Metropolis II
Posted by Thorbjorn 15 January 2012
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture by Californian artist Chris Burden, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one 6 lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. Currently exhibited at LACMA.
Copenhagen Ceramics
Posted by Thorbjorn 9 January 2012
In a series of 10 consecutive exhibitions in a new gallery space in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 19 ceramics artists have got the opportunity to show the present state of their work through unexpected constellations of artists and concepts. The fairly rough exhibition space provides great artistic license to new experimental ideas. The show opened 5th January and will run through 2012.
Carol Bove
Posted by Thorbjorn 8 January 2012
Carol Bove (born 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a New York City based artist and collector. Her work includes drawings and installations which concern the social, political, and artistic movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Shown here is Untitled from 2009. Peacock feathers on linen, 99.1 x 61 x 12.7 cm
Tele-Present Water
Posted by Thorbjorn 7 December 2011
This installation by David Bowen draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. www.dwbowen.com
The Sword Maker
Posted by Fabio 22 November 2011
Korehira Watanabe is one of the last remaining Japanese swordsmiths. He has spent 40 years honing his craft in an attempt to recreate Koto, a type of sword that dates back to the Heian and Kamakura periods (794-1333 AD). Directed by Takeshi Fukunaga.
Ximena Garrido Lecca
Posted by Thorbjorn 23 August 2011
Walls of Progress: Materiales de Construccion from 2011 by Ximena Garrido Lecca. Ximena Garrido-Lecca was born in Lima, 1980 and has lived and worked in London since 2001. She completed an MA Fine Arts (2004) and a Post-Graduate Diploma (2002) at Byam Shaw School of Art, as well as a BA at Universidad Catolica del Peru. Her work has been shown in Peru, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Natureza em Risco
Posted by Fabio 8 August 2011
…As we walk past it, will grow a “diary” of the garden, superimposing spontaneous and arbitrary records, productively artistic through the action of the wind on the rods with markers attached to their ends which will operate like a wind printer of the intervention of viewers ready to interact with them, thus creating a drawing of their journey. read more
Paa Joe
Posted by Thorbjorn 5 August 2011
Paa Joe was born in 1945 in the Akwapim hills north-east of Accra. The foremost sculpted coffin maker of his generation, Paa Joe apprenticed with Kane Kwei – who is credited with beginning the 20th century tradition of figurative coffins. Paa Joe’s work is held in museum collections around the world including the British Museum in London.
Features
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One of our latest additions to Citylikeyou is Mylinh Trieu Nguyen who is a designer based in Miami. She currently is the Art Director at The Wolfsonian-FIU, a museum of design and art in the heart of Miami Beach.
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The list of cities and places recommended by creatives worldwide for Citylikeyou keeps growing: Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin, Cape Town, Chicago, Copenhagen...
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