Category Archives: Art/Craft
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‘Forever’ – a huge typographic installation by American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger wrapping around all four walls of Sprüth Magers’ gallery in Berlin.
Disorienting, thought-provoking statements on truth, power, belief and doubt, writ large.
The exhibition continues until December 22nd.
Birdsmith
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Extraordinary bird and animal forms by sculptor and master decorative metalworker Taiichiro Yoshida.
Each flower, made from copper, bronze or silver, is smithed in the forge before being hammered into shape and coloured.
More of his work here.
Primavera
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A porcelain ball-jointed doll based on Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ (1486) by artist Anya Kozlova.
A short film about the Japanese village of Inakadate, whose inhabitants have been growing rice for 2,000 years.
Since 1992, in a bid to increase tourism, the farmers have been strategically planting different varieties of rice to create huge images, best seen from aloft.
Short Trip
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An utterly charming five minute interactive animation by Australia illustrator Alexander Perrin which you control with the left and right arrow keys.
Explore it (full screen and with the sound up) here
Head Spinner
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Asinas II – an intricate, melon-twisting kinetic sculpture by Dutch artist Jennifer Townley who explores the complex non-linear movements generated by the circular motion of rotary engines. To wit:
The various angles and curves of the individual parts create an elaborated unity when joined together on the shaft. The two “wings” formed by these seventy-seven parts are able to slide through each other and rotate in opposite direction at a slightly different speed. This results in a movement that appears to be far more complex, existing of multiple layers, where repetitive shapes seem to be moving within one another.
You wouldn’t want to get your scarf caught in it, is all.
