Gemis Luciani

"Gemis Luciani manipulates, de-composes and re-assembes common objects such as design magazines, phone books and 3D architectural renderings, he reconfigures them in newly built systems of shapes and surfaces. His collages and spatial, large scale installations are meticulously created, and rely on a strong minimalist aesthetic." See more;

Marginal Compositions, 2013

magazine on dibond with frame / 40cm × 50cm  x 5cm

"Marginal Compositions is a project in development centered on the investigation of a marginal space’s aesthetic qualities. The works are realized with various magazines. Every magazine’s page is folded in a way to erase the textual element of the previous page and to leave only the margin visible. The compositions are produced by repeating this action until the magazine’s surface is completely covered. Every work is a representative but not definitive image documenting this kind of space’s expressive potential."

Models, 2010

magazine on dibond / 40cm × 60cm  x 3cm

"Models is the title of a series of collages created by systematically folding fashion, design, music and architecture magazines. Each "model' represents a typology of movement within the enclosed layout of the magazine. Each page is folded upon the other so as to hide the text  of the previous page. This forms a flow of visual elements, a series of fragments that articulate vertically on the entire surface of the magazine. “Models” is a methodology for the construction of an image which interacts with the spatial organization of paper-based communication through a different compositional model."

Piece of Space, 2011 -13

phone book / 40cm × 30cm x 18cm

“Piece of space” is a research project on the relationship between word and image in the visual representation of urban spaces. The works are realized using telephone books, cut and fixed to the wall.

Flexible Shapes, 2013

 telephone directory of businesses / 40cm × 20cm x 10cm

"Flexible Shapes is a research project about a sculpture’s morphological flexibility,  made of a series of 10 pieces realized inposing an intervention onto a numer of Yellow Pages books. The works are modified after every public exhibition. The work’s transformation, the shape’s durability and its persistence in time are all defined by the exhaustion of the formal possibilities offered by their pages’ sharp cut. The works are exhibited as plastic temporary configurations of an object, until they reach a more permanent sculptural definition."

Borna Sammak

"Borna Sammak collects and manipulates videos primarily by deleting colors of the composition that don’t relate to him as much as others that do. This is why most of Borna’s videos are so recognizable, his color palette is unique to his taste—the same taste that guides him through the web or influences any choice for that matter. The deconstructed images weave in and out of one another so that there is no longer an image above nor an image below but instead a sort of hermetic structure flowing within itself. Flowing but at the same time not entirely changing any more than an eye follows the compostion of a static image.

Borna’s main inspiration however isn’t the shit content he finds online. Instead he is inspired mostly by camouflage—which is evident in the patterns he constructs—a pattern, as a native Philadelphian, he first encountered on cargo shorts." - Jasmin Tsou at Vox Populi Gallery. See more;

Gray Water, 2013

Untitled Video Painting 07, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 05, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 02, 2009

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Joe Hamilton

Trouble in Utopia and Survey are two recent good works by Joe Hamilton. Both projects work under the disorientation and hyper-reality created by Joe working through animated collage, numerous layers, transitions and different perspectives. The first one was created for BYOB Melbourne 2013 which took place at the new RMIT design Hub building designed by Sean Godsell in Melbourne. As Joe Hamilton told us; "the video work Trouble in Utopia is about the building. The building is quite brutal and moderist which really appeals to my taste but at the same time the starkness of the concrete and metal surfaces is quite dystopian. The piece is about these contradicting thoughts about the building. The title for the piece was taken from an episode of the documentary series shock of the new by recently deceased art critic Robert Hughes. The episode is about modernism's failure to bring about the utopian city through architecture." (Into the post you can see the video but I recommend to see it at the project page as the video works together and synchronized with several backgrounds which makes the entire piece.)

The second piece into the post titled Survey is quite crazy, this time Joe has used real video footage and did an excellent exercise of tracking, by attaching onto the building and its outdoor another imagery source. I also like how he complemented the perspectives and structures with flat green plans which fit perfect but at the same time make a big contrast with the high presence of vegetation. See more;

Trouble in Utopia, 2013

http://joehamilton.info/trouble-in-utopia

Survey, 2013

Cloaque's 1st Anniversary!

Today is the first anniversary of Cloaque.org, one of the greatest collaborative projects started one year ago by Carlos Sáez and Claudia Maté. Along this time many artists have collaborated to continue the endless column formed by an amount of different kind of works such as collage, painting, digital installations and sculptures, animated gifs, interactive pieces.. Just have a look and scroll down if you don't know it yet.

For this occasion Carlos and Claudia have curated a collaborative video following the same way as they do in Cloaque. A group of artists created a short video and then they were joined each-other through several transitions. See the video into the post;

The video shows works by: Chris Timms (00:00 - 00:30), Rollin Leonard (00:30 - 00:42), Jasper Elings (00:59 - 01:29), Anthony Antonellis (01:37 - 02:04) Emilio Gomariz (02:04 - 03:15), Claudia Maté (03:15 - 04:00). Transitions were made by Carlos Sáez + Dmntia and the music by Yoshi Sodeoka.

Happy Anniversary Cloaque!!

Juxtapose by Daniel Schwarz

Fach & Asendorf Gallery is running a new exhibition called Juxtapose by Daniel Schwarz consisting in a series of images taken directly from Google Maps that expose distant places, far from society, shown simultaneously under the force of contrary seasons and weather phenomena at varying times. The images arise from glitches which are created automatically when Google Maps’ algorithm stitches images of updated photos with prior recorded ones together in a grid- like view. The glitched images force viewers to interrogate how technology changes our understanding of time, space and place. See more;

"Google Maps is the world’s most widely used mapping service. It influences our perception and understanding of the world and its geography, and since the technology was introduced in 2005, has become a ubiquitous day-to-day tool. Modern life is now unthinkable without it.

Although the satellite images give users a godlike power in jumping from one continent to the next in the blink of an eye, they are also highly abstracted from time, nature and their interrelationships. Google Maps images are not updated in real time, but instead stem from several months or years old datasets. Their exact dates remain unknown to the user." - Daniel Schwarz.

All images were taken directly from Firefox 16.0.2, without subsequent postproduction, editing or color correction.

See all the series at Fach & Asendorf Gallery.

Larry Bell

These works in paper by Larry Bell were made between 2007 and 2010, as Angel Chen says at artsland; technically these are collages, works on paper utilizing laminated layers compressed with a ping-pong table size heat press that vaporizes all sandwiched materials inside into a shiny flattened panel. The result? It is not a flat picture, nor is it a flattened sculpture, but it is a triumph of the favorite trick of all 2-D artists, to make appear the illusion of the third dimension. See more;

"Part sci-fi experiment, part modern physics, and pure joy, these works on paper curl, swell, and swirl with texture, depth, volume, luminosity and the quality of time. The vertical panes of vacuum deposited thin films of silicon monoxide interfere with the light similar to a quartz prism. This interference results in the phenomenon we experience as color. Eerie futuristic mirages appear as if doorways to the other side. Somehow the pieces evoke mirror images as if silently telepathically speaking directly to the viewer a hidden message, rippling in the iridescent multicolored metallurgy." - Angel Chen.

Images courtesy Frank Lloyd Gallery_

The video below doesn't talk about the work featured here but about Larry Bell's early works, interesting.

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Jason Gowans

Jason Gowans made a beautiful series called "Five Landscape Modes" which shows sculpture based collages through physical objects which Jason built using found negatives, his photographs, and found images from the Internet. Then he photographed them to create several angles, exposures and shadows to finally exhibit them as large prints. See more;

Jason Gowans notes that he took many cues from Robert Smithson’s Non-Sites, Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale, and western movie sets.

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There Is A Rainbow by Kent Rogowski

I specially like this piece called "There Is A Rainbow" from the "Everything that I wish I could be" book-collage series created by Kent Rogowski. 

"Everything that I wish I could be is an exploration of language, emotions and the desire to change and improve one’s self. There is a self-help book for almost every moment and problem in life; from relationship advice to dealing with the inevitability of death. Each large format photograph, pictures an arrangement of title pages and spines, from up to 100 self-help books that are based around a central theme. Together, the titles create larger narratives, which become portraits of emotions, people and events in life." - Kent Rogowski. See more;

There Is A Rainbow, 2012 / C-Print / 43×35"

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Process Watch by Katja Novitskova

Process Watch is an A0 digital print which shows an abstract collage based on the statics and data from the same day it was created. It was made by Katja Novitskova few months ago at Hotel Palenque, a curatorial project of Elise Lammer. Hotel Palenque is about inviting an artist to do a one-day show that proposes two conditions: making an A0 print, and deleting the files used to make it.

"Process Watch is a digital collage inframed in a outdoor poster display with two key-locks. Collage was made a few hours before the opening out of several types of real-time data from the day of the exhibition: weather reports from various cities around the world, currency exchange rates, stock exchange statistics, commodity prices, satellite footage, Moon phase and location, etc. The data gathered in the form of screenshots from the internet was then assembled in Photoshop. Fundamentally unique occurence of particular weather and economic conditions of the day were further intensified by freehand digital tool use. The print is locked in a frame and will exist as a singular piece - a document to the reality of the moment and a product of the conditions that led to it." - Katja Novitskova. See more;

Process Watch, 2012 - Digital print, display frame, 851mm x 1200 mm


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Street Views Patchwork by Julien Levesque

Street Views Patchwork is a work made by Julien Levesque in 2009, it is one of the most beautiful conceptual collages I have ever seen. It consists in a online collage series which shows nonexistent landscapes using 4 horizontally parts of existent landscapes around the world. It is basically four embedded horizontally views from Google Street View forming one hypothetical landscape. It is nice to see how different parts around the world fit really well each other.  The website refresh itself every 30 seconds more or less, and of course you can interact with the street view. See more;

See the website here.

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Div/Contour by Joe Hamilton

One week ago Appendix Project Space presented Div/Contour, the latest work created by Joe Hamilton. It is a new looped browser-based work which brings a great interactive experience to the visitor by scrolling the own website. Div/Contour will be available to view at www.appendixspace.com through the end of June (after the launch,  the website will be hosted on Joe's website or at its own domain).

Joe Hamilton tells us more about the project; "Div/Contour is composed in nine sections that connect and loop in various ways. They move positions, hide, unhide and repeat to create an endless scrolling landscape. Various online image search tools were uses to collect source material for the project. The keywords of traverse, natural and artificial were the initial starting point and the visual concept expanded from there." See more;

"Tracking, mapping or visualising paths and spaces has been integral to gaining an understanding of the places we inhabit. While moving through modern spaces online and offline, spatial reference points are in constant flux. As the connection between physical locality and place becomes disjointed, how do we piece together a new conception of space? The cubists grappled with the problem of representing time as part of space. Now, we grapple with the idea of space unbounded by our traditional notions of geographical distance.

Div/Contour is an artwork composed of materials and objects drawn together in a single disjointed path of wandering. Both in the process of construction and through the aesthetic experience of the work, a new mode of geographically unbounded travel is created." - Appendix Project Space.

See Div/Contour at the start page of www.appendixspace.com
See also hypergeography.tumblr.com, 2011 by Joe Hamilton.