Scott Newkirk - New York cabin
In 沈少民 Shen Shaomin’s “Bonsai” series, he has created a group of sculptures using the techniques of cultivating bonsai. Inspired by foot-binding, this work speaks about violence, control, deformation, artificial transformation of nature and the body for aesthetic purposes. Shen contorts and manipulates his miniature trees through the use of metal grips, vices, braces, clamps, metal meshes and armatures, trapping the plants and inhibiting their growth, while being contained in ceramic pots labeled with poetic terms/phrases and decorated with peaceful and heavenly landscape imagery.
Wu Hung writes: “Shen Shaomin turns invisible violence into tangible forms in his Bonsai series. Bonsai makes us reconsider the brutality in daily life, particularly that which has been transformed into kinds of aesthetic perception or concealed within nature itself. This group of works achieves its efficacy not because it displays the results of these man-made transformations, but makes apparent the process of transformation itself. Shen Shaomin uses two means for achieving this. First, the bonsais themselves display a sudden halt in the “process” like a freeze-frame in a movie, where all the small trees have been imprisoned in ironware, and hang like prisoners chained and shackled. Shen Shaomin calls these works “living installations. Collectors can choose to let them return to their original state or maintain this process. Even when the bonsai dies, these installations will still record the process and mechanisms behind their transformation. The second means is through texts: every bonsai is accompanied by a meticulously designed course of study. Dense passages and illustrations record how bonsais are made, and the procedures and matters needing attention.”
Artist’s website: Shen Shaomin
Sources: Art Practical, ArtSlant
Now, there’s a first name that never should have gone out of style, AMIRITE LADIES?
Court dress, 1881-86
From the National Historical Museum
SUBMISSION: Comfy Cargo Chair, 2010, by designer Stephan Schulz (via DesignLocal)
Krowiarki Palace: Here is a rare glimpse inside what was once one of Poland’s grandest palaces. Unfortunately, very little is known about this extraordinary building. Spared destruction in World War II and shuttered for more than 40 years, it is supposedly being restored to its former glory.
It should surprise absolutely no one that I would like to go to there.
Gustav Klimt : The complete paintings
An amazing cover for this new book published by the great Taschen publishing company : “Klimt : the complete paintings”, 676 pages, only 150€ for this exhaustive monography of the Viennese artist… This year, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, so this book is a also a celebration of Klimt, who died in 1918. Klimt painted 230 art work, among them 54 landscapes. His golden paintings were inspired by the mosaics in Ravenne (Italy).
Tobias G. Natter is the author of this big book. He studied art history and history at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna. Since October 2011 he has been the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. His extensive publications and his conception and organization of exhibitions on the theme of “Vienna around 1900” have made him an internationally acknowledged expert on Viennese art at the turn of the century.
Quiero ese libro YA :)
(Source: artismore)
Lena Hughes - Queen of the Flat Top Guitar |
Review at the liminal. A reissue that will stir up nostalgia- and/or the imagination- for simpler, rural idylls.
This looks pretty terrific.
This is what happens when you run water through a 24hz sine wave.
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Faig Ahmed, Embroidered Space
Faig Ahmed explores composition of a traditional Azerbaijanian carpet by disjointing its structure and placing its elements into open space. With his large-scale piece titled “thread installation”, Faig re-interpreted the traditional carpet materials of his homeland by creating a type of spatial ‘stitching’ with the yarn across the surface of a wall. Speaking about his work Faig says, “I’ve been always fond of investigating and researching every detail of anything that had interested me and sometimes this researches reached inconceivable depths mixing up with my imagination. I’m heretofore harried by a question others have left in childhood – ‘what is inside?. That’s why I’m changing habitual and visually static objects making them spatial, giving them a new depth.and this as if reveals the essence of this object – the object that was mediocre just a minute ago.”
Found a photoshoot.
My Senior Portraits leaked online!
This is mortifying!
