Alan Reid
February 25th, 2011 Yanda
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2010/11/alan-reid-at-lisa-cooley-2/
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Kyung Woo Han's Green House
February 24th, 2011 Yanda
Kyung Woo Han creates an illusion of a room half-filled with water by painting and creating mirrored images and hanging them mid-way in the room.
http://www.kyungwoohan.com
via http://urbantaster.com/2011/02/22/kyung-woo-hans-green-house/
Yumiko Utsu
February 24th, 2011 Yanda
Combining the intricate techniques of food photography with the anthropomorphic tendencies of manga, Utsu has an affinity for kitsch. But instead of taking a strictly documentary approach to the Japanese relationship with food and the natural world, she uses fruit, vegetables, and seafood to construct surreal fantasies populated by kittens with octopus eyes, pineapples full of owls, and phallic carrots. But by using the visceral, perishable products of nature to reinvent such imagery Utsu goes further, undermining the antiseptic values of the genre, pricking its glossy surface with a shudder of amused repulsion. By exposing the strangeness of manga’s visual strategies she also reveals our complex relationship to the natural world and to our own bodies – at once sensual and comic, tinged by eroticism, disgust, and desire.
http://utsuyumiko.com
via http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/02/yumiko-utsu.php
The Golden Set by Furze Chan
February 16th, 2011 Yanda
This is an experiment of applying irregularly shaped golden paper onto geometrically shaped white envelopes.
http://artwork.furzechan.com/gold.htm
Ai Wei Wei
February 2nd, 2011 YandaAi Weiwei (born 1957) is a Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, social commentator, and activist.
He was the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium, which was a joint venture among architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, CADG (chief architect Li Xinggang), and Ai Weiwei.
Ai’s artwork has been exhibited in China, Japan, Korea, Australia, United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Israel, Brazil and the United States.
Table With Three Legs, 2006
* Table from the late Ming or early Qing dynasty (1368 – 1911)
Many of Ai Weiwei’s works from the past decade, for example, are made of local materials and of antique Chinese objects: tables and chairs from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, wood, doors and windows from demolished temples and traditional houses, freshwater pearls, tea, marble, stone, bamboo etc. – ‘ready-mades’ trans¬lated into a conceptual, post-minimalist idiom.
Alternatively, for his colored vase series, he takes Neolithic vases (5000 – 3000 B.C.) and paints them careless with bright industrial colors. Then he places them in an Allan McCollum style.
Painted Vases, 2009
The vases are authentic antique vases which could just as easily have stood in a collection in a historical museum in China. Yet it is not contempt for China’s history and tradition that lies behind this harsh treatment of the fine old antiques – on the contrary. His use of the vases should rather be seen as a Dadaistic gesture, as black humour and as a political comment on the organized destruction of cultural and historical values that took place, especially during the Cultural Revolution, when every¬thing old was to be replaced by the new. This stopped after the death of Mao, but the destruction and erosion of Chinese culture continues to this day – now under cover of economic progress.
Ai Weiwei points to the loss of culture by transforming the historical objects into something new – into moving and highly sensual contemporary artworks which thanks to their aesthetic beauty recirculate the meaning and history of these valuable cultural artefacts.
Fold II by Riyo Nemeth
February 2nd, 2011 Yanda
A Photoshop gradient effect printed and folded along the line.
http://www.riyonemeth.com
via http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/02/01/fold-ii/
