Tag Archives: Art

Cut Map: road-maps sliced-up to resemble the faces and figures of the subjects of artist Nikki Rosato, who explains:

The lines on a road map are beautifully similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body. In my most recent work involving maps, as I remove the landmasses from the silhouetted individuals I am further removing the figure’s identity, and what remains is a delicate skin-like structure. Through this process, specific individuals become ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like, similar to the memories they represent.

Previously, this.

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Artist and dancer, Tony Orrico uses his body to create large scale Spirograph-style drawings in live performances that can last for hours.

Whether or not you fancy the prospect of a five hour pencil-based floorshow, the resulting art is pretty impressive.

Huge gallery of his work here.

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Artist, Juliana Santacruz Herrera transforms the streets of Paris with lengths of dyed, braided fabric, using the many cracks and potholes of the city as her ‘canvas’.

Meanwhile, on a road near you.

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A dust devil lifts hundreds of metres of agricultural fleece from a strawberry field in Pupping, Austria, creating something akin to the plastic bag scene in American Beauty, only on a vast scale.

Weird. Gorgeous. Keeps getting better. Go full screen.

The only thing missing is the Thomas Newman theme. Someone should get on that.

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They’re not photographs.

They’re oversized copies of photographs by the Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas.

All done freehand with a ballpoint pen. Freehand. With a ballpoint pen.

Talent like this can only result from having done a deal with the Red Lad. In Juan’s attic, a stack of mediocre watercolour landscapes slowly rots.

Full gallery here.

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An exhibition entitled ‘States Of Reverie’ opens this Thursday at the Scream Gallery in London’s Mayfair. Among the work of one of the featured artists, Wayne Chisnall, is the above life-size, pre-assembly model of himself.

It’s called ‘And When I’m A Man’.

See what he’s done there?