Monthly Archives: August 2009

28 Aug

daniel Baltzer: Complification

daniel Baltzer: Complification

Living in the technological age, inundated with social media and the complexity of the world wide web, it is easy to feel one is on training wheels, and like a child.

 
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27 Aug

Markus Linnenbrink: Today will be like tomorrow

Markus Linnenbrink: Today will be like tomorrow

Markus Linnenbrink’s temporary installation ‘Today will be like tomorrow’, produced for Gensler’s Rockerfeller Center office atrium in Manhattan, creates a special experience between corridor and wall.

 
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26 Aug

Coptic fragments

Coptic fragments

The weavers who worked and stitched these cloths were Coptic, living in Egypt… and using Linen…and Wool…

 
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24 Aug

Alyson Shotz : Armory Show 2009

Alyson Shotz : Armory Show 2009

Shotz’ work is light-filled, sparkling and amazing.

 
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23 Aug

Min Kyung Kim: Bright young mountain

Min Kyung Kim: Bright young mountain

Brightness, abstraction and a focus on nature’s calming power seem to be elements that Korean artists hold dear. ‘Mountain Series’ by Min Kyung Kim, …

 
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22 Aug

Stitching sleep

Stitching sleep

Settled in for the night, the leaf work traces up above ones head it is easy to think of deer, sheep and foxes padding lightly across the canvas ground; of the shepherds fluting beside twisted trunks; rising out of ferny thickets.

 
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20 Aug

Surface Pleasure

Surface Pleasure

Patina like the hull of a great ship. Atmosphere like the cavern of an empty mine.

 
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18 Aug

Transparency may produce something live and kicking

Transparency may produce something live and kicking

The shared experience of cross-pollination amongst creatives in the fashion world, through Knight’s website, and in the form of this circle of collaborative participants, is now focusing on aspiring designers.

 
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16 Aug

Bacon Centenary; visit to despair and the ritual of sacrifice

Bacon Centenary; visit to despair and the ritual of sacrifice

Carcasses; wild, and beastly, rabid monkeys; vampirical clergy with devouring mouths and similar ideas proliferate Bacon’s work.

 
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16 Aug

ICA, Boston

ICA, Boston

A truly beautiful space both outside and inside, it allows, even draws on its inhabitants to contemplate, not only the art, but the exterior and all the architectural components that separate both.

 
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