Félix Luque Sánchez Work from The Discovery. “Chapter I: The Discovery is an impenetrable, geometric object and a series of videos restaging the moment of its discovery, as if it were a scene from a sci-fi movie, where the hero is suddenly confronted with an alien, slightly chilling figure. The videos are broadcast in the […]
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Tetsuo Kondo
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Tetsuo Kondo Work from Cloudscapes. “Clouds are important elements of our atmosphere, framing outdoor space and filtering sunlight. They are the visible part of the terrestrial water cycle, carrying water— the source of life—from the oceans to the land. Clouds find balance within stable equilibria and naturally sustain themselves, embodying and releasing solar energy. The […]
Serry Park
Monday, 13 September 2010
Serry Park Work from XO. “I cannot open the window, nor watch the clock in my room. The only thing I can do now is to see the daylight from the windows, touch [the] fabric and fall asleep. I and the room, we both could take a rest. Only light and time flow in this […]
Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Alejandro Almanza Work from his oeuvre. “In the 1960s sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick coined the term “kipple” to explain the astonishing ability of household objects to accumulate in piles of unwanted clutter. He imagined kipple not merely as mess or disorder, but rather as an irreversible, entropic force—a perverse electromagnetic power binding inanimate things […]
Carrie Schneider
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Carrie Schneider Work from Burning and a spectacular homage to British battleship dazzle camouflage. “Over the course of several months, I built a series of identical wooden houses, placed them on an island in the middle of a lake (that my grandfather helped to dig during the Depression through the CCC), and burnt them down…” […]
Valentin Ruhry
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Valentin Ruhry Work from his oeuvre. “To cite Claude Levi-Strauss, the engineer and the amateur constructor represent two completely different ways of behaving. For the engineer, there are only raw materials, which can be employed as desired, and disturbance factors, which are to be excluded. The amateur constructor may use waste material (also on a […]
Robert Barta
Monday, 9 August 2010
Robert Barta Work from his oeuvre. Barta’s work is an playful recontextualization of commonly used objects that one would expect is intended to increase our awareness of our daily interactions with technology. These installations are works that rely on defied expectations and the existence of pre-formed relationships with these objects in order for the viewer […]
Pablo Valbuena
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Pablo Valbuena Work from the Augmented Sculpture Project. “The Augmented Sculpture Project, by Pablo Valbuena, focuses on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation. For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the […]
Aslak Vibæk and Peter Døssing
Monday, 2 August 2010
Aslak Vibæk and Peter Døssing (AVPD) Work from their oeuvre. “Only by the use of semi-transparent PVC foil mounted in several layers in different combinations this series of works examines the perception of how the light penetrates the layered transparency film creating vibrant light differentiated surfaces/tones The visibility of the works depends on the light angle […]
Sam Songailo
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Sam Songailo Work from Media Centre. “‘Abstraction has been less a search for the ultimately meaningful… than a recurrent push for the temporarily meaningless.’* Paintings that look like something are rubbish. Why not take a picture? Or just look at the real thing? Or if you really want to see something differently, just use your […]