An amazing series of sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Lauren Clay who recently obtained her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. She creates 3-dimensional sculptures by meticulously layering strips of “papier mâché” and painted paper to produce these intriguing and colorful organic shapes.
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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THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOKUSAI’S BIRTH EXHIBITION
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http://www.mitsui-museum.jp/exhibition/index2.html
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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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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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Photobooth
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We took a trip to the Mission District in San Francisco, California to talk to Michael Shindler, co-founder of Photobooth. Photobooth serves as both a retail space for classic camera gear, a gallery and most interesting a tintype portrait studio. We talked to Michael about the ins and outs of the tintype process, and the old school methods used to create the stunning portraits.
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Beverly Semmes’ Surreal Installations
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Artist Beverly Semmes has shown her work in museums all around the world. She first won attention with her monumental dresses and other large-scale clothing that powerfully invoked the female body and touched on gender and feminism. Semmes explores the power of clothing and its ability to influence and define who we are.
see more of her work here http://www.beverlysemmesstudio.com/
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Los Carpinteros Surrealist Sculptures
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Large scale paintings, sculptures and installations are just a few of the creations seen here by Havana-based artist collective Los Carpinteros. Formed in 1994 at by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez (with fellow Cuban Alexandre Arrechea until his departure in 2003), Los Carpinteros operate in the tradition of guild artisans and laborers, renouncing the idea of individual authorship in favor of group collaboration. Inspired by the materials, Los Carpinteros’ process investigates the way art is made. Mixing architecture, design and sculpture, the pieces are first conceived in drawings, then carefully executed in their studio with wood and hand tools, fabricated in way of a carpenter. The beguiling end result–handsome construction, unexpected contradictions, and a playful dose of humor.
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Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs exhibition opens in Paris
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Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs: two men of intuition that have marked the history of luxury.
The exhibition Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs at the Arts Décoratifs Museum tells the story of two men in exceptional course. Each in their time, they changed the fashion industry. Men of their time, who were able to express in the moment, what was happening around them.
In 1854, Louis Vuitton, specializes in “Packaging of Profiles,” from the beginning and maintaining a close relationship with the fashion world. A wise choice because the guards will accompany the evolution of the female dresses, which will continue to grow in various outfits and accessories.
Settling in the epicenter of Haussmann’s Paris, and enjoying the great influx of World’s Fairs, it offers exceptional visibility.
Marc Jacobs for his part, in its infancy, is facing the internationalization of the fashion industry. He had to take into account the new demands of globalization.
He wrote the story mode of the House, appropriating one of the monogram, and the French know-how of the House, to create the Louis Vuitton woman: free, chic, modern, and so spontaneous.
The creator of the universe so eclectic and poetic, is expressed in the exchange and collaboration. His “world” is represented by a wall of screens and fascinating images. Transgressing the codes, he reveals the magic of the merger of the more distant universe.
The exhibition Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs shows the greatness of a meeting between two exceptional men, who entered the House in the history of luxury.
A large French House, marked by creativity and intuition.
Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs
9 March–16 September 2012
Les Arts Décoratifs – Mode et textile
107 rue de Rivoli 75001 / +33 (0)144555750
Written by Guest Blogger Elodie Leconte.
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Thousands of Plastic Figures Hold Up the Floor
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One of the most exciting contemporary artists of our time, Korean Do Ho Suh, created this large sculptural installation that doesn’t look like much until you come closer. Glass plates rest on thousands of multicolored miniature plastic figures who are crowded together with their heads and arms turned skyward. Together, they are holding the weight of the individual visitor who steps onto the floor.
Currently showing at Lehmann Maupin’s pop-up gallery at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Floor is one of those installations that’s wonderfully thought-provoking. The figures represent the diverse and anonymous masses of people who support and/or resist the symbolic floor.
This installation can be seen, alongside works by artists Teresita Fernández, Ashley Bickerton, and Lee Bui, from now till February 11, 2012.
DO HO SUH
Floor, 1997-2000
Installation at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
PVC Figures, Glass Plates, Phenolic Sheets, Polyurethane Resin
40 parts each:
39.37 x 39.37 x 3.15 inches
100 x 100 x 8 cm
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Cai Guo-Qiang is a veteran installation artist from China, currently based out of New York. He’s studied stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy, so naturally his work is presented in an epic, awe-inspiring setting. He crosses multiple mediums within art, including film, drawing, performance pieces and even painting with gunpowder.
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Takashi Murakami’s Current Show
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Takashi Murakami’s most recent exhibition ‘Ego’ is being showcased at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Qatar. The show portrays 60 pieces, which dates back to 1997 till present day. Currently his largest collection of work portrays his personal struggle in response to a growing information of overload. ‘Murakami – Ego’ is the final series out of his trilogy.
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Melissa Godoy Nieto’s Yarn Sculptures
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Brooklyn based Mexican artist Melissa Godoy Nieto sent us her latest project, entitled ” Creatures of 2012″. In this new series of ‘experimental murals’ she uses hand-dyed yarn, pushpins and empty spray-paint cans to create what would usually be 2-d mix-media works into 3 dimensional sculptures. They are inspired by Mesoamerican imagery, temples and Mexican textiles.
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Yi Zhou “Underworlds Rising” Exhibition @ RH Gallery
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RH Gallery in New York will be the stage for Chinese artist Yi Zhou’s first metropolitan opening in the United States. Opening on March 6 and on view through April 27, 2012, the exhibition is built around Zhou’s short film, “The Greatness,” which was inspired by Dante’s pilgrimage in The Divine Comedy. The exhibition will include four new sculptures referencing objects featured in the film, including a coelacanth fish swallowing a whole human heart and a pair of hands holding a bridge. Like many of Zhou’s multimedia installations, “Underworlds Rising” blends film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing and contemporary music composition.
RH Gallery
137 Duane St.
New York, NY 10013
United States
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Art Stage Singapore 2012 Recap Video
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Represented by a total of 140 galleries, the annual Art Stage Singapore 2012 was home to the work of over 600 artists and designers. The video recap covers just a fraction of the work that was open to the public and art buyers at the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center. Art Stage 2012 showcased a mix of Asian and Western contemporary work spanning a total of four days. The video highlights a range of the work that was featured at the exhibition and is set to a soundtrack by Mini Compo.
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