scott avery

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Amy Commins

Amy goes global! Art and Science Journal
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/tagged/amy-commins

Really interesting work. Also http://amycommins.com

Friday, September 14, 2012

18th Biennale of Sydney

2012

Peter Robinson NZ

Polystyrene
http://bos18.com/artist?id=91

Sachiko Abe - Japan

Cut Papers #13

Mesmerising performance of ultra fine paper cutting.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=13

Adam Cvijanovic - USA
The River

http://bos18.com/artist?id=34

Nipan Oranniwesna - Thailand

Numerous maps cut and placed over one another.
Also a work with talcum powder, see weblink below

http://bos18.com/artist?id=35

Binh Danh - Vietnam/USA

Chlorophyll prints of archival images from the Vietnam-American War on tropical leaves

http://bos18.com/artist?id=38

Lyndal Jones - Australia

Rehearsing Catastrophe: The Ark in Sydney

This work was contained within a large building where you could not go in, only walk around the outside. Also you could not see in past the boat like bow but the sounds of construction could be heard.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=64

Gao Rong - China

The static eternity

What appears as an interior with ordinary furniture etc is in fact a life size construction of fabric over wire with colour, pattern, photographs, stains, text, cracks etc all being meticulous embroidery.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=49

Philip Beesley - Canada

Hylozoic Series: Sibyl

Interactive, kinetic light sculptures

http://bos18.com/artist?id=22

Yuken Teruga - Japan/USA

Notice - Forest: Japanese McDonald's, 2005

Packaging with paper cut and constructed forms

http://bos18.com/artist?id=112

Liang Quan - China

Ancestors Sea, 2010
Ink, colour and rice paper collage on linen

http://bos18.com/artist?id=81

Monday, July 30, 2012

Paris

A beautiful city full of interesting history and contemporary experiences

Gerhard Richter Panorama at Centre Pompidou
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/

abstract painting detail

Gerhard Richter

Luka Fineisen
Installation work in cafe of Galeri Rouge

http://www.lamaisonrouge.org/spip.php?lang=en

Farhad Moshiri
See God in Everyone

Keyrings

Galeri Perrotin

http://www.perrotin.com/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions.html

Farhad Moshiri

Knives left and bead paintings above

Joana Vasconcelos
Palace of Versailles 2012

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/21867/joana-vasconcelos-at-versailles.html

Joana Vasconcelos

Palace of Versailles

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Belgium

Brussels

Bruges

Ghent

Ghent - curious sign!

Oostend - part of a sculpture by the sea festival, Beaufort04, sculpture by Marina Abramovic

Brussels - Art Nouveau house

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Manifesta9 - Genk, Belgium

Christian Boltanski 1997
Archive of old tin boxes covered with the photos and registration numbers of the miners who once worked at the exhibition site - an old coal mine

Detail of above

Drawing machine using algorithms of original interior decorative details found in the old coal administration building. A constantly changing pattern results, printed with charcoal and hung

Europe exports vast quantities of its waste. Chinese artist Ni Haifeng has reversed the process by first importing waste fabric from China and also reversing the manufacturing process by using the scraps to make the artwork. Spectators are able to sew sections and join to the large hanging