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May 2008
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Posted by sabine7 Meta | May 17, 2008
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Brooklyn photog Parris Whittingham teams up with New Delhi graphic designer Archan Nair to create wonderfully vivid compositions that combine the two genres. Via Josh Spear.
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Jan Vormann does restoration work outside Rome with colourful Lego bricks – the contrast is bound to elicit raised eyebrows if not outright smiles. Via Play Me Design.
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"Overweight"
Posted by sabine7 Exhibition | May 16, 2008
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James Marshall, also known by his street art name of Dalek, is featured in his only solo exhibition of 2008 at Irvine Contemporary in Washington. Marshall, a formidable artist in his own right, was also an assistant in Takashi Murakami’s studio in 2001-2002. His new compositions are chock full of highly-saturated colour and a kaleidoscope of shapes, psychedelic fantasy worlds of rainbows and sharp edges. The Technicolor geometry evokes a futuristic landscape, full of movement and action and hidden players.


Artist: James Marshall (Dalek)
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"Bicycles"
Posted by sabine7 Illustration | May 15, 2008
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We’ve featured Samantha Hahn’s illustrations before, but now this New York-based artist has a line of illustrative patterns perfect for surfaces and textiles. The all-over designs cover a variety of themes that range from the quite girlie (perfumes, shoes and charms) to naturalistic (think honeycombs, seashells and butterflies) to household (bookshelves, skeleton keys and bicycles). The colourways are original and enticing – very easy to picture on just about anything.


Artist: Samantha Hahn
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"Love =Love"
Posted by sabine7 Exhibition | May 14, 2008
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Kent Rogowski has taken flowers and skies from a variety of puzzles within a series to mix and match for the photos in his Love = Love collection. Although each puzzle piece is unique, the same shapes do recur with the brand, so new variations can be created. Rogowski’s results are surreal interpretations of an already artificial world. There is chaos, but within the framework of the puzzles’ edge pieces it is kept under control.


Artist: Kent Rogowski
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"Pez"
Posted by sabine7 Photography | May 13, 2008
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Doing this post is like being a kid in a candy store. Well, a kid on a budget. Craig Kanarick’s eye candy is exactly that: colourful photography that can only make us drool. From colour-themed collections to soft-focus Pez, these sugary shots are pin-up worthy. The tone ranges from all out fun to arty, and choosing a favorite is impossible. There is something for every mood.


Artist: Craig Kanarick
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"Whitechapel Road"
Posted by sabine7 Mixed Media | May 12, 2008
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Miranda Donovan’s art is a mix of urban street art, painting and sculpture. Her current exhibition, Lost World of Innocence, features three-dimensional pieces of painting and graffiti on layers of brickwork made up of cement, plaster, sand and paint. Donovan focuses on techniques used by street artists, as well as their outlooks and points of view. Her use of street signs and other identifiers such as telephone booths provides a recognizable connection to the urban landscape, forcing the viewer to take a more realistic view of the surroundings.


Artist: Miranda Donovan
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Sculpture Today
Posted by sabine7 Books | May 11, 2008
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Sculpture Today is a hefty tome on contemporary sculpture over the past fifty years by Judith Collins. The chapters are arranged thematically and a lot is said about inspiration in the form of the body, light, colour, nature and architecture. Over 500 illustrations highlight the variety of materials and techniques used in this genre of contemporary art that engages by occupying actual space. It is this use of space that allows sculpture to be so diverse in its many forms and to escape set boundaries.


Hardcover, 464 pages. Phaidon, 2007. $44.07 at Amazon.

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Art MoCo Meta
Posted by sabine7 Meta | May 10, 2008
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Zune Arts presents a new Mother’s Day video by Yves Geleyn, with music from the Bird and the Bee.
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We discovered a couple of Swedish illustrators and artists, Cassandra Rhodin and Amanda Mendiant, today via Husmusen.
"Metá Mattino 15"
Posted by sabine7 Mixed Media | May 9, 2008
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We came across Erika Calesini’s work, which can be described as sculpture on canvas, at the Milano Bedding stand at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, great big canvases with smashed bicycles amidst many sofas and beds. An upturned bicycle, a mishmash of parts, was actually a lamp, and Teresa’s groceries protruded from the basket of another bike. All mauve, white and grey, but Calesini’s bicycle series covers many more colours on the spectrum.


Artist: Erika Calesini
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"Block"
Posted by sabine7 Exhibition | May 8, 2008
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Block: Turkish Marble Meets Design was an exhibition curated by Murat Patavi and held in the Milan’s Design Library in Zona Tortona during design week. Eighteen designers of international renown created work using Turkish marble, originally from the island of Marmara. These contemporary pieces vary tremendously in scope. Matali Crasset’s vanity shelf is framed by a giant robot-like figure, and Paola Navone gives us a marble sofa. Jurgen Bey created marble packaging for a hair dryer and an iron, and above we have detail from a divider by Marco Kogan. More after the jump by Konstantin Grcic, Michael Young and Simon Heijdens.


Artists: various
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"Helica"
Posted by sabine7 Ceramics | May 7, 2008
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The Helica Carnea ceramic “flower” by Anouk Omlo was featured at the Design Factory Brainport Eindhoven in Milan’s Zona Tortona. The Helica is a handmade bloom of 72 pyramids on a base, inspired by Fibonacci spirals and the Golden Ratio. The result is an impressive piece of art and design that evokes plant life on the ground and in the sea. The delicate pink and the gentle curves of the petals offset the sharp points and bold presence of Omlo’s Helica.


Artist: Anouk Omlo
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