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Kent Rogowski: Love = Love, 2006-2008
Love=Love is a series of collages that were created using pieces of over 60 store bought puzzles. Although puzzle pieces are unique, and can only fit into one place within a puzzle, they are sometimes interchangeable within a brand. These puzzles were cut using the same die, but depict unrelated images. Using only the flowers and skies from each of the puzzles, I created a series of entirely new compositions by recombining the puzzle pieces. These spectacular, fantastical and surreal landscapes sit in direct contrast to the banal and bucolic images of the original puzzles. (artist statement)
Beautiful Paper Art Hand-Cut From Single Sheets Of Paper By Suzy Taylor
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Melissa S McCracken - Synesthetic Artist
“I paint music.
Until I was 15, I thought everyone constantly saw colors. Colors in books, colors in math formulas, colors at concerts. But when I finally asked my brother which color the letter C was (canary yellow, by the way) I realized my mind wasn’t quite as normal as I had thought.
Basically, my brain is cross-wired. I experience the “wrong” sensation to certain stimuli. Each letter and number is colored and the days of the year circle around my body as if they had a set point in space. But the most wonderful “brain malfunction” of all is seeing the music I hear. It flows in a mixture of hues, textures, and movements, shifting as if it were a vital and intentional element of each song”
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Photographer Karen Knorr Brings Indian Myths to Life
If you are an artist interested in how power and politics manifest through art and design, you’ll inevitably find yourself investigating India and its history at some point, just as London-based photographer Karen Knorr recently did. Well read, politically sensitive and a conceptual art-savvy photographer, Knorr has travelled across Northern India since 2008, photographing the interiors of the land’s opulent and colourful old palaces, temples and forts with a large format Sinar camera (in a way that inevitably reminds of Robert Polidori’s Versailles project and of course the oeuvre of Massimo Listri). What makes Knorr’s work stand out however, is the way in which she combines these awe-inspiring interiors — a persistent symbol of princely power and affluence — with the images of local animals, as if the world was turned on its head and the birds, mammals and reptiles of India have taken over. This polysemous and visually captivating body of work, bearing the evocative title India Song, was published last year as a large-format art book by Skira Editore, accompanied by insightful essays and an interview with the artist that elaborate on the concepts and issues behind the whole project.
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One of the finest examples of early human art: Venus of Willendorf.
Created 25,000 years ago in the Upper Palaeolithic, Venus of Willendorf is considered one of the most beautiful female statuettes of prehistoric art history. The name, however, is misleading. Archaeologists dubbed such Paleolithic statuettes found ‘Venuses,’ after the Greek/ Roman goddess of love and beauty, who was most often depicted nude. Found in Austria in 1908, this 11cm intact limestone figurine was originally coated with red ochre.
Interpreting prehistoric art, especially of this age, remains problematic. One must always be careful not to enforce their own ideas or views onto the creators of the art, who lived in a very distant period of history we know little about. The extensive anatomical exaggeration of the depicted women has led many to suggest that these statuettes served as some form of fertility image. Like others, Venus of Willendorf is depicted with no facial features. Whatever the exact purpose was of these figurines, their sculptors do not seem to be depicting a specific woman, rather the female form.
Photos taken by myself, this artefact is courtesy of, and can be viewed at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. AncientArt in Europe 2014/15.
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Picture in Picture by Maksim Zavialov
Maksim Zavialov is a resident of Khabarovsk, Russia and has a unique Instagram. He first photographs a scene usually with a human figure in the frame using a Polaroid, He then uses an Iphone to record the Polaroid in the actual landscape.
His Instagram account @mzavialov uses the hashtag #timethroughphoto is a nod to his interest in capturing themes of time and place. “Even in the same place, something new is always happening,” says Zavialov.…
MAN AS ART: NEW GUINEA
Malcolm Kirk’s large-format hardcover book, documenting the islanders’ visually stunning tribal body decorations and carved masks, was the culmination of 13-years of travel in that area of the South Pacific. It was first published in 1981 in the USA, the UK, France, Germany and Italy, and subsequently reprinted in a smaller, redesigned paperback edition. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, referring to the hardcover version, wrote that she considered it “one of the most beautiful books I have seen in my life.”