Spectacular, controversial, invasive: the services in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, known as the Unilever Series, always chatting to their impact on the public. The choice was taken by surprise the world of Balka which is certainly an actor, known for the sobriety of its way of operating. Hair, ashes, soap are some of the materials that prefers its strict installations that recall a historical memory of collective suffering, which is closely linked to the dramatic events of the Holocaust. On the Guardian, the critic Adrian Searle Balka defines as an ideal choice for the next installation of the Tate Modern, accustomed to the facilities and strict temperate of Balka is certainly interesting to see how the artist will compare with the enormity of space in London, with the knowledge that a presence-absence can upset more than anything spectacular.
Read moreLabels: Balka, London, Tate Modern
Ivan, urban poet, on display at Space Oberdan in Milan
Often, walking for Milan in a difficult day, meet the sentences of Ivan, urban poet, can tear a smile when you least the aspects. Its contribution in the exhibition "Street Art, Sweet Art", held at Pac in Milan in 2007 has emerged as one of the most attractive items in the urban landscape of Milan.
The confirmation comes with the staff "Viva Poetry" to be held from February 13 to 15 March 2009 Area Oberdan in Milan within project "Five Easy Pieces", an plan dedicated to five emerging artists and their debut with Ivan.
The editor Jacopo Perfetti began well in the display catalog: "Ivan is a romantic poet with an artistic sensibility that dissolves in its production, outside and inside the road, with explosive energy that falls in line with our desire to bring poetry to all, because everyone has the right to live.”
Read moreLabels: art, Ivan, Milan, Oberdan, Perfetti, urban poet
Street Art, Entertainment and Pop Art: Steve Powers
Steve Powers are an artist capable of combine words and pictures so smart and sophisticated. Born in Philadelphia, lives in New York since 1994 and has been one of the most famous American street artist. Powers is also the author of the book And the Art of Getting Over, a real bible of Graffiti Art with photographs, sketches and interviews documenting the scene in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and many others. And two-dimensional color images are accompanied by slogans but sharp ironic that exorcise contemporary neuroses. A staff sees the protagonist in these days at Alice Gallery in Brussels is eloquently titled "Semaphores of the Soul" and will be visible until March 7.
Read moreLabels: American street, Brussels, photographs, Steve
Best collection of Yves Saint Laurent auction at Christie's
As predictable by queerblog, the art collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent will auction February 23 in the unusual setting of Grand Palais in Paris. Six months after the death of a companion of life and business, Pierre Berge has resolute to sell entire set is not for money, insurance, but because without this Yves has no more reason to live.
And the occasion is enormous, because with its 733 pieces it is the largest group of a single owner not at all went to sale. And a fashion collection built according to criteria of pure excellence because it is "better to have an empty wall that an object, a mediocre".
The words of Saint Laurent says a lot about the quality and selection of works ranging from Greece to masters such as Picasso, Mondrian, Matisse and many others. The collection is expected to 400 million euros. For those wishing to see the estimates or even make a trip in the history of art and decoration, the catalog is available on the website of Christie's.
Read moreLabels: art, Christie's, Palais, queerblog, Yves Saint Laurent
Children of poor Yoshimoto Nara
In Japan and are popular gadgets of his creations can be found in shops of the most important museums of contemporary art from around the world: this is Yoshimoto Nara, Japanese artist trained in Tokyo.
His illustrations have begun to collect success around the nineties due to their naive charm. His creations depict children adorable but disturbing, and often imbricate weapon as scissors and knives. Although Nara reiterates non-aggressive nature of his subjects, they are somehow threatening to the contrast between the innocence with which images are made and the dark loneliness that marks their expressions.
Read moreLabels: gadgets, Japanese artist, Tokyo, Yoshimoto Nara
Pop Porn 3rd group
The show, combining new contemporary art forms, has a real mission, described very clearly by Ilaria Aquili, the curator of the couple to save and preserve our fantasies. Nothing is real, everything passes through the frustration of a desperate daily silent: in the heart of the home, revisited so mischievous and provocative, is the home, woman-object for excellence, played by artists and artists, is enriched his space breaking the pattern of interpretation. Even marriage and behavior of couples come under attack from the exhibition, this time trapped in a set photo set for the occasion by a photographer of fashion-fetish scene.
Read moreLabels: art, fashion-fetish, Ilaria Aquili, Pop Porn
Masters of deceit Dennis Mercury
It 'just comes out for the Vallardi, this good-looking book by Dennis Mercury, entitled The masters of deception. This is best review of the affairs of some of the greatest forgers of history, which, faithfully reproducing works of art, precious objects, archaeological or simply claiming to others, have managed to fool experts and buyers more or not naive.
Read moreLabels: deceit, Dennis Mercury, Meegeren, ominide, Vallardi
Coca-Cola Italia
The relationship between Coca-Cola and the world of art has always been very close: on one hand the company has often used illustrators and designers leading to their campaigns but are many cases where the bottle, trademark, can be found in works by famous artists. From now to the long list of famous names have been supplemented by another one of the most internationally famous of Italian photography, Giovanni Gastel, has worked this year with Coca-Cola, creating some exclusive shots of the products and brands with interpreting the its objective.
Read moreLabels: Coca-Cola, Giovanni Gastel, Italia, world of art
Furla Prize 2009 winner Alberto Tadiello
Tadiello score has turned into a very low frequency sound developments tidal Venetian, which has left the motion of a drill, connected to a compass and a pen, draw fractals signs, installed a circuit wall striduli carillon motorized and accelerated Rated to an entropic death. A work of biology and technology.
The panel has justified the award of the prize:
For the purely functional value and also of structural.
The fact that his project is to feel the physical presence and intangible sound causing tension vital.
The ability to make poetically expresses under the hidden power of reality.
Because of its size as an artist who leaves inventor imagine a future full of new creative ideas.
For the power to absorb and revive the energy system of the parasite and the fact that it comes in very high as a mountain climber.
Giovanni Segantini as saying: "I want to see my mountains."
The projects of the five finalists are exhibited at the Art Hall 20 First Art Fair until tomorrow January 26.
Labels: 2009, Alberto Tadiello, arts, biology, carillon
Siena exhibition designed by Sgarbi
This is a best art and the born from an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi, exhibition for prime time to examine, through 300 works, the complex association between creative production and mental disorders, key moment in history of art.
The route, separated into eight sections, is developed in chronological order, starting with exclusion and the salvation of the craziest of the medieval time. The second door on scene of 9 Messerschmidt busts, born under Saturn, according to Watchtower, in the second half of the eighteenth century was famed grimaces its folly and the universal.
Read moreLabels: art, chronological, Siena, Vittorio Sgarbi
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