art.”
As a collection, this crotched wool, formed into a colorful pattern of basic household potholders, functions as a strong visual language. In a review of her work, Ostso Kantokorpi says, “Tuominen’s works present an endless array of parallels, analogies, continuums and hierarchies. She transposes the image into words and the word into images, the public into things private, and the private into the public.”
Tuominen looks at the world with an open mind. She sees the beauty in what others would see as trash. Through this visual attention to the world, Tuominen is able to demonstrate the importance of innovation, even through the smallest item like a piece of wool. She says, “Everything is still as it was, and yet somehow more meaningful than before.”
From: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/anu-tuominen-crocheted-potholders
Source: anutuominen.fi
Artist:
Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd
“Testament”
2011 - 1998
Recently exhibited as part of Terre Vulnerabili 4/4
HangarBicocca, Milan
&
“Park Ave + Resident”
2011
Void, Derry, Northern Ireland
Curated by Gregory McCartney
“Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd are fascinated by grass – its birth and growth, the way in which it dies and, in particular, its chromatic variations. They make use of this material for a many of their works: large-scale installations where grass covers entire walls or buildings, large canvases where traditional painting is substituted by the lush growth of grass or by the experimental use of photographic images. The deployment of this organic material as an artistic material puts the theme of the precariousness of natural organic matter at the heart of their work – by its very nature, grass degrades and dies in a short time frame, and Ackroyd & Harvey’s works die along with it… The work they have created for the space of HangarBicocca is entitled Testament: a photograph that, through the process of photosynthesis, gets impressed onto the vertical meadow that has been “made to grow” on a wall of the “Cube” within the venue. The image depicts an old man whose face is marked by time in the same way in which a field is furrowed by the signs of sowing.”
Source: ackroydandharvey.com
Artist:
Joe Mangrum
“Using just colored sand, artist Joe Mangrum beautifies streets and museum floors in major US cities. What’s most amazing is that this artist comes up with his highly detailed, often symmetrical pieces without any advance planning. Instead, every design is improvised by “the inspiration that comes from the day.” Watch the video Story Eyed Media did on Mangrum to see learn more about his process (see below).
This week, Mangrum will be part of SOFA New York’s show called Swept Away, where he will create his signature works in sand. The exhibition sounds particularly interesting because it deals with live, site-specific installations made of ash, dust, sand and dirt.”
From:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/joe-mangrum-sand-paintings
Source: joemangrum.com
Artist:
Lee Eunyeol
“Starry Night”
이은열 개인展
3층 전시장
2012. 05. 02 ~ 05. 07
“Starry Night expresses private spaces given by night and various emotions that are not able to be defined and described in the space. I’ve chosen analogue type for the expression which attempts to install electric bulbs in an object to be expressed using back space of night by taking advantage of huge studio. There are two spaces in photographs. One is a space before electric bulbs of familiar landscape are installed and the other is a space after electric bulbs expressed by dispersing personal emotion are installed. Unified light from these two spaces generates a mysterious landscape.”
Source: gana.insaartcenter.co.kr
Artist:
Gabriel Dawe
“Plexus No. 9 “
Site Specific Installation at Peel Gallery
Gütermann Thread, Painted Wood and Hooks
25’ x 4’ x 14’, 2011
Source: gabrieldawe.com
