ruineshumaines:

Aerial is a new site-specific installation by Baptiste Debombourg at an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany. Debombourg used numerous sheets of shattered laminate glass to mimic a frothy flood of water rushing into a room.

(via -tartarus)

bookspaperscissors:

Liu Bolin - The Real Life Invisible Man

Liu Bolin was moved to create his “Hiding in the City” series after the Chinese government destroyed Beijing artist village Suo Jia Cun in November 2005. At the time of this destruction, Liu Bolin had been working in Suo Jia Cun, which had been previously named Asia’s largest congregation of artists. Prompted by his emotional response to the demolition of this site, Liu decided to use his art as a means of silent protest, calling attention to the lack of protection Chinese artists had received from their own government. Why do you choose urban landscapes for the majority of your work? Bolin: In the development of Chinese society, we experienced movements which were against humanity and purged people’s minds. I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background’s social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual. In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, “How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?” How long does the average photo take and what is the process? Bolin: To finish one work, it will take 3-4 hours. All the painting and photography work is finished by one of my assistants. My work is for me to stand still there. Some people would ask: you are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work? But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot. Before I started HITC (“Hiding in the City”), I would choose some sites as back-ups, then choose one of them as the place to shoot the photo. Before we start work, I take a photo of me standing in front of the site. I put my portrait on every background digitally before real production starts, in order to show my assistant the ideas and tell them how to proceed. We pay attention to every single detail, every line and color. My assistant and I communicate throughout the process, in order to get the best image we can. I then analyze which part is most important part, which has to be finished first, and also I need to guide them to make the color choices so it is the same as the background. Then we start to paint. I have to paint myself in the same color as the background, and more importantly I have to make the lines connect with those of the background. More here

Perhaps even more amazing than the work itself is to see such creativity in response to such oppression.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu. The Singing Ringing Tree.

A 3-meter-tall, wind-powered musical sculpture made of galvanized steel pipes, it stands high above the English town of Burnley. The pipes swirl to form the shape of a tree bent and blown by the wind, and produce an eerie, melodious hum as the constant wind on Crown Point drifts through them. The Singing Ringing Tree’s pipes are used for both aesthetic qualities as well as for tuning, with their sound varied according to length and added narrow slits on the underside of specific pipes. The sound produced by these twisted metal trees covers several octaves and is said to be simultaneously discordant and melancholy, and intensely beautiful. Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu. (via Interactive Architecture)

Reminds me of the Sibelius monument in Helsinki; that one doesn’t make sound though. Man I’d love to hear this thing!

French artist Philippe Ramette believes nothing should ever be fake. His impossible, gravity-defying poses might look like classic Photoshop, but look a little closer and you’ll see evidence that it’s not. “You see a tension in my hands, my red face is far from serene as the blood rushes to it, my suit is ruffled,” said Ramette.

In France, Ramett’s bizarre images have been compared to the work of Buster Keaton and the world of silent cinema. For him, they are a statement about gravity, weightlessness, and man’s relationship to the landscape.

He goes to extraordinary lengths to create his implausible set-ups, building hidden metal supports that he calls “sculpture-structures.” Every image is the exact reproduction of one of his drawings; sketches that he considers to be film storyboards, reconstructed by his faithful team while he directs the image. “I never question whether it’s going to be complicated,” he says.

Whoa. I’ve seen his work before but I always assumed it was shopped! It’s so awesome that artists out there still make art the hard way.

(via My Modern Met)

photojojo:

Dog Portrait Made from 221,184 Candy Sprinkles by Joel Brochu

(Read more about how this was made over on the Flickr Blog.)

This is amazing! And it’s a beagle! :D

popquizkid:

arthistoryx:

Julianne Moore art work recreation by Peter Lindbergh 

Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele

The Cripple by John Currin

Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince

Madame X by John Singer Sargent

Woman With a Fan by Amedeo Modigliani

Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt

JULIANNE MOORE I LOVE YOUR WORK.

This is really great. I love the Singer Sargent.