ART FRONT GALLERY. Museum's Wildlife Exhibits Extend Into Observation Area. In this series of site-specific installations, entitled Habitat, artist Alois Kronschlaeger blurs the boundaries between museum exhibits and the area from which a viewer observes each exhibit.
To create each piece, Kronschlaeger altered 27 constructed habitats, located in the Mammal Hall of the former Grand Rapids Public Museum, by interrupting the artificial landscapes with contemporary architecture. He used plexiglass, carpeting, plaster, and ceiling tiles to transform the dioramas into modern works of art, often extending materials beyond the enclosed display areas. The results created a strange experience where visitors found themselves unusually close to the historic animals and their habitats, which are typically only found behind protective glass.
Kronschlaeger says, "I explored what happens in an environment when overlaying a geometric abstraction onto representational yet 'virtual' spaces. Alois Kronschlaeger's website via [not shaking the grass] The false memory archive. Have you ever been lost in a shopping mall as a kid?
Gone to Disneyland and shook Mickey's hand? You probaby just imagined it. False memories, in which you believe an imagined or distorted memory to be fact, are more common than people think. They constitute a neurological no man's land where the brain's creative capacity for reimagination collides with the grotesque flotsam of the subconscious, creating a memory that blurs the line between real and unreal. For the past nine months, experimental artist and Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow A.R. I remember biting into a mouse when I was four as a child in Indonesia "I like the fact that you have a representation of someone that is based purely on a 'non-memory', on something that didn't actually happen," Hopwood explains.
Read on for extracts from the world's first false memory archive: "At around 6 years old my family and I visited relations in Australia; we took a day-trip to the 'Big Pineapple'. "I was around five or six years old. Billowing Colorful Clouds of Smoke Redefine Ordinary Landscapes. Pop!
Is a visually exciting series by Texas-based photographer Irby Pace that reinterprets the look of oft-seen open fields, long roads, vast bodies of water, shrouded alleyways, and various desolate landscapes. Pace's refreshing take on landscape photography incorporates the use of artificial clouds, often seen in surreal, conceptual photography to give the ordinary subject a kick. The clever creative uses helium balloons, string, and smoke canisters typically used in paintball machines to create the mysterious clouds of color smoke in each of his images. They add a vibrant life to their respective settings as they billow against the horizon. Pace explains, "With Pop! Irby Pace website via [Cosas cool] Life-Size T-Rex Skeleton Pops Up in Paris. A giant Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture sits atop the platform of Compagnie des Bateaux-Mouches by the Seine River in Paris, France.
Created by sculptor Philippe Pasqua, the 4-meter-tall and 7-meter-long structure is composed of 350 molded bones, constructed in the likeness of those discovered in China. The colossal dinosaur skeleton is designed as an accurate depiction of the skeletal assemblage with a silvery finish. The chromed aluminum figure was requested by Charlotte Bruel-Matovic, the daughter of the founder of Bateaux-Mouches, in an effort to support and promote contemporary art along the river.
The inclusion of the T-rex along the waterway is already an intriguing spectacle. It's size and unexpected placement in the area adds a new and ironic sense of life. Top photo credit: Anthony GELOT Philippe Pasqua website via [Cavalier Zee, My Amazing Paris] CARL D'ALViA.
Minigolf-Hitler forarger: Kan du score heil-in-one? Man kan lige forestille sig situationen.
Man står der og tænker »Kan man nu også det, og må man nu også det«, men så kommer man fra det ved lyden af et noget så tilfredsstillende klonk. Hole in one. Eller måske heil in one. I Blackpool i England udstiller galleriet Grundy Art Gallery en minigolfbane, og et af hullerne har vakt røre og generel forargelse blandt britiske jøder. Det forestiller nemlig Adolf Hitler, og når man skyder bolden igennem hullet nederst i hans torso, løfter han armen i den nazistiske heil-hilsen. Vil gøre grin med Hitler Michael Samuels, der sidder i bestyrelsen for The Board of Deputies of British Jews, siger til BBC, at han absolut ingen kunstnerisk værdi finder i værket, og at han ville bede kunstnerne, Jake og Dinos Chapman, om at tage det tilbage og deponere det i et skur, hvis han havde ejet galleriet.
Galleriets ejer ser ikke det store problem i værket og siger, at det blot er en mulighed for at gøre grin med Hitler. Critical Art Ensemble. Contemporary Asia. MASAKATSU SASHIE ART WORKS.
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