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Don’t think that flowers are the only thing you can plant in a garden. Interdisciplinary creation studio Apostrophy’s from Bangkok planted a whole garden of lights, titled the ‘Imagination Light Garden’. Essentially, they created a massive, florally-themed installation, which utilizes over two million light bulbs in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The impressive work of art, design and light engineering honors the opening of [...]
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Pixels, spool sculptures, neurological image processing mechanisms and the great painting masters – these are the catalysts that propel American artist Devorah Sperber’s body of work. Sperber meditates and invites to meditation on the links between art, technology and biology. What she does is create sumptuous, majestic works of art, essentially made of spools of thread and other found items. She arranges [...]
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NFN Kalyan, a Miami-based visual artist sure enjoys playing with fire, as well as with glass and exploratory concepts of the essence of humanity. His ongoing series of sculptural portraits, “Nature of the Beast” is both jarring and spectacularly beautiful. It is shocking for the implication it makes, that Barrack Obama, the Dalai Lama… and this guy called Chuck… are or could [...]
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Wuppertal-based and Liverpudlian by birth, Tony Cragg has been exhibiting work since the late 1970s, challenging the conventional wisdom as far as sculpting materials and motifs. The considerable body of work he’s amassed so far throughout a prolific career has included the use of plastic, brick, wood, bronze, plaster, steel etc., which impress through the shape he impresses on them but also [...]
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“Convinced that the Golden Age of Photography is NOW [and determined] to be a key factor in this new era for the medium,” the Russian Tea Room Gallery is right up our alley inasmuch as this statement of purpose marries beauty and innovation to give young art an audible voice. We here appreciate that frame of mind, as we do those trail-blazers [...]
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We travel, and we visit, but how many of us take the extra leap, deep into the heart of a country? New Yorker Cai Guo-Qiang’s experience of the Ukraine would put the shallow traveler to shame, as the intrepid artist actually shadowed a team of miners 1040 meters underground. This was back in May – now, the unconventional Chinese artist is using [...]
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In the spirit of perpetual transformation, anything thought dead, buried and gone for ever can prove to be ground zero for some imaginative mind: a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea will provide the right setting for a horror script, or the starting point of Cameron’s “Titanic,” or it might even come to be the venue of choice for an underwater [...]
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Fans of deliciously garish and pop-artsy eye-candy on canvas should be aware that, as of July 2nd, and running through August 14th, the Grand Central Art Gallery in Santa Ana, CA is hosting an exhibit, filled to the brim with works by Southern Californian artist Josh Agle. Better known under his assumed name Shag, the designer, painter and illustrator has made a [...]
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Jack of all trades François Abelanet, a set designer for theater plays, films and ads as well as a self-styled “space sculptor,” has unveiled a perspective-dependent work in Paris, or, to put a finer technical point on it, an anamorphosis. Christened “Qui croire?” the installation induces an optical illusion which would have us believe, if we’re standing in just the right spot [...]
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Running through July 9th at TenderPixel in London, Patrick Tresset’s expo features a collection of three robotic installations, which is more impressive than their number might suggest. Each bot showcases Tresset’s concept of “clumsy robotics” by sketching the portraits of whoever crosses their threshold, i.e. those passers-by with a solid enough self-image not to be offended by the result. Can we grasp [...]
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Bruno Barbier, a contemporary artist living in Nantes, is currently waiting for the Art Takes London competition to review the works he submitted and decide whether he’ll be the recipient of the $10,000 grand prize and the show at SCOPE Art London. Sadly, I only discovered him now, when the die’s been cast, that’s to say when public voting’s no longer an [...]
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If graphology is about sizing up the individual according to his or her handwriting, “rafology” is a made-up look-alike umbrella term uniting the works of artist Rafael Santiago. To my mind though, it should equally be adopted into the dictionary, as Rafael Santiago’s uniquely expressive take on individuals via line drawing paints more accurate a picture thereof than any science can lay [...]
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Big ideas come in small packages. For instance, it only takes six words to tell a story, apparently. Why that would be something of interest to The Beautifulist, you can easily see by checking out these telegrams below (drumming fingers, back after the jump!) Six Word Story Every Day is the initiative of designer Anne Ulku and writer Van Horgen who’ve kept [...]
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Minnesota-based relief painter Gregory Euclide uses more than oils to paint a vivid picture of sprawling landscapes – maybe more akin to collages than paintings, his veritable dioramas will feature everything from foam and eurocast to moss and baby’s breath, thus rendering Nature at her best, most awe-inspiring. Except for dime-a-dozen would-be painters whose works adorn motel rooms or get kids clamoring [...]
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Canadian born New Yorker Kevin Cyr’s art-mediated commentary on shelter has recently placed him among the contemporary artists exhibiting their work at 941 Geary in San Francisco. All through May, Cyr’s work took over this former warehouse, now reassigned to serve the artists’ larger visions – sure enough, this artist’s vision for his Home in the Weeds showcase needed the sprawling space [...]
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His works were received with rapture at M0MA all through a five-month exhibit; now, it’s time for his magic to rub off on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I have lots of pictures to show you, fresh from the land of twisted goodness where those fortunate Angelenos are feasting their eyes as we speak – but first, check out this [...]
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In a time of economic turmoil of epic proportions, artist James Charles is thumbing his nose at the dollar bill. Don’t even start – you’ve done it too, we’ve all caught ourselves doodling absent-mindedly on banknotes. It’s not like defacing a “dead president” is all that illegal, it can even prove fortunate. Remember that Serendipity flick, where the leading Him and Her [...]
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