In the last few years, a lot of new materials are creating interest in the design world, showing us how the industry is trying to invest in the idea of non-waste, natural materials, recycling and upcycling. Therefore, a lot of designers are trying to push themselves, leaving aside more traditional technologies and materials, and using…
French artist Théo Mercier rummages through history with a considerate and well meaning irreverence that congeals as unstable sculptures, eager cabinets of curiosities and fractured images.
Flattened time, with all the comforting moments squeezed out. Time laughing and in its tumbling loosing its polyped folds. Ground-down-to-powder time, floating uneasily. What snaked its way across multiple…
Mauricio Limón (Mexico) explores societal issues such as desire structures and artifices of power by employing audiovisual media, anthropological research and re-purposed modernistic styles. There is a conscious use of fragmentation, disassociation and dislocation in order to look for overarching structures hidden in simple gestures and seemingly empty landscapes.
Dispersal and obfuscation scalpel-sharp. They open…
The sculptural vocabulary of Japanese artist Masatoshi Noguchi is rich with the splendor of objects and the invisible energies of the spiritual. His latest work is a reflection on the impossibility of constraining a dragon to one shape.
Compel the initiate towards recklessness by any illusions necessary. Recite the memorized figures of burning bliss, tell…
Dutch artist Yair Callender uses notions of monumentality and architecture in order to question and infuse them with the vitality of imperfection and mystery.
A life contained but not constrained. Propped up to new heights, not monumental, simply aerial. It surges to a floating middle ground where the voices of birds and seeds are…
An attunement to the finesses of disintegrating shapes and the constant intermix of apparatuses, subject and spirit distinguish the practice of German artist Raphaela Vogel.
Tatters and the thinking of tatters. The impulse to become said tatters and the desire to lick them as they flow in the wind. Scorn is also felt but then,…
Not only testing but actually mutating the limits between video game design, literature, performance, installation and whatever else reaches it, the work of Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev is a hymn to constant vertiginous change.
Contained in its own form, as a gesture, developing in contact with air, and as it moves and acts its essence,…
To take rejection and turn it into a labor of love and craftsmanship is a veritable challenge, but US artist Gina Dawson takes it head on and in doing so she creates work that is both cheerful and melancholic.
Came so suddenly, in its downward flow dragged it all away. There was the piled up trash, it…
Gathering pieces of machines, mass produced objects and images of ethereal landscapes and ephemeral daily life scenes, Anna Solal from France suggests portals to other worlds and melodies for rituals composed by bike chains.
The board where the game is played is ages long. Each cubicle is assembled through fortuitous assemblages of forgotten crumbles under…
A skillful builder of cracks and pits for History and over rationalized theorizing, Theo Michael from Greece crafts a world of forbidden idols and holy irreverence.
Ah yes the holy grotto! Out of the hole come: the fire, wooden wheels trampling over grasslands, the wailing, we do not foresee an end to that wailing. And…