November 2009
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“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born,...”
– Auguste Rodin
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Laminate Kulture Magazine: Pulp Aesthetica, Tokyo...
Laminate Kulture magazine has just launched and it has been lovingly put together with a real attention to aesthetic detail. Being a flipsided magazine one side Art and the other Fashion, it has a real unique offering in terms of the cultural viewpoints of London and Tokyo…
“Laminate is a multi-platform project bridging cultures from around the world, comprising a sumptuous print...
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Sacred Decay: Beautiful Decomposition
Sacred |?s?krid|: Regarded with great respect and reverence by a particular religion, group, or individual.
Decay |di?k?|: The process of declining in quality, power, or vigor
Sacred Decay is the title of my upcoming photo essay.
At the very heart of Western Capitalists societies is the brand. Corporate brands have fuelled and encouraged the massive and somewhat unrealistic commercial growth...
Ron Mueck: Monstrous Reality
Ron Mueck, originally from Australia, started out life as a television and film model maker, creating models and figures for films such as the Jim Henson directed “Labyrinth” in 1986. With an obsession for detail and the minutiae of model making, Mueck’s models were the precursor to his later sculptures that would become described as the “Hyper-real”.
Mueck creates sculptures of people,...
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Banksy: Cultural Re-Evolution?
Banksy, perhaps one of the most infamous artists of the early 21st century, has brought attention to guerilla art giving rise to a love affair with everything street in some of the worlds premier art institutions.
Recognised and documented all over the world, Banksy’s work has become part of urban popular culture. Often taking the form of satire, his stencil art seeks to comment and reflect...
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Anish Kapoor: Fleshy, Reflective and Engaging.
Anish Kapoor is an artist at odds with the spaces his works are displayed in. Often either fitting awkwardly within a space, taking a whole space up or forcing the us to consider the space in a different and interesting way, ignoring an Anish Kapoor installation is simply not an option.
Works such as “Marsyas”, 2002, the behemoth of an installation housed within the turbine hall of Tate Modern...
The Taste Delusion
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think Ralph Waldo Emerson was on to something when he said that the love of beauty is Taste and the the creation of beauty is Art.
It seems there is an implication that the two are in a polar relationship. Are there people with the innate talent to both understand and coherently structure beauty and create...