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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

London street

East London, Spitalfields, Brick Lane areas are rich in street art. This is a small sample.

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils

Made by first applying a layer of plaster then chipping/gouging back to the brickwork

http://www.alexandrefarto.com/filter/Projects

http://youtu.be/t6FU1Fvn9Nk

http://youtu.be/cG9Lv1vmqKY

Stencil artist at work

A great walking tour of the East London district http://www.alternativeldn.co.uk/

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Prism - Drawing from 1990 to 2012 - Nasjonalmuseet (Museum of Contemporary Art) Oslo

Nancy Rubins
http://www.gagosian.com/news/2012/03/05/409

Jorinde Voigt

http://jorindevoigt.com/

Pierre Lionel Matte

http://youtu.be/KMGPJvP5MvM

http://www.plmatte.no/

Kjell Varvin

http://varvinart.blogspot.co.uk/

Zhang Chun Hong

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/hair-drawings-and-installations-by-hong-chun-zhang

http://www.artbabble.org/video/npg/artist-zhang-chun-hong-national-portrait-gallery

http://www.booooooom.com/2010/04/06/hair-drawings-by-artist-hong-chun-zhang/

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Istanbul Art

Art is all around you through history in Istanbul. Some old and then some contemporary in this post.

A city that connects east and west, Europe and Asia. Built across large expanses of waterways. Numerous famous mosques on the distant hill.

Hagia Sophia interior

Mosaics in Chora church (Kariye Museum), an ancient roman building dating from 11 Century.

Topkapi Palace, Harem

Contemporary border design detail

Arter Gallery - Mona Hatoum http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/

Kapan 2012

Daybed 2008 and Grater Divide 2002

Deep Throat 1996

3 -D Cities 2008-10

Dirimart Gallery - Franz Ackermann http://www.dirimart.org/

This is the local art teachers house, the one who has spent all his money on travel at the expense of home maintenance

Monday, May 7, 2012

Istanbul

Istanbul is a visually rich city, here are some photographs of the old city during a food tour (highly recommended) http://istanbuleats.com/about/

Buying breakfast roll

Breakfast in a backroom of the coffee merchant

Spice market

Kitchen wares street

Lunch

The boys at Safa

Pide master

Grill master, particularly eggplant

This shop only sells peppers, both fresh and dried

Late afternoon drink 'boza' , made from femented millet. Tastes a little like a lemon curd

The whole block buys this mans freshly made flatbread

Night Kabab crawl

Monday, April 16, 2012

Clement Bagot

Winner of the Drawing Now Prize, Paris 2012
http://clementbagot.com/index_flash.html
http://www.sculpturespace.org/bagot/

Friday, October 28, 2011

LAM TUNG-PANG, Past Continuous Tense, 2011, charcoal and pencil on plywood.

In Past Continuous Tense (2011), Lam Tung-pang uses unconventional media to tackle a seldom explored subject in Chinese ink painting: the forest fire. With charcoal on plywood, Lam depicts a forest blaze, with collapsing trees, by combining rubbing, erasure and burning to allude to humanity’s destruction of the natural environment. While the seasonal cycle of nature is a recurrent theme in traditional Chinese painting, the ruined landscape can symbolize war, human resilience to natural disaster and nature’s ability to regenerate. While refusing to be labeled a traditional artist, Lam references centuries old East Asian painting traditions, sourcing images of trees from Korean, Japanese and Chinese painting manuals dating from the 10th century to the present—to illustrate the ever relevant, equivocal relationship between humans and nature.

http://www.artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/VisionOfNatureLostFoundInAsianContemporaryArt

http://www.lamtungpang.com/pages/home.php