At first glance it could be one of the famous scenes of Salford artist L S Lowry. Best known for his atmospheric urban and industrial landscapes, Lowry’s paintings provide local fuel for the new Oasis video Master Plan. The video sees Liam and the rest of Oasis transported into a series of typical Lowry scenes ranging from drab coloured unpopulated landscapes, terraced streets to the Manchester mills.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 19th of October 2006 Permalink
Are all artists today djs? Or all musicians artists? The long list you could come up with now includes Wolfgang Tillmans. So all you in London, the Turner Prize winner and photographer of planes, rainbows and erstwhile club kids (at least early in his career), will be spinning a set this Sunday night at BoomBox. As you would expect the bar is in Hoxton…
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Thursday, 19th of October 2006 Permalink
We’re rather fond of drawing without taking our pens off the paper. We also have 394 such drawings of Queen Victoria that we’ll finish scanning in one day. In the meantime we’re enjoying this video for In Context by Field Music, although I swear I saw the artist lift his pen once. Nice track too.
Directed by Dan Lowe, here’s a link to a crispy version. (via Veer)
David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 10th of October 2006 Permalink
I went to see the film “Zidane” Wednesday evening, not only because I have a deep admiration for the man’s ability with a football, but also out of curiosity. All I knew of the film was that the directors (Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno) took 17 cameras to a Real Madrid game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) and filmed nothing but the enigmatic, volatile Frenchman. A 90 minute real time film of Zinedine Zidane playing a game of football, prety much like the player cam option you can choose on Sky Sports I thought, but I was wrong. Half way between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, “Zidane” is a beauitully shot, almost hypnotic insite into the enigma of the great man himself. It drops you slap bang into the middle of the Bernabeu Stadium in front of 80,000 passionate screaming fans, playing alongside an English guy called David and some Brazilian bloke called Ronaldo and takes you through the highs and lows of a Spanish La Liga game through ZZ’s eyes. With a beautiful ambient soundtrack by Mogwai and incredibly atmospheric sound effects, its an absolute must see, even if you can’t stand football! Watch the trailors
Dave Brown
Posted on Friday, 6th of October 2006 Permalink
Knitting as performance art! How could the world get better? Liz Collins, knitter, artist and designer extraordinaire will be leading her uniformed army of knitters (check out the arm coverings which I personally covet) in a piece in the refectory (that would be a dining hall, I believe) this weekend at RISD (that is the Rhode Island School of Design). Liz’s first outing with her Knitting Nation group was as part of the Muster last year when artists took over Governor’s Island (just off Manhattan and usually closed to the public). The Muster was inspired by Civil War re-enactment and used as its theme “what are we fighting for?” Now the Knitting Nation piece will grow vertically through the space taking over it—and won’t have any of the Americana overtones, so no knitted American flags then. Imagine instead your favorite sweater meeting your grandmother’s afghan and taking over the space.
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Thursday, 5th of October 2006 Permalink
Dutch design collective Studio Denmakersvan are plain but love the impossible. They respect the old but want the new, they want to challenge, confront the normal, the accepted, the expected. They believe in fusing talented designers, writers, filmmakers, artists, scientists into a movement that will go beyond ego. They also produce stunning work, like the ‘Industrialized wood’ table by Jeroen Verhoeven or the beautiful ‘Laced fence’ by Joep Verhoeven seen here.
Dave Brown
Posted on Wednesday, 4th of October 2006 Permalink
Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens is best known for his acclaimed work using light and shadow, which he has been producing for almost fifteen years. These works employ the focused beams of theatre lights trained on a range of carefully manipulated materials to create beautiful poectic typographical shadows & projections on the surrounding walls and floor. Check out the pictures section of his website.
Dave Brown
Posted on Friday, 29th of September 2006 Permalink
Since coming out here I pay good heed to the posted warnings about Mountain Lions when out mountain biking in the Santa Cruz mountains. But I never expected to see a tiger running wild in downtown San Jose.
This was the work of artist Karolina Sobecka for the inaugral ZeroOne art festival, which also included such delights as karaoke ice cream trucks, fire-breathing robots and pigeons with GPS.
She projected video of the tiger from a car as she drove through San Jose (not just stock film, but animated frames of her paintings). The tiger’s movements were programmed to correspond to the speed of the car and the architecture of the city became an active part in the performance. Grrrreat. Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Monday, 11th of September 2006 Permalink
The work of Danish artist Peter Callesen ranges from ice sculpture to offbeat performance to giant paper/cardboard installations, but it’s his recent A4 Papercut series in which he achieves the most with the least. Each piece starts as a single sheet of 80gms A4 paper but in his hands becomes a fairytale castle, two men in a canoe nearing a perilous waterfall or a ship sinking in icy waters. The results are surprising, ingenious and beautiful.
David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 7th of September 2006 Permalink
Thanks again to everyone who entered Fibre’s “Quick on the Draw” competition at the V&A Village Fete last week. The challenge was to draw a picture of Queen Victoria in one minute without lifting the pen from the paper. Nearly 400 people took part, which gave the judges a right royal headache. Nevertheless they managed to reduce that to a shortlist of 35 from which they picked the winner… Mr Bingo! (Yes, we know he’s a professional illustrator, but all the judges were blindfolded to make the process completely unbiased.)
By the way, the original image of Queen Victoria is shown above on the right and Mr Bingo’s is on the left – uncanny isn’t it?
Here’s the shortlist of 35 (plus any of the other 359 entries that we’ve scanned to date) and more work from our winner Mr Bingo.
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 7th of August 2006 Permalink