Artist converts her small studio into a magical world of wonder. Most of us do not have the artistic capability to redecorate our own room.
Now let’s wallow in self-pity as we take a look at how artist JeeYoung Lee managed to transform a small 360 x 410 x 240 cm studio into something that looks like it came out of Alice in Wonderland. The Korean artist spent weeks redecorating and bringing to life surreal and colourful rooms inspired by her personal life and old Korean fables. War Toys series inspired by drawings of children in war-torn areas. Scandinavian art duo create humorous installations. Vegetable-themed art installation by Peter Pink. New tape works by Aakash Nihalani. Aakash Nihalani’s style is recognizable across the wide variety of mediums he uses: minimal geometric shapes on a flattened visual plane, often employing different techniques of contrast and forced perspective to give the impression of virtual depth or movement.
While his work ranges from digital to sculptural, his public interventions mostly require only tape or cardboard to create illusions that engage the viewer and surrounding architecture in a disorienting visual play. In Orbit: an interactive sculpture by Tomás Saraceno. Clouds hiding indoors. Dreamy chain-link fence art by Soo Sunny Park. Sculptures of iconic New York buildings invade New York. Everyday life, made a bit banal. Surreal images made from elaborate sets by Sandy Skoglund. Art and social change: How environmental art is transforming a Taiwanese village.
Huge site-specific sculptures sit among birds, reeds and muddy water in Taiwan’s 2013 Cheng-Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project.
In April 2013, four international and two local artists gathered for 25 days in Cheng-Long Wetlands, a conservation preserve that sits beside a remote coastal village in Taiwan’s Yunlin County, to take part in an environmental artist residency and community renewal project that has been running for four years. Ya-chu Kang, ‘Reservations’, 2013, bamboo table, recycled chairs, sisal rope, oyster shells, natural cotton fabric, Cyanotype made with discarded cooking pots, kitchen tools, found objects collected at the seashore and shapes gifted by local children.
Photograph credit: Timothy S. Allen. The high-density fish farming, agricultural production and heavy industry in the area requires large amounts of fresh water to operate, a need met by pumping up huge quantities of ground water from aquifers. Artists tour the Cheng-Long Wetlands. This is not Photoshopped: surprise shadow art by Larry Kagan.
20-foot balloon dinosaur at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Turf on fingernails diorama by Alice Bartlett. 65000 ping pong balls glowing in a pool. Fabian Bürgy skirts the thin line between real and unreal. Sky art: focusing on the negative. Incredible shadow sculpture by Bohyun Yoon. Anamorphic street art by Felice Varini. Our favourite entry in the Icelandic Pylon Competition. Shintaro Ohata’s amazing mixed-media art. Real spider webs captured behind glass. Just 30,000 black moths hanging out in the gallery, that’s all. Projection mapping in trees by Clement Briend. The almost unearthly projection mappings in trees of the French photographer Clement Briend are a spectacular experience and a great idea too.
Because of the nature of trees, these faces and shapes are becoming three-dimensional, and like ghosts, they are watching over the people who pass by. The beauty of the common by Sakir Gökçebag. Most of the objects we use every day are totally underestimated, if not even almost non-existent to our minds.
Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebag values the simple and the beauty that lies within. By taking the ordinary out of the ordinary he is shifting its context and giving it a new aesthetic, making him think about the things he is surrounded by on a daily basis without acknowledging its true elegancy. Yarisal & Kublitz. Creative Duo Yarisal & Kublitz is known for their often humorous, imaginative works, layering poetic phrases or gestures with poignant, often absurd imagery.
Their ideas use a simple, yet provoking langue, creating sculptures that play with metaphors of material, sexual and spiritual desire. As the works by Yarisal & Kublitz effortlessly embrace the sacred and the profane, humour and pathos they evoke universal feelings of belief, hope, desire, longing, and obsession, they address something ultimately primeval in us in their weird physical manifestations. Corny Unheimlich in L.A. Unheimlich in L.A. Totem. Tony Oursler at 313 Art Project. 7 November–8 December, 2012Opening: 7 November, 17–19h 313 Art Project313 Dosan-Daero, Gangnam-guSeoul, Korea, 135-895Hours: Monday 14–18h, Tuesday–Saturday 11–18h T 82 2 3445 3137F 82 2 3446 3137313artproject@gmail.com www.313artproject.com 313 Art Project, Seoul, is delighted to announce Tony Oursler’s first solo show in Korea.
Acknowledging his friendship with the godfather of video art, Nam June Paik, Oursler is known for his innovative combinations of media, sound, and performance in order to investigate the relationship between the individual and mass media system, which he has intensely worked with since the 1970s. Woven creations by NeSpoon. Polish artist NeSpoon weaves strings to make crochet-like creations, then installs them all over Poland.
He has even – as these pictures show – unleashed them on the coast of the Baltic Sea. There is an impalpable air of mystery that seems to surround these cobweb-like creations. Rainbow thread installations by Gabriel Dawe. Rainbow thread installations by Gabriel Dawe. Robert Montgomery hijacks billboards for art. Slinkachu’s big hearted tiny landscapes. Whimsical urban installations by Filthy Luker. Urban Hacktivism by Florian Rivière. Specializing in what he dubs urban hactivism, French artist Florian Rivière makes public spaces fun with ingenious inventions like a 10 Euro crosswalk carpet that lets you cross the road wherever you like: a nifty extension that transforms public benches to beach lounge chairs, a bottle opener that uses a parking meter, and a playground swing at the bus stop.
Amazing large-scale sand designs by Andres Amador. Gigantic Wads of Gum by Simone Decker. The Little People Project by Slinkachu. I ran across Slinkachu’s work a couple of years ago.
He never seems to run out of fresh material for his tiny satirical street portraits. His book cover for Dimitri Verhulst’s book The Misfortunates is a great example. Even more interesting: when he completes the project, he abandons the set and lets the little folk fend for themselves. File this under: wish I had thought of that. Guerrilla gardener fills potholes on London roads with flowers.