Interview with Hugo Orlandini
We are happy to introduce Hugo Orlandini, a Cuban-born contemporary artist who now lives and works in Barcelona. In his work, Hugo gives a lot of attention to social issues. ‘I’m inclined to think of art,’ says the artist, ‘as a transformational, creative and political energy that has sensorial, optical and mental consequences; a door...
‘Glowing Light Ball Bench’ by Manfred Kielnhofer
An Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer has sent us an interesting work that was entitled Glowing Light Balls Bench and lays at the intersection between art and industrial design. Glowing Light Balls Bench is a series of futuristically illuminated benches that could exist in different forms, materials and colours. Here is a description from the Manfred...
‘BIG ♥ NYC’ installation at Times Square in New York
BIG + Times Square Alliance + Flatcut + Local Projects and Zumtobel celebrate the Valentine’s Day with an interactive heart installation at Times Square, New York utilizing the flow of people, air and touch to bring the heart to life. BIG ♥ NYC, a 10-foot tall glowing heart sculpture, consists of 400 transparent, LED lit,...
Street art:: The anatomy of mother bear giving birth
The anatomy of mother bear giving birth is an awesome new mural in Vienna, Austria. This big and detailed work is a result of collaboration of four talented street artists – FlyingFortress from Germany, Nychos from Austria and Sobekcis twins from Serbia. Ethem Cem aka bone2ART, Bahadir Gokce and Dogu Akdeniz Sound and Video Studios have...
‘SA MI 75 DZ NY 12’ by Doug Wheeler
An ambitious new work by American artist Doug Wheeler with an intricate title SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 is being exhibited in David Zwinger Gallery. The installation explores the materiality of light while emphasizing the viewer’s physical experience of infinite space. The exhibition marks the first presentation of an infinity environment by the artist...
BIG + Audi realize ‘URBAN FUTURE’ at Design Miami 2011
BIG + Kollision + Schmidhuber & Partner team up to bring BIG’s vision of future urban mobility to life for AUDI at Design Miami/ 2011, running from November 30th through December 4th adjacent to Art Basel Miami Beach. BIG originally presented the concept as an entry for the 2010 AUDI Urban Future Award introducing a...
Beautiful paintings by Martina Ermeti
‘Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.’ Salvador Dali This statement has become a basis of work of Martina Ermeti, a young talented Italian painter. Martina graduated from Liceo Artistico Serpieri painting workshop and, over the last years, she has had many exhibitions in...
‘Metalmorphosis’ by David Cerny
‘Metalmorphosis’ is a giant dynamic sculpture 30 feet high, located by the main façade of the business centre ‘Whitehall’ in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first permanent public construction in USA by a Czech sculptor David Cerny. The sculpture is composed of several rotating metal plates which form a giant head with a fountain...
Street art:: ‘Cement Eclipses’ by Isaac Cordal
Cement Eclipses is a research project of urban space that runs between the fields of sculpture and photography. The sculpture is used as a starting point and photography as a witness to the execution of installations for later viewing or exhibition. The project was started in 2006 by a Spanish sculptor Isaac Cordal as a nomad...
‘Melting Vitruvian Man’ on Arctic sea ice
A giant copy of the Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch Vitruvian Man has been appeared just 800 kilometres from the North Pole. It is not an unknown civilization’s trace or a mysterious message from aliens but a new artwork by a Los Angeles-based artist John Quigley which was specially created for Greenpeace. The installation was...
The Vandenberg: Life Below The Surface
Not only could contemporary art be seen in a gallery, but sometimes we can also come across it in rather unexpected places like, for example… under the sea. Just this very idea occurred to Andreas Franke, an Austrian professional photographer and avid diver, after he had taken several photos of Vandenberg shipwreck in the Florida...
Street art:: The Good Bike Project
Wandering along the streets of Toronto, you can see lots of abandoned bicycles which stay and rust for years being locked up to bike posts until they are taken away to dumps. These bikes didn’t brighten up the city until the young artists Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas turned them into pieces of art. ‘The...
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