A rather superb portrait of Game Of Thones’ Daenerys Targaryen by New York based artist Sam Spratt.
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Three minutes over the shoulder of a Swiss watchmaker as he assembles a not inexpensive high-end NOMOS Glashütte watch.
POOL, loss of colour (2014) by Dutch artist Jeroen Bisscheroux – an anamorphic coup d’oeil ‘carpet’ painting exhibited last month at Osaka in Japan, intended – consistent with entertaining its viewers – to evoke both the Fukushima disaster and the Sendai tsunami.
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Gender reversals by Sakimichan.
Above: The other sides of Ariel, Belle and Beast, Pocahontas, Cruella, Jack and Sally, Maleficent, Sofie and Hauru, Ursula, Hades and Elsa.
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Tapis Magiques (2014) by French artist Miguel Chevalier is an interactive light display projected on the floor of the former Sacré Coeur church in Casablanca, Morocco, set to the underwater music of Michel Redolfi.
As viewers move around the ever changing pixelated display, the projection patterns (based on biological forms, Islamic art and Moroccan carpet designs) curve around them.
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The sublime cityscapes of San Francisco based painter Jeremy Mann.
Turning oil into light.
This is how you do that.
Above (from top): The City Tempest (2013); Times Square Lights (2012), The Market Street Steam Vent (2012); Untitled; The Last Light Of San Francisco (2013), Rooftops In The Snow; Manhattan Nights (2013) and our personal favourite Hell’s Kitchen (2013).
Austrian ‘street muralist’ Nychos adorns a wall in Haight-Ashbury San Francisco ahead of an exhibition entitled ‘Street Anatomy’ at Fifty24SF.
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From April 1st until next Monday (April 14th) French artist Abraham Poincheval has been living inside the hollowed out carcass of a bear in the main salon of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.
Having kitted out the tiny enclosure with everything he needs to survive, including food, water, activities and a toilet, his goal is to test his physical limits and increase his understanding of animal nature during hibernation.
Visitors are encouraged to interact with Poincheval and there’s also a live feed.
Say hello to Karl and Nat.
ALSO…
Graphic novelist Alan Nolan writes:
“Just to let you all know that this weekend at the MCM Ireland Comic Con in the RDS [Ballsbridge, Dublin] we [Alan and co-creator Ian Whelan] will be launching a new edition of Sancho — Ireland’s favourite Dublin-based Mexican ex-exorcist-priest-cum-demon-hunter black-horror-comedy comic. Previously shortlisted for two prestigious Eagle awards this marks the return of Sancho to the comic book shelves after an absence of four years!.
ALSO Fintan’s Fifteen, an illustrated novel about the worst U12s hurling team in Ireland (tagline: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry… you’ll hurl) will be available nationwide from April 21 but will also be at our stand at MCM Dublin’s Comic Village for an early bird sneaky peek.”
Previously: Big Bastard’s Back