Mural made out of 450,000 staples. Part of artist Baptiste Debombourg’s Aggravure series. Inspired be the classic story of Icarus and drawings from 16th century engravers.
The recurring theme in these paintings revolves around the collapse that resonates with staples. Here the staple is a material and a media that plays with contemporary aggression and daily life’s secular usefulness - BD
Diana Al-Hadid’s amazing new work for our show Invisible Cities, which was inspired in part by Northern Renaissance and Mannerist paintings. More info on Diana and this intricate new piece:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/visiting-artists-diana-al-hadid/
Opens Thurs, Apr 19, 6-8p:
”Judd Women Targets”
Eva Lake
frosch&portmann, 53 Stanton St., NYC
This exhibition marks the inaugural showing of Lake’s Judd Montages, some of her earliest works. The artist found the Judd images used in these collages in an illegal sublet in New York, where she lived for ten years. The apartment had belonged to an art dealer who left behind an art magazine from the 1960s featuring Donald Judd. Inspired by Judd’s stark forms, Lake held onto the magazine for over two decades before eventually cutting into it. In creating the Judd Montages, the artist wanted to add vitality to works famous for their austerity and non-content. In doing so, Lake is playing with works from the canon of art history that are not initially meant to be played with. This exercise results in dazzlingly colorful montages that re-imagine Judd’s minimalist sculptures as the protagonists in various glamorous and often dreamlike landscapes. - thru July 22
Using a process that could be the new definition of meticulous, Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh. Each piece is several inches thick as each plane that forms the final image is spaced a few finger widths apart, giving the portraits a certain depth and dimensionality that’s hard to convey in a photograph, but this video on YouTube shows it pretty well. Park just exhibited this month at Blank Space Gallery in New York as part of his latest series Maya (meaning “illusion” in Sanskrit). You can see much more at West Collects. (art news, west collects, lavinia tribiani) (by Christopher)
After Effects
A series of architectural scale models constructed with black paper and covered with flour and a layer of mould to create the effect of old abandoned buildings.My purpose is to talk about the sense of time and destiny of the planet after the human species, through the sense of restlessness which abandoned buildings are able to communicate.
Laws of attractor (by Sergio Albiac)
New generative series. A generative mixture of digital collage, attractor inks and accidental glitches.
Installations by Gabriel Dawe, via but does it float
Underwater portraits by Hana Al-Sayed
The art: Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players, 1911.
The news: “At a Brooklyn School, The Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around,” by Anne Barnard and Dylan Loeb McClain for the New York Times.
The source: Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Duchamp loved chess and even created his own personal pocket chess set. Duchamp wasn’t the only artist of his generation fascinated by the game: Max Ernst designed chess pieces too, complete with a twist on the historical norm.
Colette W. Davis, Oil on Gallery Canvas, “COMPOUND INTEREST”
(Source: colettedavis)
