crossmedia studio
a curved, semi-circular wall of mirrors juts from the sand on cottesloe beach in perth, australia. spanning 72 meters long, the desert island somewhat mirrors that of gjøde & partnere arkitekter’s previous work, the infinite bridge — interestingly, there is something just as infinite about this sculpture by the sea.
Multidisciplinary artist Miguel Rothschild works across a wide variety of mediums from modified photography to glass sculpture and textiles. In several recent works the Argentine artist has captured the slow roll of ocean waves in suspended fabric installations titled Elegy and De Profundis. Both artworks seem to play with the viewer’s perception, appearing both as waves or perhaps a slice of the sky. Even the filament that holds the artwork airborne seems to glisten like rays of sun or rain. You can see more of the Berlin-based artists work on his website.
American artist Larry Bell has created a series of huge boxes using translucent and coloured glass, which are designed to evoke the morning fog that rolls in from the coast of California.
Venice Fog: Recent Investigations is an installation involving a series of cube-like sculptures made from semi-transparent and soft-hued glass. Each sculpture comprises a larger enclosure formed by four laminated panels, without a top or base, with a smaller box positioned inside.
being a steel sculptor for over a decade i have a great fondness for like-minded works—kudos!
Start is an intervention that is both abstract and figurative, which favours the imagination of passers-by, in the context of the Christmas season. It is an ephemeral lighting installation that grows from references of Modern Art in public space and that is built on the scale of the city, provoking visual interaction with the surrounding historical buildings, providing new urban visual frames. At the same time, it assumes an ethereal and subtle presence on the square that, by evoking lightness and representativeness, intends to place the Largo dos Lóios in the traditional route of the Christmas illuminations in Porto.
wonderfully minimal.
One Hundred and Eight is an interactive Installation by Berlin-based Nils Völker mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.
love it!
artist christo has unveiled plans to construct a floating ‘mastaba’ structure in london’s hyde park, which could reach more than 20 meters (65 feet) in height. the new york times reports that the temporary design, to be made from 7,506 oil barrels, will float on the serpentine lake, behind kensington palace. ‘the exciting part of the project is that it’s detached from the urban landscape,’ says christo. ‘you have this incredible vegetation and open area.’
I so love this piece — so beautiful! — I developed a similar method to create my static-structure series back in 1998–99. m.
euphrates — a japanese collaborative of artists, researchers, and designers led by masahiko sato at keio university — has created an experimental short film that mesmerizingly follows the movement of a ballerina using a rotoscope animation method. the technique is ordinarily applied to trace motion picture footage, frame by frame. masahiko sato + euphrates’ interpretation builds on the approach to accurately shadow the step-by-step motion of the ballerina as she dances across the room.
lavoro magnifico! m.
“United Visual Artists’ Alexandros Tsolakis discusses how it teamed up with MINI to create Parallels, a light installation for the 2014 Milan Furniture Fair that explores the rapidly-changing relationship between man and technology.”
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