Doors: a 10-story public art installation made from 1,000 reused doors installed in Seoul in 2009 by South Korean artist Choi Jeong-Hwa.
The artist, who decided against becoming an artist but instead ‘an ordinary person who thinks like an artist’ (Wait. Isn’t that an artist? Never mind.) discusses his work here.
An image of Shane MacGowan from the Traditional and Folk Revival Section of the Icon Walk in Temple Bar has gone missing.
Dermot from The Icon Factory writes:
Shane’s large print on Aluminum (Shane, no stranger to going missing himself in the past), has been taken.
The Icon Factory is a non-profit, artist co-operative whom with some friends created the Icon Walk in Temple Bar earlier this year for both Tourists and Irish People alike to enjoy. The area of Temple Bar where the Icon Walk is situated has enjoyed something of a rebirth in the past six months. Dulux sponsored the painting of the Icon Walk area with it’s ‘Let’s Colour Project’ and Icon Factory staff and volunteers as well as some local businesses have kept the place as clean and litter free as much as possible. Earlier this year another of the artworks on the Icon Walk was set on fire and destroyed.
We are deeply upset and disgusted that someone would steal a piece of our artwork.
Any help or information would be of value. Email: iconfactorydublin@gmail.com
Artist Dev Harland’s light sculpture ‘Parmenides I’: a 2.5m diameter white geometric shape that forms a canvas for the video projection.
Currently on view at Christopher Henry Gallery, NY as part of Harlan’s solo exhibition “The Astral Flight Hangar.”
Windstille: a rather beautiful and deceptively simple exhibit by German artist Regine Ramseier at the ArToll Summer Lab 2011: two thousand dandelion seed heads suspended from the ceiling.
Ramseier hand picked each one, applying adhesive to keep them intact and transporting them in specially constructed palettes in the back of her car.
Korean artist Yeong-Deok Seo uses tightly-knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel links to create his intricate sculptures.
While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork’s titles such as Infection – Anguish, Infection – Ego, and Addict, suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary decision.
