Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

infinity cove

CHRIS CORNISH, infinity cove 01, 2008, c-type photograph, 75 x 90 cm

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Friday, July 09, 2010

Saturday, July 03, 2010

House of Windsor

Hew Locke constructed this monumental portraits of Queen Elizabeth, out of hundreds of kitschy plastic toys and trinkets, disposable products of the new global economy.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Blossoming Plum

Album of 12 Leaves, Blossoming Plum, by Li Fang-ying, 1748

Monday, June 21, 2010

Plastic Eden

Francesco Simeti

Francesco Simeti, Plastic Eden, wallpaper, height 3 m, 2008

Sunday, June 20, 2010

BLACK MAP

Kathy Prendergast, BLACK MAP SERIES (Deep South) detail, 2010, Ink on printed map, 84 x 101 cm

Friday, June 18, 2010

Into the Rabbit hole

Christoph Ruckhäberle: Riesin, 2007 Oil on canvas, 280 x 190 cm

Monday, June 14, 2010

NOISE

Yöshi Sodeöka, Noise, C-Print, 24" x 32" via butdoesitfloat

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Middle Eastern Fragments

Zvi Tolkovsky "Middle Eastern Fragments" oil on canvas

Sunday, May 09, 2010

object of desire

Romy Schneider's image appear on a folded page, posed on what appear to be a crisped bed sheet, Schneider, beautiful, seductive, distorted, immortal, yet in ones mind very much dead. the image was as if cut in a harsh gesture in to two parts, as if trying the give 3 dimensions to the flat 2 dimensional photo, the image, the shapes, the shades of grey, creating a tensed duality in the work.

Rami Maymon

Saturday, May 08, 2010

Map of Nowhere

Grayson Perry. Map of Nowhere, 2008. Purple color etching from five plates, ed. 10/15.

It combines a diagram of the artist’s body with the medieval Hereford Mappa Mundi . The composition is riddle with allegorical references to the artist’s own identities and witty allusions to current social, political, and economic themes. It is a visual encyclopedia of a complex world.

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Cartographies of Time

New book about the history of graphic representations of time, 'Cartographies of Time - A History of the Timeline', by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, writes about the subjects while handing us some rare and beautiful maps, charts and diagrams.

'Spiegazione della Carta Istorica dell'Italia' (Historical map of Italy) by Girolamo Andrea Martignoni

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Edward Quin’s 1828 “Historical Atlas” used a series of maps to show changes in the world’s political divisions. In successive maps, the clouds roll back to reveal how much of the world was known to the West at the time. The map at left shows the state of the West at the time of the death of Emperor Constantine, in 337.

via Bibliodyssey

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Psalm 151

by Michael Gedalyovich (details views), is a large scale painting (The entire painting is 230x140 cm, oil on plywood). The painting originally is relating to two maps of Jerusalem from the 19th century. one from Austria and one is Turkish, both had their interests in the city. so the maps functioned as a "scientific"' "accurate' depiction but also as a narrative like painting, each empire depicted in the map it's own interests. the artist used both maps simultaneously while creating over the painted space many small scenarios that creates by themselves new stories, new connections, new layers of interpretation, some of them are taken from Sufi paintings, comic books, erotic drawing, war albums etc...

Michael Gedalyovich, Psalm 151 (detail) oil on plywood, 230x140 cm

Michael Gedalyovich, Psalm 151 (detail) oil on plywood, 230x140 cm

Jerusalem as an object of aspiration, of utopia, the Jerusalem as described in Psalms, is recreated here as a fantastic, imaginative, fictional zone filled with fantastic creatures, Heroes and futuristic yet naïve like spacecrafts, some kind of animated kingdom. The book of Psalm in the Old Testamony holds 150 chapters, the painting represent the 151 one# #Although for many years scholars believed that Psalm 151 might have been an original Greek composition and that “there is no evidence that Psalm 151 ever existed in Hebrew”, now from the Dead Sea scrolls that is consedered that this psalm did in fact exist in Hebrew and was a part of the psalter used by the Qumran community.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Chi production

sonnenschein eliezer, Vase, Beton, Wood. Size: 162 x 51 x 55 cm

Monday, April 19, 2010

Blockpost

The inside and the outside topographies of ones world, become a kaleidoscopic panorama of a dreamy hunted world by the hands of Natalia Zourabova

Natalia Zourabova, Blockpost, acrylic on canvas, 270x155 cm, 2005. Zourabova is opening her solo exhibition at Florentin 45 this week.

Natalia Zourabova, “Barbara 2"(detail view), Acrylic on canvas, 110 x110 cm, 2010