French creative studio Le Creative Sweatshop in collaboration with photographer Fabrice Fouillet, created a series of still-lifes combining translucent jelly and designer lamps…more
7th of February 2012
18th of November 2011
Li Lihong
McDonald’s - Flower and Bird
2008
Porcelain
14 1/4 (H) x 17 3/4 (W) x 4 3/4 (D) in.
18th of October 2011
Pipilotti Rist at Hayward Gallery in London
26th of September 2011
Rachel Whiteread
13th of September 2011
![The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire view the sculptures Legend and Myth by Damien Hirst in the gardens of their home Chatsworth House on September 9, 2011 in Chatsworth, England. [source]
Beyond Limits, Chatsworth - Sotheby’s](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgtkmqX4A1qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire view the sculptures Legend and Myth by Damien Hirst in the gardens of their home Chatsworth House on September 9, 2011 in Chatsworth, England. [source]
Beyond Limits, Chatsworth - Sotheby’s
30th of June 2011
“Chilean-born Conceptualist Sebastian Errazuriz presents his new work, ‘Opera Fireplace.’ Hand-carved from 600 pounds of Italian marble, this sculpture reproduces an opera stage complete with curtains, stage, floorboards and stairs, yet is also fully functional, designed to be installed in any house.
The fireplace comes equipped with several wooden figures and a scaffolding structure, constructed from maple logs and carved by hand as well.”
Discovered on Junk Culture. Sometimes I am really tempted to just turn this blog into an Automatic Junk Culture Reblogging Machine.
27th of June 2011
Ron Mueck
Big Baby
1996
Mixed media
Estimated at £600,000-£800,000 at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Tuesday, June 28.
20th of June 2011
Remains
Artist and metalsmith Cathy McClure strips away the plush furry coats from motorized stuffed animals and then casts the disassembled plastic limbs in bronze…more here
If you’re near Seattle, you should check out her one woman exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Musuem, it runs until January 2012.
13th of May 2011
Martin Creed / Work No. 928
14th of April 2011
Tara Donovan at Pace, March 2011
Instagram images from when I visited the Pace Galleries on West 22nd Street & West 25th Street to see the Tara Donovan exhibitions ‘‘Drawings (Pins)’’ and “Untitled (Mylar)”.
Donovan creates large scale installations using utilitarian objects - in “Drawings”, the “drawings” are actually made up of tens of thousands of nickel-headed dressmaker pins stuck onto gatorboard and in “Untitled”, the work is composed of rolled up sheets of Mylar (and hot glue), “which grow into towering organic structures of varying heights rising up to approximately 11 feet tall. Light plays a pivotal role in the work as it catches the metallic surfaces and radiates off its undulating form.”
I guess now is the part of the blog post where I’m supposed to give you the info to go see these shows but as they’ve already closed I will instead admit that I am a terrible blogger and say that I hope you get a chance to see her work in person one day if you haven’t before. Seeing so many of the same small object repeated seemingly to infinity is absolutely mind blowing and beautiful up close.
12th of April 2011
Concrete Islands by Analix Forever at Six Elzévir, Paris
Presented by Geneva-based gallery Analix Forever, Concrete Islands explores the expressions of utopia in architecture today. The group show, featuring photography and video by five international artists documents architectural projects that have made their mark on contemporary society through their social or political intentions. Through space and society’s inextricable links, it is the architect’s potential as influencer and creator of these social situations and rituals that is interrogated. From Le Corbusier’s construction of Chandigarh as photographed by Iwan Ban or the surprising utopian language of architecture from the late Soviet era in Frederic Chaubin’s work, non-conformist ideals articulate themselves. Today, these dreams can be found in various states of undress: the contemporary status of the architecture, inhabited, derelict or destructed. Amidst undertones of dystopia, Andreas Angelidakis’ poetic use of fiction and fantasy proposes the romantic notion of ruins: these are merely buildings becoming nature.
Concrete Islands curated by Elias Redstone for Analix Forever is on view at Six Elzévir, 6 rue Elzévir, Paris. Text Sophie Pinchetti and Photo Caroline Gaimari
(Source: purple-diary, via swandiamondrose)
21st of March 2011
Rachel Whiteread
Ghost Ghost (2008)
Cast polyurethane resin
22nd of February 2011
DeWain Valentine
Diamond Column
1979
Glass and granite
17th of January 2011
Beth Katleman’s sculptures and installations combine rococo decoration with icons from popular culture. Beth uses 1950’s squeaky toys, corporate mascots, miniature buildings, cartoon characters and dolls which she finds in secondhand thrift stores and flea markets. These trinkets are cast in clay and reinvented as bizarre porcelain objects.
Find out more about Beth’s work here.
