Bronze sculptures by French artist Valérie Hadida, who starts with a sketch before casting her nuanced, contemplative, elaborately coiffed female figures in bronze – some up to a metre tall – all eventually covered in green patina.
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Behold: the colourful, site-specific, tulle installations of Ana María Hernando, inspired by her childhood in Buenos Aires, where she observed the women of her family sewing, crocheting, and embroidering together every day. She sez:
As a Latina, I explore how the feminine comes forward in strength and flexibility, in beauty and in (an) unstoppable abundance of generosity.
In fairness.
More of Ana’s net worth here.
Net worth.
Ah forget you.
Me Time
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Colum Cronin tweets:
“Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative” (Mehmet Murat Ildan). New (to me) street art on Liberty Lane, Dublin. Anyone know the artist?
Just Dropped
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The work of Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul, who died earlier this year, is characterised by his obsession with water droplets, hyper-realistically depicted. Writing about this tendency – which Tschang-Yeul shares with other Korean avante-garde artists of his era – lecturer Dr Cleo Roberts explains:
In this generation of artists, there is a ritualistic devotion to a chosen form, process, and, at times, colour. One could venture that, in the context of living in a volatile country ravaged by war, the security of immersion in a singular mode was an empowering choice, and may have been a necessary psychological counterpoint.
While the people featured in the iconic cover art collage of The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, are all well documented, Chris Shaw went one step further and tracked down all the source imagery. To wit:
The collage was designed by Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, and the cut-outs were assembled in Michael Cooper’s London photographic studio. Michael and his team toiled hard to construct the ‘cast of extras’, using a mix of photos sourced from the BBC Hulton Picture Library, images from private collections, waxworks and personal artifacts, including a gnome owned by Ringo Starr
Biodiversity
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The otherworldly, labyrinthine ink drawings of illustrator Song Kang: stream of consciousness bio-architectures and ecosystems about which she admitz:
In one moment, I feel like I’m building a distinct environment one crosshatched pebble at a time. The next moment, I’m clueless with only an impulse and a gut feeling to add something somewhere. One of these spontaneous decisions was choosing to add colour. I was always using black ink, avoiding bright colours out of habit and uncertainty. But during quarantine, I found several colourful ink pens and became curious to see how it would look in my texture-heavy, fine-tuned crosshatched style.
The vintage Soviet Russian collages of Dutch artist Tamara Stoffers. None of your digital jiggery-pokery here. Sez she:
The Soviet Union has a mysterious appeal to me. Its typical visual language in architecture and art feels nostalgic to some and is still relevant to others. I compose my images of old books concerning the USSR, cutting and pasting to create new situations. For me, crafting these works is a game. By digging through archives without a preconceived plan, I subconsciously find visual connections. My biggest challenge while doing this lies in the limitations caused by the size and subject of the source material. Subtle traces of the material and of my interventions, like grids and cuts, show that the basis is strictly analogue.
