Marine Hugonnier‘s newspaper color-blocking covers were another great discovery from Art Basel. The French artist, who lives in London created most of her cutouts from Ellsworth Kelly’s book “Line Form Color” for “Art for Modern Architecture”, her ongoing project since 2004 in which she investigates the role of the image by pasting color-block collages on the newspaper front page images. (...) Read More about Marine Hugonnier’s Newspaper Colorblock (5 words)

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Luiz Zerbini‘s artwork was a very pleasant discovery for us during Art Basel Miami. The Brazilian artist, apparently one of Latin America’s most respected contemporary artists, was represented by Max Wigram Gallery. We immediately fell in love with his large slide frame collages with gelatine and adhesive. There is very little information about him online, so thank god we snapped a few shots of his work ourselves for our archive! (...) Read More about Luiz Zerbini’s Slide Frame Collages (247 words)

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At first glance artist Marjan Teeuwen’s series Archief appears to be something very different than it really is. Marjan Teeuwen started out painting until she developed this concept of piling up spaces. She experimented with this theme using various media – drawing, building installations, photography and videos based on these architectural interventions. Initially, her installations were limited to the area of her house and studio, (...) Read More about Marjan Teeuwen’s Archief Series (55 words)

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I came across Berlin-based artist Ignacio Uriarte’s work at Art Basel and quickly became fascinated by the story behind the work and the artist. Before quitting his day job to become a full-time artist Uriarte worked in business administration, but his transition into art did not veer to far from his daily regimen. Instead he reconfigured the mundane rhythms of administrative activity into (...) Read More about Ignacio Uriarte’s Office Art (462 words)

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During Miami Art last week I discovered the fascinating sculptures of Enrique Gomez de Molina. Using the parts of once-living animals, de Molina hopes to bring awareness to the danger faced by a multitude of species: nuclear and chemical waste, over development and deforestation, to name a few. Genetic engineering and human intervention also accounts for the conceptualization (...) Read More about Enrique Gomez de Molina’s Taxidermy Hybrids (55 words)

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The Lexus Fashion Workshop tasks designers with reusing car parts – The four fashion designers (recruited by Lexus) who worked on the collection were Moss Lipow, Eddie Borgo, John Patrick and Alejandro Ingelmo, whose eyewear, jewelry, clothing and shoes will be featured in a six-page advert in Vogue, along with a display at Art Basel Miami Beach. These pieces will be (...) Read More about Reusing Car Parts For The Lexus Fashion Workshop (140 words)

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Most vending machines reluctantly dispense Dr. Peppers and Doritos. The apparatus at the Mondrian South Beach, however, would never condescend to offer you a soda. Instead, a space age wall that looks more like a Shu Uemura store front greets unsuspecting guests in the cavernous lobby. Unless you have a(...) Read More about The Vending Machine of Dreams (104 words)

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On the theme of Supermodel career timeline’s I bring to you, The Naomi Campbell 50 – Photo’s Exhibition at Art Photo Expo Miami during Art Basel. Campbell herself will be on hand tonight to unveil the show in a temporarily converted public parking lot. “It’s an honor to have your timeline in your career mapped out, and to be asked to (...) Read More about Naomi Campbell Photo Career Spanning Photo Exhibit : Art Basel (39 words)

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Futbol seems to have been a big theme at Art Basel in Germany this round. With the European Championship about to hit, there quite some art dedicated to the sport. SHOWstudio partners with NIKE to challenge established and emerging artists, designers and creatives to devise new work inspired by the relationship between art and football.(...) Read More about Art + Futbol (258 words)

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