In São Paulo, Galeria Melissa made an animation with 350 thousand sheets ofPost-it ® that completely covered the front of the gallery, to launch the collection "Melissa Power of Love". The implementation of this action lasted five months and 25 animators photographed every moment of the action.
David's Bowen tele-present water is an installation in Poland. It is a physical kinetic sculpture that re-creates the movement of waves.
This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands Alaska (53°54'39" N 160°48'21" W).
The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.
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Empire II is the sequel to Andy's Warhol Empire film. On Saturday 25 July 1964 (46 years ago) Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas filmed the movie Empire. Empire is a silent, black and white film that lacks a traditional narrative or characters. The passage from daylight to darkness becomes the film's narrative, while the protagonist is the iconic building that was (and is again) the tallest in New York City. Empire II is the continuation of the Andy Warhol work: creation of non-media as media, film as non-film. The film was shot on July 27th, 2010 by Andre Orione, David Payton and Lohra Ydna and presents Burj Khalifa (aka Burj Dubai) from 6.35 pm till 12.02 am that very day.
Hi everyone, we just found the master Haji Noor.
Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang is a renowned master of Arabic calligraphy. Born in 1963 in Shangdong province, China, he brings an immense learning in traditional thought and Islamic art to a modern audience, juxtaposing them in a new calligraphic style all his own, both Eastern and Western.
The Chinese and Arabic calligraphic traditions have often been compared as the two of the world's finest manifestations of the written word, but never likened; indeed, they are at once opposites and complements. When combined the result is an artistic piece that is a work of incredibly unique beauty, and a testimony to man's synthesizing genius.
When you have a look to the video It will seems easy doing caligraphy, but it is not. Takes many years to achieve this level. The most impressive is the style of this calligraphy, he gives us a new prespective on how we observe the arabic calligraphy. It looks strange when it is wrtten in such a freestyle way with all that writting rules but the final result is very nice.
By the way, yesterday I had my first lesson in arabic writing with Waleed Bahadi, thanks Waleed.
Wow! absolutly amazing, thanks for sharing! And congrats on the arabic writing lessons! ;)
Hi Stella, thanks for the comment! soon i will make a post of my Arabic hand writting. regards
This guy is really AMAZING! what I like the most is when he writes the Arabic sentences with the Chinese way of writing, the whole sentence is still readable.
Still Bruno, we still at the beginning. Hopefully, in the near future, you will learn how to read and write Arabic.
"ba bi bo", "ta ti to" seriously Waleed … :)
hahaha... wait till you learn the other pronunciations, you will find it really weird :P
“Amancio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes is an architect, a sculptor, a painter, and many other things. He is known familiarly to many people as Pancho Guedes. He was born in Portugal in 1925 and spent most of his very creative life in Mozambique, where he made more than 500 designs for buildings, most of them built there, but some built in Angola, in South Africa, and in Portugal. For this and other reasons he is less well known than he ought to be in the rest of the world. His exuberant, eclectic, complex and thoughtful buildings and projects have been published occasionally, but they were so far from the post-war US-led commercial multinational styles in architecture that they have not been sufficiently recognised for their quality and originality. His visual imagination absorbed every influence, from the art of Africa to the Surrealists, and synthesised them into a style which is recognisably his own, however varied the results appear at first glance. He was a post-modern 20 years before the term was invented, and he is still very active, working in Portugal now, inventing new buildings, painting and sculpting out a home on a steep hillside near Sintra in Portugal.”
Cedric Green
Amancio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes studied in Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea, Lisbon, Lourenco Marques (now Maputo), Johannesburg and Port. He founded the architecture department at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He taught at the School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon and the Lusophone University in Lisbon. Belonged to the "Team Ten", the dissident CIAM. He is the author of "Young Eyes" in Eugaria the outskirts of Sintra. Much of his work is built in Mozambique and date of the 1950 and 1960. It also has built work in South Africa. He is turning back to Africa.
The classics of the automotive industry, all worked in linoleum. Fiat 500, Volkswagen Beetle, Ford Falcon, among others, on exhibition in NAD/ Design Café.
The process consists in drawing the figure in a lino plate and then digging the lines with a gouge. The paint is spread out in the plate and, with a press, you put a paper sheet on the top of it. After pressuring, the drawing is in the paper.
In an age of mass production,Sthephem Burks ’ exhibition Man Made presented in The Studio Museum in Harlem, in New York is a welcome distraction, which makes us reconsider both the conceptual and the aesthetical value of a handmade object, or design product.
The exhibition is inspired by Burks collaboration with Senegalese basket weavers based in New York and Dakar as well as projects with artisans in South Africa, Peru and India. Basket weaving technique will be applied in a number of different objects, from tables and lamps to chairs.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, which was found in 1968, is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of African descent locally, nationally and globally. This exhibition places back on the map, the art of a handmade object and reaffirms the significance of traditional ways of designing functional and beautiful products.
Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, gives a new meaning to the word: Bombing.
We have seen the street art evolve thru the time, starting with graffiti, tagging, stencil, stickers, wallpaper, painting, etc. but this new colaboration of Alexandre Farto, Orelha Negra and Pirotec is something different.
Collector Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most exciting young contemporary artists, who work in a variety of media, drawing on their local culture for inspiration.
