· SCULPTURE ·
Ron Gilad’s “Spaces”Isreali born, New York based artist Ron Gilad is fascinated with philosophizing about the common objects we live with. His latest body of work “Spaces” deals most directly with architecture. A series of coffee tables, for example, resemble line drawings of houses in three dimensions. Based on plans found online, each is made from a [...]
· PHOTOGRAPHY ·
Nonspace by Emily GrundonThis project by photography student Emily Grundon highlights what she calls “Unspaces”, spaces created solely through her framing. Because I am so graphically inclined as well, I too often notice the inappreciable lines, like corners meeting with interesting shadows and the effect of light on the most trivial of places. I can really appreciate the [...]
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Frank Hülsbömer’s “The Fiction of Science”German photographer Frank Hülsbömer has made a trademark for himself by delivering scientific and conceptually minimalistic art to various international magazines. Reminiscent of the abstract photography of Moholy-Nagy, his work indicates the recent rediscovery of abstraction and geometrical work in contemporary art.
· ART, FEATURED ·
Kjell Varvin : “Multiplying Variations”Norwegian artist Kjell Varvin is well known for his installations which I would describe as constructed geometric minimalism. The artist takes found objects and creates temporary ways to make them coexist in a kind of “vulnerable harmony”.
· SCULPTURE ·
Simon Schubert’s ArtWorks on Paper Simon Schubert has the ability to create colorful emotions without the use of color. Texture and shape are Schubert’s language of communicating through a gray scale of visual imagery within a world defined by paper, sculpture, and installation. The world he creates shows a fantasized bleakness comparable to a Tim Burton perversity, [...]
· MUSIC ·
Song of the Day : [12/04]Max Richter : On the Nature of Daylight There is a reason a genre by the name of ‘classical’ exists; it sincerely is music classic in nature, indisputably relevant and engaging within and beyond all eras. Max Richter‘s The Blue Notebooks, though said to muse over “the impermanent nature of things,” ironically is a permanent fixture in one’s musical [...]
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Agatha Nitecka’s PhotographyPhotographer Agatha Nitecka has a very minimal yet extremely sensual style that is depicted throughout her photography. She has a few stop motion videos which are based on very interesting messages particularly the one below. I am also drawn to the moodiness of her photographic series.