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May
30
Wow, growing up I was always the artistic type into drawing, painting, writing and the such. So because of that, I love it when I come across wildly imaginative installations such as the one Benjamin Verdonck has created with this human bird nest. I found it over at the SupertouchBlog! I would’ve loved to see him in a bird costume, but maybe that’s just me putting extra’s on it. Not only did he create the bird nest (and I’m curious as to how he built that structure on the side of the building), he left some goodies on the ground for unsuspecting onlookers below, hehe. Here’s a little description from SuperTouch.
Belgian artist BENJAMIN VERDONCK has taken the usually verboten medium of performance art to new heights of greatness with his new NEST installation titled “The Great Swallow” in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Perched 50 meters above the city square on the side of the 13th floor of the Wenna Tower (aka: “The Pepperbox”), Verdonck’s windy new home is, according the artist, constructed of “the crowns of 23 silver birches, two straw bales, one bucket of spit, three bags of sand, twelve buckets of glue, and nineteen cans of polyurethane foam.” Residing in the perch since its construction a week ago, the artist has seen a lot of debris float down to his numerous fans at street level including feathers, a giant egg, and copious amounts of bird shit. No word yet on how long the installation will remain or what the artist’s final stunt will be, but we’re guessing it could quite easily include a caravan of ambulances.
Also, check out a video of the craziness:
View more pictures and videos @ SuperTouchArt.com
May
20
This was all over the place at one point, but just in case you missed it I decided to put it up again cause it’s quite remarkable. This was made in Buenos Aires and the animation & editing was done by an artist named Blu (no not that Blu). The animation is pretty twisted and if one were to shroom and watch this at the same time, the results would be rather comical.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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May
12
Graphic design & fine art powerhouse GEOFF McFETRIDGE is a force of nature, consistently pulling off incredibly compelling installations in an oftentimes-static art scene. Such is the case with both of the young artist’s current exhibitions (in radically different scales) at Seattle’s OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK and the fantastic MOLLUSK SURF SHOP in San Francisco. Creating a massive landscape of sculptural and printed works for the long-term installation “In The Mind” in Seattle that opened late last month, McFetridge’s bold imagery creates a playful environment—the centerpiece of which is a huge and amazing blue trumpet/bicycle sculpture—that is daunting in its scale. In contrast, the artist’s exhibit “Bury Me in the Sand” in San Francisco is a much smaller-scale but equally compelling one nonetheless. Featuring a large array of hand-drawn and printed works along with custom skateboards, McFetridge’s Mollusk show is a very intimate, personal affair, with the artist’s hand evident in all the works on display. HAVE A LOOK:
View more pics @ Supertouch Blog
May
8
FOCUS: George Lois: The Esquire Covers
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The visual communication legacy of George Lois, who throughout his career earned an undisputed title as king of communication through advertisements has recently opened a new exhibition. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the 11 month showcase documents Lois’ effect on the media world through his work on numerous Esquire magazine covers. Dialog regarding his inspirations and directions behind each cover can be seen over at his personal site.
George Lois: The Esquire Covers
The MOMA New York
Date: April 25, 2008–March 31, 2009
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
p: 212.708.9400
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May
7
FOCUS: Stanley Donwood on Drawing Radiohead
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Here’s an interesting video interview of Stanley Donwood, Radiohead’s go to artist. He talks about how the music inspires the artwork he creates and the fusion of both create something an entirely new life, give it a looker!
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Apr
30
FOCUS: Adidas “The Left Right Project” - Surface 2 Air vs. Upper Playground
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Yea I know I was bashing Adidas not too long ago, but I must give props where due, and this right herre, is perrty dope. This comes from Adidas’ Left Right Project from the latest Superstar Campaign. Surface 2 Air New York v. SF’s Upper Playground!
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Apr
29
I was over @ LifeLounge checking out some of their new art section posts and found the photography of Pieter Ten Hoopen. What stood out to me in this pictures wasn’t the fact that they were of the aftermath of a major natural disaster in Pakistan, but how surreal some of these photos appear. The processing he did to them makes them almost look as if they were painted. I definitely had to share these:
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Apr
12
FOCUS: Amy Stein: New American Fables
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„My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history.“
In Domesticated Amy Stein explores the paradoxical relationship between man and the natural world: The primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance refer to our modern every day life.
The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from American provincial life.
By contrast, the setting of Halloween in Harlem is the City: kids are posing in colourful costumes in the streets of New York. With their unconscious commitment to the traditions and rituals of this typical American holiday, the protagonists appear proud and isolated at the same time.
New American Fables shows selected works of both series.
Pool Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition of Amy Stein in Germany.
The New York based photographer has built up a successful career since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2006. She has been exhibited in a number of group shows immediately after graduating, won the 2006 Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize, has been named one of the world’s top 15 emerging photographers by American Photo magazine and won the Critical Mass Book Award in 2007.
Opening Reception
Friday 25. April 2008
19.00-23.00
Exhibition 26. April-24. May 2008
Opening Hours
Mo. - Fr. 12.00 - 20.00
Sa. 12.00 - 18.00
/ pool gallery
tucholskystr.38
10117 berlin germany
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Apr
10
FOCUS: The ‘Cardboard Institute of Technology’ presents Cardburg
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The human mind is infinitely creative. If these pictures don’t convince you of that, then I don’t know what to tell you (lol). Located @ Cell Space Gallery in San Francisco, if you’re in the area I definitely recommend you going to check it out. The city will be on display until April 18th, at which time it will be DESTROYED during an “End of Ages” ceremony. How about that!
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Apr
7
FOCUS: Pieter Hugo - The Hyena & Other Men
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I always find it interesting to see how relative what we (Americans) consider “normal” is in the rest of the world. Take for example, this collection of photographs taken by Pieter Hugo by the name “The Hyena & Other Men”. The pictures are of Gadawan Kura, which means “hyena handers”. Pieter Hugo first heard of them through a friend who had taken a picture of them with their camera phone. Being enthralled by the obvious “strangeness” of this group, he decided to track them down and capture them on film for the world to see. I love the stories these pictures tell. Seeing a little girl straddling a hyena as if it were a common house pet is so “weird”, yet apparently so “normal”. Pretty dope eh?
See more pictures @ the source: Pieter Hugo via Lost At E Minor