I like to take American history and then completely ignore it. I come at it visually, taking images and telling my own story. It comes out of criticism and great love. There are problems [with America], and we all know that, but I’m attracted to the dark side of things. [Wes Lang, from Interview Magazine]
Wes [...]
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Tagged: artist, Brooklyn, drawing, Interview Magazine, mixed media, tattoo, Wes Lang
Maurizio Giuseppucci does not acquiesce in collective oblivion. On the contrary he communicates to the viewer a sentiment of repetitive and constant recollecting. His artworks, a rather complicated archive scattered into numerous multi-formatted pieces, serve to expose concealed memories and convey forceful comments about the current sociopolitical scene. Rare images retrieved from the web and [...]
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Tagged: concept, conceptual art, contemporary art, images, Italy, Maurizio Giuseppucci, N. Kount, text, word
Wren Britton was born the year David Bowie released Ziggy Stardust… He spent his youth either up in trees reading or making mini-terarriums from Tic Tac boxes for insects he found in his yard. He now passes his time making jewellery and accessories from bones, feathers, hair and objects lost or finally found. He also [...]
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Tagged: design, exhibition, fashion, gmalour, jewellery, Lingering Whispers, New York, Wren Britton
Images: © David Shrigley. David was born in 1968 in Macclesfield. He graduated in 1991 from Glasgow School of Art. He lives and works in Glasgow.
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Tagged: contemporary art, David Shrigley, drawing
Mark Mander is one of the UK’s premier puppeteers. After art school he worked as a sculptor for Madame Tussaud’s and as a set model maker for Cameron Mackintosh before focusing on his first love, puppetry. Mark has been working in London, both as a puppeteer and puppet designer/maker for the BBC, ITV, Disney UK [...]
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Tagged: Clementine, doll, exhibition, fashion, Lingering Whispers, living, Mark Mander, performance, puppeteer
Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier’s 1952 Unité d’Habitation using only [...]
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Tagged: camera, Hasselblad, sculpture, Tom Sachs, Waffle Bike
“I think there’s always a lot of confusion with my work where people think I am making a critique, and I ‘m not, I’m making an acceptance of ourselves and our own history to this moment, and in doing so, hopefully I’m also freeing what our potential is for the future where we can feel [...]
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Tagged: American, Andy Warhol, Aqui Bacardi, Art Magazine Ads, Artforum, Balloon Dog, Banality, basketball, Bear and Policeman, Bicycle Wheel, Campbell Soup Cans, Celebration, Christopher Nash, Cicciolina, commodity, Equilibrium and Luxury and Degredation, Frangelico, Hoover, Hoover Celebrity III, illusion, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, material world, MOMA, New Hoover Convertibles, New York, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, Pop Art, Stay in Tonight, Teacher
Since her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1997 with the work Mass: Colder Darker Matter Cornelia Parker has achieved international acclaim; through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and [...]
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Tagged: British Art Show, Cornelia Parker, Duchamp, installation, Sara Kellett, Silver objects, Tate, Tate Modern, Thirty Pieces of Silver
Oreet Ashery was born into a Jewish family in Jerusalem. At the age of 19 she left her home and moved to the United Kingdom, where she now lives and works. Leaving Jerusalem has informed much of Ashery’s work to date. She explores concepts of territory and the constant sway she experiences ‘between the privilege [...]
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Tagged: Bethan Troakes, Jewish, Larissa Sansour, Marcus Fisher, Occupation, Oreet Ashery, Palestine, performance art, Shabbtai Zvi, Tate Modern, The Novel of Nonel and Vovel
