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."

Bianca Chang

Bianca Chang's minimalist and geometric based paper pieces are made by hand-plotting multiple sheets of 80gsm 100% post consumer waste recycled paper. Each layer of paper is hand plotted and cut using a pencil, surgical blade and ruler. See more;

Form in white (Gradient), 2012

Form in white (Noise II), 2012

Form in white (Double prism), 2012

Koen Delaere

This latest work by Koen Delaere is really beautiful, I'm loving the color palette used for each different gradient. Koen has made this work for featuring it on NOVA Festival which has started 2 days ago in Sao Paulo at MIS. This work consists in a bunch of printed stuff which will be the background for an "upcoming" new work, he explains a little bit more about; "I made some background silkscreenprints on double A0-sized paper at the GAD Eindhoven , pouring inks freely in the screen. With my friend Bas operating the squeegee and me folding the papers and (half-)controlling the colours." See more;

These following pictures are from Sao Paulo where Koen is (in these days 4, 5, 6 April) re-working all the pieces above. He is using them as a backgroung and using more tools in order to finish the pieces there at NOVA Festival.

Delaere

I take this opportunity to publish the following video. It is a collaboration I made using around 100 unique prints that Koen Delaere did also for NOVA. The video shows a tridimensional environment fully texturized with Koen works. The great intense and continuous sound is by Dylan Fisher who also has been published here several times because of his visual work.

I recommend to see it on full screen + HD.

The Speed Book by Aram Bartholl

Last January was launched a new book by Aram Bartholl called "The Speed Book" which shows all the artworks, installations, and experimental projects he made from the beginning of his carrier.  The book has been published by Gestalten, as it says Aram Bartholl’s work explores the power structures, the social systems, the cultural innovations, the inner dynamics, the languages, and the products that are shaping our age. This first comprehensive monograph offers entry to an oeuvre in which space and cyberspace mingle and mangle each other, a realm that uses as little technology as possible while still speaking a digital language.  

In Aram's work there is a great connection between the virtual and physical world, he usually transports  stuff from virtual to physical and vice-versa. Another thing I like from his work is that it's quite experimental, craft and simple, but conceptual. As you can see on his blog or vimeo's channel he usually explains everything he works even how he creates his artworks. From people like him one can learn a lot!

Gestalten has just launched a video documentary which summarizes this new publication. I found it really interesting. Aram speaks about everything featured on "The Speed Book". See the video into the post;

Buy "The Speed Book" online here.

It is edited by Domenico Quaranta and designed by Manuel Bürger. Published by Gestalten, with essays by Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, and Brad Troemel.

By the way in few days there will take place an interesting event related with "The Speed Book". Eyebeam has announced for April 12 from 6PM–8PM that it will host the official US 'The Speed Book' launch party of Aram Bartholl's first artist monograph. The event, which occurs in tandem with eteam's project launch, will feature:  Aram in town from Berlin introducing and signing the book. Brad Troemel, will give a talk about "Creative Destruction", based on his essay he wrote for 'The Speed Book', and Lindsay Howard, Eyebeam's Curatorial Fellow, in conversation with Aram.

On the other hand, more things I like from Aram; his light installations which are very impressive. Since he started with his TV-Filter then he brought the same grid/pixel concept to other pieces such as PaierPixel, Random Screen and 0,16.  (The final visual result from) All this works seem to be created using high technology, but like I said before they have been created following a very simple process, and tools, but behind of them there is a great idea and study of the light, structure and movement. Few weeks ago he presented at  his solo exhibition at [DAM] Berlin his latest light installation called 3x3. This piece is made from common objects such as wooden board, sheet metal, arcylic glass, colored film, wire, bicycle wheel and candles which are the major part of this piece because light and movement are produced by them (candles).





The title of The Speed Book comes from other of the great projects by Aram Bartholl, The SPEED SHOW, an exhibition format which can take place in whatever Internet-cafe around the world. As Aram says "you only need to go to an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All art works of the participating artists need to be on-line (not necessarily public) and are shown in a typical browser with standard plug-ins. Performance and life pieces may also use pre-installed communication programs (instant messaging, VOIP, video chat etc). Custom software (except browser add-ons) or off-line files are not permitted.
Any creative physical modification to Internet cafe itself is not allowed. The show is public and takes place during normal opening hours of the Internet cafe/shop. All visitors are welcome to join the opening, enjoy the art (and to check their email.)"

Since Speed Show started in 2010 there have been around 30 different shows, you can check all of them here. Even Triangulation Blog with its piece Interactive Triangulation was part of one titled Awareness of Everything curated by Lindsay Howard.

I take this opportunity to announce two more SPEED SHOWS which are going to take place in the following days;
SPEED SHOW: extracredit (5 April 2012 - Altoona) curated by a A. Bill Miller, more info here.
SPEED SHOW: GIFs 4 LIFE (12 April 2012 - Galway) curated by Nora O' Murchú, more info here.

Propulsion Painting by Evan Roth

Today 14th March opens a new solo exhibition by Evan Roth called "Welcome to Detroit" at Eastern Michigan University.Is Detroit where Evan has been living and working for this exhibition along six weeks, preparing new works like the Propulsion Painting series, (see the videos into the post). In this exhibition Evan is going to show some of his latest projects made over the last and current year such as Skymall Liberation, Personal Internet Cache Archive, One GIF composition among other experimental and also funny works. See more;

"Evan Roth's exhibition, Welcome to Detroit, will feature nearly all-new work, much of it made during his residency. The work follows his core conceptual framework of appropriating popular culture and combining it with a hacker's philosophy to highlight how small shifts in visualization can allow us to see our environment with new eyes, whether online, at home, in the city or at the airport. His work acts as both a mirror and vault to contemporary society, creating work that reflects and withstands a world of rapid advancements in computing power, changing screen resolution and repainted city walls.

For Welcome to Detroit, Evan mines everything from the spray paint can, to hip-hop music, to airplane shopping magazines and flight safety cards, resulting in a show that moves freely across media, but always with a sense of pop cultural pranksterism. From individual art objects to video pieces to documentation, the work is designed to simultaneously serve as a record of activity and creative output, while also underscoring important issues concerning copyright, public space, and our offline and online identities." Curated by Gregory Tom.

Welcome To Detroit by Evan Roth 

March 14 to April 2, 2012

Eastern Michigan University's University Gallery - map.

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Marine Hugonnier

Marine Hugonnier is working since 2004 on "Art for Modern Architecture" a still ongoing  collage series which investigates the role of the image by obstructing the press images on the front page of a week’s worth of newspapers such as The New York Times, The Times, Die Tageszeitung, Le Monde, The Herald Tribune, The Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Al Ayaam, all of them have been created making lots of cutouts from the book titled "Line Form Color" by Ellsworth Kelly. See more;

I like this monochromatic pieces, but check out also this colored series at Mix Wigram Gallery.

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I LIKE BIRDS

Happy Peppy Poster

I like this cool and stylized typography made from ribbons, previously scanned. Created by I LIKE BIRDS, a graphic design studio located in the Speicherstadt in the port of Hamburg. I also like their crafted and experimental way. They experiment with various mediums to develop customized and interesting solutions. I LIKE BIRDS is focused on transforming numerous types of information into a visual language which conveys the content in a more fluid and effective manner. "We put a lot of time and effort into creating a wide range of print products, including posters, books, illustrations, corporate identities and other visual works for cultural and public purposes." See more;

Tom Gallant

These delicated crafted roses are part from the amazing pornographic artwork by Tom Gallant, just from the series called "The Collector I". See more;

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Feel Your Gravity by Taiyo Kimura

Love Taiyo Kimura's works. His porrfolio is based in humoristic and conceptual pieces.  One of my favorites is "Feel Your Gravity", 2005. The video shows a great visual effect when Kimura bends the magazine! See more;

Markus Kayser

I'm really impressed after watching the last two projects by Markus Kayser, these are two of the best and experimental processes I have seen lately to make self-production. Both projects use the sun as a main source  for producing or manufacturing the final object or product. The first one is called "Sun Cutter" 2010, works like a laser-cutter, exploring the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. The second one called "Solar Sinter" 2011, sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. See more;

Sun Cutter Project

"The Sun Cutter Project explores the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. The machine is a low-tech, low energy version of a laser cutter. It uses pure sunlight, focused by a ball lens, to repeatedly cut programmed shapes in up to 0.4mm thick plywood as well as paper and card. The project also explores the merit of analogue mechanized production that draws on the machine technology found in pre-digital machinery and automaton. It uses a cam system, moving an X & Y- board to control the shape of the cut. The cams are set into synchronized motion by a small solar-powered motor driving a timing belt.

Each pair of sunglasses made, even though very similar in shape, is still unique, creating a juxtaposition between the machine-made, repetitive and individual, unique object."

Aluminium, Acrylic, MDF, Glass Sphere, Photovoltaics W400X D400 X H500

Solar Sinter Project

"In August 2010 I took my first solar machine - the Sun-Cutter - to the Egyptian desert in a suitcase. This was a solar-powered, semi-automated low-tech laser cutter, that used the power of the sun to drive it and directly harnessed its rays through a glass ball lens to ‘laser’ cut 2D components using a cam-guided system. The Sun-Cutter produced components in thin plywood with an aesthetic quality that was a curious hybrid of machine-made and “nature craft” due to the crudeness of its mechanism and cutting beam optics, alongside variations in solar intensity due to weather fluctuations.

In the deserts of the world two elements dominate - sun and sand. The former offers a vast energy source of huge potential, the latter an almost unlimited supply of silica in the form of quartz. The experience of working in the desert with the Sun-Cutter led me directly to the idea of a new machine that could bring together these two elements. Silicia sand when heated to melting point and allowed to cool solidifies as glass. This process of converting a powdery substance via a heating process into a solid form is known as sintering and has in recent years become a central process in design prototyping known as 3D printing or SLS (selective laser sintering). These 3D printers use laser technology to create very precise 3D objects from a variety of powdered plastics, resins and metals - the objects being the exact physical counterparts of the computer-drawn 3D designs inputted by the designer. By using the sun’s rays instead of a laser and sand instead of resins, I had the basis of an entirely new solar-powered machine and production process for making glass objects that taps into the abundant supplies of sun and sand to be found in the deserts of the world.

My first manually-operated solar-sintering machine was tested in February 2011 in the Moroccan desert with encouraging results that led to the development of the current larger and fully-automated computer driven version - the Solar-Sinter. The Solar-Sinter was completed in mid-May and later that month I took this experimental machine to the Sahara desert near Siwa, Egypt, for a two week testing period. The machine and the results of these first experiments presented here represent the initial significant steps towards what I envisage as a new solar- powered production tool of great potential." - Markus Kayser

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