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Archive for the ‘sculpture’ Category
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Kohei Nawa – Crystal Beads and Taxidermy
I’m quite impressed by the body of work of young Japanese artist Kohei Nawa. His PixCell series of sculptures consists on covering objects in glass beads. The technique both fragments and enhances what’s underneath. I’m particularly intrigued by his work on taxidermy, but he ...
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Michael Johansson – Getting Your S*** Together
Swedish artist Michael Joahansson has a body of work that really appeals to my domestic side. I am always trying to get my things in order but it feels like there is more mess around me than I can handle. This is also inspiring art ...
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Troika’s Shoal in Toronto
TROIKA_SHOAL from Troika on Vimeo. Troika’s public artwork Shoal combines sculpture with architecture and technology. Spanning across a 50 meter long corridor, 467 fish-like objects wrapped in iridescent colours and suspended from the ceiling rotate rhythmically around their own axis to display the movements and interdependency ...
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The Games are Open
Photo by Vancouver Sun Now that the Games are over The Games are Open can be viewed from Friday, September 10th. A project by German artists Folke Kobberling and Martins Kaltwasser, this massive sculpture representing a bulldozer is made of 1,000 wheat board panels liberated ...
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Fall Fashion: Nick Cave's Soundsuits
Hats off to this Vogue’s September issue. The magazine put together purses and Nick Cave’s soundsuits in a great-looking fashion photo essay. Chicago-based artist Nick Cave (not to be confused with the Australian musician of the same name) is an Alvin Ailey-trained dancer and posed ...
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Branches in Jars – Naoko Ito
I found Naoko Ito‘s work at Wine & Bowties. His Urban Nature series trapped branches into glass jars. It has many possible readings and it’s amazingly well-executed. More than branches, he trapped the negative space around it. I love it.
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The Rodney Graham Band at Candahar
The Rodney Graham Band at Candahar, Vancouver – photo by Ken Eisner I finally made it to Candahar, the bar/artwork at Granville Island last night just in time to watch Rodney Graham doing his sound check for a performance that would start a couple of ...
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Skull Cool
A quick selection of contemporary art skulls. Starting, of course, by Damein Hirst’s For the Love of God but going all the way to a Teddy Bear skull. Do you know of any others? Damien Hirst Gabriel Orozco Jim Skull Laurent Massaloux Piotr Uklanski Stephanie ...
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Suspended City
New Growth, 2007 Organic and architectural. Kendall Buster‘s interest in microbiology led her to an inventory of forms where cities germinate and expand. Her thin membranes, mathematically sculpted, remind me of virtual 3d renders. The floating transparent forms give this very brainy project a magical ...
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Book Art
In a time of paperless offices and a notebook in each purse who cares about old books? Cara Barer changes the appearance of discarded books and transforms them in mandalas, maizes, Rorschach inkblots. Her art defies the boundaries between photography, object, sculpture. Galerie Poller, New ...