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Studio Drift

In 20 Steps
Amsterdam based Studio Drift has created In 20 Steps, an installation of moving glass bars, arranged in pairs and moving at different times to each other creating an impression of wings slowly flapping.In 20 Steps is a tribute to the human desire to be able to fly, despite the force of gravity and the poetry of persistence in the face of adversity. Studio Drift is intrigued by the continuous attempts of humankind to deal with its limitations, so miraculously opposed to nature as these ventures might be.

do ho suh

ДУ ХУ СА
ドーホー・スー。
서도호
specimen series refrigerator
348 West 22nd Street
Do Ho Suh est un artiste Coréen qui crée des installations spectaculaires en utilisant diverses matières et notamment le tissu polyester. Afin d’explorer les liens entre individualité et communauté, il utilise souvent le fils et le tissu pour investir l’espace. En déformant les perspectives et en jouant sur les propriétés même des matières utilisées, l’artiste met à l’épreuve notre perception de l’espace et notre place dans celui-ci. Époustouflant !

ÉTIENNE-LOUIS BOULLÉE

Cénotaphe à Newton

Boullée promoted the idea of making architecture expressive of its purpose, a doctrine that his detractors termed architecture parlante (“talking architecture”), which was an essential element in Beaux-Arts architectural training in the later 19th century. His style was most notably exemplified in his proposal for a cenotaph (a funerary monument celebrating a figure interred elsewhere) for the English scientist Isaac Newton, who 50 years after his death became a symbol of Enlightenment ideas. The building itself was a 150 m (500 ft) tall sphere, taller than the Great Pyramids of Giza, encompassed by two large barriers circled by hundreds of cypress trees. The massive and spheric shape of the building was inspired by Boullée’s own study called “theory of bodies” where he claims that the most beautiful and perfect natural body is the sphere, which is the most prominent element of the Newton Memorial. Though the structure was never built, Boullée had many ink and wash drawings engraved and circulated widely in the professional circles in 1784. The small sarcophagus for Newton is placed at the lower pole of the sphere. The design of the memorial is intended to create the effect of day and night. The night effect occurs when the sarcophagus is illuminated by the sunlight coming through the holes in the vaulting, giving the illusion of stars in the night sky. The day effect is an armillary sphere hanging in the center that gives off a mysterious glow. Thus, the use of light in the building’s design causes the building’s interior to change its appearance.

JOHN MCCRACKEN

ДЖОН МАК-КРАКЕН
约翰·麦克拉肯
ジョン·マクラッケン
Untitled (Black Block)

John McCracken (1934-2011) developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, creating the highly reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for.

CLAIRE MORGAN

Клер Морган
كلير مورجان
克莱尔·摩根
クレア·モーガン
클레어 모건
Bearing
A primera vista, estos objetos parecen estar en movimiento. Objetos que dan la sensación de caerse como en el caso de la manta fresa. La escultura de Belfast, Claire Morgan utiliza objetos naturales como plumas, frutas y flores que deja suspendidos de hilos de nylon obteniendo sensaciones de ingravidez o de parada del tiempo.

Raffaello D’Andrea and Max Dean

The Table
The Table is an autonomous robot with an automatic mechanized system able to react to unexpected movement or obstacles and to carry out one or more tasks by executing a program in a given environment. As is the case with most “prototypical” robotic works, or single editions, the basic physical components can be pre-manufactured then modified or custom built to meet specific needs. In the case of The Table, the control system and its algorithms were entirely conceived by Max Dean and Raffallo D’Andrea. All the components, including the wheels and motors, were also custom manufactured, giving the installation a unique character. The singular characteristic of this work lies in the robotic nature of the table and it’s capacity to operate in an environment specifically designed for it. For example, the shade of red painted on the floor is directly linked to the effective functioning of the camera and the control software. Also, the space lights used in the room produce a light that prevents the creation of shadows, which the software could mistakenly interpret as a physical presence.

The Chinese Room

Dan Pinchbeck, Robert Briscoe, Jessica Curry, Jacky Morgan, Nigel Carrington, Ben Andrews & Samuel Justice
Dear Esther

“A deserted island… a lost man… memories of a fatal crash… a book written by a dying explorer.”

“Dear Esther” is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional game-play the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are and why you are here. Fragments of story are randomly uncovered when exploring the various locations of the island, making each journey a unique experience.

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CÉCILE B. EVANS

lower pop installation

A prática de Cécile B Evans examina a maneira como a sociedade contemporânea valoriza as emoções. Muitas vezes desafia os valores sociais “objetivos”, regidos por padrões comumente reconhecidos e expressos em formas mutuamente acordadas, favorecendo a experiência pessoal e o subjetivo. Ela está interessada na tensão entre “o que se passa na sua cabeça, realmente, e no seu coração, realmente” (Robert Brenton e David Newman, ‘o novo Sentimentalismo’, 1964) e uma sociedade moderna que tem consistentemente tentado definir o eu -expressão em termos hierárquicos, ainda apoiada pelos efeitos democratizantes da tecnologia digital.

ISAAC CORDAL

Айзек Кордел
이삭 코달

Le belge Isaac Cordal est un artiste aux multiples facettes. Dans son projet « Bleak » il crée des sculptures en silhouette avec de petites passoires qu’il expose à la lumière pour faire apparaitre des portraits. Isaac Cordal est originaire d’espgane, il vit et travail à Bruxelles. Son dernier projet « Bleak » fait apparaitre sur le sol londonien de magnifiques visages en ombre avec la lumière des lampadaires sur des petites passoires à thé sculptées méticuleusement.

MAKOTO SEI WATANABE

K-Museum Tokion
渡辺誠が設計した共同溝展示館です。 これは、このような美しい建物を設計するための驚くべき作業の複雑さの完璧な例です。 多くの家はシンプルでミニマルなデザインに関連していますが、多くの美術館、大学、アートギャラリーなどは、K-Museumと同じくらい複雑です。 日本の建築家は、このような畏敬の念を起こさせるが安全なデザインを作るために無限の時間を費やしています。 このような建物は、現代の日本建築の実行に注入された進歩と技術的卓越性のレベルへの賛辞であり、未来の方向にうなずくことができます-イノベーションがこの指数関数的な改善の道をたどり続けるならば、 創意工夫と機能のレベルは時間とともにエスカレートします。

DEV HARLAN

Parmenides I

 

The work continues to build on a visual language rooted in ideal geometries, and a prismatic interplay of light and pattern. The cascading faceted surface carries an implied motion, rolling away from the spectator with meditative ease. This energy potential is given breath by luminescent washes which crash, ebb and flow with internal symmetry.

While best understood directly and perceptually, Dev’s work presents an infinitely reproducible formal structure and lucid logic that can be known universally without empirical knowledge. Light and projection become representative of perceptual knowledge by directly invoking temporal optical phenomenon, but a pure idealized form remains intact. It is this interplay that reproduces the sublime conflict in the viewer, who must choose to ride this crest uncertainly and find exhilaration in the balance.

OGILVY & MATHER

أوغيلفي آند ماثر
奥美
オグルビー&メイザー
오길비 & 매더
Bedroom

Philipp Artus

FLORA
L’animation dans FLORA est générée par des ondes sinusoïdales superposées qui traversent une chaîne de lignes. Ce principe d’onde apparaît souvent dans la nature lorsque l’énergie est transmise à travers un milieu comme l’eau, l’air ou simplement une corde. Elle peut également être observée dans la locomotion des animaux et des êtres humains, dans laquelle l’énergie cinétique est transmise successivement par les articulations.
L’algorithme FLORA de est basé sur la découverte qu’un simple système de lignes rotatives peut créer des variations infinies de formes abstraites – allant des lignes courbes harmonieuses aux motifs énervés et chaotiques. L’esthétique qui en résulte associe une précision de calcul à un aspect ludique organique et a tendance à déclencher diverses associations dans l’esprit du spectateur.

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Keith Lam

Realtà artificiale
L’entità “super-reale” costruita dietro la realtà virtuale, la Realtà Artificiale viene creata e copiata continuamente dal subconscio generato artificialmente, dalla proiezione, travestimento e distorsione dell’immagine reale, al travestimento che non esiste. , separato dall’immagine reale e dal fatto, diventa un mimetismo indipendente, gettato nella realtà che gli umani ancora pensano, e produce una superrealtà che è più reale della realtà, e diventa una nuova realtà. Nella realtà caotica tessuta dalla realtà originale e dall’iperreale generato artificialmente, le nostre vite saranno solo i nostri simulacri? L’iperrealismo diventerà il nuovo “surrealismo”?

IVONNE THEIN

THE MASQUERADE OF THE REAL
“I am a German artist based in Berlin working in the field of photography, video and installations. The main focus of my photographs is identity and the role of the human body within society. Image-generating media like photography, television, and film and their use in advertising and the internet impose increasing demands on the body and subject it to a process of abstraction, while at the same time leading to the emergence of a public opinion, the solidification of images as role models with gender-specific attributes.”

ROBERT GLIGOROV

Adam
Confronting a society accustomed to sophisticated and extreme forms of visual communication, Gligorov amplifies the shock value of his work in order to compete with the deluge of images that cloud our visual field.more

Hito Steyerl

Power Plants
Hito Steyerl’s series of projects at the Serpentine Galleries is positioned around ideas of ‘power’. Beginning from the premise that ‘power is the necessary condition for any digital technology’, the artist considers the multiple meanings of the word, including electrical currents, the ecological powers of plants or natural elements, and the complex networks of authority that shape our environments. She addresses the notion of power through three interrelated research strands and projects: Actual Realityos, a collectively-produced digital tool; Power Walks, a series of guided walks and a tour that draws upon conversations with campaigners, community groups and organizations in the local area surrounding the Serpentine, and finally this exhibition, Power Plants, which features new video installations created using artificial intelligence trained to predict the future.

JON RAFMAN

New Age Demanded
“Inspired by classical Greek busts, Jon Rafman uses computer software to digitally render three-dimensional forms. The forms act as the structural surface on which two-dimensional Internet-sourced images are applied. The series is presented as large-scale archival pigment digital prints. Each print is created with its own specific texture and sculptural mutation. Rafman uses historically recognizable works from canonized artists like Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky as the subjects of his appropriations.”

CARLOS CRUZ DIEZ

Die Freiheit der Farbe
Der französisch-venezolanische Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923 – 2019), eine Figur von einzigartiger Flugbahn in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, widmete sein Leben dem Studium der Farbe in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Als produktiver Künstler, Autor von Gemälden, Fotografien und Installationen entfernte er seine Kreationen nach und nach aus Formen, Anekdoten, Symbolen und sogar Zeichen, indem er radikal in die Farbe selbst eintauchte – es befreit so viel von dem dekorativen oder sekundären Aspekt in der künstlerischen Darstellung. Seine umfangreiche Arbeit wird jetzt in der Ausstellung Cruz-Diez gefeiert: Die Freiheit der Farben, Ausstellung im Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro, kuratiert von Rodrigo Villela.

Femke Agema

Ֆեմկե Ագման
फेमके एग्मा
Фемке Агема
Hutten
Femke Agema is een in Amsterdam gevestigde modeontwerper, die collecties maakt waarin mode versmelt met de beeldhouwkunst. Femke speelt graag. Ze houdt van tekenen, naaien, lachen, bouwen, dansen, lachen en dromen. Ze creëert graag collecties die de grenzen tussen sculptuur, mode en kunst vervagen.

DAMIAN ORTEGA

داميان أورتيغا
达米安·奥尔特加
דמיאן אורטגה
ダミアン·オルテガ
데미안 오르테가
ДАМИАН ОРТЕГА
This is Not a Citroen DS

Liam Young

Planet City

Planet City, by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where 10 billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture – a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge.
It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

matthew day jackson

ماثيو اليوم جاكسون
Мэтью Джексон день
axis mundi

Matthew Day Jackson creates all-encompassing works in a wide range of media that make connections between seemingly disparate themes and narratives, from Impressionist painting to the surface of the moon; art history to rap music; nuclear testing to paranormal activity. Jackson’s work also addresses his theory of the “Horriful,” the belief that everything one does has the potential to evoke both beauty and horror at the same time.