Category — Arts
Living with Dinosaurs by Artist and Designer Sayaka Yamamoto
Previously posted Eindhoven-based artist and designer Sayaka Yamamoto has always been fascinated by dinosaurs, and this interest has translated into a series of soft sculptures made of rubber-coated foam.
Living with Dinosaurs, the name of the collection, allows us to live with bones and skeletons in a friendly way.
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July 15, 2008 No Comments | 71 views
Contemporary Chinese Artist Huang Yong Ping At The Barbican in London
Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping has a new installation that examines the opium wars, called “Frolic” at London’s Barbican.
From the Barbican website:
Considered one of China’s most established contemporary artists and a well-known figure in the international art world, Huang Yong Ping’s large-scale installations and sculptures symbiotically fuse the conceptual language of contemporary western art with traditional Chinese aesthetics and philosophy.
A leading figure of the 1980s Chinese avant-garde movement Xiamen Dada before he moved to Paris in 1989, Huang’s diverse practice explores ideas of cultural difference, identity, migration, colonialism and history as well as institutional critique.
For his first UK solo show, Huang creates a new installation in The Curve that explores the complex imperial history between Britain and China in the 19th century, focusing on the Opium Wars. The exhibition takes its title Frolic from the name of a ship built to transport goods between British India, China and Great Britain, and as such serves as an allegory for modern-day global capitalism.
The exhibition begins with an assortment of giant opium needles, palettes and stoves.
The central area of the gallery is occupied by a life size sculpture of Lord Palmerston, who served twice as British Prime Minister and is widely considered as the initiator of the Opium Wars in China in 1840 and 1858. The toppled statue lies on an opium bed smoking an exaggeratedly large opium pipe surrounded by a mass of opium balls, scales and storage boxes.
Frolic is on at the Barbican from the 25th June to the 21st September 2008
Technorati Tags: arts, Barbican, China, Chinese artists, Frolic, Huang Yong Ping, London, United Kingdom
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July 6, 2008 No Comments | 148 views
Beijing’s Solar Powered LED Wall
Forget your eco-friendly LED laptop screen, here’s a massive LED wall, solar-powered, built in Beijing to display artistic performance work.
From Gizmodo:
Greeting visitors attending the Xicui entertainment complex near the site of the Olympic games is a 20,000 square foot wall of computer-controlled LEDs, the largest of its kind ever built. Better yet, the wall manages to power itself completely using only the sun.
The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall, designed by Simon Giostra & Partners and Arup, uses thousands of solar capture cells attached to each of its glass panels to charge up during the day and then release dazzling light shows at night. It’s the first time perforated photovoltaics laminated in glass have ever been used in a building in China, but if all goes off without a hitch, it most certainly won’t be the last.
It will feature performance work by artists from all over the world.
Technorati Tags: art, Beijing, China, LED wall, Olympics, performance, solar-powered wall
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July 6, 2008 No Comments | 104 views
Chinese Arts Centre Presents Artist Suki Chan’s Interval
The Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, UK, presents interdisciplinary artist Suki Chan’s film installation project, Interval, from the 10th October to 22nd December 2008 (with a preview on Thursday 9th October 2008).
Interval is a film installation exploring our transient relationships with buildings and the nature of our inhabitation of space and time. With particular reference to two contrasting types of architecture from British and Chinese history and culture, the work uses light, moving image, electronics and sound with mixed media installation to create a sensual experience inviting the viewer to meditate on their relationship to their environment.
Suki Chan was born in Hong Kong and currently lives and works in London. She graduated with BA (Hons) from Goldsmiths College, London in 1999 and is currently completing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London.
Chan has participated in solo and group shows, artist residencies and research projects in the UK and internationally, including Spain (El Tanque), Germany, America, Singapore and China (Museum of Contemporary Art). Recent shows include Sequence and Repetition, bridgeartfair and Jerwood Space, London. Her recent neon installation (Story of Rice 3) is collected by New Walk Museum.
The Chinese Arts Centre website
See below for more information about Interval…
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July 5, 2008 No Comments | 99 views
Bread Woman by Sayaka Yamamoto
I just saw this piece of work called Bread Woman by Sayaka Yamamoto, which for some reason reminded me of the tree guys in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The Bread Woman is the result of a workshop called “extreme body” - a new way to look at a daily product.
Sayaka Yamamoto was born in Japan and is currently living in the Netherlands, where she’s currently working on her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
She is half of BCXSY together with designer Boaz Cohen, whose Infinity Aquarium I just posted on Visual Streak.
Bread Woman by Sayaka Yamamoto
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June 24, 2008 1 Comment | 151 views
Samurai warriors, Geisha women, street graffiti and sex by Artists Gajin Fujita
Samurai warriors, Geisha women, street graffiti and sex come together in a series of new works by LA-born Japanese-American artist Gajin Fujita.
I unfortunately missed an exhibition last month in London, of Fujita’s work, but you can still view samples online and find out where he may next show.
From Wallpaper.com:
Fujita’s carefully crafted panel- and paper-based creations conflate the seemingly disparate aesthetics of American hip-hop culture with traditional Japanese woodblock Ukiyo-e-style print imagery.
The work challenges potential artistic preconceptions. The ostensible delicacy and quiet of the Japanese drawings are undermined by their depictions of graphic sex and physical combat. Conversely, the street art feels decorative, even pretty, rather than destructive or blighting.
Whether as a comment on contrasting artistic styles or as an attempt at personal cultural reconciliation, Fujita’s work feels modern, young and fresh – a pleasant graphic witness to the increasingly connected world in which we all live.
More on Wallpaper.com
See more of Fujita’s artwork on LALouver.com
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June 18, 2008 No Comments | 271 views
Erotic Anime Art by Korean Artist Alien1452
Korean Artist Alien1452 has an amazing amount of fantastic anime style artwork. The style is a little kinky and erotic, but all quality. Especially if you like your characters (a little) big-eyed and big-chested!
Check out some art below and find out more at Alien1452.com
Technorati Tags: art, erotic, fantasy art, illustration, Korea, Alien1452
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June 15, 2008 No Comments | 403 views
ArtKrush Explores New Art from Japan
This fortnight’s Artkrush looks beyond Japan’s alternately cute and explicit manga-mania to uncover fresh approaches to a wide range of media.
They begin with a gallery-by-gallery survey of contemporary art in Tokyo, highlighting Tai Ogawa’s cutouts, the radiant installations of Koki Tanaka, and diaristic paintings and drawings by Youichi Umetsu.
Then examine how Tomoo Gokita arrived at the black-and-white geometry that obscures his painted portraits, while Noriko Fuko - co-curator of the International Center for Photography’s current Heavy Light exhibition - talks to photographer Tomoko Sawada about her work and her rapid rise.
For their media pick, they recommend Tokyolife: Art and Design, which delves further into the creative minds invigorating Japan’s cultural capital.
Read the latest ArtKrush for New Art from Japan
Technorati Tags: art, Artkrush, Heavy Light, installations, International Center for Photography, Japan, Koki Tanaka, Noriko Fuko, Tomoko Sawada, Tai Ogawa, Tokyo, Tokyolife: Art and Design, Tomoo Gokita, Youichi Umetsu
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June 12, 2008 No Comments | 129 views
