Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese artist based in Berlin who has turned thread installations into her own unique way of expressing feelings towards human concerns in life. She explores human existence through various dimensions by creating an ‘existence in the absence’. Her large-scale static performances are played by one main character, the thread.
The art objects by Stockholm based Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez are best known for their extraordinary shapes. The artist focuses on designing systems and developing tools and processes for producing products and objects.
An urge to escape a chaotic city with its tiresome working days does not necessarily mean that you have to opt for a quiet and dull country house. There are plenty of other options to spend your weekends out of the city, and some of them stand out not only from their natural landscapes but from the architectural one as well.
“Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. Other terms for this type of art include “independent public art”, “post-graffiti”, and “neo-graffiti”, and is closely related with guerrilla art” is what Wikipedia says. What it doesn’t say, is how much more there is to explore within this “unsanctioned” way of expressing oneself.
They say time is like a flowing river, and that anyone glancing at a waterfall forgets about the passing of time. The indoor waterfalls that we are inviting you to glance at, represent the most spectacular ways of using water to entertain the public.
When one comes to think of the extraordinary power art has over us, it often comes down to whether the message that artists implant into their work resonate with our view of the world. And if it does, some art pieces not just pause us for a few moments but linger in our minds for much longer.
This time the Unesco World Heritage Site, London’s Royal Botanical Kew Gardens, are occupied with awe-inspiring creations which in a way resemble alien plants from the outer space. These are glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly. Some of them have never been exhibited in the United Kingdom before. The exposition Chihuly: Reflections on Nature includes large-scale installations, sculptural works and drawings, reflecting the artist’s 50-year-long career.
Human beings are inseparably connected to nature on every level, including the creative one. The connection is so strong that any form of art is unthinkable without the nature featured in it. Yet what unusual ways do today’s artists use to recreate their favourite images of nature?
Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. The studio is based in New York and is led by four partners—Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin.
Modern architects often strive to imbue their works with natural power and manage to sustain the life of green plants literally inside concrete constructions.
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