Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2013
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez is a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist. He lives in Paris. He has spent his professional career working and teaching between both Paris and Caracas. His work is represented in museums and public art sites internationally
The Chromosaturation is an artificial environment composed of three color chambers, one red, one green and one blue that immerse the visitor in a completely monochrome situation. This experience creates disturbances in the retina, accustomed to receive wide range of colors simultaneously. The Chromosaturation can act as a trigger, activating in the viewer the notion of color as a material or physical situation, going into space without the aid of any form or even without any support, regardless of cultural beliefs.
The Chromosaturation is an artificial environment composed of three color chambers, one red, one green and one blue that immerse the visitor in a completely monochrome situation. This experience creates disturbances in the retina, accustomed to receive wide range of colors simultaneously. The Chromosaturation can act as a trigger, activating in the viewer the notion of color as a material or physical situation, going into space without the aid of any form or even without any support, regardless of cultural beliefs.
Chromosaturation at the “Aventuras de la Óptica. Soto y Cruz-Diez” exhibition
Palace of the Counts of Gabia, Granada, Spain, 1989
Chromosaturation at the “Carlos Cruz-Diez” exhibition
Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1998
Chromosaturation at the “Inverted Utopias. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America” exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, United States, 2004
Chromosaturation at the “Environment Chromatic-Interferences. Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez”
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China, 2010
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Nick Thomm
Nick Thomm is one of my new favorite up and coming artists. Hailing from Melbourne, Nick is not only an artist, designer, and director, but also the co-founder of SRC783, a magazine popular in Australia's underground scene. Nick has also opened up a studio, from which the looks of the website, is doing pretty well. It's called The Drop Studio, and they've done work designing business cards, websites, and print products for fashion designers, studios, and PR agencies across Melbourne. Nick just ran his first solo exhibit for ten days in October at the No Vacancy Gallery in Melbourne. His amazing mixed media prints, installations, sculptures, and large scale neon artwork are still available for purchase through his online store which can be viewed here.
What I love about his artwork is that it's not just a few paintings, or a couple sculptures, he has so much going on, but not so much that it's overwhelming. Here's a taste of some mixed media he's created.
What I love about his artwork is that it's not just a few paintings, or a couple sculptures, he has so much going on, but not so much that it's overwhelming. Here's a taste of some mixed media he's created.
Spirit (Bacchus) 1300mm x 1600mm, $3,500
Warp (Queen & Lion), 1041mm x 1389mm, $1,800
Future Past Skateboard Decks (Dad, Mum, Girl, Boy), 8 inches wide, $125 each
Real Eyes, Realise, Real Lies Neon Sign, 1.6m x 1.6 m, price on application.
Australia seems like an amazing place to be for the art and fashion scene. I hope one day I get there.
(Also, apologies for not converting the metric!)
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