Posts from — March 2008

Korean photo artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s crayon drawings and recreates them in the real world.

Jung apparently spent four months in kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings from five to seven year olds. He chose eighteen works of art for the Wonderland project and brought them to life with the help of high school students and fashion designers.

See more examples of the Wonderland project below..

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The Catto Gallery, London is proud to announce the debut exhibition of seven Contemporary Chinese artists from the Shanghai School. These artists, although established in China, have never been seen in London.

The seven artists are:  five painters, Wang Yuhong, Wang Jiawei, Li Haifeng, Li Yushi, and Guo Qingling, and two sculptors, Shu Yan, and Chen Jiansheng.

Their works range from traditional, satirical, to political, tender and sexual – all topics which have had a difficult journey in China’s political climate. Their art captures China in a moment of rapid transition in society, where Communism lives in parallel with expanding capitalism.

Established London based art dealer Gillian Catto and owner of Hampstead based gallery The Catto Gallery went to Shanghai and over twelve months of meeting artists in the city – selected five painters and two sculptors to participate in a show – illustrating the breadth of work in Shanghai.

The exhibition titled ‘Pieces of a Broken Mirror from China’ will be on at the Catto Gallery from the 8th to 24th April 2008.

Check out the Catto Gallery website for more information

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Artist Chris Beaumont brings us a new cube styled paper toy every week and includes the following fella - the Samurai Usagi Yojimbo.

Download at your leisure and make!

Usagi Yojimbo Paper Toy

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Kanye West visually remixed by Derrick Lee, video editor. Watch the stronger “Akira” version of “Stronger“!

Via NotCot

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Prodip’s fascination with UFO’s has made him create the Hong Kong UFO Documentary which talks about people’s sightings of UFO’s in Hong Kong.

The documentary has been just released. Two versions are available; a stand alone DVD or a Off World Boxset with comes with the Off World Creature Figure designed by Michael Lau. The boxset is now available at Double-Park.

See more on Hypebeast

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In Qinhuangdao, China, the Tanghe River Park features a new installation of a red steel bench that runs for half a kilometre through the park.

The Red Ribbon project has won an honor award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and was also selected by readers of Conde Nast Traveller magazine as one of the seven new wonders of the architecture world.

From the Contemporist

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Angry Woebots will release his 2nd ever giclee print this coming Tuesday, April 1st 2008 (Noon PDT) through the Kidrobot Sales froum. 

Printed on Velvet Fine Art paper, it measures 9″ x 13″ (image: 8″ x 12″), will sell for $60 including USA shipping (+$4 for international) and is limited to 50 signed and numbered pieces.

More on VinylPulse

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Andrea Innocent has a nice range of illustration work in her portfolio. Her current work is an ongoing exploration, in a contemporary context, of aspects of Japanese popular culture from an Australian perspective.

“A self-confessed nipponophile there is no denying the influence her exposure to Japanese culture has had on her work. Themes range from investigations into the cult of otaku to traditional Japanese folk tales and Japanese textiles and their meanings. Her inspirations can come from various sources such as newspaper articles, Japanese television, and advertising, books, music, toys, animals, the Internet, or just from watching life unfold around her, both imagined and real.”

See more on her website Otoshimono.org or see more examples of her work below..

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