At the completion of French artist Pierre David's residency last May at the Modern Art Museum of Bahia in Brazil, he left behind a interesting and thoughtful exhibition celebrating color and the uniqueness of multiracial cultures.
In Naucier, Pierre, commenting on racism, photographed 40 people, employees of the Musuem and art students from El Salvador, and displayed their images in classic color swatch fashion. Each individuals color was also formulated into a paint.
Via: Colorlovers
There's always a lot of hoo-ha about the Turner Art Prize winners. Is it really art? Could my 3 year old have done better? Is that the sculpture or just the plinth?
Well now you can get in on the act at ArtPrize - as the public votes for who wins the largest art prize in the world...
Chris Kennedy - Thriving blogger and founder of the Institute of Applied Aesthetics, is starting a new publication in collaboration with InCUBATE Chicago.
How We Work is looking for artists and designers that don't fit into a discrete category...we are looking for text, research, ideas, stories, images and illustrations from artists at the forefront of interdisciplinary practice. This is a collaborative journal - we accept proposals for entire publications, issue thematics and individual articles and ideas for "print-based exhibitions".
To submit please send your work to artiscycle with your contact info and a short bio!
Something very lovely about this.
Half Letter Press will be contributing again to Michel Chevalier’s unlimited liability. Now in its third year, the project was labeled by Art Papers as the “art shop that won’t sell to the rich.”
Through this project, Chevalier offers a model for DIY cultural production that effectively guards against co-option:
This is done by a legal contract which stipulates that no purchaser may have more than 50,000 euros in assets, subject to penalty in case of false disclosure. The art-gallery world partition of audiences–those who merely “appropriate symbolically” on the one side, “real buyers” on the other–is thereby inverted. Those able to buy at “unlimited liability” belong to social groups excluded (due to their insufficient resources) from buying on the art market.
All sorts of multiples – stickers, DVDs, CDs, posters, zines, t-shirts, buttons, food, services, and works whose form is to be determined in the course of exchange with the purchaser – are all for sale by the artists. A full list of the participantsis on Chevalier’s website, as are directions to the Hamburg-based shop, open until September 13, 2009.
Interesting data visualisation. An exhibition by Ben Branagan for the the UK travelling exhibition 'Rank': Picturing The Social order 1516 - 2009. The charts are created in response to statistical data exploring different aspects of social hierarchy.
Amazing cut-out maps from Famille Summerbelle
Painted by Joe Hill and Max Lowry, and commissioned by British Waterways, which maintains over 2000 miles of canals and rivers, to persuade cyclists to slow down on the tow paths.
More pictures here
Time to Design is a new talent award that is a cooperation between the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, Normann Copenhagen . The award includes three months residency at The National Workshops for Arts and Crafts with own mini studio as well as access to workshops and guidance. If accommodation is needed; an apartment is available as well.
Christian Couciero produces some really beautiful work.
"Note the distribution of fluff and the good natured smile."
Artist Satre Stuelke uses a CT scanner to make beautiful ghostly images of everyday objects.
The Halcyon Gallery is holding an exhibition of Mauro Perucchetti's unusual work until the 25th April in Mayfair London. Much of his work focuses on weapons, trolleys, jelly babies (above 'The Cloning Factory'), and religious symbolism, which collectively make an interesting statement, while remaining beautiful, minimal and crisp.
Gooseflesh is the home of artist Helle Jorgensen. Interesting and beautiful work.
"All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger."
Seriously? Thankfully only a sculpture....
I have plastic bags on the brain. Call me paranoid but they seem to be following me this week...
1. A friend randomly emails to tell me 'a good thing': that she re-used a plastic bag rather than be charged 5p for a new one and this means that the world is changing
2. I saw an Arts and Ecology blog post for a photography exhibition of plastic bags by a Chinese artist exploring our fragile global ecology, and have decided to go and see it next week
3. The picture on another post catches my eye and it is made from pieces of plastic bags by Virginia Fleck to transform garbage into beauty
Now we've just got to work on the rest of the packaging...
In the spirit of social experiments, we decided to create "The 10,000 Project". It's quite simple, really. You sign up, we send you a sheet of paper with a word on it, and then you create a visual representation of the word. The catch is that 10,000 other people are doing the same as you. How many different ways will tens of thousands of people interpret the same word?
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