Art Talk, the video series from VICE Magazine is back with another episode, this time following the story of the 104 North 7th Project collaboration, by Brooklyn artists FAILE. The front of the dilapidated building is serving as a canvas for FAILE, who are putting up thousands of individually pressed, painted and wood-fired tiles into its facade. This episode of Art Talk dives deeper into the inspiration and message of FAILE, as well as the story behind the collage itself.
“Goldfish Salvation” Riusuke Fukahori
Check out this incredible artist - Riusuke Fukahori and his work “Goldfish Salvation”.
Artist Riusuke Fukahori’s London debut exhibition “Goldfish Salvation” transforms ICN gallery into the world of goldfish. When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori’s pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality.
This video gives you a glimpse of his amazing painting process.
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Brand Spirit
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Brand Spirit : every day for 100 days, I will paint one branded object white, removing all visual branding, reducing the object to its purest form. I can purchase each object for less than $10, it can be something I own, something another person gives me, or something I find.
About me : I work by day as a strategic agent of change at Carbone Smolan Agency, I study by night at the SVA Master’s in Branding program, and I’m on a perpetual quest for the perfect burger.
Credits & copyright Andrew Miller / Brand Spirit
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BEAT TAKESHI KITANO ‘GOSSE DE PEINTRE’
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The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art presents an exhibition by multi-tasking Japanese personality Beat Takeshi this month. Previously shown in France, ‘Gosse De Peintre’ promises to ‘lead the visitor through surprises, gags and games, all the while mocking contemporary art, experimenting with the sciences and toying with clichés associated with his country, Japan.’
Beat Takeshi ‘Gosse De Peintre’
TOKYO OPERA CITY
April 13th – September 2nd 2012
Opera City Website
BEAT TAKESHI GOSSE PEINTRE WEBSITE
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Martin Schoeller’s Celebrity Portraits
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Amazing work of New York based photographer Martin Schoeller, who’s best known for his tight portraits or “Close Up” series. Schoeller has also been working for the New Yorker for more than 10 years where he produced most of these masterful celebrity portraits that have gained recognition for their strong visual impact.
See more of his work at www.vh-artists.com
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THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOKUSAI’S BIRTH EXHIBITION
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Hokusai is undoubtedly one of Japan’s most famous artist, if not THE most recognized through his wood block print depictions of Fuji, The Wave of Kanagawa or Views od Edo. In celebration of the 250th Anniversary of his birth, Nihonbashi’s Mitsui Memorial Museum is exhibiting 170 prints from collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The exhibition includes one of Hokusai’s most well-known works, ’36 Views of Mount Fuji’.
“The 250th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Birth: Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts”
April 4th – June 17th
Mistui Memorial Museum Website
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Baptiste Debombourg’s Aerial
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Baptiste Debombourg, of staple art fame, has just released his latest work: Aerial. “The mind is everything. The material is the servant of spiritual,” is the simple description of the site-specific installation now at the Abbey Brauweiler in Germany, which took 420 hours and two tons of glass to accomplish.
The French artist is known to document all the time and material spent creating each work, asking the rhetorical question, “What if I were the first artist to get paid by the hour?” This would be quite something for Baptiste, whose eye-catching works tend to be larger than life, both in galleries, outdoor sites, and in public spaces. A majority of his works (also seen here) focus on shattered glass and other elements, playing with the opposing ideas of construction and deconstruction.
“Destruction, like construction, is a human expression and a paradox of life because it is can be both good and evil. My personal point of view is that destruction is inevitably linked to repair.”
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Zena Holloway Shoots Jaeger’s Look Book
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Zena Holloway’s latest work “Frozen” (Jeager AW12 campaign) brings another level to editorial work. In a sense, it is a bit of a departure for her; although these images are underwater (as is all her work) they seem angular, sharp and constructed. A departure from her past work, which has more of a dreamlike and surreal nature. Here, in fact, at first glance it is not so obvious that it is shot in the water, one might think this a studio location, with a special lens, or lighting…. but, upon closer inspection, one begins to see, and feel, there’s more to it than that, the very subtle bubbles, a fluidity, softening and malleability that one feels. Then there’s a realization that water itself is acting as an aberrant lens. Stuart Stockdale, Design Director, Jaeger, says, “I love that these images have the sense of being frozen in a moment. The water accentuates the silhouettes of the pieces and the images make the colors more vivid.” These very subtle nuances are what make the images so strong and individual. “Frozen” stays within the construct of synchronized energy; the water, the composition, the fluidity of the model all meld into these beautiful final images.
Completely self-taught, Zena’s work is striking and instinctive. She is an innovator, and leader whose love for the sea, nature, solitary open spaces, and creative freedom is evident in her huge body of work. Holloway regularly shoots for a range of magazines and advertising clients who appreciate the unique impact of her colorful dreamlike imagery, completed a two year project to illustrate Charles Kinglsey’s 1863 novel “The Water Babies”, has several videos under her belt and has amassed a slew of photography and directors awards.
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Kenichi Kanazawa visualizes sound using rainbow-colored sand
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Japanese artist Kenichi Kanazawa visualizes sound by manipulating multicolored sand atop a steel tabletop. The study of visible sound is apparently known as cymatics and, in this case, is demonstrated by a rubber mallet that creates vibrations, moving the grains of sand to create beautiful and colorful patterns.
Originally a sculptor by trade, Kanazawa began working with steel and sound in 1987 after collaborating with the late sound artist Hiroshi Yoshimura. Today, his work primarily involves elements like sound, vibration and heat: making the invisible, visible.
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Lifes of grass
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Soil, wheat seeds, structure from recycled metal, fabric. Photos © Matthieu Raffard.
Exhibited at the 2010 Crossing the Line FIAF Festival at Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ; at the French Institute Alliance Française FGH Theater hall, NY ; at Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City at The Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and at the Anatomia Botanica exhibition at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville.
The Lifes of Grass sculptures show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. In Egyptian Mythology, Osiris is the God of renewal, the one who eternally comes back to life. He is also the personification of the fertile land and the natural cycles: death and rebirth, dryness and fertility. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Through these anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds, I strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world - of abundance, of famine - and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.
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Harbour City Chocolate Trail Photographs by NAM
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An amazing series of photographs by collective NAM which where taken for the advertising campaign of a charity project named the Harbour City Chocolate Trail as part of the Hong Kong Blood Cancer Foundation. Using strings and cables to suspend objects and people, they created gravity defying environments that seem to be frozen in time, and without digital manipulations. See the behind the scenes in the video below.
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Yasuaki Onishi
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The conceptual body-scape is a theory… convoluted through form and formation. Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi’s series ‘Reverse of Volume’ establishes this intricate premise which is about to premiere at the Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. “I am interested in the visible and the invisible thing. Through my art work, I get information from the space and leave clues on the space. Form, color and movement is changed to the simple element, like points, lines and lights.” -Yasuaki Onishi
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Crumbling Staircase Made of Salt
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Earlier this month, we were awestruck by Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto’s incredibly detailed salt maze floor installations and continue to be mesmerized by the art he creates with his medium of choice. As Alice first explained, “Salt has a special place in the death rituals of Japan, and is often handed out to people at the end of funerals, so they can sprinkle it on themselves to ward off evil.” While the material holds great personal significance for Yamamoto, who had to come to terms with the tragic death of his sister at a young age, this piece reflects on the devastating effects of earthquakes.
The sculptural salt staircase known as Utsusemi is an amazing body of work that has been presented several times in Japan and even made its way to P.S.1 in New York. It is more than a simple stationary piece. The work, though sculptural in its structure, has an interactive element to it. Blocks of salt are stacked atop each other to form a narrow flight of stairs that crumble at the presence of a simulated earthquake. At once, the piece echoes architectural ruin as well as the pouring of salt for the lives lost in the aftermath of the natural disaster that is so prevalent in Japan.
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Google Art Project Expansion
The inception of the Google Art Project has created a more accessible approach to museums, street art and art in general. Following up on the project’s debut which counted 17 museums in nine countries and 1,000 images, at latest count there were over 30,000 high-res artworks with Street View of 46 museums. There will be a continual update to allow global art-goers to visit a plethora of galleries online. Some notable inclusions include the White House (Washington, D.C.), Museum of Islamic Art (Qatar), Santiniketan Triptych (National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi), Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, South Carolina), and the SCAD museum of art (Savannah, Georgia).
Of course Google+ and Hangouts will be integrated into the experience to allow friends from all over to partake in the experience together. Personal commentary on each of the pieces is also available giving you the opportunity to voice your opinion to a global contingency of art fans.
Source: Official Google Blog
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絵に描いたようなオアシス、ゴビ砂漠
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New work from Olly Moss.
