Today we are talking about the impressive work of Suriwan Sutham, an emerging and talented Thai female artist. The first time that I saw his work was at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center as a current exhibition. The artworks are painted in maxi format and they immediately caught my attention. The pictorial technique is […]
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ALEX GREY, SACRED MIRRORS
Alex Grey is an American artist specialised in Visionary art and constantly associated at the New Age movement. He’s a Vajrayana praticant, a sculptor, a performer and he make also multimedia works and installations. He became famous thanks to collaborations with famous bands like Tool, SCI, Beastie Boys and Nirvana. His first approach to art […]
CHICHU ART MUSEUM, NAOSHIMA ISLAND, JAPAN
Works by Claude Monet, Walter De Maria, and James Turrell form the permanent collection at the Tadao Ando-designed Museum. A subterranean space surrounded by the scenic Inland Sea, the museum invites consideration of our relationship with nature. Visitors can view five Monet paintings that are made visible entirely by natural lighting while being underground. The […]
DIORAMA MAPS, SOHEI NISHINO, JAPAN
When I saw the exhibition “New Planet Photo City” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo I was really impressed by the “Diorama maps” of Sohei Nishino. I have already wrote a generic post about this collective exhibition that compare William Klein photography and Asian contemporary visual artists on 11 April 2018. But I purposes avoided […]
FLOWER BALL (3-D) SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, 2002, JAPAN
Takashi Murakami is a leading figure in the art world, he coined the “superflat” art movement that combines Japanese anime and ukiyo-e (traditional Japanese block prints) influences. “My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took […]
ART HOUSE PROJECT, NAOSHIMA ISLAND, JAPAN
“Art House Project” is an art project underway in Naoshima’s Honmura district. This area holds a central political and religious role in the island from the Warring States Period up to the present, and is home to houses which were built more than 400-years ago. “At House Project” involves the restoration of vacant houses and […]