jacobvanloon: Progress V | Jacob van Loon
27th May 2012✧13:191,159 notes
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anitaleocadia:

Herbert Baglione

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19th May 2012✧18:52198 notes
bigoterococo: Hope Gangloff
17th May 2012✧20:531,173 notes
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thufri:

Haruka Kojin - Contact Lens from “architectural environments for tomorrow - new spatial practices in architecture and art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 

kojin explores the distortion of reality through her newest piece, ‘contact lens’. two types of lenses are used, one completely flat and clear and the other with a warped surface to create interconnected circles of varying sizes. as the light travels through the acrylic, the images on the other side are flipped and contorted, changing the experience of the space. since the elements are clear with no frames or distinct features of its own, the physical material merges into the environment, only visible through the transformation it causes.

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16th May 2012✧12:09485 notes
bienenkiste: Ice ship sculpture created by set designer and art director Rhea Thierstein | Shot by Tim Walker
13th May 2012✧22:3214,718 notes
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iraklia:

FRANCESCA PASTINE’S ARTFORUM EXCAVATIONS

Francesca Pastine’s Artforum Excavations Is a beautiful series of works where the artist cuts away at various issues of art forum literally excavating the art away and rearranging the pages and layers of the iconic art publication.

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13th May 2012✧22:29166 notes
“We are currently preparing a profile piece in the next issue of Juxtapoz with EVOL, and we just saw this incredible installation he created in Hamburg, Germany called “Rural City.” The German artist created the installation for Ms Dockville Festival this August 12—14 in Hamburg.” (via Juxtapoz Magazine - Rural City by EVOL in Hamburg, Germany | Current)
12th May 2012✧14:088 notes
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“On the occasion of the Gallery Weekend in Berlin, the Galerie Michael Haas will open its exhibition with works, or rather boxes, by Charles Matton. The boxes seduce the viewer into an idiosyncratic, imaginary and to some extent very bizarre world. How can reality be portrayed? Matton posed this question again and again and his preoccupation with it characterises the high quality of his works. The first boxes were created in the late seventies and were a further attempt to seek an answer to his question. Initially an instrument of support for photographic and painterly projects, they developed their own artistic independence and autonomy. The puppet theatre-like boxes show rooms such as Alberto Giacometti’s studio, a library, bedroom and imagined spaces with bizarre sculptures. The viewers immerse themselves in this microcosmos and are both perplexed and fascinated by the attention to detail and the perfection of the replicas and the objects inside them. Matton has succeeded in leading the viewer into a three-dimensional “paradise of the imagination”. Charles Matton was born in 1933 in Paris, where he also died in 2008.” Source text: Robert Fleck, der Blick (the gaze) (via Charles Matton - Galerie Michael Haas - English X) (more at Junkculture: Charles Matton: Enclosures)
12th May 2012✧13:48
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Shard of Light - James Nizam, 2011 James Nizam’s “Trace Heavens” is a series of black and white photographs depicting the transformation of darkened rooms into uncanny light sculptures. Manipulating sunlight via perforated and sliced walls, and with the aid of small mirrors fastened to ball joints for easy pivoting, Nizam creates images that bend our perception of reality. (via Junkculture: James Nizam: Trace Heavens)
12th May 2012✧13:223 notes
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The Hell Courtesan - Kawanabe Kyōsai, woodblock print (via Floating Along in the World of Japanese Prints: Kyosai) Screw you bitches. I found the source myself.
12th May 2012✧01:01197 notes
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“Amongst the 166 lots is a hanging scroll by the well-known artist Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-89). The painting depicts the Hell Courtesan (Jigoku dayū), a Takasu prostitute who is said to have attained enlightenment with the help of the Rinzai Zen priest and poet Ikkyū (1394-1481), who was well-known not only for his fondness for engaging both devotees and sceptics in dialogues about Buddhist philosophy, but also for his liking for alcohol and brothels. The hanging scroll (lot 618), measuring 58 5/8 x 27½in (149 x 70cm), is expected to fetch in the region of $250,000 - $300,000.” (via Floating Along in the World of Japanese Prints: Kyosai) (hi-res image via The Museum Year 2010: Acquisition Highlights)
12th May 2012✧00:51
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“One of the notable features of the exhibition are the triptychs, most of which are early impressions in excellent condition. There is Kuniyoshi Utagawa’s surreal and macabre Apparition of a Skeleton (1830-44), a nightmare vision of a giant bony specter breaking up a fight between two samurai.” (via Fujiland: Exhibition: Baur Collection)
12th May 2012✧00:39
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pompouspaul: “Les Cloches du Soir” by Carlos Schwabe (1891) “Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.” ~ John Milton, “Paradise Lost”
12th May 2012✧00:1617 notes
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lifeoflegz:

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws spellbinding 18ft picture of New York from memory… after a 20-minute helicopter ride over city.

(via thelovebelow21)

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8th May 2012✧06:01142,948 notes

Extending the Synesthetic Code: Connecting Synesthesia, Memory and Art, by Dr. Hugo Heyrman

“My thesis is that all human art has a synesthetic origin, specifying the interconnectedness of existence… Synesthesia and cross-modal plasticity is fundamental to human experience. Nothing in this world exists, isolated from everything else. In life everything overlaps and merges (a great undivided multiplicity is always at work). Through the interaction of our senses we are constantly engaged in a dialogue with the world. Perception is a synesthetical gestalt…”

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25th Apr 2012✧11:56
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