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Paper Sculptures

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:35:00 +0000

Talented 3D paper sculptures artist, Bert Simons created these 3 dimensional pseudo realistic paper portraits and sculptures. These are papercraft sculptures made in the same way as the familiar papercraft houses and animals. Bert Simons, a Rotterdam, Netherlands native seems to have quite a hand at 3D imaging and rendering. The sculptures he creates could almost be the real clones of the people they represent.

“Some time ago I had a midlife crisis,” says Simons “and was thinking a lot about the purpose of my life, things that will remain and stuff like that…instead of indulging myself into depression I desperately started looking for a solution and I came up with this idea..I decided to clone myself..more me’s have more chances..”.

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Papercraft Self Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:20:00 +0000

This Papercraft Self Portrait was made by Eric Testroete for his Halloween costume. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames with the faceted geosphere look with wireframe. The Papercraft Self Portrait was created based on the experienced of papercraft artists Bert Simons and Haywan Chiu. Software used to create this stunning papercraft mask are 3ds Max 2009, Mudbox 2010, Photoshop CS3, Pepakura.

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Reflections

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Julie Tremblay’s work in the Reflections exhibition consists of 10 life-size figurative works that are hand-sculpted (in the manner of clay sculpting) from cast-off industrial sheet metal. As a collective, the sculptures form an installation, with some pieces floating below the ceiling, some suspended from walls and some free-standing on the floor. The title of the show refers simultaneously to the visual effect of the materials used (alone and in relation to the environment in which the figures are presented), to the mental life of the figures, and to the artist’s musings about the porosity of human existence in the increasingly “desacralized” world in which we find ourselves today.

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Things I Have Learned In My Life

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:20:00 +0000

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, an interactive exhibition by Stefan Sagmeister, opens at Deitch Projects on January 31, 2008. The exhibition included works that have a life of their own, transforming throughout the exhibition as viewers engage with them.

Part of the exhibition, the Banana Wall was an art installation created with 10,000 bananas & some glue, stacked together to formed a giant banana wall with motto: Self-confidence Produces Fine Results. The interesting thing about this installation is that it change over time. As the banana ripen further, the motto will disappeared and the background become brownish-yellow. The whole bananas gradually decays over 24 days of the exhibition.

Stefan Sagmeister is one of today’s most innovative and influential graphic designers. His conception and application of graphic design goes above and beyond traditional notions of the practice, taking it to the realm of performative and conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Sagmeister is most widely known for his album cover artwork for bands like The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads and Lou Reed, and for books, like Mariko Mori’s Wave UFO for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, which function as sculptural objects.

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Bloom Umbrella

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Bloom, an art installation by art college student Sam Spenser sees umbrellas that look like they were blown out of their owners' hands into an oak tree. Part of the Wapping Project, the installation was a collaboration with Veuve Clicquot to produce the brollies, which are the same yelloworange as that used on bottles of the champagne.

One interesting fact is that 137 pieces of umbrellas was hang on the tree, corresponding with the yellow orange color code: Pantone 137C.

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New York City Garbage

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:50:00 +0000

One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. But New York City’s garbage, well, that’s art.

NYC Garbage started as an experiment in packaging design by Justin Gignac, a New York City based artist end entrepreneur. The project, evolved out from an argument over the importance of packaging to the consumer. To prove that he's right, Justin started to pack up some garbage in a nice package cube. Each tightly sealed box comes with a “Garbage of New York City” label and a small sticker with the date that the trash was picked. They are also signed and numbered.

Own your own piece of the city, before they clean up this town.

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Cyporn

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:03:00 +0000

Cyporn is a set of 5 animated “pixel porn” scenes running on a Game Boy by French user interface designer Pierrick Thébault.

CYporn is inspired by the avatars of “Cyworld” (the number one social networking website in South Korea). Below is the except from an interview of Pierrick Thébault:

"I wanted to criticize the “cult of cute” that is everywhere on Cyworld, and by extension, on the Korean market. As a European, I felt really strange knowing that 90% of the 24 to 29-year olds who have an account on this website spend so much time on a website where they actually are represented by tiny formatted and conventional pixel dolls that make them look like child. I think there is a really big gap between Facebook or Myspace profiles, where you certainly will be able to find some “compromising” photos taken in party (or at least a picture of a couple kissing), and a Cyworld “minihompy” that seems to me very prudish and repressed. I could make a similar comment about the South Korean society and the *unacknowledged sex industry or prostitution market but I’ll just say that Cyworld appeared to me as magnifying mirror of the Korean paraxodes. That’s why I made this “sexplicit”, dirty and kitsch parody of Cyworld where “minimies” are getting laid. I started digging in the virtual item gallery to grab some character sprites that could be undressed and put into a porn scene. In the same way, I decorated few virtual rooms using the Cyworld material like I could have done it for my profile. Except for the cloth removing and the animation part, I didn’t change anything to the original sprites. Most of the characters are just crying or kneeling for the women (after they got dumped), and shouting of joy for the men (I remember using soccer players). I wanted to test the reaction of my Korean friends, who were too polite to say that I was a really weird guy (not to mention pervert). It kind of ‘shocked’ them, since they couldn’t really understand how I possibly could see sex in Cyworld."

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The Tree

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:40:00 +0000

The Banyan Tree right next to the National Museum of Singapore is a grand old dame in its own right. It sits majestically on the Museum’s front lawn, seemingly holding fort to a place full of histories, stories and magic.

A contemporary reinterpretation of the Banyan Tree, The Tree is a reconstruction of a series of interlocking frames with lights that pulsate gently in the night. Hanging microphones simulating that of aerial roots will also detect environmental sounds and alter the lighting nature of The Tree – glowing intensely and dimming down with the rising and falling sound levels.

Just like in the past, as it is now, this installation will inspire people to slow down, take a breather and simply bask and partake in this recreation of nature’s wonder. And as Paul Simon wistfully reminds us in his 1990 song Spirit Voices, “And slept on the banks on the leaves of a banyan tree… Some stories are magical, meant to be sung.”

The Tree is an art installation by FARM Singapore.

The Tree
10 July 2009 – 23 Aug 2009
National Museum of Singapore
93 Stamford Road Singapore

Sleepwalkers

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Dusk falls on a cold winter evening, and five characters awaken and dress and make their way out into nighttime New York City. In Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers, these characters provide a blueprint for the city-a living, breathing mechanism fueled by the desires and ambitions of its inhabitants, who, in turn, nourish and are nourished by the city's energy, breadth, and depth.

The Museum of Modern Art and Creative Time present Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers. This nighttime installation comprises eight large-scale moving images projected around the Museum and on its facades, enlivening the architecture with the nocturnal journeys of five city inhabitants-a bicycle messenger (played by Ryan Donowho), an electrician (Seu Jorge), a postal worker (Chan Marshall), a businessman (Donald Sutherland), and an office worker (Tilda Swinton)-as they awaken in the evening and make their way into the city. These characters provide a blueprint for the metropolis as a living, breathing organism fueled by the desires, energies, and ambitions of its inhabitants.
Sleepwalkers is a broken narrative, without beginning or end. The five characters entwine across the building's surfaces in combinations that change cyclically throughout the course of each evening. With this exhibition Aitken pioneers a site-specific cinema, expanded into the urban landscape and keyed to the pedestrian experience. Because the piece is spread around the Museum's exterior, viewers must circle the building to fully experience the work-in the process, becoming active participants in Aitken's project.

Although sleepwalkers is Aitken's first public artwork in the United States, the theme of give-and-take between individuals and their environment is one that he frequently explores. In 2001 he turned London's Serpentine Gallery, from the basement to the roof, into a complex, multipart video installation. Among his best-known works is electric earth, originally created for the 1999 Venice Biennale, in which a nocturnal cityscape comes to rhythmic life as a restless young man dances through it. As he was making sleepwalkers Aitken described the work as an effort to "capture the multiple facets of a living city as if seen through a cut diamond, revealing a kaleidoscope of simultaneous views." His characters explore the corporeal and psychological topography of New York, revealing the tempos of the urban landscape. Shot in a wide range of locations throughout the city, sleepwalkers explores the constant flow of life and energy that is New York.

Sleepwalkers by Doug Aitken
16 Jan till 12 Feb 2007
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street New York

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1600 Pandas

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +0000

WWF-France is celebrating its 35th anniversary by launching a paper panda campaign across the country. They are parading 1,600 paper giant pandas to create awareness for the endangered species. Giant panda has been the symbol of WWF since it was formed on September 11, 1961. A survey released in 2004 revealed that there are about 1,600 pandas to remain in the wild.

This unique exhibition of giant panda, which happens to be mascot of World Wildlife Fund, began in July 2008 at Paris City hall and has moved across the country. Paper model parade will surely catch attention of citizens and create awareness about the need to protect wildlife across the globe.

WWF has always used wild symbolism to generate funds and create awareness about endangered wildlife. Be it on T-shirts or caps or back packs or stickers, cute black and white giant pandas always demanded attention and support. With this parade they have moved to a larger scale symbolism. This installation/exhibition kind of awareness campaign (maybe first of its kind) is indeed the need of the hour to save environment and bio diversity of our planet. Or soon we’ll only be left with paper models of wild animals.

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American Chateau: Room One

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder have worked together since meeting in Italy in 2003. American Chateau, is their first public collaborative exhibition. This new series of sculptural and two dimensional pieces is a creative departure for both artists, taking inspiration from the iconic cultural exports of the USA, (Nienke's place of birth), and the opulence of 17th century European craft work.

American Chateau comprises a collection of functional and nonfunctional pieces. At first glance they look like custom made works for a palace from the 17th century, but on closer examination it becomes clear that the artifacts on show are not as we would expect; the classical marble busts of heroes and heroines which usually adorn such chateaus are replaced by a 'Donut Madonna' praying on her knees and a 'The Rocking Hot Dog', a large playful sculpture upon which the viewer sits, legs straddled. The centre-piece of the room is a sleek glossy table in the form of a limousine with legs made in the shape of an infamous fast food chain logo, finished to perfection by a master craftsman*. The 'Donut Madonna' with a doughnut face both celebrates and critiques the world of material longing, cultural influence and the need to consume. Executed by longstanding leaders in manufacture, the pieces are a fusion of two worlds, contradicting and complimenting each other at the same time; the works' finish is high-quality and high-tech, although both artists take pride in their "hands-on approach'. The 'Rocking Hot Dog. 'which is fun to ride', is produced by a Formula 1 body manufacturer. Jaime and Nienke's pieces are the icons of the booming, fast-food American dream, a kind of Versailles meets Disneyland hybrid. This unusual juxtaposition transcends historical, social and contextual boundaries through its eclectic influences and overlapping of historical periods and high and low culture. It challenges the elite notions of art and design and gives them a frame i of reference in contemporary everyday culture.

American Chateau: Room One by Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder
11th September- 22nd October 2009
Spring Projects
Spring House
10 Spring Place London

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Tilt / Romain Lauren

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:25:00 +0000

Awesome photo series Tilt from Roman Laurent.

Freelance photographer Roman Laurent has been working in the french capital since 2006. He has a direct instinct for the realization of contemporary themes and complex urban scenarios. The highly refined and sophisticated narrative form of his approach to photography has made Romain Laurent a major stylistic influence as the representative of a generation of young photographers.

Romain Laurent was born in 1983, and studied design in Paris.

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Camper Van

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Really cool painting by Kevin Cyr. The Camper Van series is just awesome. A document of time and place.

"In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I have always been interested in painting vehicles and scenes that have defined the evolution of the American landscape.

In this particular series, I commemorate commercial vehicles inundated with graffiti and rust, working vehicles, and well-traveled recreational vehicles. I find that there is so much character in old delivery trucks and vans — especially when covered with graffiti — and in the old RVs parked in someone’s yard off a main road. Removing them from their everyday context gives them portrait-like importance. I paint with devoted attention to every imperfection and sign of age.

Painting and drawing these objects gives me a chance to document a time and place, and to make still a part of the ever-changing environment."- Kevin Cyr

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Maria Wojdat

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Colours that are warm, vibrant and joyful. Forms that are chunky and bold with soft hollows and gently bellying curves.

Inspired by the actions we make using everyday household ceramics, Maria Wojdat draws on similarities between the ways of working with clay and cooking techniques. Spontaneous, free movements create the soft hollows and gentle bellying curves in these vibrant, joyful vessels.

The forms refer to the bowl, investigating its symbolism and exploring the nature of its containment. In display the pieces are often grouped, placed to emphasise a coming together or moving apart, supporting or standing alone, exploring the relationships between line, form and colour.

About Maria Wojdat
Living and working in Somerset, Maria Wojdat initially trained and worked as a graphic designer but changed direction and graduated from the Masters Course in Ceramic Design at Bath Spa University College in 2007. Maria received the Crafts Council Development Award in 2008.

Maria Wojdat 21 July – 6 Sept
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee
UK

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Succulent Wall

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Eco artist Edina Tokodi has always been known for her moss graffiti work, but now she has created a portrait for the Fort Green Garden Walk event. Made completely out of succulent plants with white panels atop, the project perfectly create a portrayal of the human face.

About Edina Tokodi:
Edina Tokodi born in Hungary Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
1999 - 2003 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Graphic and Printmaking Department, Budapest
2003 Award of the Ludwig Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Urban Design and Project making, Milan
1997- 1999 University of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary

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Richard Hambleton

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Artist Richard Hambleton stalked the streets of '80s New York and left a trail of haunting graffiti works in his wake, yet somehow art history wrote him out of its pages.

Richard Hambleton is an artist-painter who, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, had great success coming out of the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980's. Much of Hambleton's work is compared to graffiti art, however, Hambleton considers this work to be "public art".

Richard Hambleton is most famous for his "Shadowman" paintings of the early 1980s. Each painting resembles a life-sized silhouetted image of some mysterious person. These "shadow paintings" were splashed and brushed with black paint on buildings and other structures across New York City. Locations were believed to be calculated for maximum impact upon unsuspecting pedestrians. Very often, a "shadowman" could be found in a dark alley or lurking just around a street corner.

In addition to "Shadowman", Hamilton is also known for his early public art concept, "Image Mass Murder". From 1976 to 1979, Hambleton would paint the police "chalk" outline around bodies of volunteer "homicide victims." He would then splash some red paint on the outline, leaving behind a realistic looking crime scene. These "crime scenes" were done on the streets of several major cities across the world. Like his "Shadowman" paintings, the Image Mass Murder "crime scenes" would often have the effect of startling or shocking passersby.

Hambleton’s art was a sort of apolitical social commentary, a keen reflection of the times in which he lived. Following the chalk drawings, he initiated a series of quickly executed wall paintings of primitive figures, lurking like cave paintings in the city’s dark corners and side streets. Dipping into the night with a can of black paint hidden under his trench coat, Hambleton would execute each painting in a matter of seconds, his brushstrokes expressive and hypercool.

Hamilton's paintings have been shown all over the world in galleries and museums, including paintings on canvas and paper of his "shadow" work. His artwork has been represented in the Venice Biennale in 1984 and 1988.

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Polart 6000

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Polart 6000 is the solo exhibition of Nobuyoshi ARAKI at the Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo. The show celebrated the photographer’s enormous range of photographic work (6,000 Polaroids), interpreted through the walls of the gallery space.

Nobuyoshi Araki "POLART 6000"
17 July - 20 August 2009
12:00 - 20:00 (Closed on Mondays)
Rat Hole Gallery
5-5-3 B1 Minami Aoyama Minato-ku Tokyo

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Love is Big, Love is Be@rbick

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:19:00 +0000

This 2007 charity auction saw Hong Kong Blood Cancer Foundation has teamed up with MEDICOM TOY CORPORATION and Harbour City for the first time on a mission of LOVE. This mission has the full support of ten luxury brands - Cartier, Chanel, Coach, Hermes, Hogan, Missoni, Moschino, Paul Smith, Salvatore Ferragamo and Tod's - who have each designed a one-of-a-kind, 2.6 feet tall BE@RBRICK for the auction, with proceeds donated to the Foundation in full.

The 10 Limited Edition BE@RBRICK were display for viewing at two exhibition venues in Hong Kong.

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Plaza del Torico

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:18:00 +0000

Tucked away in a sleepy corner of northeast Spain, the town of Teruel has long been a tourist destination for buffs of medieval architecture and history. When planning to rehabilitate Plaza del Torico, an elegant square in the heart of the historic district, the city asked b720 Arquitectos to propose a plan that would modernize the paving and lighting systems as well as the overall aesthetic.

b720 Arquitectos came up with a design that is based on a system of paving using large cobbles with a pattern of embedded luminescent lines to create a delicate atmosphere while avoiding an excessively dominant illumination.The light, understood as a fluid element, spreads throughout the square but with variations: around the Torico fountain (encircled by luminous lines), the Fondero and Somero cisterns, and the Area Secreta (where the density of the lines is reduced by half, to stress the archaeological value of these joints).

The square is organised longitudinally by lines that accentuate the perspective, constructed with linear lighting systems in the porticos and facades, two conduits for installations on the exterior of the porticos, to eliminate the cables that until now have been attached to the facades, The lighting project is completed by the installation of lights concealed within the Torico fountain (which can change colour on special occasions), thus, the existing lighting, essentially vertical, gives way to a more horizontal arrangement.

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Bed of Your Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:41:00 +0000

Hästens is renowned around the world for making the “bed of your dreams.” As such, they partnered with Wallpaper* magazine to search the globe for the most innovative designers and challenged them to showcase Hästens iconic beds in the bedrooms of their dreams. Designers Nel Colectivo, Jaime Hayon, Satyendra Pakhale, and Angela Missoni have been chosen to show off some of the dream-inspired bedrooms.

Nel Colectivo: When thinking of our dream bed, we kept coming back to the idea of waking up rather than the actual sleep itself. We decided to recreate our vision of the perfect morning- you've had a comfortable eight hours' sleep, you awake on top of the world and you have all the newspapers and magazines you could desire delivered to you.

Angela Missoni: For several reasons, I believe Hastens is for beds what Missoni is for fashion knitwear. They both have a strong past and they have both tied their name to a now-iconic pattern. In this recreation of the fairytale The Princess and the Pea, both companies' prints are given a magical setting.

Jaime Hayon: The perfect bed to me is one in which your dreams are amazing. As a result, my concept was simple: a series of fantastical sketches that set the scene for an enchanting and enjoyable dream.

Satyendra Pakhale: I wanted to create the illusion of the bed of my dreams in a subtle way. To me it's not about being showy or over the top, but by being restrained and sophisticated you can create a scene wit much more power.

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Winter 1972

noreply@blogger.com (borabora) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:00 +0000

A project created by Switzerland based Adrian Merz in collaboration with Cornelia Hess. Winter 1972 is a perfume concept for a university project. It's a beautiful concept which tries to bring the memories and experiences of winter 1972.

With the idea of fresh fallen snow, a hint of frozen forest, and sleeping earth approach, the project is implemented by using thousands of plain white post-it notes encase a living room and transform it into a winter landscape. The Post'it notes represent the fragments of memories, stories and notes of winter the 1972.

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