Archives for the ‘public’ Category

Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin Work from his oeuvre. ““Why is there something, rather than nothing?” is a question to be posed to art by those faced with its object: the artist, his viewers, the critics. For, in the end run there could very well be nothing. This may even be for the better. After all, if […]

Nicola Bergström Hansen

Nicola Bergström Hansen Work from Boids and Stockholm City SMS. “Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: •Separation (behavior) – avoid crowding neighbors (short range repulsion)•Alignment (behavior) – steer towards average heading of neighbors•Cohesion (behavior) – steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction) In 1986 Craig Reynolds created ‘Boids’ […]

Niklas Persson

Niklas Persson Work from A Few Specific Actions (Free). “A series of installations explores the dramaturgy of meaning and the modes in which information serves as a way of fixing and containing the world. Leaving everyday objects, carefully composed according to a complex set of binaries and word pairs, leaving us with cryptic messages that […]

Eric Baudelaire

Eric Baudelaire Stills from Sugar Water. I also recommend Site Displacement. “… Henri Bergson, who didn’t care much for cinema, wrote in “Creative Evolution” that in order to have an authentic intuition of duration, one had to experience it, and he took the example of sugar in a glass of water. The lesson seemed clear: […]

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein Work from Social Bench. You can see a great deal more of Hein’s work here. His work is far more varied than the Social Bench series. “Jeppe Hein’s sculpture and installations explore the relationship between viewer and artwork. Using the minimalist aesthetic of the archetypical cube, Hein’s Shaking Cube is both sculpture and […]

Slinkachu

Slinkachu Work from Little People. I stumbled across Slinkachu’s book the other day at the bookstore and decided to look up the project and share it. I couldn’t find much in the way of a thorough statement, but the work sort of speaks for itself. “Slinkachu has taken street art to a new scale, painstakingly […]

Helmut Smits

Helmut Smits Work from: Dead Pixel in Google Earth, Parking for White Cars Only, FLAMMA and Skirting Board Sunset. I urge you to check out his entire public works section, all of the pieces are smart and compelling. “I believe that every situation, thought or object carries a good work of art in itself. I […]

Industry of the Ordinary

Industry of the Ordinary Work from the projects  Industry of the Ordinary is the collaborative performance art/sculpture team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their […]

Sebastian Errazuriz

Sebastian Errazuriz Works from The Cow, The Tree, and the (Duchamp inspired) Limited Editions. Statements are provided on the website. Sculpture / Installation Art.