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 […]
5 tragedies by Shakespeare, retold by Bruno Blume and lavishly illustrated by 5 artists (Susanne Janssen, Anke Feuchtenberger, Jacky Gleich, Pascale Küng, Alice Wellinger). The focus of the narrative and artistic reinterpretation is the role of women in Shakespeare’s works. Here we can admire the reinterpretation of Othello by Alice Wellinger. A series of paintings, as delicate in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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