Flying machines and their attendant infrastucture from an exhibition entitled The Principles of Aerodynamics by Australian artist Daniel Agdag.
Sculpted from cardboard by eye with no blueprints and no plans by Agdag, who just gets to work on his unforgiving medium with scalpels and glue.
In 1995, at the age of 61, when the London-based American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he embarked on a series of self portraits in an attempt to document and understand the degenerative progression of his dementia.
Above: self portraits from 1967, 1996, 1997 (x2), 1998, 1999 and 2000, when the artist was finally admitted to a nursing home where he ceased painting and died seven years later.
After his death, his widow Patricia recalled, “Even the time he was beginning to be ill, he was always always drawing, every minute of the day. I say he died in 2000, because he died when he couldn’t draw any more. He actually died in 2007, but it wasn’t him by then.”
Sensuous macro portraits of American painter Alyssa Monks’s oily brushes at work.
See the finished paintings here.
Alan Travers writes:
I shot a timelapse of Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project during the Galway Arts Festival a couple of weeks ago. It was a really great art project, so I ended up shooting 29 different timelapses (9,879 photos in total taken!) over the 7 different days it popped up in different spots in the city.
Furniture that ‘looks and feels like human skin’ by UK artist Gigi Barker.
The ‘skin stool’ and ‘skin chair’ (made of soft, fleshy silicone impregnated with human pheromones, perfume or aftershave with optional removable mottled leather covers) sell for £440 and £1500 respectively.
Incredibly detailed miniature ‘boxed scenes’ by French artist Marc Giai-Miniet: a surreal cavalcade of of libraries, crime scenes, interrogation cells and underground labs that invite you to supply your own narrative.
Guilt Free Pleasures by Annarita Monaldi Dunne.
Presumably not available at the corner shop.
Another treat from the 2014 National Craft Awards/Student Art Awards expo at the RDS (which moves to Limerick on September 4th until October 10th).
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
An installation entitled Consequences of a Life Lived by Conor Frizzelle on display at the 2014 National Craft Awards/Student Art Awards exhibition at the RDS Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 earlier today.
The head distension moves almost imperceptibly (see video).
Just so you know.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
A recent mural by Bart Smeets in Mechelen, Belgium.
Nibmeister John Mottishaw puts a modified, custom-ground Namiki Falcon fountain pen through its paces.
The sound, the blackness, the flourish.
Calligraphic.
