A digital photoseries in which German photographer Clemens Gritl extrapolates the scale and repeated patterns of 20th century brutalist forms, capturing his exaggeratedly monumental towers in the classic black and white style of 1960s architectural photography.
Light Barrier, Third Edition: an elaborate new artwork from South Korean collaborators Kimchi and Chips (Mimi Son and Elliot Woods). To wit, suspended ‘volumetric’ light forms generated by:
…8 architectural video projectors… split into 630 sub-projectors using an apparatus of concave mirrors designed by artificial nature. Each mirror and its backing structure are computationally generated to create a group that collaborates to form the single image in the air. By measuring the path of each of the 16,000,000 pixel beams individually, light beams can be calibrated to merge in the haze to draw in the air. 40 channels of audio are then used to build a field of sound which solidifies the projected phenomena in the audience’s senses.
An extensive (and doubtless expensive) array of architectural elements by ltalian artist Edoardo Tresoldi commissioned as part of a royal event in Abu Dhabi.
Constructed from wire mesh, lit from above and below to create the ghostly effect, the installation took Tresoldi three months to put in place with the help of Dubai-based Designlab Experience.
Previously: Is There Anything To Be Said For Another Mesh?
The magnificent sand sculptures Of Toshihiko Hosaka (pic2), who’s been refining his granular oeuvre for two decades. Aside from a hardening spray applied to protect the finished sculptures from erosion by the wind and sun, the only material he uses is sand.
Earlier this month, Hosaka’s three-days-in-the-making tribute to 16th century Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto (top pic above) won first prize at the Furlong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival in Taiwan.
Artist Lorenzo Quinn’s striking contribution to the 2017 Venice Biennale – rising from the lagoon to support the walls of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel – a visual comment on the effects of climate change (including rising sea levels that continue to threaten the Medieval architecture of the old city).
The coup d’oeil paintings of Canadian artist Bob Gonsalves: dreamy narratives inspired by the work of René Magritte and M.C. Escher.
More of his work here.
Recent works by Argentinian/Spanish artist Filipe Pantone* for Lisbon Week.
Mmmm. Glitchy.
*’Pantone’ being an evolution of his original tag ‘Pant’, chosen when he was just thirteen and unrelated to his later colourful works.
The Solar Egg by Stockholm based design duo Bigert & Bergström – a steel egg plated with gold (reflecting the surrounding landscape of Kiruna in Sweden) with a wood-fired sauna inside.
Made of 69 separate pieces and accessed by a folding golden stairway, the sauna egg is a public art installation which can accommodate eight sweaty patrons at once.
