“Everything was forever until it was no more” is the title of the First edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), which will be open for five months until 28 October starting from 2 June. On the occasion of the centenary of the Independence of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Eight locations, including […]
The famous duo formed by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset created a mermaid man named Han. Located in the port of the Danish town Elsinore, opposite the Kronborg Castle -famous for setting Shakespeare’s Hamlet- the sculpture was conceived as a contemporary masculine paraphrase of the Danish national icon, the Little Mermaid, representing a young boy sitting […]
Kazuki Takamatsu, one of the world’s leading artists of the new visionary figurative style, creates female figures that are white and gray, shaded, light, transparent, floating on black and saturated backgrounds. Young women represented as impalpable and elusive; unable to express their emotions, closed in their dark and hostile world from which they must defend themselves, perhaps […]
Ernesto Neto, one of the major contemporary Brazilian artists, was invited by Fondation Beyeler to create an installation for the Central Station in Zürich, Switzerland. The title of the artwork is GaiaMotherTree, it’s the biggest public art project of the Fondation Beyeler. It took over four years to make the installation that’s more than 20 meters […]
The cover of the latest issue of National Geographic, an important magazine dedicated to the knowledge of our planet, is one of the most iconic in the long history of the newspaper. The image, designed by the Mexican artist Jorge Gamboa, represents an iceberg that, under the surface of the water, turns into a gigantic […]
On the border between attraction and repulsion are Jason Briggs’s porcelain sculptures. Clearly allusive to a sexuality to be discovered. The artist invents amphorities fused together and allusive to the various sexual characteristics of the female and male body. Briggs gives life to porcelain sculptures that attract you to touch them but on the other […]
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