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Charles Long’s Outdoor Sculptures at Madison Square ParkBY Amanda Jakubik / May 11 12 @ 9:22 AM
If you’re in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan be sure to take a stroll through Madison Square Park, where artist Charles Long has created Pet Sounds, a large scale, interactive, mixed media installation. ...
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Cai Guo Qiang: Gunpowder and ExplosivesBY Michele Llanos / Apr 29 12 @ 11:32 AM
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. As a boy, he was exposed early on to Western literature from his father Cai Ruiqin, who worked in ...
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Jacob Hashimoto’s Ephemeral InstallationsBY Katrina Tan / Apr 27 12 @ 8:33 AM
Jacob Hashimoto‘s ephemeral installations, often done in an overall soft white hue and constructed from light rice paper, intend to simulate nature. This is showcased in two of his site-specific installations—Superabundant Atmosphere and Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness—where the
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Baptiste Debombourg’s AerialBY Katrina Tan / Apr 24 12 @ 12:21 PM
Baptiste Debombourg, of staple art fame, has just released his latest work: Aerial. “The mind is everything. The material is the servant of spiritual,” is the simple description of the site-specific installation now at the Abbey Brauweiler in Germany, which took 420 hours and two tons of glass to accomplish. The French artist is known [...]
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Marco Casagrande’s SandwormBY Katrina Tan / Apr 11 12 @ 11:21 AM
While most architects like to put their work out where more people can see it, Marco Casagrande constructed Sandworm, his 45-meter long, 10-meter wide installation on the dunes of the ...
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Beverly Semmes’ Surreal InstallationsBY Ani Tzenkova / Apr 06 12 @ 11:01 PM
Artist Beverly Semmes has shown her work in museums all around the world. She first won attention with her monumental dresses and other large-scale clothing that powerfully invoked the female body and touched on gender and feminism. Semmes explores the power of clothing and its ability to influence and define who we are.
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Zilvinas Kempinas’ Site Specific InstallationsBY Kathryn Chadason / Apr 05 12 @ 11:54 AM
Zilvinas Kempinas was born in Lithuania in 1969 and has been living and working in New York City ever since. He completed his MFA at Hunter college in 2002 and since then has begun to develop an international reputation. Kempinas creates site specific installations using materials such as unspooled video tape in order to
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Babak Golkar’s InstallationsBY Cyril Foiret / Apr 23 12 @ 6:13 AM
Mostly known for his ‘Negotiating Space‘ installations where he installed skyscraper models over Persian carpets, the Canada-based Iranian artist Babak Golkar‘s practice spreads across diverse medium, ranging from drawing, video, performance, sculpture and site-specific installation; nonetheless, his interests in subjects and issues surrounding his practice remain constant. While employing engagement strategies such as humor and [...]
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Esther Stocker’s Geometric InstallationsBY Katrina Tan / Apr 04 12 @ 9:30 AM
In addition to painting on the usual canvas, Esther Stocker creates her minimal abstract work on entire rooms and structures. The Italian artist has been creating her black and white installations and wall works since 2001, which have been exhibited all over the world. Esther uses stark geometric lines to create