I never really took to Hulk Hogan and his friends when I was a kid, preferring instead the low-rent British version of wrestling. Big Daddy in a leotard and top-hat was about as colorful as it got though, so looking at Malcolm Venville’s vivid portraits of masked Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers makes me feel like […]
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Three images from China.
Police-Exercise
The first is from photographer Ebru Erülkü and it’s part of Beijing Case, cultural aspects of the high speed urbanization in China, on show at the ZKM in Karlsruhe until January 7, 2007.
Suzhou Jie, Daoxiangyuan, Haidian District, Beijing, 2004
Number 2 is by Sze Tsung Leong -discovered while visiting Spectacular City in Rotterdam- […]
Karl Escritt is a Kyoto-based graphic artist who’s been quietly making a name for himself as an accomplished designer of flyers, posters and t-shirts for the underground music scene in this Englishman’s adopted Japan.
Recently, Escritt has made a foray as a performance artist as a live painter. He crafts his artwork over Japanese electronica dance […]
I meant to visit Ssamzie Space when I was in Seoul a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the time, but, superlocal, who visited the Space, kindly provided us with some nice photos (thanks!)
Ssamzie Space’s current exhibition is called “r u logged on? ^^;” and it showcases 10 works that reflect the pervasiveness […]
Moby, by Louis de Cordier, is a Life-Unit, consisting of an individual sleep module with extensions, such as an antenna, a power windmill and a water collector.
In its function, the project can be compared to a nerve cell that uses its tentacles to capture information and pass it on once it has been processed […]
Rife with paradox, the finely-detailed metal sculptures by Cal Lane (Wheel Barrel, 2005 pictured) and Elissa Levy’s military-themed felt pieces, mix delicate filigree with more substantial materials and topics. Their complimentary work is the subject of a show called “Purfle” that opens at Foley Gallery in NYC tomorrow, 2 November 2006 and runs through […]
Standing proudly in the Stockholm suburb of Midsommarkransen, the 10 story, 72 meter tall Telefonplan tower—built and used by Ericsson for many years—stood as the center of their corporate campus and served as a neighborhood landmark. Today the neighborhood has grown beyond Ericsson’s presence, and local architect Milo Lavén, artist Erik Krikortz and interaction designer […]
With an anonymous cast of 11 international artists and a curator, the group show “Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous” opens today, 31 October 2006, at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, embracing the flip side of Warhol’s quip about 15 minutes of fame. In part a statement against the current over-inflated […]
Taking on Newtonian physics, Origin, New York-based light artist Leo Villareal’s latest work, integrates the Laws of Motion into a computer code that controls an LED grid. Though randomized, the sequences created suggest biological patterns and, measuring nearly seven feet tall by 27 feet long, the large scale of the installation lends an experiential dimension […]
I got a chance to pay a short visit to Art Center Nabi, a non-profit media art center in Seoul, on Wednesday and realized how ignorant I was about what was going on in Korea’s media art scene. Régine interviewed Suhjung Hur, a curator of the center, back in June. So, check that one as […]