Xu Bing, A Book From the Sky, 1987. Installation at Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991. Moveable-type prints and books.
Xu trained as a printmaker in Beijing. A Book From the Sky, with its invented Chinese woodblock characters, may be a stinging critique of the meaninglessness of contemporary political language.
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Gavin Worth - Wire Sculptures
“By bending black wire into something resembling freestanding line drawings, I create sculptures that engage the viewer by involving them in their subtle changes. When the light in the room shifts, so does the mood of the piece. A breeze might softly move an arm for example. My wire sculptures tell stories of simple human moments: a woman adjusting her hair, a face gazing from behind tightly wrapped arms, a mother gently cradling her baby. The honest, unguarded moments are those which I find to be the most beautiful.”
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The Great Wall of Vagina by UK based artist Jamie McCartney is created by 400 plaster casts of different vulvae from women and transgendered men aged 18 to 76 years old.
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I Promise To Love You, 2010 and You Loved Me Like a Distant Star, 2012 by Tracey Emin
Run From Fear, Fun From Rear, 1972 by Bruce Nauman
Dandelion Ceiling is an installation project by German artist, Regine Ramseier, who hand-picked over 2,000 dandelions, sprayed each dandelion with an adhesive in order to prevent the fuzz from being blown away, and hung each of them one by one on the ceiling.
Green Pedestrian Crossing created by Jody Xiong
The China Environmental Protection Foundation developed an outdoor campaign, displayed on the street, to creatively promote this message. They decided to leverage a busy pedestrian crossing; a place where both pedestrians and drivers meet.
The campaign involved laying a canvas 12.6 metres long by 7 metres wide on the ground, thus covering the pedestrian crossing with a large leafless tree. On either side of the road, beneath the traffic lights, were placed sponge cushions soaked in green, environmentally friendly, washable paint. As pedestrians walked towards the crossing, they stepped on the green sponge, thus leaving green foot imprints on the canvas of the tree. Each ‘green’ footprint on the canvas looked like leaves growing on a bare tree, which made people feel that by walking they could create a greener environment.
The ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ was carried out across 7 thoroughfares in Shanghai. The campaign was then extended to 132 roads across 15 cities in China, with a participation exceeding 3,920,000 people.
Watch their video below:
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Yun-Woo Choi is a Korean-born artist living in New York. He uses rolled-up newspapers and magazines to create these mind-blowing structures held in shape with wire and resin.
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Ephemicropolis by Peter Root is made by using approximately 100,000 everyday-use staples to create an entire city over the course of 40 hours.
Watch the Making of The Ephemicropolis down below:
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Forest of Beyond by Motoi Yamamoto
The artist, who is well known for creating large-scale sculptures, especially mazes, out of salt, has created a massively intricate installation that resembles the far-reaching roots of a tree. Yamamoto originally started working with salt after he lost his sister, who died from brain cancer. As a way to honor her and preserve her memory, Yamamoto chose salt – 1 of 5 elements in the Shinto tradition that symbolize purification.
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Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect.
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Regina Silveira is a renowned Brazilian artist who created incredible illusions that play with senses & minds.
The Wall of Books by Anouk Kruithof
A London Bus Doing Push-ups:The London Booster by David Cerny
The sculpture, by artist David Cerny, is parked outside of the Czech Olympic headquarters where it’ll live for the duration of the Games. Cerny bought the 1957 Routemaster bus in the Netherlands and spent six months fitting it with robotic arms are powered by an engine. The motion is accompanied by a recording of sounds evoked during tough physical effort.
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The New Zealand based artist, Mike Hewson, has created massive mixed media optical installations in his homeland. After the February magnitude 6.3 earthquake, the city of Christchurch has allowed the artist to temporarily renovate designated areas that are slated to be demolished for reconstruction.
