The 2010 Poppy Appeal ‘2 Minute Silence’ music video by Matthew Donaldson
Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010
Featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and a host of other celebrities including Mark Ronson and Plan B. The Royal British Legion chose 2AM‘s Matthew Donaldson to direct the first ever silent single ‘2 Minute Silence’ which aims to make chart history on Remembrance Sunday. read more
Erin Shirreff
Posted by Fabio 28 October 2010
Erin Shirreff lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA from Yale University (2005) and a BFA from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Recent exhibitions include Knight’s Move at Sculpture Center in Queens, Terminus Ante Quem at Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, and a two-person show in the Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.
Erin Shirreff
HERCZEG & KAEHR
Posted by Fabio 27 October 2010
The artistic duo Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. In their series Explosion, they built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. In this way, they were able to capture motion and time in a split second of an explosion. read more
Dana Schutz
Posted by Fabio 26 October 2010
Some of Dana Schutz’ early images, painted about a decade ago, told the story of Frank, the last man on earth; other pictures showed people eating their own bodies; a few dealt directly with political or overtly social issues. Her flamboyant style, which frequently makes references to art history, and especially to the history of figurative painting, is colourful, gestural, and visceral.
www.danaschutz.com
Jacopo Benassi
Posted by Fabio 25 October 2010
“The Ecology of Images” is the first, ambitious, intense publishing project from communication agency 1861 United: 445 images with the unmistakable signature of italian artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi from La Spezia.
PLAN B
Posted by Fabio 22 October 2010
Plan B opened in September 2005 in Cluj, the main city of the Romanian province of Transylvania. Initiated by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie, Plan B functions as a production space for contemporary art; at the same time it is a research center focusing on the Romanian art of the last 50 years, by revealing works of remarkable artists without previous international exposure. Photograph shown here is by artist Alexandra Croitoru.
www.plan-b.ro
Amir Zainorin
Posted by Fabio 22 October 2010
Malaysian artist Amir Zainorin believes that humour is a powerful tool to get his message accross. He states that ‘I like using ready mades images and objects in my work to channel my thoughts and ideas, and most often humor comes along with it to make things a bit lighter.’
Hadieh Shafie
Posted by Fabio 21 October 2010
Hadieh Shafie was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983. Although Shafie works in a variety of media, the fundamental aspects of process, repetition and time appear throughout her work. To create her scroll pieces, Shafie marks strips of paper with Farsi text and rolls them in concentric circles.
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