LOVE & GUTS – NEW YORK
Posted by Fabio 1 July 2010
Love & Guts began in 2005 as a skate influenced art show. Five years later, the traveling exhibition made its way to New York, at the Red Bull Space in Soho. The exhibition featured skateboard icons Chad Muska, Don Pendleton, Lance Mountain, Pat Ngoho, Steve Caballero, Steve Olson, and a host of other creatives. “Eyes Wide Open” was the theme of this show, which paid tribute to the unique characters within skateboarding, who sadly, are no longer with us.
Aleksandra Domanovic
Posted by Fabio 29 June 2010
Serbian born artist Aleksandra Domanovic is a Berlin-based artist who works primarily on the internet. Shown here is a recent project of her’s Untitled (30.III.2010), printable monuments to the abolished .yu domain 3 x 7.500 page paper-stack sculpture, A4 inkjet. read more
Mike Stilkey
Posted by Fabio 29 June 2010
Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales.
www.mikestilkey.com
Roxanne Jackson
Posted by Fabio 28 June 2010
Roxanne Jackson is a sculptor based in Minneapolis, she completed an MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004, since then she has been busy creating rather sombre and grotesque pieces of art as Jackson describes herself. “I am concerned with confronting the shadows of the unconscious, having a dialogue with the grotesque and, therein, discovering beauty. read more
Mariana Monteagudo
Posted by Fabio 28 June 2010
Mariana Monteagudo creates a race of Hybrid characters that represent combinations of different cultural manifestations, from the ancestral and mysterious to the most current and derivative of mass popular culture.
Bauhaus – The Face of the 20th Centur
Posted by Fabio 28 June 2010
The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar in 1919, was largely responsible for revolutionizing the structure of art school tuition, and its basic tenets of design are now a modern commonplace. This Documentary brings together thought-provoking comment from architects, teachers, ex-students and current experts on the Bauhaus, and includes amusing anecdotes and vintage footage of the work of its founding members.
FRANCIS UPRITCHARD
Posted by Fabio 25 June 2010
London based New Zeland artist Francis Upritchard creates wonderful sculptures from simple means of materials. Here its Paul from 2009 made from modelling material, foil, wire and paint 9.5 x 57.5 x 17 cm.
The Surreal House
Posted by Fabio 25 June 2010
Exhibition runs until 12 September 2010
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
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