Robert Rickhoff
The work of German artist Robert Rickhoff challenges our basic assumptions about public spaces and architecture. At first glance, it’s not clearly evident what is out of place in Rickhoff’s photographs, but a closer look reveals a series of objects that have been digitally moved to places highly impractical for actual use. The series appropriately titled “Out of Place” gives us a humorous look at urban planning in an alternate universe.
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“…as when an artist envisions a teapot and then sculpts it — a concept sometimes known as “downward causation.”
Generative sculptures by Tom Beddard
Title: Dennis Overbye
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“If you don’t enjoy your work, you can’t amuse people.” -Marumiyan
Lucy Glendinning (b.1964, UK) - Feather Child 1
Lucy Glendinning is a sculptor and installation artist, who works in a contemporary British sculpture tradition. Here, different aesthetic expressions are brought together under one central entry point: the human body as a semiotic medium. For Glendinning, art is the primary tool for investigating psychological and philosophical themes. Her work is thus permeated by a conceptual content, superior to the value of aesthetics. That does not imply that the artistic performance is lacking, on the contrary, she is seducing the observing eye by emphasing subtle expressions and presenting a stunning craftsmanship.
The suite “Feather Child” originates from Glendinning’s fascination with visions of a future society. The feathered children are embodied questions, where the artist is asking us if we, in a world where our genetics could be freely manipulated, will be able to resist altering our physical abilities. Will necessity or vanity be the ruling power? Will we act collectively or as individuals? The fragility of the feathers is simultaneously mirroring the perhaps most classic tale of human hubris: the fate of Icarus in Greek mythology. How far can humanity progress before everything falls apart? (cf. artist’s biography) Many thanks to myampgoesto11 for introducing us one of her contemporary favorite artists Glendinning (*)!
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Leonid Tishkov (Russia) - Private Moon (2000-2005)
collaboration with photographer Boris Bendikov
“Private Moon” is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right. Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it. - Leonid Tishkov
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Photographs of simple objects recreated by using only a date stamp.
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Generally when I think of Polaroid photographs I’m reminded of old family snapshots, perhaps a camera passed around close-quarters at a party, or a few artistic captures of flowers, textures or an old beat-up vehicle. Photographer Bastian Kalous has a very different approach, carrying his Polaroid camera around the world into the sweeping vistas of the Grand Canyon, the valleys surrounding the Grand Tetons, and other expanses of forests and mountains near his home in Freyung, a town in Bavaria, Germany. These are locations rarely explored with instant film these days, and I find his work both refreshing and mysterious. Luckily he has several hundred photos to explore, and I strongly urge you to do so.
Amazing Animations of Fruit and Vegetable by Andy Ellison
Andy Ellison works at the BU medical school in Boston where he frequently works with a research-only MRI scanner. Over the past few months he’s been sharing some fantastic animated gifs of his calibration and quality control scans using assorted fruits, vegetables and other plants.
Artist Robin Protz created an incredible suspended sculpture of a dragon made up of 40,000 golden buttons hanging from 4,000 fluorocarbon lines. The massive 18’x12’x8’ piece was an early favorite at ArtPrize, the world’s largest art competition going on now in Grand Rapids, Michigan, making the top 25 list and quickly becoming a part of the “Did you see it?” conversation. Many called the work their favorite and were sadly disappointed when they learned that Nelligan: The Dragon, by Robin Protz, was disqualified from the competition because it had violated one of ArtPrize’s rules.
The rules state that the artwork must be completed within three years prior to September 19, 2012. When they spotted Protz’s YouTube video of “Nelligan The Dragon” in 2008, they decided it was identical to the one currently exhibited inside the Amway Grand Plaza. Protz released a statement defending her piece saying the dragon “was related, but not the same.”
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