By art-asylum on 09th Dec 2012

iheartmyart:

In his animated GIF series “Selected,” artist Mike Guppy replaces the subjects of well-known paintings with a colony of marching ants.

  • The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
  • The Scream by Edvard Munch
  • The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli
  • The Son of Man by René Magritte

By art-asylum on 09th Nov 2012

artnotart: Are you afraid of… by Alan Smithee clever play with the do no evil empire (while building a bridge to the color field folks) Alan Smithee, are you afraid of…, 2012digital video installation, dimensions variableedition of 3/1AP This is a snippet from the original video, downscaled to work as a cinemagram (gif) a and o

artnotart:

Are you afraid of… by Alan Smithee

clever play with the do no evil empire (while building a bridge to the color field folks)

Alan Smithee, are you afraid of…, 2012
digital video installation, dimensions variable
edition of 3/1AP

This is a snippet from the original video, downscaled to work as a cinemagram (gif)

a and o

By art-asylum on 27th Oct 2012

artnotart: Nudes and Mannequin, Lee Friedlander Pace and Pace/MacGill are honored to inaugurate their representation of the legendary American photographer Lee Friedlander in New York with Nudes and Mannequin, a two-venue presentation on view on the second and ninth floors of 32 East 57th Street, New York, from October 26th through December 22nd, 2012. The artist will be present at an opening reception this Saturday, October 27th from 2 to 4 P.M. © Lee Friedlander, Photo Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill via pacegallery

artnotart:

Nudes and Mannequin, Lee Friedlander

Pace and Pace/MacGill are honored to inaugurate their representation of the legendary American photographer Lee Friedlander in New York with Nudes and Mannequin, a two-venue presentation on view on the second and ninth floors of 32 East 57th Street, New York, from October 26th through December 22nd, 2012. The artist will be present at an opening reception this Saturday, October 27th from 2 to 4 P.M.

© Lee Friedlander, Photo Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill

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By art-asylum on 07th Oct 2012

gaksdesigns:

Porcelain sculptures by Kate MacDowell.

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By art-asylum on 22nd Sep 2012

bujirru: Louis Vuitton window display featuring real life wax figure of Yayoi Kusama - queen of polka dots.

bujirru:

Louis Vuitton window display featuring real life wax figure of Yayoi Kusama - queen of polka dots.

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By Julia Murakami on 22nd Sep 2012

sfmoma: SUBMISSION: Julia Murakami, Nature Morte, diorama (detail), mixed media, 2008 from the series Anatomy of a fairy tale (photo: Ulli Predeek)   Julia Murakami´s Anatomy of a fairy tale, miniatures in little glass cases, takes a butcher at the atrocity of well known fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Little Mermaid retold by tiny precious sculptures with a sinister shift. Saving grace does not exist for the slaughtered ladies in the realm of Julia Murakami. Broken beauties that will never come back. Frozen crime scenes scattered with pieces of evidence. Julia Murakami, herself a bewitching fairy, widens this field of tension between the fabulous and forensics by re-enacting her sites of crime. A lineup of photographs, as shot by an investigator, show the beauty herself as the victim of the creepy crimes. Thus the magical reflects back into the real, blurring the boundaries, straddling the real world and the sorcerous, a passage from fantasy to reality to fantasy. The delicate details of the dead belles are made by her own hair and blood. A possessed enchantress, perpetrator and victim, beauty and beast at once. (placeboKatz)

sfmoma:

SUBMISSION:

Julia Murakami, Nature Morte, diorama (detail), mixed media, 2008 from the series Anatomy of a fairy tale (photo: Ulli Predeek)  

Julia Murakami´s Anatomy of a fairy tale, miniatures in little glass cases, takes a butcher at the atrocity of well known fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Little Mermaid retold by tiny precious sculptures with a sinister shift. Saving grace does not exist for the slaughtered ladies in the realm of Julia Murakami. Broken beauties that will never come back. Frozen crime scenes scattered with pieces of evidence. Julia Murakami, herself a bewitching fairy, widens this field of tension between the fabulous and forensics by re-enacting her sites of crime. A lineup of photographs, as shot by an investigator, show the beauty herself as the victim of the creepy crimes. Thus the magical reflects back into the real, blurring the boundaries, straddling the real world and the sorcerous, a passage from fantasy to reality to fantasy. The delicate details of the dead belles are made by her own hair and blood. A possessed enchantress, perpetrator and victim, beauty and beast at once. (placeboKatz)

By art-asylum on 22nd Sep 2012

artnotart:

Eric Staller: Light Drawings, 1976-1980

While artist Eric Staller’s light drawings are beautiful in and of themselves, take into account that they were created in New York back in the 1970s using just a Nikon 35mm film camera, 4th of July sparklers and Christmas lights and you can’t help but be blown away. By day, Staller would walk around New York, studying the locations he felt would “articulate the particular choreography or architecture of light” that he wanted to express. At night, he would carefully position his camera on a tripod and, with the lens open for several minutes, he would purposefully move about urban spaces; outlining cars, streets and stairways and even forming magical-looking tunnels brought to life through his imagination.

Light Drawings, 1976-1980 were exhibited worldwide and received a lot of attention from art galleries and publications. As he tells us, “Even the most technical people in the photography world were mystified about how these photos were made.”

(via Mystifying Light Drawings of New York in the 1970s - My Modern Metropolis)

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By art-asylum on 20th Sep 2012

artnotart: Francis Tabary placebokatz: In the eye of the beholder Seeing Is Believing of the Day: Look closely — one sculpture, two radically different interpretations. thedailywhat: [22words]

artnotart:

Francis Tabary

placebokatz:

In the eye of the beholder

Seeing Is Believing of the Day: Look closely — one sculpture, two radically different interpretations.


thedailywhat:

[22words]

By art-asylum on 19th Sep 2012

artnotart: You, me, vulnerable Dominic Scharfenberg You, me, vulnerable (#3) — 2012 Ink-jet on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm muellhalde

artnotart:

You, me, vulnerable

Dominic Scharfenberg

You, me, vulnerable (#3) — 2012

Ink-jet on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm

muellhalde

By art-asylum on 04th Sep 2012

arbitraria: andre werner,  ghosts, video projection on silk, temporary installations in the public space, 1994

arbitraria:

andre werner,  ghosts, video projection on silk, temporary installations in the public space, 1994

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